Congratulations to the authors longlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Award! The longlist includes two debut novelists and two past winners, seven books from women, and is an excellent showcase of the diversity of contemporary Australian fiction with stories of romance, war, tigers in the night and a dystopian vision of Australia’s future.

See the full list of titles below:

• The Life And Loves Of Lena Guant by Tracy Farr

• The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (Read our review)

• The Railwayman’s Wife by Ashley Hay

• Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko (Read our review)

• The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane (Read our review)

• Belemor by Nicolas Rothwell (Read our review)

• Game by Trevor Shearston

• My Beautiful Enemy by Cory Taylor (Read our review)

• Eyrie by Tim Winton (Read our review)

• The Swan Book by Alexis Wright (Read our review)

• All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (Read our review)