The longlist for the 2017 Voss Literary Prize has been announced.

Launched in 2014, the Voss Literary Prize is awarded to the best novel published in Australia in the previous year, and is dedicated to the memory of historian Vivian Robert Le Vaux Voss.

The full 2017 longlist is:

• All These Perfect Strangers by Aoife Clifford
• Dodge Rose by Jack Cox (Read our review)
• Our Magic Hour by Jennifer Down (Read our review)
• Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan (Read our review)
• The Healing Party by Micheline Lee (Read our review)
• Skylarking by Kate Mildenhall (Read our review)
• Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison (Read our review)
• The Last Days of Ava Langdon by Mark O’Flynn
• A loving, faithful animal by Josephine Rowe (Read our review)
• Hold by Kirsten Tranter (Read our review)

For more information about this year’s longlist, please visit the Voss Literary Prize website.