The Passion of Private White
By: Don Watson
4.32
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a m…
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1. Ransom
By: David Malouf
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A reimagination of one of the most famous stories in all of literature-Achilles's slaughter and des… read more
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- historical
- australia
"The world, for Achilles, reassembled itself around a new centre."-David Malouf, Ransom
"He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story."-David Malouf, Ransom
"Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world."-David Malouf, Ransom
"Far out where the gulf deepens, small waves kick up, gather, then collapse, and new ones replace them; and this, even as he watches, repeats itself, and will do endlessly whether he is here or not to…"-David Malouf, Ransom
2. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
By: Shankari Chandran
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more
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- historical
- australia
- audiobook
3. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- audiobook
4. The Bookbinder
By: Pip Williams
4.07
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
5. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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- biography
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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- australia
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7. 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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- historical
- australia
- audiobook
"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
8. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more
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- historical
- australia
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9. Women & Children
By: Tony Birch
4.22
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more
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- australia
10. Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award
By: David Marr
4.39
Format: 596 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked… read more
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- historical
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- nonfiction
- australia
11. The Conversion
By: Amanda Lohrey
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
From Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey comes a stunning literary foray into place, … read more
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- australia
- audiobook
12. Sanctuary
By: Garry Disher
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more
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- audiobook
13. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise
By: Niki Savva
4.21
Format: 320 pages, ebook
‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires ‘It’s… read more
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14. Kill Your Husbands
By: Jack Heath
3.77
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
A witty, page-turning, twisty whodunit from the bestselling author of the Hangman series, perfect f… read more
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- audiobook
"Burn your bras. Kill your husbands."-Jack Heath, Kill Your Husbands
15. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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- australia
- audiobook
16. The Passion of Private White
By: Don Watson
4.32
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a m… read more
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- biography
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
17. Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry
By: Richard Flanagan
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition
In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting it… read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
18. Tell Me Again
By: Amy Thunig
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
19. The Work
By: Bri Lee
3.43
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more
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20. Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal (Quarterly Essay #90)
By: Megan Davis
4.22
Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition
Why a First Nations Voice to Parliament is a ‘constitutional moment’ that offers a new vision of Au… read more
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