This Devastating Fever
By: Sophie Cunningham
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Alice had not expected to spend the first twenty years of the twenty-first century writing about Le…
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1. 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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- literary fiction
- historical
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- audiobook
2. 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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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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
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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- historical
- audiobook
4. Iris
By: Fiona Kelly McGregor
3.53
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Who is Iris Webber? A thief, a fighter, a wife, a lover. A scammer, a schemer, a friend. A… read more
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- historical
- australia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"Thought doesn't necessarily calm a person, nor does confinement calm thought."-Fiona Kelly McGregor, Iris
5. 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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- audiobook
- australia
- contemporary
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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- literary fiction
- literature
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
7. 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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- australia
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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
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
8. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- 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
9. 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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- literary fiction
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- australia
- historical fiction
- audiobook
10. 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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- historical
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- fiction
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- novels
11. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
By: Julia Baird
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more
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- australia
- audiobook
"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
12. 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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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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
13. Days of Innocence and Wonder
By: Lucy Treloar
3.71
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
When someone is taken away, what is left behind? All her life, Till has lived in the shadow of t… read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
14. 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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- literary fiction
- literature
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
15. The In-Between
By: Christos Tsiolkas
3.70
Format: 400 pages, ebook
The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
"There was respite in history. The beligerence and intolerance of the contemporary age was of no consequence to the past. And there was no shouting."-Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between
16. 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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- literary fiction
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- audiobook
17. 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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- historical
- australia
- historical fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
18. Clarke
By: Holly Throsby
3.88
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Goodwood and Cedar Valley. 'Clarke is illu… read more
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- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
"He was so stocky. He was like a wheelie bin."-Holly Throsby, Clarke
"Leelee?’ ‘Yes, Joe?’ ‘Would you still love me if I was a donkey?’ Leonie said, ‘Sweetheart, I’d love you no matter what you were. If you turned into a donkey, I’d just find us a house with a big barn…"-Holly Throsby, Clarke
19. 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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- historical
- australia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
20. The Sun Walks Down
By: Fiona McFarlane
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-ye… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
21. Hydra
By: Adriane Howell
3.62
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Anja is a young, ambitious antiquarian, passionate for the clean and balanced lines of mid-century … read more
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- literature
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
22. 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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- 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
23. This Devastating Fever
By: Sophie Cunningham
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Alice had not expected to spend the first twenty years of the twenty-first century writing about Le… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- literature
- historical
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- contemporary
- australia
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
24. Salonika Burning
By: Gail Jones
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Greece, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war. … read more
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- historical
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25. The Sitter
By: Angela O'Keeffe
3.77
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Paris, 2020. A writer is confined to her hotel room during the early days of the pandemic, struggli… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- historical
- australia
- fiction
26. 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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- contemporary
- australia
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27. 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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- literature
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28. Shirley
By: Ronnie Scott
3.07
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
It’s been twenty years since her mother was photographed, blood-soaked, outside the family home. A … read more
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- fiction
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29. 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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- australia
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30. 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
- contemporary
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- audiobook
"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