Alex Miller was born 1939 in London, England and immigrated alone to Australia at the age of 16. He first worked with stock on a Queensland station before moving to Melbourne, where he first published in 1975. He has won literary awards for many of his books. For more information, these links are helpful:

Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Miller_(writer)

A list of his books: http://alexmiller.com.au/books.html

For reviews: http://alexmiller.com.au/reviews.html

The books which we collectively read, were:

Ancestor Game (1992)
Journey to the Stone Country (2002)
Landscapes of Farewell (2007)
Love Song (2009)
Autumn Laing (2011)
Cold Creek (2013)
The Simplest Words (2015)
Passage of Love (2017)
Max (2020)

We found Alex Miller’s books to be a ‘good read’ on topics such as the art scene in Australia, relationships between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, friendships and the Australian outback. His writing has wonderful characterisations of the people portrayed in the book and at times you feel like you could have been there at the scene of the book. His writing is also seen as breaking new ground, for example, in ‘His Simplest Words: a Storyteller’s journey’ he gives an account on how to start writing, using an embroidered account of his own memoirs. We highly recommend this author.