The longlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. Congratulations to all all the authors and publishers.

The longlisted titles are:

• The Easy Way Out by Steve Amsterdam
• An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire
• The Last Days of Ava Langdon by Mark O’Flynn
• Their Brilliant Careers by Ryan O’Neill
• A Loving, Faithful Animal by Josephine Rowe
• Waiting by Philip Salom
• Where The Trees Were by Inga Simpson
• Hold by Kirsten Tranter
• Extinctions by Josephine Wilson

This year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist will be announced in June. Find out more abut the Award, and this year’s longlisted books, here.