The Dickens Boy
By: Thomas Keneally
3.54
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The tenth child of Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn, had consistently …
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1. Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)
By: Garry Disher
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A modern western set in an isolated Australian bush town with a soaring crime rate, where a local c… read more
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- australia
- fiction
- audiobook
"The only good thing to come out of it was a kind of wisdom in Hirsch. He’d grown to understand that police officers can drift over time, and it isn’t always or entirely conscious but a loss of perspe…"-Garry Disher, Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)
2. Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide To Hosting the Perfect Funeral
By: Gayden Metcalfe
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Folks in the Delta have a strong sense of community, and being dead is no impediment to belonging t… read more
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3. On Canaan's Side
By: Sebastian Barry
3.63
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Narrated by Lilly Bere, 'On Canaan's Side' opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The … read more
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- audiobook
- historical
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- historical fiction
4. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
By: Brian Moore
3.76
Format: 234 pages,
'The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne' launched Brian Moore's distinguished literary career and also… read more
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5. American Notes For General Circulation
By: Charles Dickens , Patricia Ingham
3.48
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A fascinating account of nineteenth-century America sketched with Charles Dickens's characteristic … read more
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6. The Shattered Tree (Bess Crawford, #8)
By: Charles Todd
3.82
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded sold… read more
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7. 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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- historical
- australia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
8. A Dangerous Business
By: Jane Smiley
3.17
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: a mystery set … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
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9. 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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- coming of age
- family
- australia
- fiction
- book club
- audiobook
10. 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
11. 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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- book club
- audiobook
12. Haven
By: Emma Donoghue
3.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Fog makes an island of every man."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"-Emma Donoghue, Haven
13. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- historical fiction
- adult
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"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
14. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
By: Lawrence Ingrassia
4.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more
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- family
- audiobook
15. Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award
By: David Marr
4.39
Format: 596 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked… read more
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- historical
- australia
16. Sanctuary
By: Garry Disher
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more
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- australia
- fiction
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17. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
18. The Tower
By: Flora Carr
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. CSI Told You Lies
By: Meshel Laurie
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meshel Laurie, host of the incredibly successful Australian True Crime podcast speaks to the forens… read more
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- audiobook
20. Fanatic Heart
By: Thomas Keneally
3.48
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
John Mitchel, Irishman, lawyer, journalist, activist and politician, is a complex character. Charge… read more
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21. The Orphans
By: Fiona McIntosh
4.13
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
Orphan Fleur Appleby is adopted by a loving undertaker and his wife and she quickly develops a spec… read more
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- audiobook
22. Corporal Hitler’s Pistol: Winner of the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize
By: Tom Keneally
3.59
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
How did Corporal Hitler's Luger from the First World War end up being the weapon that killed an IRA… read more
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- australia
- historical fiction
23. The Dickens Boy
By: Thomas Keneally
3.54
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The tenth child of Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn, had consistently … read more
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- adult
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- audiobook
24. The Roadhouse
By: Kerry McGinnis
3.74
Format: None pages, Audio CD
When aspiring actress Charlie Carver learns that her cousin Annabelle has died, she immediately lea… read more
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25. The Secrets of the Huon Wren
By: Claire van Ryn
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Senior journalist Allira is writing a story for Folk magazine when she meets Nora, a nursing home r… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
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26. The Queen's Colonial (The Colonial Series #1)
By: Peter Watt
4.21
Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes the fate for which you are destined is not your own...1845, a village outside Sydney Town… read more
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27. All Friends Are Necessary
By: Tomas Moniz
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In this joyous, big-hearted novel, Tomas Moniz delivers a commanding new story about the power of f… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"Remember that. When you take care of something, you're really taking care of yourself."-Tomas Moniz, All Friends Are Necessary
"Hopefully, you found some happiness, some way to be in the world with people who welcomed you home, who would check in on you when things got bad, who challenged you because they cared."-Tomas Moniz, All Friends Are Necessary
28. The Unmourned: The Monsarrat Series
By: Meg and Tom Keneally
4.20
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
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29. The Power Game (Monsarrat #3)
By: Meg Keneally
4.00
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
When a boatman is murdered on a remote island off Van Dieman’s Land, the authorities want to blame … read more
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- historical
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30. The Ink Stain (Monsarrat #4)
By: Meg Keneally
4.09
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
Henry Hallward, editor of the Sydney Chronicle, is a thorn in the side of the colonial administrati… read more
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