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The longlist for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award, has been announced. The 12 longlisted novels are:
![Amnesty [Paperback]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781509879045/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
"Danny - formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he’s been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved veg...
![The rain heron [Paperback]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781922268778/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading - and forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a legendary creature, Ren is inexorably drawn into an impossible mission....
At the edge of the solid world
In a snowbound village in the heart ofthe Alps, a husband and wife find their lives breaking apart in the days and months following the death of their firstborn. On the far side oftheworld, in their hometown of Sydney, a man on the margins of Australian society commit...
![Our shadows [Paperback]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781922330284/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
This novel tells the story of three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own history weaves in and out of this beguiling novel. Sisters Nell and Frances were raised by their grandparents and were once c...
![Infinite splendours [Paperback]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781760876272/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Infinite splendours [Paperback]
Lawrence Loman is a bright, caring, curious boy with a gift for painting. He lives at home with his mother and younger brother, and the future is laid out before him, full of promise. But when he is ten, an experience of betrayal takes it all away, and Lawrence is left to deal with the devastatin...
The labyrinth : a pastoral [Winner 2021]
This novel examines the generational legacy of trauma, as well as the complexity of parental guilt and shame. Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on th...
![The animals in that country [Paperback]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781925849530/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The animals in that country [Paperback]
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, workin...
![Lucky's [paperback]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781760787332/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
It is also about a man called Lucky. His restaurant chain. A fire that changed everything. A New Yorker article which might save a career. The mystery of a missing father. An impostor who got the girl. An unthinkable tragedy. A roll of the dice. And a story of love, lost, sought and won again,
![Stone sky gold mountain [Paperback]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780702262739/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Stone sky gold mountain [Paperback]
"Tragic family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in North Queensland. Life on the gold fields is hard, and they soon abandon the diggings and head to nearby Maytown. Once there, Lai Yue finds a job as a carrier on expeditions, takin...
Jack retreats to an Airbnb cottage in a small coastal town. As a writer he is pre-occupied with the phenomenon of found people: the Somerton Man, the Gippsland Man, the Isdal Woman, people who are found dead - their identities unknown or erased - and the mysterious pull this has on the...
![Song of the crocodile [Paperback]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780733643743/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Song of the crocodile [Paperback]
Darnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of achievement, some kind of end- that you have reached a destination in the very least. Yet as the sign states, Darnmoor is merely a gateway, a waypoint on the road to where you really want to be.
