Alex Miller

'Miller has created a body of writing that is now acknowledged as one of the great Australian literary achievements of the past half-century.' - Morag Fraser It's 1975, and at the threshold of his writing career, Andy McPherson is navigating how to be fully present both for his partner, Jo, and their young daughter. When forced to take a part-time...

More than one ghost haunts this tender novel about love in its many guises, condoned and illicit. In his deceptively simple, lucid prose, Alex Miller examines the emotional contradictions inherent in apparent opposites as his central character learns to draw strength and inspiration from unlikely places. Hauntingly beautiful, A Brief Affair will resonate long after its pages are closed. -...

More than one ghost haunts this tender novel about love in its many guises, condoned and illicit. In his deceptively simple, lucid prose, Alex Miller examines the emotional contradictions inherent in apparent opposites as his central character learns to draw strength and inspiration from unlikely places. Hauntingly beautiful, A Brief Affair will resonate long after its pages are closed. –...

Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award A terrific tale of love and redemption that captivates from the first line." — Nicholas Shakespeare, author of The Dancer Upstairs Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Beck retreats from Melbourne to her old family home in tropical North Queensland where she meets Bo Rennie, one of the Jangga tribe. Intrigued by Bo's claim...

The Passage of Love is capacious, wise, and startlingly honest about human frailty and the permutations of love over time. Frankly autobiographical, it is also a work of fully achieved fiction, ripe with experience, double-voiced, populated with unpredictable men and women, and set in Miller's landscapes that characteristically throb with life. — Morag Fraser, Australian Book Review Sitting in a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD Max is haunted by devastating insights. Blatt told Miller that the hardest part of torture was the realisation that the torturer was also your brother. It is the same generosity that makes Max such a compelling argument against narrowness and division. Blatt's life has deep and wide ramifications. Miller's intelligent love has created a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS 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 his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achieve his dream of becoming a serious novelist. It was not until 1988 that...

Robust, textured and fascinating, this collection of short stories, memoir, journal entries, essays and poems, Journey to the End of Time, spans decades of Alex Miller's life. The collection opens with a moving depiction of Miller's father leaving for war and closes with the final words of a poem written in 2023: when, eventually, after long labours the voice of...

'Me and Ben had been mates since we was boys and if it come to it I knew I would have to be on his side.' Bobby Blue is caught between loyalty to his only friend, Ben Tobin, and his boss, Daniel Collins, the new constable at Mount Hay. 'Ben was not a big man but he was strong and...