Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra
By: Bruce Pascoe
4.20
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony. From the…
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1. 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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2. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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"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
11. The Yield
By: Tara June Winch
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spen… read more
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"My mummy, she said, 'The Aborigine is a pity, my son.' She said everyone was always insulted by her no matter what she did, so she let herself do the most insulting thing she could think of - take th…"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"The story goes that the church brought time to us, and the church, if you let it, will take it away. I’m writing about the other time, though, deep time. This is a big, big story. The big stuff goes …"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"I was born on Ngurambang — can you hear it? — Ngu-ram-bang. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. Every person around should learn the word for …"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"The evidence of their civilisation, after so many years of farming, was difficult to find on the surface of the land. But they said it was embedded in the language of Albert’s dictionary, that with t…"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
12. Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)
By: Margaret Hickey
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spe… read more
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13. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
14. 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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15. Praiseworthy
By: Alexis Wright
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale… read more
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16. Pheasants Nest
By: Louise Milligan
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more
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17. The Glass House
By: Anne Buist
3.89
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to The Menzies. Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic hi… read more
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18. 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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19. Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3)
By: Dinuka McKenzie
4.06
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. The must-read new Detective Kate M… read more
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20. Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4)
By: Sarah Bailey
3.91
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
DS Gemma Woodstock returns to Smithson in a mysterious new thriller from the bestselling author of … read more
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21. Salt River Road
By: Molly Schmidt
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of their mother’s death, the Tetley siblings’ lives are falling apart. Left to fen… read more
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"Over there somewhere, down at the house, Dad and the boys are moving in silent circles round each other. Even though inside us, nothing is quiet at all."-Molly Schmidt, Salt River Road
22. Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra
By: Bruce Pascoe
4.20
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony. From the… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
23. Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land
By: Maggie MacKellar
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head… read more
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24. The Last Daughter
By: Brenda Matthews
4.32
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
An unmissable First Nations memoir that tells of the shattering experience of being stolen, The Las… read more
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25. Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia
By: Samantha Faulkner
4.14
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
A journey through Torres Strait Islander culture and identity, past and present "My people are e… read more
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26. We Come With This Place
By: Debra Dank
4.27
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape … read more
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27. Good Life Growing: How to grow fruit and veg anywhere in Australia
By: Hannah Moloney
4.62
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
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28. Love, Death & Other Scenes
By: Nova Weetman
4.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Nova Weetman' s unforgettable memoir reflects on experiences of love and loss from throughout her … read more
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29. Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space
By: A.C. Grayling
3.13
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A Defence of Our Intergalactic Common Interests Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries;… read more
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30. Tilda Is Visible
By: Jane Tara
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A woman starts to disappear—literally—in midlife, and only then begins to discover herself in this … read more
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"Support groups are like bras – some aren’t that supportive."-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible
"Once we’ve grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts."-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible
"How the world sees us, how other people see us is meaningless. What’s important is how we see ourselves. We must be visible to ourselves."-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible
