Best Summer Stories
By: Aviva Tuffield
3.32
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
Brilliant short fiction from some of Australia’s most talented storytellersA woman suspects her par…
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1. Caleb's Crossing
By: Geraldine Brooks
3.85
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book. … read more
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- fiction
"I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me."-Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing
"I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved."-Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing
"This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet."-Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing
"You English palisade yourselves up behind 'must nots' and I commence to think it is a barren fortress in which you wall yourselves. - Caleb"-Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing
2. The Bees
By: Laline Paull
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
The Handmaid's Talemeets The Hunger Gamesin this brilliantly imagined debut. Born into the lowest c… read more
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3. 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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- 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
4. All That's Left Unsaid
By: Tracey Lien
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more
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- fiction
- australia
"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
5. 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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- fiction
- australia
"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
6. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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- fiction
"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
7. The Rachel Incident
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more
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- fiction
"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
8. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."-Amor Towles, Table for Two
"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"-Amor Towles, Table for Two
9. Before You Knew My Name
By: Jacqueline Bublitz
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This is not just another novel about a dead girl. Two women—one alive, one dead—are brought togethe… read more
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- fiction
"I know what it's like for the horror to follow you home."-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name
"What happened to her makes me so mad. The entitlement of these fucking men who destroy lives, just because they can."-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name
"The thing is. When the dead speak back, we are seldom loud enough to be heard over the clamour of all that living going on."-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name
"For the first time, I understand it's not only the dead who have lives they don't get to live out. The people left behind have as many versions of themselves unexplored, as many possible paths that c…"-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name
10. The Promise
By: Damon Galgut
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more
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- fiction
"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
11. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)
By: Jane Harper
4.05
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more
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- fiction
- australia
12. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
By: Grace Tame
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more
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"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
13. The Binding
By: Bridget Collins
3.86
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-cen… read more
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- fiction
"Memories,"-Bridget Collins, The Binding
"I ran through air that held me back."-Bridget Collins, The Binding
"We make books - we make beautiful books - out of love."-Bridget Collins, The Binding
"the fear with elderly characters is the high likelihood of their death..."-Bridget Collins, The Binding
14. The Survivors
By: Jane Harper
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets... Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day… read more
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- fiction
- australia
15. Wild Place
By: Christian White
3.83
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
In the summer of 1989, a local teen goes missing from the idyllic suburb of Camp Hill in Australia.… read more
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- fiction
- australia
16. Sunset
By: Jessie Cave
4.11
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
The debut adult novel from Jessie Cave is a spry yet reflective comedy of sisterhood, loneliness an… read more
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- fiction
17. Love Marriage
By: Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In present-day London, Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-bo… read more
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- fiction
18. Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance
By: Kate Solly
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meredith established the Copeton Crochet Collective (no knitters please) because it would be like h… read more
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- australia
"The problem was with the constant deliciousness of a new idea. It was always more exciting to start a new project than to plod away with one whose appeal had gone stale."-Kate Solly, Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance
19. Joan
By: Katherine J. Chen
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint? A stunning secular reimagining of the epic life of Joan of Arc, in t… read more
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- fiction
"What would I gain by being a man?" she says. "A cock, a deeper voice, hair across my chest. I would not become stronger. I am already strong." And, she thinks, I would inherit several weaknesses of m…"-Katherine J. Chen, Joan
"You must make your own map of the world. Search out your own piece of sky and patch of earth, your own awning to sleep under when it is raining and it feels the sun may never shine again, for there w…"-Katherine J. Chen, Joan
20. Believe Me
By: J.P. Delaney
3.70
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
In this twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before… read more
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- fiction
"You are a crazy, evil woman,"-J.P. Delaney, Believe Me
"I think that for Claire Wright, reality is whatever she wants it to be."-J.P. Delaney, Believe Me
"Sometimes, when you wear a mask too long, you find it sticks to the skin."-J.P. Delaney, Believe Me
"How do we ever trust each other again, when we both know how good we are at lying?"-J.P. Delaney, Believe Me
21. Best Summer Stories
By: Aviva Tuffield
3.32
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
Brilliant short fiction from some of Australia’s most talented storytellersA woman suspects her par… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- australia
22. Animal
By: Lisa Taddeo
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Honestly, sometimes I think it’s the only recourse. Killing men in times like these.Joan has spent … read more
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- fiction
"Let me tell you something, he said, looking into my eyes like an asshole."-Lisa Taddeo, Animal
"When someone suffocates you with what they believe is love, even as you feel your air supply being cut off, you at least feel embraced."-Lisa Taddeo, Animal
"The men noticed I'd stopped playing. Men are never okay when you stop. I had the fear of angering a man. Of not being an amenable woman. I had the fear of being murdered."-Lisa Taddeo, Animal
"He looked a little wounded, and I realized that true power came from not caring about anyone. That was the last time I would sleep with a man. I was through with the gender."-Lisa Taddeo, Animal
23. 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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