One Illumined Thread
By: Sally Colin-James
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A beautiful, enthralling and powerful story of three women separated by centuries, yet connected by…
Want to Read"As she leaves, I wonder if I said goodbye. If she did. So many of these unfinished and fleeting moments pinned, stitched, patched together in a never-whole recollection."-Sally Colin-James, One Illumined Thread
"After rain, when the cloud is still low, the hard edges of Florence are softened like Leonardo's sfumato. Smoky lines transforming from shadow to a light that appears as if cast through white silk, so that it falls about the city in a cloud-tinted mist."-Sally Colin-James, One Illumined Thread
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1. Song of the Sun God
By: Shankari Chandran
4.36
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the eve of Sri Lanka's indepen… read more
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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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3. Lola in the Mirror
By: Trent Dalton
4.41
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more
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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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"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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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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7. 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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8. Return to Valetto
By: Dominic Smith
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A captivating and moving new novel from the international bestselling author of The Last Painting o… read more
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"Susan is the opposite,"-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto
"The bell ringer’s green walnut liqueur was famous in Valetto for its ability to strip paint and dignity."-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto
"I read aloud from my phone. “‘A cappuccino with low-quality milk … the only good things is the kindness of the bartenders…’"-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto
"Was this where my fascination for documented history came from? From a family so afraid of earthly erasure that they couldn’t discard the transcript of ordering two pounds of prosciutto on June 15, 1…"-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto
9. Safe Haven
By: Shankari Chandran
4.18
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more
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10. 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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11. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
By: Holly Ringland
4.04
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more
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"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
12. 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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13. 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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14. The Talented Mrs Greenway
By: Tea Cooper
3.93
Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition
From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of … read more
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15. One Illumined Thread
By: Sally Colin-James
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A beautiful, enthralling and powerful story of three women separated by centuries, yet connected by… read more
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- historical
- australia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- book club
- audiobook
"As she leaves, I wonder if I said goodbye. If she did. So many of these unfinished and fleeting moments pinned, stitched, patched together in a never-whole recollection."-Sally Colin-James, One Illumined Thread
"After rain, when the cloud is still low, the hard edges of Florence are softened like Leonardo's sfumato. Smoky lines transforming from shadow to a light that appears as if cast through white silk, s…"-Sally Colin-James, One Illumined Thread
16. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree
By: Alli Parker
4.28
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more
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17. Becoming Mrs Mulberry
By: Jackie French
4.28
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
From bestselling author Jackie French comes a book about the secrets we carry, those that we uneart… read more
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18. The Heart Is a Star
By: Megan Rogers
3.64
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Absorbing, lyrical, vivid and compulsively readable - The Heart is a Star is beautiful storytelling… read more
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19. The Wakes
By: Dianne Yarwood
3.92
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
It's winter in Sydney and the lives of two strangers have fallen apart. Newly separated and in need… read more
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20. Girl in a Pink Dress
By: Kylie Needham
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Can one relationship survive two ambitious artists? Frances is an artist in her forties living a… read more
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21. The Fire and the Rose
By: Robyn Cadwallader
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From Robyn Cadwallader, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Anchoress and Book… read more
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