Miles Franklin Shortlist 2009
Breath
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Winner of the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and ... Buy or find out more →
Wanting
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father, an Abori... Buy or find out more →
Ice
$16.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
You have possessed me, let me go.
An iceberg is towed through the Heads to the astonishment of
colonial Sydney. As it melts, the iceberg is revealed as a tomb to
t... Buy or find out more →
The Pages
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Erica Hazelhurst, a philosopher from Sydney, has been given a project by her university to work on the papers of the late Wesley Antill (The Pages). She travels acr... Buy or find out more →