Summer reading can mean anything you want it to – from a crime or romance novel to a fat classic you didn’t have time for during the year. What will you read?
- Forrest Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, English & Literary Studies, The University of Western Australia
Patrick Marlborough’s debut novel Nock Loose combines satire with a rather gnarly plot.
Siang Lu has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for his absurdist, ‘strikingly new’ novel about dictators in parallel cities – which dials the satire up to 11.
The six inventive books shortlisted for the 2025 Miles Franklin explore ideas of identity, self and nationhood – and play with both ideas and form.
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