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Miles Franklin Shortlist 2009

Breath
Tim Winton

$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
Richard Flanagan

$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
Louis Nowra

$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
Murray Bail

$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 



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