The Acolyte by Thea Astley
$27.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners
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 of an artistic genius and those who worshipped and suffered, at his feet.
Just Relations by Rodney Hall
$120.00 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners
Once a wild gold mining town, Whitey's Fall is now a small, brooding community of close and distant relations. One by one, the young are leaving for the alluring uncertainties of the world beyond. The old stay on, steadfast in their pride and sense of belonging. Remembering is their religion; the mounta ...Show more
Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay by George Johnston
$24.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
In the sequel to his semi-autobiographical novel My Brother Jack, George Johnston concludes his Meredith trilogy in this brilliantly evocative, single volume of books two and three: Clean Straw for Nothing (winner of the Miles Franklin Award) and A Cartload of Clay. Set against the backdrop of a Greek ...Show more
Bring Larks and Heroes: Text Classics by Tom Keneally
$12.95 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Winners | Series: Text Classics
"At the world's end, it is Sunday afternoon in February. Through the edge of the forest a soldier moves without any idea he's caught in a mesh of sunlight and shade. Corporal Halloran's this fellow's name. He's a lean boy taking long strides through the Sabbath heat." A South Pacific penal colony in the ...Show more