An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life
By: Paul Dalla Rosa
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
'Voyeuristically addictive, funny, and deceptively simple' Halle Butler, author of The New Me Wh…
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1. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
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2. 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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3. 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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4. Dropbear
By: Evelyn Araluen
4.13
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winnin… read more
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5. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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6. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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7. Kokomo
By: Victoria Hannan
3.55
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
'genuinely funny and heartbreaking' - VPLA judgesWhen Mina receives an urgent call from her best fr… read more
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8. Son of Sin
By: Omar Sakr
3.69
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
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9. Hydra
By: Adriane Howell
3.62
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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10. An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life
By: Paul Dalla Rosa
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
'Voyeuristically addictive, funny, and deceptively simple' Halle Butler, author of The New Me Wh… read more
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11. Brat
By: Gabriel Smith
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."-Gabriel Smith, Brat
12. Body Friend
By: Katherine Brabon
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women… read more
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13. West Girls
By: Laura Elizabeth Woollett
3.36
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
‘I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I'd choose it ag… read more
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14. Shirley
By: Ronnie Scott
3.07
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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15. Sunbathing
By: Isobel Beech
4.05
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each… read more
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16. The Modern
By: Anna Kate Blair
3.10
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
In an age driven by desire, what happens when you want two different things? Set in the pristin… read more
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17. Little Plum
By: Laura McPhee-Browne
3.70
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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18. Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life
By: Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle
3.77
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
"From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys." In Nosta… read more
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19. People Who Lunch: Essays on Work, Leisure & Loose Living
By: Sally Olds
3.41
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
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20. Woo Woo
By: Ella Baxter
3.53
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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21. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
