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  • Stella Miles Franklin
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    Stella Miles Franklin

    The award-winning biography of one of Australia's best-loved writers ... The author of MY BRILLAINT CAREER had a fascinating career of her own ... Winner of the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature...
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    I Was Chaplain on the Franklin

    On the morning of March 19, 1945, about fifty miles off the coast of Japan, the aircraft carrier USS Franklin was bombed by Japanese aircraft. Two heavy bombs penetrated the hangar deck killing...
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  • My Congenials
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    My Congenials

    An irresistible companion to Jill Roe's award-winning biography STELLA MILES FRANKLIN A new edition of the sparkling correspondence of one of Australia's most cherished literary icons Miles Franklin...
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    Childhood at Brindabella
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    Childhood at Brindabella

    This delightful illustrated autobiography is the story of Miles Franklin's first ten years, spent partly on her parent's station in the mountain valley of Brindabella, not far from the present-day...
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    All the Birds, Singing
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    All the Birds, Singing

    Winner of the 2014 Miles Franklin AwardWinner of the 2014 Miles Franklin AwardWho or what is watching Jake Whyte from the woods? Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed...
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  • Fallen Among Reformers
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    Fallen Among Reformers

    Fallen Among Reformers focuses on Stella Miles Franklin's New Woman protest literature written during her time in Chicago with the National Women's Trade Union League (1906-1915). This time away from...
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  • Childhood at Brindabella
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    Childhood at Brindabella

    This delightful illustrated autobiography is the story of Miles Franklin's first ten years, spent partly on her parent's station in the mountain valley of Brindabella, not far from the present-day...
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  • Taking Shelter
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    Taking Shelter

    It's 1980s Sydney and for this group of family and friends, love and relationships are complicated. Beth wants Miles, Marcus wants Beth, Marcus' mother isn't wanted by anyone anymore, Kyrie wants...
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  • The Acolyte
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    The Acolyte

    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...
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  • My Brilliant Sister
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    My Brilliant Sister

    While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel Amy Brown thrillingly...
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  • On Alexis Wright
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    On Alexis Wright

    An insightful exploration of one of Australia's most acclaimed writers, the award-winning Alexis WrightA brilliant study of renowned Indigenous author Alexis Wright, winner of the 2007 and 2024 Miles...
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  • Plains of Promise
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    Plains of Promise

    A masterful novel from the only writer to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella PrizeIn this brilliant, wide-ranging novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening...
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  • Drylands: Text Classics
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    Drylands: Text Classics

    First published in 1999, Drylands was Thea Astley's fourth and final Miles Franklin winner.In the dying town of Drylands, Janet Deakin sells papers to lonely locals. At night, in her flat above the...
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  • The Impersonators
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    The Impersonators

    The Impersonators portrays the breakdown of family relationships and the endurance of love in a materialistic age sensitively, perceptively and humorously. When Sylvia Foley returns to...
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  • On Kim Scott
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    On Kim Scott

    Noongar writer Kim Scott has won the Miles Franklin Award twice for his novels. In this moving essay, Tony Birch shows how Scott uses fiction as a pathway to truth. We meet a writer who 'inhabits a...
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  • Thea Astley
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    Thea Astley

    The first published collection of poetry by Australian literary legend Thea Astley.This exciting collection by Australian literary legend Thea Astley brings together for the first time many poems...
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  • Dark Places: Text Classics
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    Dark Places: Text Classics

    Introduced byLouise Adler Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 1995 Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Award 1995This is Albion Gidley Singer at the pen, a man with a weakness for a good...
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  • Cloudstreet
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    Cloudstreet

    Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and...
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  • Bring the Monkey Bring the Monkey
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    Bring the Monkey

    Bring the Monkey is a spoof of the English country-house mystery. The novel includes a host of characters, not to mention a monkey called Percy. Unexpectedly the room is suddenly plunged into...
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  • The Well Dressed Explorer
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    The Well Dressed Explorer

    Pompous, vain and a self-professed charmer, George Brewster moves from one unfulfilling journalism job to the next, one empty relationship to another, his faithful wife and daughter ever the...
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  • Careful, He Might Hear You: Text Classics
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    Careful, He Might Hear You: Text Classics

    Introduced by Robyn Nevin Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award 1963'Oh, aren't you lucky, PS.' 'Goodness, what a lucky boy.' 'What a treat!' 'Your Aunt Vanessa is coming.' Vanessa was coming all...
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  • Building the Blue Ridge Parkway Building the Blue Ridge Parkway
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    Building the Blue Ridge Parkway

