Miles Franklin Award 2012 shortlist

Posting the shortlist for this year's Miles Franklin award just in case it might provide more options for our schedule deliberations:

• Tony Birch's Blood
• Anna Funder's All that I am
• Gillian Mears' Foal's bread
• Frank Moorhouse's Cold light
• Favel Parrett's Past the shallows

Click on this link for a page linking to a description of the books and the judges' comments.

We've read one already - woo too. Go us! And at least one of us has read Anna Funder I believe.

Do any strike your fancy for us?