The Big Fellow by Vance Palmer
$34.99 AUD
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
$130.00 AUD
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
$33.99 AUD
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
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
Extinctions: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016 by Josephine Wilson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners
WINNER of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016 He hated the word retirement, but not as much as he hated the word village, as if ageing made you a peasant or a fool. Herein lives the village idiot. Professor Frederick Lothian, retired engineer, world expert on concrete and connoisseur of modernist des ...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