Twice Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Alex Miller answers some questions about his latest book, The Passage of Love. Read more

BOOKS HAVE… made a writer of me. It doesn’t get more important than that as far as I’m concerned. Reading is the most satisfying experience of my life. I spend as much time doing it as I possibly can. Finding the right book is critical. And finding a new author whose work I can respond to is always pure magic. I WRITE BECAUSE… I love writing. I think I became a writer in... Read more

Click here to buy Coal Creek from Booktopia, Australia’s Local Bookstore Coal Creek by Alex Miller Me and Ben had been mates since we was boys and if it come to it I knew I would have to be on his side.’ Bobby Blue is caught between loyalty to his only friend, Ben Tobin, and his boss, Daniel Collins, the new Constable at Mount Hay. ‘Ben was not a big man but he was strong and ... Read more