Born 1935 · Australia
Miles Franklin 2019 · Shortlist
A Stolen Season
Rodney Hall · 83 when first published
Novel · 352 pages · War
AI-generated summary:Three lives knocked off course: a soldier home from Iraq who depends on a mechanical skeleton, a dance teacher who flees after her husband lies to dangerous people, and a wealthy man handed a late inheritance.
Miles Franklin 2008 · Shortlist
Love Without Hope
Rodney Hall · 72 when first published
Novel · 271 pages
AI-generated summary:After a bushfire kills her beloved horses, an elderly countrywoman sinks into depression and squalor, and in 1982 she is committed to an asylum in rural New South Wales, where she must fight to stay sane.
Miles Franklin 2001 · Shortlist
The Day We Had Hitler Home
Rodney Hall · 65 when first published
Novel · 351 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:In 1919 a young German soldier, gassed blind and unable to speak, ends up by mistake among Australia's returning troops and comes ashore with them in a small New South Wales harbour town.