Complete list of titles reviewed on this blog since 19/7/08
Click the links to go to the review. All reviews by Lisa Hill unless otherwise noted by * or #
Fiction
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- 8 States of Catastrophe by Karen Lee Thompson
- 88 Lines about 44 Women by Steven Lang
- The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
- The Accident by Ismail Kadare
- The Acolyte by Thea Astley
- After the Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld
- The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
- All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
- Almayer’s Folly by Joseph Conrad
- Almost French by Sarah Turnbull*
- Alva’s Boy by Alan Collins
- The Amateur Science of Love by Craig Sherborne
- Amy’s Children by Olga Masters
- The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee
- Animal People by Charlotte Wood
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Anne Hereford, by Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood
- Antipodes by David Malouf **
- As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong
- At Swim – Two Birds by Flann O’Brien
- The Australian Long Story, edited by Mandy Sayer
- Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
- A Body of Water by Beverley Farmer
- The Barracks by John McGahern
- The Bath Fugues by Brian Castro
- The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
- Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
- The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
- The Blind Eye by Georgia Blain
- The Believers, by Zoe Heller
- Belonging by Isabel Huggan
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Benang by Kim Scott
- Bereft by Chris Womersley
- Beside the Sea by Veronica Olmi
- Between Sky and Sea by Herz Bergner
- The Big Fellow, by Vance Palmer
- Bird by Sophie Cunningham
- Black Glass by Meg Mundell
- Blindness, by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero
- The Boat by Nam Le
- The Book of Emmett by Deborah Forster
- The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
- The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold
- Border Crossing by Pat Barker*
- Boy on a Wire by Jon Doust
- Breath by Tim Winton
- Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- Bright and Distant Shores by Dominic Smith
- Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
- Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
- Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton
- Butterfly by Sonya Hartnett
- Campaign Ruby by Jessica Rudd
- Capricornia by Xavier Herbert
- Carry Me Across the Water by Ethan Canin
- The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene
- A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
- Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Stephen Galloway
- The Changing Forms of Clouds by Dalia Millingen**
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
- Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
- The Child in Time, by Ian McEwan
- Child’s Play by David Malouf
- The Children by Charlotte Wood
- The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt
- The China Garden by Kristina Olssen
- City of God by E.L. Doctorow
- The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
- The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, translated by Tom Patterdale
- Come Inside by G.L. (Glenys) Osborne
- The Comfort of Figs by Simon Cleary*
- A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
- The Confidential Agent, by Graham Greene, narrated by Tim Piggott-Smith
- The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
- The Cook by Wayne Macauley
- Cousin Bette, by Honoré de Balzac
- Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F Scott Fitzgerald
- A Dance to the Movement of Time, by Anthony Powell
- Dancer by Colum McCann
- Dark Clouds on the Mountain by John Tully
- The Dark Tide by Vera Brittain
- Day, by A.L. Kennedy
- The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave#
- Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
- Death of a Whaler by Nerida Newton, read by Christopher Brown
- The Devil’s Advocate by Morris West
- Disquiet by Julia Leigh
- Dissection, by Jacinta Halloran
- Distant Music by Lee Langley
- Document Z by Andrew Croome
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- Dog Boy by Eva Hornung
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- The Double by José Saramago
- Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke
- Dressing up for the Carnival by Carol Shields**
- Drift, by Brian Castro
- Drop City by T C Boyle *
- Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
- The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
- The End of Longing by Ian Reid
- End of the Night Girl by Amy Mathews
- Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
- The English Class by Ouyang Yu
- The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
- Escape by Anna Fienberg
- Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
- The Evening of the Holiday by Shirley Hazzard
- Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy
- An Exclusive Love by Joanna Adorján, translated by Anthea Bell
- The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Falling Man by Don DeLillo
- The Family Law by Benjamin Law
- Fall Girl by Toni Jordan
- Fanny Hill by John Cleland
- Fateless, by Imre Kertész
- Figurehead by Patrick Allington
- Finders and Keepers by Catrin Collier, read by Kate Jarman
- Fly Away Peter, by David Malouf
- Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears
- The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
- (For the Term of) His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke##
- (For the Term of) His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
- A Fraction of the Whole, by Steve Toltz
- The French Tutor by Judith Armstrong
- Fugitive Blue by Claire Thomas
- G by John Berger
- The Gathering by Anne Enright
- Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale
- Germinal by Émile Zola
- The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- The Glass Room by Simon Mawer, read by Jefferson Mays
- Glissando by David Musgrave
- The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Phillip Pullman
- The Good Muslim by Tahmina Anam
- Goodbye Mr Chips by James Hilton
- Godiva by Nerys Jones
- Gone by Jennifer Mills
- The Good Parents by Joan London
- The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
- Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
- The Hanged Man in the Garden by Marion Halligan**
- The Harp in the South by Ruth Park
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Hokitika Town by Charlotte Randall
- The Homecoming by Bernard Schlink
- Homer and Langley by E.L.Doctorow
- Hotel du Lac, by Anita Brookner
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah
- The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide (see also)*
- How It Feels by Brendan Cowell
- How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic
- I Do Not Come to You By Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
- I for Isobel by Amy Witting
- I Hate Martin Amis et al by Peter Barry
- Ice by Louis Nowra
- If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller, by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
- The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagan
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (more fiction than NF, though a bit of both)
- In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
- In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield
- In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
- In Pursuit by Joanna Fitzpatrick
- In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
- Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
- An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
- The Infinities by John Banville
- The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- Inland by Gerald Murnane
- An Innocent Gentleman by Elizabeth Jolley
- The Impostor by Damon Galgut, read by Humphrey Bower
- Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
- Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser
- Joe Wilson and His Mates by Henry Lawson
- The King of Tuzla by Arnold Hoop de Haar
- The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Michael Emmerich
- Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller
- Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
- Legacy by Larissa Behrendt
- The Legacy by Kirsten Tranter
- Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
- Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac
- The Liberator’s Birthday by Jill Blee, read by Stanley McGeagh
- The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
- The Life of an Unknown Man by Andrei Makine
- Life in Seven Mistakes by Susan Johnson
- Like Being a Wife by Catherine Harris
- The Little Hotel by Christina Stead
- Little People by Jane Sullivan
- Loose by Ouyang Yu
- The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
- Lovesong by Alex Miller
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- Man Overboard by Tim Binding, read by Stephen Crossley
- The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
- The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling
- The Map of Time by Felix Palma, translated by Nick Caistor
- Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
- Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
- Meet Me in Venice by Elizabeth Adler
- Memoirs of a Suburban Girl by Deb Kandelaars
- The Memory Room by Christopher Koch
- The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Dominic Smith
- The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
- Merry-go-round in the Sea by Randolph Stow
- Milk Fever by Lisa Reece-Lane
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Mr Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester
- Mr Shakespeare’s Bastard by Richard B. Wright
- Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther
- Murder on the Apricot Coast by Marion Halligan
- The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
- Musk and Byrne, by Fiona Capp
- The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
- My Crowded Solitude by Jack McLaren
- Napoleon’s Double by Antoni Jach (see also)*
- Night Street by Kristel Thornell
- Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) by José Rizal, translated by Harold Augenbraum
- The Northern Clemency, by Phillip Hensher, narrated by Carole Boyd
- Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
- Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
- Nourishment by Gerard Woodward
- Novel about My Wife by Emily Perkins
- Oh Lucky Country by Rosa Cappiello
- Omega Park by Amy Barker
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
- On Our Selection by Steele Rudd
- One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna
- Opportunity by Charlotte Grimshaw
- The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith
- Orpheus Lost by Janet Turner Hospital*
- The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
- Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame, read by Heather Bolton
- The Pages by Murray Bail
- The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
- Paper Nautilus by Nicholas Jose, read by Paul English
- Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
- Passarola Rising by Azhar Abidi
- The Passport by Herta Muller
- Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
- The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi
- The Patron Saint of Eels by Gregory Day
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- The Philanthropist by John Tesarsch
- The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelenik
- Pickle to Pie by Glenice Whitting
- Pictures of Us by Todd Alexander, read by Deidre Rubenstein
- A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev
- The Plains by Gerald Murnane
- Perfume by Patrick Suskind
- Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Chi-young Kim
- The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
- The Poet by Alex Skovron
- Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth, read by Ron Silver
- Potiki by Patricia Grace
- The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing
- Prochownik’s Dream by Alex Miller, read by Paul English
- Prohibited Zone by Alistair Sarre
- A Promised Land? by Alan Collins
- Provenance by Jane Messner *
- The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
- The Rainy Season by Myfanwy Jones
- Ransom by David Malouf
- Reading Madam Bovary by Amanda Lohrey
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- The Remains of the Day, by Kasuo Ishiguro
- Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
- Reunion by Andrea Goldsmith
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
- River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
- The Road Home by Rose Tremain
- Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood
- Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer
- Room by Emma Donaghue
- The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson
- Ruby Blues by Jessica Rudd
- Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey
- Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
- Sanditon by Jane Austen
- The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
- The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
- Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
- Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
- The Second-Last Woman in England by Maggie Joel
- The Secret of Lost Things, by Sheridan Hay (see also) *
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles, read by Matthew Modine
- Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie, read by Aasif Mandvi
- Shadow Lines by Stephen Kinnane
- The Shiralee by D’Arcy Niland, read by Ivor Kants
- Shroud by John Banville
- Siddon Rock by Glenda Guest
- The Siege by Ismail Kadare
- The Silver Wattle by Belinda Alexander, read by Caroline Lee
- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
- Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
- The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
- Slow Water by Annamarie Jagose
- The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattachariya
- Small World by David Lodge *
- Snake by Kate Jennings
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See, read by Janet Song
- Snowdrops by A.D. Miller
- Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
- Song for Night by Chris Abani
- The Solid Mandala by Patrick White
- Solo by Rana Dasgupta
- Sons of the Rumour by David Foster
- Spadework by Timothy Findlay
- The Spare Room by Helen Garner, read by Heather Bolton
- Spinner by Ron Elliot
- The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
- Summer Crossing by Truman Capote, read by Lorelei King
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Sustenance, by Simone Lazaroo
- Swimming by Enza Gandolfo
- The Sword and the Miracle by Melvyn Bragg*
- Swords and Crowns and Rings by Ruth Park
- The Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
- Tales of the Austral Tropics by Ernest Favenc
- The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
- The Taxi Queue by Janet Davey
- Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
- That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
- These Foolish Things, by Deborah Moggach
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- A Thousand Nights at the Ritz and other Stories by Alan Collins**
- Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu, translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin
- The Time in Between, by David Berger
- Time’s Long Ruin by Stephen Orr
- Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson
- To the Islands by Randolph Stow
- Touch by Adania Shibli
- Tourmaline, by Randolph Stow, narrated by Francis Greenslade
- Traitor by Stephen Daisley
- Trap by Peter Mathers
- Treasures of Time by Penelope Lively
- Trespass by Valerie Martin
- The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon
- The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
- Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka *
- The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
- Ulysses by James Joyce #1#2 #3 #4#5#6#7#8#9#10#11 #12#13#14#15#16#17#18
- The Umbrella Club by David Brooks
- The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson
- Utopian Man by Lisa Lang
- Valley of Masks by Tarun J Tejpal
- The Verge Practice by Barry Maitland*
- Vertigo by Amanda Lohrey
- The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
- The Vintage and the Gleaning by Jeremy Chambers
- Virtuoso by Sonia Orchard, narrated by Humphrey Bower
- Voss by Patrick White
- Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
- Wandering Star by J.M.G. Le Clézio
- Wanting by Richard Flanagan
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace and Sonya by Judith Armstrong
- The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
- Water Wahala by Isaac Neequaye
- Ways of Escape by Hugh Mackay
- We of the Never-Never by Mrs Aeneus Gunn
- The Wedding Shroud by Elizabeth Storrs
- When Colts Ran by Roger McDonald
- While I Have Pedro by John Chesterman
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- The Widow and Her Hero by Thomas Keneally
- Winter Journey by Diane Armstrong, narrated by Deirde Rubenstein
- Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- The Women in Black by Madeleine St John
- The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
- Wulf by Hamish Clayton
- Wyatt by Garry Disher#
- The Zookeeper’s War by Steven Conte
Non Fiction
- 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
- After Such Knowledge by Eva Hoffman
- After Words by Paul Keating
- Ancient Shore, Despatches from Naples by Shirley Hazzard
- The Apple by Penelope Holt
- Appo, Recollections of a Member of the Sydney Push by Richard Appleton
- An Awkward Truth by Peter Grose
- Bad Hair Days, by Pamela Bone
- Bad News, Murdoch’s Australian and the Shaping of the Nation by Robert Manne
- Barcelona by Robert Hughes
- Beatrix Potter by Linda Lear
- The Book is Dead by Sherman Young
- Brief Encounters, Literary Travellers in Australia 1836-1939 by Susannah Fullerton
- Brief Lives: E.M.Forster by Richard Canning
- The Cambridge History of Australian Literature, edited by Peter Pierce
- The Cello Suites by Eric Siblin
- The Corpse Walker by Liao Yiwu
- Creme de la Phlegm, Unforgettable Australian Reviews by Angela Bennie
- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
- Enlightenment, Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Kim Sloan
- Europe @2.4km/h by Ken Haley
- Fabled Shore, from the Pyrenees to Portugal by Rose Macauley
- Fairweather by Murray Bail
- The Fanfrolico Press by John Arnold
- Fateless/Fatelessness by Imre Kertèsz
- Fishing in the Styx by Ruth Park, read by Anna Volska
- Five Days in London by John Lukacs
- Flavours of Melbourne by Charmaine O’Brien
- Fred Williams by Patrick McCaughey
- Galileo, Antichrist by Michael White
- The Ghost at the Wedding by Shirley Walker
- Ghosts of Spain by Giles Tremlet
- Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, by Alasdair McGregor
- Great Central State The Foundation of the Northern Territory by Jack Cross
- Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit by Gerard Windsor
- The Henson Case, by David Marr
- Her Father’s Daughter by Alice Pung**
- The Home of the Blizzard by Douglas Mawson
- House of Exile by Evelyn Juers
- A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively
- I Am Melba by Ann Blainey
- The Ice Beneath My Feet by Diana Patterson
- Images of the Interior: Seven Central Australian Photographers by Philip Jones
- Into the Woods, by Anna Krien*
- Joseph Banks, A Life, by Patrick O’Brian
- The Judgement of Paris by Ross King
- Katherine Mansfield The Storyteller by Kathleen Jones
- The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
- Margaret Olley, Far From a Still Life by Meg Stewart
- Mary Poppins She Wrote by Valerie Lawson
- Meerreeng-an – Here is My Country, edited by Chris Keeler and Vicki Couzens
- The Messenger by Yannick Haenel
- The Mish: Childhood Memories of Framlingham Aboriginal Station by Robert Lowe
- My Blood’s Country by Fiona Capp
- Not Going to Vietnam by Garrie Hutchinson
- Nothing Like a Dame, Phyllis Frost by Bernadette Clohesy
- Obsessive Genius, The Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith
- Ochre and Rust by Philip Jones
- On Beauty by Susan Johnson
- On Experience by David Malouf
- Over There with the Australians by R. Hugh Knyvett
- Peggy Guggenheim, by Laurence Tacou-Rumney, translated by Ralph Rumney
- The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman, read by Stephen Greif
- The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
- Piano Lessons by Anna Goldsworthy
- The Place for a Village by Gary Presland
- Plenty by Gay Bilson
