Swords and Crowns and Rings: Text Classics by Ruth Park
$12.95 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Jackie Hanna, born with dwarfism, and Cushie Moy, the girl next door, share an innocent love--a love that will be censured, but will persevere. This is the story of the triumph of a special kind of courage.Ruth Park's Miles Franklin-winning novel brilliantly evokes Australia in the Great Depression.
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Award, and shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize, The Life to Come is a powerful novel that effortlessly blends sharp satire of the literary world with deeply compassionate portraits of lonely people and their strategies for survival.
The Grisly Wife: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1994 by Rodney Hall
$120.00 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners
"In his stunning new novel, Rodney Hall tells a gripping story of fanaticism, religious cults, and murder." "Catherine Byrne is a nineteenth-century English missionary who travels to remotest Australia with her prophetic husband and his band of women disciples. Named Muley Moloch after an Irishman whose ...Show more
A Horse of Air by Dal Stivens
$8.95 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners
Harry Craddock -- millionaire, ornithologist, idealist and buffoon -- wrote this book, an intriguing account of his expedition to central Australia in search of the rare night parrot. But all is not as it first appears. Craddock wrote his story while in a mental hospital, and the book also includes exce ...Show more
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
$32.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners
MILES FRANKLIN AWARD WINNER 2022 Jennifer Down cements her status as a leading light of Australian literary fiction in this heart-rending and intimate saga of one woman's turbulent life So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or- he'd found Maggie.I had no wa ...Show more
Oceana Fine: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1990 by Tom Flood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners
The Impersonators by Jessica Anderson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Classic Australian Works
The Acolyte by Thea Astley
$27.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners
Jack Holberg is a blind musician and composer from Queensland who becomes world famous. Paul Vesper, 'the acolyte' of the title, tells the great man's story and his own in this dark, funny portrait of an artistic genius and those who worshipped and suffered, at his feet.
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner: Text Classics by David Ireland
$12.95 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Text Classics
What was Puroil? At Clearwater it was a sprawling refinery, an army of white shirts, a fleet of wagons, a number of apparently separate companies, dozens of monolithic departments protected from each other by an armour of functional difference and jealousy. On the refinery site it was two hundred and fi ...Show more
Woman of the Future - Text Classics by David Ireland; Kate Jennings (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"Immense originality, wit, and gritty wisdom. . . . David Ireland has reached the top."--Patrick WhiteAn imaginative tour de force, A Woman of the Future is the story of the young life of Anthea Hunt--from conception to sexual awakening. It is controversial and brilliant, and unlike anything else in Aus ...Show more
The Glass Canoe: Text Classics by David Ireland
$14.95 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Text Classics
"On hot days we jumped fully clothed into our bottomless beer glasses and pushed off from shore without a backward look. Heading for the deep, where it was calm and cool." Meat Man is a regular at the Southern Cross pub in Sydney. With his tribe he sits and drinks and watches as life spirals around him. ...Show more
Three Cheers For The Paraclete by Tom Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Winner of the 1968 Miles Franklin Award From the moment he allows his young cousin and bride to spend the night in his room, Father Maitland causes raised eyebrows and dark mutterings amongst the brothers at St Peter's. Time and again his efforts to do the right thing for his fellow men lead him into co ...Show more