Draft typescript, 209 numbered leaves, 8 leaves inserted, handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, and cut and paste inserts (attached with sticky tape).

Nine printout drafts of eight stories, all but one published in Every move you make. Includes title page. There are handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, cut and paste typescript inserts (attached with sticky tape) and typescript inserts.

1. The Valley of Lagoons, 57 leaves.
2. Every move you make, 27 leaves.
3. War Baby, [43] leaves, 41 hand numbered leaves.
4. Towards Midnight, 13 leaves.
5. Elsewhere, title handwritten in pencil on first page, 16 leaves.
6. Mrs Porter and the Rock, 41 leaves.
7. Mrs Porter and the Rock, 39 leaves.
8. The Domestic Cantata, 'Revised Version, 2' written on pencil of first page, 31 leaves.
9. 'Honey', 18 leaves, unpublished.

Ransom retells the story of the Iliad from books 22 to 24. This subseries has manuscript and typescript drafts, with handwritten emendations. By close textual comparison (including with the published novel), these versions have been put into the order in which they were likely produced.

Literary awards and nominations include:
2010 winner International Awards — John D. Criticos Prize. Awarded to David Malouf for his novel Ransom.
2010 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Fiction - for Ransom.
2010 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal ... presented to David Malouf for his novel Ransom.
2010 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction - for Ransom.
2011 shortlisted International Awards — International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - for Ransom.

A group of eight early draft typescripts of stories (two copies of one title), some still untitled, with handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, cut and paste typescript inserts (attached with sticky tape). All but one published in Every move you make.

1. Untitled (The Valley of Lagoons, [38 leaves], 36 hand numbered leaves.
2. Untitled (Every Move You Make), 16 leaves.
3. Untitled (War Baby), [28 leaves], 26 hand numbered leaves.
4. Towards Midnight, 9 leaves.
5. Untitled (Elsewhere), 11 unnumbered leaves.
6. Mrs Porter and the Rock, 24 leaves, 2 versions, including first draft on green paper.
7. The Domestic Cantata, 9 unnumbered leaves.
8. 'Closer' - unpublished, 8 unnumbered leaves.

Typescript, version 6, 111 leaves, hand-numbered, with a few handwritten emendations by an editor in the text and on two post-it notes attached to margins. Page 72 with piece of A5 paper attached with additional paragraph in manuscript in an editor’s hand.

Draft, version 10, 115 leaves, with handwritten emendations, white-out corrections.

Typescript, version 2 (typed by David Malouf), in five sections numbered I – V. (sections III and IV present in two versions), with handwritten emendations, white-out corrections, cut and paste typescript inserts (attached with sticky tape), and handwritten inserts.

Darft, version 5, five chapters individually paginated, 16, 39, 30, 20, 8p, altogether 113 leaves, a few handwritten emendations by an editor in the text and on a few post-it notes attached to margins.

Typescript, version 8, pp 1 – 20 (of 113), with a few amendations and an additional paragraph inserted at page 19. The other 93p were without any amendations and have not been retained.

Manuscript, version 1, A5 size paper, [ca. 100 leaves], mostly on the back of other typescripts and draft (?) letters