- Popeye Never Told You: Childhood Memories of the War by Rodney Hall
- The Possessed, Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, by Elif Batuman
- Radical Melbourne, a Secret History by Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow
- Reading by Moonlight by Brenda Walker, read by Jane Nolan
- Reading the OED by Ammon Shea
- Resistance, Memoirs of Occupied France, by Agnes Humbert
- Riding the Trains in Japan by Patrick Holland
- A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck
- Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville
- The Shell Country Alphabet by John Grigson
- A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
- Sideshow by Lindsay Tanner
- Slow Journeys by Gillian Souter
- Smythe’s Theory of Everything by Robert Hollingworth**
- Songs from the Violet Cafe by Fiona Kidman**
- Staying Alive by Alexander Fullerton, read by Nicolette McKenzie
- Stella Miles Franklin, A Biography by Jill Roe
- The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper
- Tears in the Darkness by Michael Normal and Elizabeth M. Norman
- Time Without Clocks by Joan Lindsay
- The Translator by Daoud Hari
- Trouble in Lotus Land by Charmian Clift
- Ulysses and Us by Declan Kiberd
- An Unlikely Leader by Robert Barnes
- A Very Rude Awakening, by Peter Grose
- Walking the Camino by Tony Kevin
- The Well at the World’s End by A.J. Mackinnon
- Wicked But Virtuous, by Mirka Mora
- With Stendhal by Simon Leys
- Women of the Long March by Lily Xiao Hong and Sue Wiles, read by Stephanie Daniel
- Yulyurlu Lorna Fencer Naparrurla, edited by Margie West
Complete List of Opening Lines from Miles Franklin winners (Years with missing links are titles I don’t have a copy of, yet, or have not yet posted their opening lines. )
1957 Voss by Patrick White
1958 To the Islands by Randolph Stow
1959 The Big Fellow by Vance Palmer
1960 The Irishman by Elizabeth O’Connor
1961 Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
1962 The Well Dressed Explorer by Thea Astley and The Cupboard Under the Stairs by George Turner
1963 Careful He Might Hear You by Sumner Locke Eliot
1964 My Brother Jack by George Johnston
1965 The Slow Natives by Thea Astley
1966 Trap by Peter Mathers
1967 Bring Larks and Heroes by Thomas Keneally
1968 Three Cheers for the Paraclete by Thomas Keneally
1969 Clean Straw for Nothing by George Johnston
1970 A Horse of Air by Dal Stivens
1971 The Unknown Industrial Prisoner by David Ireland
1972 The Acolyte by Thea Astley
1973 No award
1974 The Mango Tree by Ronald McKie
1975 Poor Fellow My Country by Xavier Herbert
1976 The Glass Canoe by David Ireland
1977 Swords and Crowns and Rings by Ruth Park
1978 Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson
1979 A Woman of the Future by David Ireland
1980 The Impersonators by Jessica Anderson (This post is entitled Vale Jessica Anderson)
1981 Bliss by Peter Carey
1982 Just Relations by Rodney Hall
1983 No award
1984 Shallows by Tim Winton
1985 The Doubleman by Christopher Koch
1986 The Well by Elizabeth Jolley
1987 Dancing on Coral by Glenda Adams
1988 No award (Date changed from year of publication to year of announcement)
1989 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
1990 Oceana Fine by Tom Flood
1991 The Great World by David Malouf
1992 Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
1993 The Ancestor Game by Alex Miller
1994 The Grisly Wife by Rodney Hall
1995 The Hand That Signed the Paper by Helen Demidenko
1996 Highways to a War by Christopher Koch
1997 The Glade Within the Grove by David Foster
1998 Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
1999 Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
2000 Drylands by Thea Astley and Benang by Kim Scott
2001 Dark Palace by Frank Moorhouse
2002 Dirt Music by Tim Winton
2003 Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller
2004 The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
2005 The White Earth by Andrew McGahan
2006 The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald
2007 Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
2008 The Time We Have Taken by Stephen Carroll
2009 Breath by Tim Winton
* Guest review by Sally Cripps.
# Guest review by Helen Rutten
** Guest review by Karen Lee Thompson
## Guest Review by Dr Lurline Stuart
Last updated 22/1/2012
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Thanks so much for this lovely blog–It keeps me up to date with Australian lit, since I live in the States. I have been keeping up a blog about my mother, Glenda Adams, and her writing, since she died in 2007: http://readglendaadams.blogspot.com/. It has a much more personal scope than yours, but I am reminded of my mother, her peers and friends when I read your blog.
By: Caitlin Adams on December 6, 2010
at 3:10 am
Hello Caitlin, I am looking forward to reading your mother’s novel. I had been hunting for Dancing on Coral for a while when I came across it in a bookshop in country NSW, and was delighted to add it to my collection of Miles Franklin first editions. I am gradually reading my way through the winners list in more or less chronological order and expect to get to it some time in the next year or so – so I hope you visit again:)
Lisa
By: Lisa Hill on December 6, 2010
at 10:14 pm