2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist

The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases.

Updated July 12, 2025
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Chinese Postman
Castro, Brian author
Paper Book
Theory and practice
De kretser, Michelle.
Paper Book
It's 1986, and 'beautiful, radical ideas' are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda she meets artists, activists, students--and Kit. He claims to be in a 'deconstructed' relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, her...
Dirt Poor Islanders
Dunn, Winnie.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD BEST YOUNG NOVELISTS AWARD 2025 WINNER OF THE KATHLEEN MITCHELL AWARD 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MULTICULTURAL NSW AWARD 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE UTS...
Compassion
Janson, Julie
Paper Book
'You can't enslave us all, Captain!' I yelled into his face. 'We will resist, and you will die a beaten man. Our Blackfellows will rise...' From the acclaimed author of the Miles Franklin longlisted Madukka: The River Serpent (UWA...
Highway 13
McFarlane, Fiona
Paper Book
A gripping, provocative work by one of our finest writers, the internationally acclaimed author Fiona McFarlane. In overlapping stories, Highway 13 explores the reverberations of a serial killer's crimes in the lives of everyday people. A brilliant and illuminating account of loss and its...

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