The Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009
The Longlist

The ten novels selected for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 longlist are:

Addition - Toni Jordan - Text Publishing Melbourne Australia

A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Books)

Breath - Tim Winton - Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Books)

fugitive blue - Claire Thomas - Allen & Unwin

Ice -Louis Nowra - Allen & Unwin

one foot wrong - Sofie Laguna - Allen & Unwin

The Devil's Eye - Ian Townsend - Fourth Estate (HarperCollinsPublishers Australia)

The Pages - Murray Bail - Text Publishing Melbourne Australia

The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas - Allen & Unwin

Wanting - Richard Flanagan - Knopf (Random House Australia)

The Bookman reckons this is a most impressive list and says a lot about the quality of fiction coming out of Australia.