Alex Miller

• Sep-1992
• / General Fiction
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In the winner of Australia's top prize for fiction, three central characters explore their family histories over the centuries and across the continents, revealing the connections they share and discovering their spiritual destinies....

• Jul-2000
• / General Fiction
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Emily Stanton, an intelligent and ambitious young woman of the 1920s, discovers that her struggle for personal freedom challenges society's deeply cherished beliefs about motherhood and family, in a story revealed through a fragmentary journal, left ...

• Oct-2002
• / General Fiction
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Following the sudden end of her marriage, Annabelle Beck returns from Melbourne to the sanctuary of her old family home in North Queensland. There, on an archaeological survey, she discovers that the aboriginal field officer, Bo Rennie, knows her fro...

• Sep-2003
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'A narrow, vertical painting, tightly enclosing the scene. Her pale arm and her pale thigh. Viewed at a diagonal through an exceedingly tall doorway. just a glimpse of something.'An ageing portrait artist meets a woman who unsettles hi...

• Nov-2005
• / General Fiction
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Based on the lives of real people in Somerset on the borders of Exmoor, Miller tells his own story of a young labourer swept up in the adventure of riding second horse in a west country stag hunt. Finding himself in a closed social system in which he...

• Nov-2007
• / General Fiction
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A hauntingly beautiful meditation on the land, the past, exile and friendship, Landscape of Farewell is the powerful new novel from acclaimed Australian author, Alex Miller. It is the story of Max Otto, an elderly German academic. After...

• Apr-2011
• / General Fiction
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‘Through this engaging story, you and your children will enter a new world and live an adventure with an unlikely explorer. In a calm little pond, on the banks of a great river, there lived a little fish. There was nothing special about him. In fac...

• May-2012
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In this haunting story, two Australian men are hired to clear the ubiquitous manuka scrub in a bleak and rain-swept New Zealand gully. As their wide open homeland and dreams of teaching the locals how to break in horses begin to seem increasingly rem...

• Jun-2012
• / General Fiction
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Autumn Laing seduces Pat Donlon with her lust for life and art. In doing so she not only compromises the trusting love she has with her husband, Arthur, she also steals the future from Pat's young and beautiful wife, Edith, and their unborn child. Fi...

• Jul-2012
• / General Fiction
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'His beauty and aloofness disturbed the equilibrium of the Rankin family. The stockman for a long time offered a resistance to the efforts of the members of the family to involve him in their lives. He moved about in their familiar world, observing i...

• Oct-2013
• / General Fiction
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Osama bin Laden is Dead is about growing up in a sad little town in the middle of nowhere. It’s about going to high school with a bunch of rich kids who hate you because you buy your clothes at Walmart. It’s about your parents manipulating you in...

• Dec-2015
• / Contemporary Romance
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Strangers did not, as a rule, find their way to Chez Dom -- a small, rundown Tunisian cafe on Paris' distant fringes, run by the widow Houria and her young niece, Sabiha. But when one day a lost Australian tourist, John Patterner, seeks shelter in...

• Oct-2016
• / General Fiction
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From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last 40 years, comprise an insightful and intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and the cult...

• Apr-2017
• / Historical Romance
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This story was first serialized in the New York Family Story Paper in 1881 and is reprinted from the Street & Smith edition of 1900. Mrs Miller was a highly successful and prolific writer of romantic dime novels in the latter half of the 19th century...

• Aug-2018
• / Historical
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“This thoughtful autobiographical work by an award-winning Australian novelist” chronicles a young author’s adventuresome coming of age (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).   In this epic yet intimate autobiographical novel, acclaimed Austral...

• Jul-2019
• / General Fiction
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You told me about your grandfather, how he kept forgetting his name and trying to break out of the nursing home. You said you always mean to visit him but somehow never do. You held up a cigarette and watched it degenerate into ash and smoke. ...

• Sep-2021
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• Jun-2022
• / General Fiction
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White People on Vacation is a story about the struggle to live a meaningful life in the era of late-stage capitalism. More specifically, it is about a group of college students (white) who take a vacation (cursed) to Hawaii, which is paid for by thei...

• Nov-2022
• / Literary
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A moving novel about storytelling, about truths, and love, from twice Miles Franklin Award winner Alex Miller. 'More than one ghost haunts this tender novel about love in its many guises, condoned and illicit. In his deceptively simple, lucid prose, ...

• Sep-2023
• / Historical
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The Man She Hated: Or, Won by Strategy by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is an extraordinary tale of love, revenge, and the remarkable power of strategy. Set against the backdrop of a society governed by strict norms and expectations, this book takes read...

• Nov-2023
• / General Fiction
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A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life.A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left hi...