Hospital (PB) (Miles Franklin longlist 2024)

Sanya Rushdi

In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a community house and then to hospital, she questions the diagnosis of her sanity or insanity, as determined and defined by a med...

Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar (HB)

Deborah FitzGerald

The first definitive biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been writt...