    The Blue Ridge Parkway began as a dream in the late 1800s and became reality in 1983 when the 469-mile scenic highway was completed. Construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway began in September 1935 at...
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  • Five Acre Virgin & Other Stories
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    Five Acre Virgin & Other Stories

    During her lifetime, Elizabeth Jolley established a formidable international reputation for her unique combination of unsentimental realism and original humour. Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories...
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  • The Cupboard Under the Stairs
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    The Cupboard Under the Stairs

    After spending six years in a progressive psychiatric institution being treated for depression, Harry White returns home to the small town of Treelake. He tries to readjust. But it's the 1960s and it...
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  • Inner and Outer Worlds
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    Inner and Outer Worlds

    Gail Jones is one of Australia's foremost contemporary novelists. Her books have won or been shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award, the Miles Franklin Award, the Stella Prize, and...
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  • Hard Yards
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    Hard Yards

    A powerful story of life and death on the run, from the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author of Too Much LipRoo Glover has two highly desirable talents - he can fight, and he can run like the...
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  • Back Home in Bristol Pines Back Home in Bristol Pines
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    Back Home in Bristol Pines

    Book #3 In Bristol Pines Trilogy. Whether you are visiting the town of Bristol Pines, Massachusetts, for the first time, or you are excited to read the third installment of the Bristol Pines Trilogy...
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  • Sweeney and the Bicycles
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    Sweeney and the Bicycles

    The scar on the back of Sweeney's head is shaped like an S. He is obsessed with the beauty of bicycles, which he steals after painting his face in astonishing shapes and patterns.Asha Sen is...
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  • COMPLETE BOOK OF GREAT AUSTRALIAN WOMEN COMPLETE BOOK OF GREAT AUSTRALIAN WOMEN
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    COMPLETE BOOK OF GREAT AUSTRALIAN WOMEN

    From Mary Penfold, co-founder of Penfold Wines; Lillie Goodisson, pioneer of family planning; Eileen Joyce, world-famous pianist; Enid Lyons, our first female cabinet minister; Stella Miles Franklin,...
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  • Jack Maggs
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    Jack Maggs

    Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Award, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs is dazzlingly entertaining.The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to London...
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  • In Certain Circles
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    In Certain Circles

    Longlisted for the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award Zoe Howard is seventeen when her brother, Russell, introduces her to Stephen Quayle. Aloofand harsh, Stephen is unlike anyone she has ever met,...
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    Any Other World Will Do

    "Any Other World Will Do presents an alien vision of Earth's possible future. It's a send-up of the genre that wraps its earnest warning in plausible deniability." --Foreword Reviews* 2022 Benjamin...
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  • Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics
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    Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics

    A wonderful novel by one of Australia's most loved and awarded writers, long out of print and now revived by the Text Classics series.Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1967At the world's...
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  • On Shirley Hazzard
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    On Shirley Hazzard

    A passionate, illuminating tribute to one of Australia's greatest writers, by Miles Franklin-winning author Michelle de Kretser.'Hazzard was the first Australian writer I read who looked outwards,...
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  • Only Sound Remains
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    Only Sound Remains

    **Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024**Saeed has not returned to Iran after publishing his novel The Imaginary Narrative of a Real Murder for fear of political persecution. He is...
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  • THE DIARY OF A NEW CHUM
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    THE DIARY OF A NEW CHUM

    Paul Wenz was born in France in 1869, lived in Australia, and wrote stories dealing mainly with his Australian experiences for the French. He wrote ten books from 'Nanima', his homestead in Forbes,...
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  • A Coral Eden
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    A Coral Eden

    Paul Wenz was born in France in 1869, lived in Australia, and wrote stories dealing mainly with his Australian experiences for the French. He wrote ten books from 'Nanima', his homestead in Forbes,...
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  • Dark Palace
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    Dark Palace

    Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award.Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award.'Any of Frank Moorhouse's books are rewarding and stimulating. But his trilogy following a young Australian...
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  • The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens
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    The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens

    As engrossing as a novel, this story of the death of childhood in the cradle of the world's mightiest empire, and the atmospheric tale of crime and punishment leading to a sensational murder...
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  • Hiking through History New York
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    Hiking through History New York

    In Hiking through History New York, you can hike through the forest planted on orders from President Franklin Roosevelt and follow the swath cut by the 20th century's strongest and most influential...
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    The Coach

    The Coach: 13 Skills to Enhance Your Career is a simple yet powerful and beneficial book for those wanting to improve their career. It is densely packed with key career-enhancing skills ranging...
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  • Space, Place and Capitalism Space, Place and Capitalism
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    Space, Place and Capitalism

    This book is an original contribution to literary geography and commentaries on the work of David Ireland. It plots the relationship between the spaces and places of 1970s Australian capitalism as it...
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