The longlist of novels for the 2009 Miles Franklin award will be announced on 12 March (tomorrow) by the trustees of the prize. As I have produced in the past, here is a list of possible inclusions on that list:
The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide
The Pages by Murray Bail
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
The Biographer by Virginia Duigan
Wanting by Richard Flanagan
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
The Steele Diaries by Wendy James
The Lifeboat by Zacharey Jane
Life in Seven Mistakes by Susan Johnson
Addition by Toni Jordan
The Good Parents by Joan London
Deception by Michael Meehan
The Last Sky by Alice Nelson
Ice by Louis Nowra
The Landscape of Desire by Kevin Rabelais
The Shallow End by Ashley Sievwright
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
The Devil's Eye by Ian Townsend
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
Breath by Tim Winton
Any others you can think of?
