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Miles Franklin Shortlist 2008

The Time We Have Taken
Steven Carroll

$27.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )

Winner of the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken, our moment.'

One summer morning in 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of the television and wireless shop, pronounces ... More »

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Landscape Of Farewell
Alex Miller

$35.00 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )

A hauntingly beautiful meditation on the land, the past, exile and friendship, Landscape of Farewell is the powerful new novel from acclaimed Australian author, Alex Miller. It is the story of Max Otto, an elderly German... More »


The Fern Tattoo
David Brooks

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr )

Ten years after his mother’s death in an accident on the Hume Highway near Canberra, Benedict Waters is contacted by Mrs Darling, who claims to be an old friend of his mother’s. Several years later, he at last agrees to ... More »

Love Without Hope
Rodney Hall

$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )

The elderly Mrs Shoddy suffers acute depression as a result of a bushfire that kills her beloved horses. A capable countrywoman, she loses her grip and is living in squalor when the district nurse finds her and has her c... More »


Sorry
Gail Jones

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )

In the remote outback of Western Australia during World War II, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife, Stella, raise a lonely child, Perdita. Her upbringing is far from ordinary: in a shack in the wilderness... More »

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