The Performance
By: Claire Thomas
3.59
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everythi…
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1. The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
By: Edward Albee
3.92
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee’s most provocative, daring, and controversial play si… read more
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- fiction
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"Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part."-Edward Albee, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
2. An Octoroon
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
4.00
Format: 117 pages,
Winner of the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play. Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation T… read more
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3. 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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- womens
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4. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here
By: Heather Rose
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from t… read more
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- womens
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- australia
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5. 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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- literary fiction
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6. Bodies of Light
By: Jennifer Down
4.29
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
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"The Sydney of this time was a different place to the honeymoon city I'd visited with Damien. That one was the crescent of the bridge, the rolling waves beneath the ferry, the shaded streets in The Ro…"-Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light
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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- literary fiction
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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
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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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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10. 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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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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12. 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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- literary fiction
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13. Seeing Other People
By: Diana Reid
3.42
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat … read more
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14. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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15. The Performance
By: Claire Thomas
3.59
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everythi… read more
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16. The Opposite of Success
By: Eleanor Elliott Thomas
3.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
All Lorrie wants is to get promoted, accept her body and end global warming. By Friday. Is that rea… read more
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17. 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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- literary fiction
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18. Bad Art Mother
By: Edwina Preston
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Good mothers are expected to be selfless. Artists are seen as selfish. So what does this mean for a… read more
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19. The Albatross
By: Nina Wan
3.48
Format: None pages, ebook
'The albatross is just about the rarest thing in golf - two shots on a par 5. A hole-in-one, anywhe… read more
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20. Wildflowers
By: Peggy Frew
3.29
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forg… read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
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- adult
"There were open paddocks winking with sugar cane, and distant silos and then a billboard that they all yelped at because it showed a huge picture of a foetus alongside a picture of a young woman with…"-Peggy Frew, Wildflowers
21. Lucky's
By: Andrew Pippos
3.37
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Lucky's is a story of family. It is also about a man called Lucky. His restaurant chain. A fir… read more
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