Portfolio Categories: Miles Franklin

  • Truth by Peter Temple

    Truth by Peter Temple

    2010 Winner: At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young […]

  • That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott

    That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott

    2011 Winner: In playful, musical prose, this book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers. The novel’s hero is a young Noongar man […]

  • All That I Am by Anna Funder

    All That I Am by Anna Funder

    2012 Winner: Ruth Becker, defiant and cantankerous, is living out her days in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. She has made an uneasy peace with the ghosts of her past. […]

  • All the Birds Singing by Evie Wyld

    All the Birds Singing by Evie Wyld

    2014 Winner: 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 flock […]

  • Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser

    Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser

    2013 Winner: A mesmerising literary novel, charting two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams […]