Mermaid Singing & Peel Me A Lotus
By: Charmian Clift
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
These two classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the life she and her Australian family …
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1. My Brother Jack
By: George Johnston
4.32
Format: 285 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Through the story of two brothers who grew up in patriotic, suburban Melbourne, George Johnston cre… read more
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2. Autumn Laing
By: Alex Miller
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Autumn Laing has long outlived the legendary circle of artists she cultivated in the 1930s. Now 'ol… read more
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3. The Way, My Way
By: Bill Bennett , Jennifer Cluff
2.00
Format: 88 pages,
In the vein of Bill Bryson's and Eric Newby's travel memoirs, The Way, My Way takes you on a unique… read more
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4. All the Birds, Singing
By: Evie Wyld
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful ne… read more
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5. Burmese Days
By: George Orwell
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and… read more
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6. The Museum of Words: a memoir of language, writing, and mortality
By: Georgia Blain
4.57
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In late 2015, Georgia Blain was diagnosed with a tumour sitting right in the language centre of her… read more
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7. In Patagonia
By: Bruce Chatwin , Nicholas Shakespeare
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br… read more
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"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D.Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names take…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from t…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
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9. Uniform Justice (Commissario Brunetti, #12)
By: Donna Leon
3.94
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
A riveting, pitch-perfect murder mystery--the work of a truly masterful storyteller. Conjuring cont… read more
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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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
13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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"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
16. 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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17. The Things That Matter Most
By: Gabbie Stroud
4.44
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of… read more
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18. 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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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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20. Pomegranate & Fig
By: Zaheda Ghani
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
'The women arrive first, on an afternoon like any other, when Henna is safely enclosed behind her d… read more
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21. Did I Ever Tell You This?
By: Sam Neill
4.06
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more
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- nonfiction
22. 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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23. 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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24. A Theatre for Dreamers
By: Polly Samson
3.42
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
1960. The world is dancing on the edge of revolution, and nowhere more so than on the Greek island … read more
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25. Witness
By: Louise Milligan
4.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From the best-selling author of CARDINAL comes a searing examination of the power imbalance in our … read more
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26. Mermaid Singing & Peel Me A Lotus
By: Charmian Clift
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
These two classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the life she and her Australian family … read more
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27. Aphrodite's Breath
By: Susan Johnson
4.00
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly… read more
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28. Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times: A Practical Guide to Stoicism for Self-Improvement and Personal Growth
By: Brigid Delaney
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this heartfelt and soul-searching work, brimming with warmth, humor, and insight, the beloved Gu… read more
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"You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain."-Brigid Delaney, Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times: A Practical Guide to Stoicism for Self-Improvement and Personal Growth
29. All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything
By: Claire Harman
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new por… read more
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30. Adrift in Melbourne
By: Robyn Annear
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Melbourne’s streets have always been marvellous—but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boo… read more
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31. Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay (A&R Classics)
By: George Johnston
3.98
Format: 502 pages, Kindle Edition
In the sequel to his semi-autobiographical novel My Brother Jack, George Johnston concludes his Mer… read more
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