2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award Listed

First Name Second Name

Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2026

By: Steve Minon

Write A Review

Paperback | 4 March 2025

At a Glance

Paperback
272 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
22.6 x 15.3 x 2.0

Paperback

RRP $32.99

$26.99

18%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $6.75 with

Ships in 3 to 5 business days

In this darkly ironic novel, a dead man walks back through four generations of family estrangements to recover his lost identity.

The journey will be long and difficult, one thousand miles. Try not to be too obvious. Stick to the backroads. You'll know you've arrived when you get there.

Stephen Bolin leaves a bizarre note by his deathbed, asking his sisters to take his body back to his birthplace in Far North Queensland. When they ignore his request, Stephen's corpse makes the nocturnal pilgrimage alone. But what is compelling him and what will he find there?

His journey, as a kind of jiangsh?, takes him back through his turbulent family history- from his Chinese great-grandfather's life on the goldfields in 1860s Queensland, to his Scottish grandparents' migration to Australia as ten-pound Poms, and to his own coming of age and coming out in Brisbane and London.

Original and satirical, First Name Second Name follows four generations of one family through a reckoning with racial, familial and sexual identity.

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $49.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.