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To celebrate 60 years of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and publishing new books from three of our recent Miles Franklin winners - Michelle de Kretser, Sofie Laguna & Alex Miller, we're giving away 6 great bookpacks featuring their old and new books.

Runners-up will receive an advance copy of either The Life to Come or The Passage of Love.

Learn more about their new books, and find an entry form below.

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The Choke is a mesmerising, harrowing and ultimately uplifting novel from the 2015 Miles Franklin winner Sofie Laguna.

The Choke is a brilliant, haunting novel about a child navigating an often dark and uncaring world of male power and violence, in which grown-ups can't be trusted and comfort can only be found in nature. This compassionate and claustrophobic vision of a child in danger and a society in trouble celebrates above all the indomitable nature of the human spirit. Sofie Laguna once again shows she is a writer of rare empathy, originality and blazing talent.

 

Life to Come

The Life to Come is the dazzling and extraordinary new novel from Michelle de Kretser, 2013 winner of the Miles Franklin Award, will strike to your soul. 

Set in Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is a mesmerising novel about the stories we tell and don't tell ourselves as individuals, as societies and as nations. It feels at once firmly classic and exhilaratingly contemporary. Profoundly moving as well as wickedly funny, The Life to Come reveals how the shadows cast by both the past and the future can transform, distort and undo the present.

Passage of Love

The Passage of Love is an exquisitely personal novel of love and creativity from Alex Miller, the critically acclaimed, two-time winner of the Miles Franklin award.

In a rich blend of thoughtful and beautifully observed writing, the lives of a husband and wife are laid bare in their passionate struggle to engage with their individual creativity. Alex Miller is magnificent in this most personal of all novels filled with rare wisdom and incisive observation.

Comp Closed

Competition now closed - The Choke is out now, while you can look forward to The Life to Come being published in October, and The Passage of Love in November. 

Congratulations to our winners:

  • B Eather - NT 
  • E Peadon - NSW
  • G Green - NSW
  • J Trowell - NSW
  • B Cutler - VIC
  • T Morscheck - VIC

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Form

Fill in the form below to go into the draw to win our Miles Franklin bookpacks or advance copies of The Life to Come or The Passage of Love:

The information you provide will only be used for administering the competition and in distributing relevant e-mail newsletters.

Competition open to residents of Australia and New Zealand only. Six winners will receive a Miles Franklin bookpack, while forty runners-up will receive advance copies of either The Life to Come or Passage of Love. By submitting this form, you agree to the Terms & Conditions linked below.

Entries close 10/09/2017 at 23:59 AEST.