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The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases”. The Miles Franklin Award was first awarded in 1957. The award was set up according to the will of author Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879–1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career (1901).
Anam: Winner PM's Literary Award 2024. Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin by André Dao
$32.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Longlist 2024
Anam is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile.A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather imprisoned without charge or trial by a revolutionary government? Is it an oral history of the g ...Show more
Edenglassie: Longlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Melissa Lucashenko
$32.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with ...Show more
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Award Winners
Winner - 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner - 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecologica ...Show more
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Booker Prize Longlist 2024
Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small re ...Show more
The Bell of the World (shortlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin Award) by Gregory Day
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
When a troubled Sarah Hutchinson returns to Australia from boarding school in England and time spent in Europe, she is sent to live with her eccentric Uncle Ferny on the family property, Ngangahook. With the sound of the ocean surrounding everything they do on the farm, Sarah and her uncle form an inspi ...Show more
Wall by Jen Craig
$29.95 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Longlist 2024
"Every new novel by Jen Craig is cause for celebration. They are a reminder that literature is still being written in the English language. In Wall, her brilliant third novel, Jen Craig deepens her proliferative style of self-examination as her narrator tries to contend with that most heart wrenching of ...Show more
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