The Glade Within the Grove: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1997 by David Foster
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners
A powerful, many layered, erudite retelling of the blood-soaked Attis myth strained through twentieth centuary Australian life. Winner Miles Franklin Award 1997.
Dancing on Coral: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1987 by Adams Glenda
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Text Classics
'She's going now,' said Henry Watter if he said anything at all. Or, 'It's a tricky place, the world. You've got to be sharp to manage it."Leave her be. She'll be back,' said Mrs Watter. 'This is her home. She knows that.' Lark Watter had always planned to run away from her stifling suburban life in 196 ...Show more
The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll
$24.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Glenroy Ser.
One summer morning in 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of the television and wireless shop, pronounces his Melbourne suburb one hundred years old. That same morning, Rita is awakened by a dream of her husband's snores, yet it is years since Vic moved north. Their son, Michael, has left for the city, and ...Show more
The White Earth: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2005 by Andrew McGahan
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners
"The saga of the McIvors is nothing less than a grim and supremely entertaining take on colonialism in Australia and the tortured, stained hearts of all its New World cousins. A-."--Entertainment Weekly After his father's death, young William is cast upon the charity of an unknown great-uncle, John Mc ...Show more
Truth by Peter Temple
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach. So begins the sequel to Peter Temple's bestselling masterpiece, The Broken Shore, winner of the Gold Dagger for ...Show more
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney - populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings. This is their safe place, a ...Show more
Benang: From the Heart - Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2000 by Kim Scott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Fremantle Press Treasures
Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self. As the apparently successful outcome of his white grandfather's enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the 'first white man born', he wants to be a failure. But would such failure m ...Show more
The Ancestor Game: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1993 by Alex Miller
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners
The best-selling, 1993 Miles Franklin Award-winning novel from one of Australia's foremost literary writers.
The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners
Winner of the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary AwardShortlisted for the 2015 Voss Literary Prize and the 2015 Stella PrizeLonglisted for the 2016 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Meet Jimmy Flick. He's not like other kids - he's both too fast and too slow. He sees too much, and too little. Jimmy's ...Show more
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners
A great writer's sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second W ...Show more
All That I Am by Anna Funder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners
Based on real people and events, All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places. 'A ripper.' The Australian 'Gripping.' Sydney Morning Herald 'Brilliant ...Show more
Careful, He Might Hear You: Text Classics by Sumner Locke Elliot
$14.95 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Based on the childhood of Sumner Locke Elliot, this novel is set in the Great Depression. PB, an orphan, lives a secure working-class life in Sydney. That's all about to change, however, when his Aunt Vanessa arrives from London and scoops him up to raise him as her own child."