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2013 WINNER |
Questions of Travel
Author: Michelle De Kretser
Category: Fiction - General
A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri ... |
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Questions of Travel
Author: Michelle de Kretser
Category: Fiction - General
Category: Fiction - Classics General
A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist guide until he is driven from ... |
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Shortlist |
The Mountain
Author: Drusilla Modjeska
Category: Fiction - General
'A novel as intricate and powerful as the bark-cloth paintings at its heart' -- Anna Funder In 1968 Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil filmmaker Leonard arrives from England ... |
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Mateship with Birds
Author: Carrie Tiffany
Category: Fiction - General
On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a tree near his house. Harry observes the kookaburras through a year of feast, famine, birth, death, war, ... |
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2012 WINNER |
All That I Am
Author: Anna Funder
Category: Fiction - General
Winner of the 2012 Miles Franklin Award "When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The wireless in the living room was turned up loud, but all that drifted down to me were waves of happy cheering, like a football match. |
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2011 WINNER |
That Deadman Dance
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2010 WINNER |
Truth
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2009 WINNER |
Breath
Author: Tim Winton
Category: Fiction - General
Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and about learning to live with its passing. In his first novel for seven ... |
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2008 WINNER |
The Time We Have Taken
Author: Steven Carroll
Category: Fiction - General
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 ... |
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2007 WINNER |
Carpentaria
Author: Alexis Wright
Category: Fiction - General
Alexis Wright is one of Australia's finest Aboriginal writers. Carpentaria is her second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland, from where her people come. The novel's portrait of life in the precariously settled ... |
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2006 WINNER |
The Ballad of Desmond Kale
Author: Roger McDonald
Category: Fiction - General
In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, English gaolers, Irish convicts, and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, no one had ventured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney. Or so it was believed ... |
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2005 WINNER |
The White Earth
Author: Andrew McGahan
Category: Fiction - General
One spring day in late 1992, when William was halfway between his eighth birthday and his ninth, he looked out from the back verandah of his home and saw, huge in the sky, the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. He stared at it, wondering. |
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2003 WINNER |
Journey to the Stone Country
Author: Alex Miller
Category: Fiction - General
WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD A terrific tale of love and redemption that captivates from the first line.' Nicholas Shakespeare, author of The Dancer Upstairs Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Beck retreats from Melbourne to her ... |
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Benang
Author: Kim Scott
Category: Fiction - General
A powerful and triumphant novel concerned with the reclaiming of personal and cultural history. The narrator sets out to trace his connection to family and country through the minefield of post colonial Aboriginal history. This writer has the ... |
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1999 WINNER |
Eucalyptus
Author: Murray Bail
Category: Fiction - General
The author of "Homesickness" returns with his eagerly awaited book about a man who promises his daughter's hand to any suitor who can name every species of eucalypt planted on his land. Haunting and mesmeric, it illuminates the nature of ... |
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1998 WINNER |
Jack Maggs
Author: Peter Carey
Category: Fiction - General
Category: Fiction - Romance General
The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. |
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1993 WINNER |
The Ancestor Game
Author: Alex Miller
Category: Fiction - General
Steven Muir, August Spiess and his daughter Gertrude, and Lang Tzu all acknowledge a restless sense of cultural displacement, an ambivalence in their relations with the culture of European Australia. Steven left England for Australia as a young ... |
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1992 WINNER |
Cloudstreet
Author: Tim Winton
Category: Fiction - General
This modern Australian classic is an epic novel of love and acceptance - a celebration of people, places and rhythms which has fuelled imaginations world-wide. Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the National Book Council's Banjo ... |
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1991 WINNER |
The Great World
Author: David Malouf
Category: Fiction - General
Category: Fiction - Literary General
Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. |
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1989 WINNER |
Oscar and Lucinda
Author: Peter Carey
Category: Fiction - General
The Booker winning novel from one of Australia's most exciting writers. Oscar and Lucinda imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English ... |
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1986 WINNER |
The Well
Author: Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Fiction - General
This important piece of Australian fiction is republished for the first time as a Penguin Modern Classic. Elizabeth Jolley's award-winning novel is presented in a fresh, new format that is a must-have for lovers of Australian literature. |
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1984 WINNER |
Shallows
Author: Tim Winton
Category: Fiction - General
Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passing defines the rhythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begins ... |
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1981 WINNER |
Bliss
Author: Peter Carey
Category: Fiction - General
Bliss is a masterpiece of illusion that marked Peter Carey's brilliant debut as a novelist, and was later made into an award-winning film. The dilemma of Harry Joy is both funny and terrifying, for Harry wakes up in Hell, tortured by those he ... |
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1978 WINNER |
Tirra Lirra by the River
Author: Jessica Anderson
Category: Fiction - General
A novel that tells of one woman's remarkable life. Nora Porteous flees her small-town family and stifling marriage and creates a new life for herself in London. In her seventies, she returns to Queensland to settle in her childhood home and ... |
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1964 WINNER |
My Brother Jack
Author: George Johnston
Category: Australiana - Fiction
Category: Fiction - General
Category: Fiction - Classics
'The thing I am trying to get at is what made Jack different from me. Different all through our lives, I mean, and in a special sense, not just older or nobler or braver or less clever.' David and Jack Meredith grow up in a patriotic suburban ... |
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