Previous Miles Franklin Winners
The Ballad of Desmond Kale
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, English gaolers, Irish convicts, and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, one had entured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney into ... More »
Carpentaria
$26.95 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
Set in the small, isolated town of Desperance on the Gulf of Carpentaria, Alexis Wright’s second novel conjures up a sweeping and poetic panorama of life in a town that seems a world away from modern civilisation. And ye... More »
The Great Fire
$22.99 (Paperback book / Virago )
Twenty years in the writing, The Great Fire is a triumphant novel of lives shadowed by war and redeemed by love. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, people must reinvent their lives and expectations and learn, from the... More »
Journey To The Stone Country
$23.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 'A terrific tale of love and redemption that captivates from the first line.' Nicholas Shakespeare, author of The Dancer Upstairs Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Beck retrea... More »
Dirt Music
$24.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Her days have fallen into d... More »
Dark Palace
$12.95 (Hardcover book / Random Century )
Five years have passed since Edith Campbell Berry's triumphant arrival at the League of Nations in Geneva, determined to right the wrongs of the world. The idealism of those early grand days has been eroded by a sense fo... More »
White Earth
$23.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
One spring day in late 1992, when William was halfway between his eighth birthday and his ninth, he looked out from the back verandah of his home and saw, huge in the sky, the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. He st... More »
Eucalyptus
$24.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
1999 Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and the Commonwealth
Writers Prize.
On a property in western New South Wales a man named Holland lives
with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a
beautiful young ... More »
Jack Maggs
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the... More »
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The Glade Within The Grove
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
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Highways To A War
$24.95 (Paperback book / Minerva )
When Mike Langford, a war photographer with a reputation for unusual risk-taking, disappears inside Cambodia, he becomes a mythic figure in the minds of his friends. The search for him which is at the heart of this novel... More »