The longlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. Congratulations to all the longlisted authors and publishers. We’re particularly excited to see our own St Kilda bookseller A.S. Patrić featured!

The longlisted titles are:

• Ghost River by Tony Birch (Read review)
• Coming Rain by Stephen Daisley (Read review)
• Hope Farm by Peggy Frew (Read review)
• Leap by Myfanwy Jones (Read review)
• The World without Us by Mireille Juchau
• The Hands: An Australian Pastoral by Stephen Orr
• Black Rock White City by A.S. Patrić (Read review)
• Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar (Read review)
• The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood (Read review)

Richard Neville, State Library of NSW Mitchell librarian and judge, said: ‘This year a dominant theme of these novels is the impact of grief and loss – complex families, unstable relationships, accidents, European war crimes, suicide – and how the experience of these issues deeply determine the narrative and direction of lives.’

Find out more abut the longlisted books here. The shortlist will be announced in May.