Smart Ovens for Lonely People
By: Elizabeth Tan
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Conspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collecti…
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1. Picnic at Hanging Rock
By: Joan Lindsay
3.67
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more
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"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
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2. The Boy Behind the Curtain
By: Tim Winton
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Audio CD
The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtainreveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Wi… read more
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4. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
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5. As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more
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6. The Hazards
By: Sarah Holland-Batt
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Australia, The Hazardsis … read more
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7. Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
By: Suzan-Lori Parks
4.16
Format: 114 pages,
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8. The Winter's Tale
By: William Shakespeare
4.75
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more
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9. The Hate Race
By: Maxine Beneba Clarke
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin… read more
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10. Meaning in Life and Why It Matters
By: Jonathan Haidt , Stephen Macedo , John Koethe , Robert Merrihew Adams , Susan R. Wolf , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two cate… read more
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11. Cyrano de Bergerac
By: Edmond Rostand , Lowell Bair , Eteel Lawson
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever capt… read more
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12. The Dressmaker
By: Rosalie Ham
3.50
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture--soon to be a major motion pictu… read more
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13. Limberlost
By: Robbie Arnott
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more
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"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
14. The Yield
By: Tara June Winch
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spen… read more
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"My mummy, she said, 'The Aborigine is a pity, my son.' She said everyone was always insulted by her no matter what she did, so she let herself do the most insulting thing she could think of - take th…"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"The story goes that the church brought time to us, and the church, if you let it, will take it away. I’m writing about the other time, though, deep time. This is a big, big story. The big stuff goes …"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"I was born on Ngurambang — can you hear it? — Ngu-ram-bang. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. Every person around should learn the word for …"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
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15. The Hummingbird Effect
By: Kate Mildenhall
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more
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16. Smart Ovens for Lonely People
By: Elizabeth Tan
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Conspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collecti… read more
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17. Flames
By: Robbie Arnott
4.07
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, C… read more
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18. Throat
By: Ellen Van Neerven
4.22
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
not in Aus, mate bad things don't happen here our beaches are open they are not places where blo… read more
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19. Speaking in Tongues (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)
By: Andrew Bovell
3.86
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
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20. Berlin
By: Joanna Murray-Smith
3.58
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
A spine-tingling romantic thriller. Charlotte is a Berliner through and through. Tom is a foreig… read more
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21. Chimerica
By: Lucy Kirkwood
3.93
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
Winner, 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Winner, 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Play Winner, 2013 … read more
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