The Great World: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1991 by David Malouf
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners
For the two men in this novel, war was supposed to be a testing ground. But it proved to be an ordeal of a different kind. Spanning 70 years of Australian life, from Sydney's Cross to the backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, this is a novel of lost innocence and witness.
The Yield: Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award by Tara June Winch
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the w ...Show more
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners
From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, an emotionally powerful, award-winning novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past. Jake Whyte has retreated to a remote farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds, with only her collie and a floc ...Show more
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners
It takes dying during a heart attack for Harry Joy to realise that the life he thought was happy is actually hellish. His wife is a cheat, his kids are a source of shame, his company spruiks carcinogens. While Harry is resuscitated he will never be the same, for having seen his own misery, he can no lon ...Show more
Drylands: Text Classics by Thea Astley
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In the dying town of Drylands, Janet Deakin sells papers to lonely locals. At night, in her flat above the newsagency, she attempts to write a novel for a world in which no one reads--'full of people, she envisaged, glaring at a screen that glared glassily back'. Drylands is the story of the townsfolk's ...Show more
The Slow Natives by Thea Astley
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners
'If one saw behind the faces into the hearts, one would die.'A suburban couple have drifted into the shallows of middle-aged boredom. Their fourteen-year-old son is a stranger, meeting their attempts at love with hostile indifference. Surly at home, he is a dab hand at shoplifting and looks like sliding ...Show more
Trap: A Novel by Peter Mathers
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Classic Australian Works
Trap (1966) won the Miles Franklin Literary Award when it was published. Its comic and satiric elements and use of several narrative voices provide revealing interpretations of cross-cultural relations, bureaucracy and politics in Australia.Peter Mathers was born in England in 1931 and came to Australia ...Show more
The Big Fellow by Vance Palmer
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners
Now fifty, a shrewd and experienced politician, Macy Donovan is about to step into the shoes of Wardle, the Premier, who has departed to a cosy niche in the agent-generalship in London. Apparently Macy's ambitions have been achieved and his desires fulfilled -- the premiership, a comfortable marriage, t ...Show more
The Doubleman: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1985 by Christopher Koch
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners
'How do we pierce the skin? Did they teach you that at University?' Clive Broderick, guitar - teacher and occultist - the Doubleman of the title of this acclaimed novel - is speaking of power, and of a realm beyond reality. This is a fable of the sixties, when shared belief - systems crumbled, and the s ...Show more
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
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Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Vintage Classics
This title comes with an introduction by David Malouf. Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aborigine artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world of pervasive evil ...Show more