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Imprint: Renard Press
ISBN: 9781804472378
Paperback • 294pp • £9.99
129 mm x 198 mm
08/10/26
Thema: FBC, FRJ, 1MBF-AU-N

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My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin

With a preface by Henry Lawson

ISBN: 9781804472378
Paperback • 294pp
Published 8 October 2026

£9.99

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‘This was life – my life – my career,
my brilliant career! I was fifteen – fifteen!’

First published in 1901, My Brilliant Career is a powerful portrayal of life in turn-of-the-century rural Australia. Young, headstrong and born into a family dogged by misfortune, Sybylla Melvyn is determined to avoid the lot of young women – to escape the drudgery of farm life by finding a husband – and instead devotes herself to the arts, adamant she will one day make her way as a writer, actor, artist…

Through a series of bad business decisions Sybylla’s father fritters away the family fortunes, and the hapless teen – considered a burden by her mother – is sent to live with her grandmother, where life is comparatively blissful. When a dashing neighbour makes an appearance Sybylla’s nerve is tested – but Fate has one more hand to play.

Now a major Netflix series

About the author

Stella ‘Miles’ Franklin (1879–1954) was an Australian writer best remembered for her portrayals of Australian life in My Brilliant Career and All That Swagger. Her legacy lives on in the Stella Prize, a literary award for writing by Australian women.

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