see http://www.trust.com.au/philanthropy/awards/miles_franklin/2010/shortlist/
All these books are in our excellent library.
SHORTLIST:
- Lovesong, Alex Miller: is a story of marriage, of people coming undone by desire, of ordinary lives and death, love and struggle, told in Miller’s distinct voice which is filled with intelligence, clarity and compassion.
- The Bath Fugues, Brian Castro: is a meditation on melancholy and art, in the form of three interwoven novellas; each dealing with questions of deception and discovery and each stretching the bonds of trust and friendship.
- Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey: When Jasper Jones visits Charlie Bucktin on a hot summer night in 1965, Charlie bears witness to Jasper’s horrible discovery and in the summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart.
- The Book of Emmett, Deborah Foster: Emmett Brown is dark and moody – but also a waylaid romantic with one hand on his Hemingway and the other around a bottle. As he becomes a terror to his wife and children, his family form bonds which are complex, strong and impossible to break. As Emmett lays dying, they come to discover love – however imperfect – is the best protection.
- Truth, Peter Temple: is the much anticipated sequel to The Broken Shore and is a novel about murder, corruption, family, friends, honour, honesty, deceit, love, betrayal – and truth.
- Butterfly, Sonya Hartnett: – On the verge of her fourteenth birthday, Plum knows her life will change. But she has no idea how. Over the coming weeks, her neighbour will show her how she might fly, her brother will court catastrophe in worlds she barely knows exist and her enemies will try to lead her on and take her down. Who forgets what happens when you’re fourteen?
- see this site for more detail----
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