Born 1936 · Australia
Miles Franklin 2010 · Shortlist
Lovesong
Alex Miller · 73 when first published
Novel · 354 pages · Love, Migration
AI-generated summary:An ageing writer back in Melbourne befriends the husband of the Tunisian woman who runs a local patisserie, and hears how the couple met in a Paris café years before and what has strained their marriage since.
Miles Franklin 2008 · Shortlist
Landscape of Farewell
Alex Miller · 71 when first published
Novel · 279 pages
AI-generated summary:A widowed German historian who thinks his life is over is challenged at his farewell lecture by a young Aboriginal academic, and her invitation to Australia leads him into friendship with her uncle, an Aboriginal elder.
Miles Franklin 2003 · Winner
Journey to the Stone Country
Alex Miller · 66 when first published
Novel · 364 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Abandoned by her husband, the Melbourne academic Annabelle Beck goes back to her family's old house in North Queensland and meets Bo Rennie, a Jangga man who tells her that her future lies with him.
Miles Franklin 2001 · Shortlist
Conditions of Faith
Alex Miller · 64 when first published
Novel · 352 pages · Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:In 1923 Emily Stanton, a gifted young graduate in Melbourne, impulsively marries an older Scottish-French engineer and moves with him to Paris, where she soon finds married life stifling.