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…
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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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- australia
- contemporary
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2. 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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- australia
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- fiction
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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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- feminism
- book club
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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- australia
- fiction
- 21st century
- historical fiction
- novels
"Thought doesn't necessarily calm a person, nor does confinement calm thought."-Fiona Kelly McGregor, Iris
5. 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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- australia
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6. 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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- novels
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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
7. 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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- australia
- contemporary
- fiction
- historical fiction
- book club
"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
8. 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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- contemporary
- australia
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. 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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- australia
- fiction
- 21st century
- historical fiction
- novels
- book club
10. 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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- australia
- book club
- fiction
- contemporary
11. 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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- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
12. 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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- 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
13. 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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- contemporary
- australia
- fiction
- historical fiction
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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- feminism
- australia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- book club
15. I'd Rather Not
By: Robert Skinner
3.72
Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition
An endlessly entertaining collection of wayward autobiographical tales about a search for a richer … read more
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- australia
- contemporary
16. Kokomo
By: Victoria Hannan
3.55
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
'genuinely funny and heartbreaking' - VPLA judgesWhen Mina receives an urgent call from her best fr… read more
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- novels
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
"Mina let Valerie envelop her in silk and perfume. The smell was so pungent Mina could see it: a sunset of whipped egg-white clouds, a field of foxgloves, pink on pink on pink on pink."-Victoria Hannan, Kokomo
17. The Jaguar
By: Sarah Holland-Batt
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
With electrifying boldness, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishi… read more
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- 21st century
- poetry
- australia
18. 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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- novels
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
19. 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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- art
- book club
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Body Friend
By: Katherine Brabon
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women… read more
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- fiction
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21. 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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- art
- australia
- fiction
22. 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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- poetry
- art
- novels
- feminism
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 21st century
- australia
- contemporary
- book club
23. 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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- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
24. 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
- australia
- contemporary
25. 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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- art
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- 21st century
- contemporary
26. Heartbake: a bittersweet memoir
By: Charlotte Ree
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Reminiscent of Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart and Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love… read more
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27. Big Beautiful Female Theory
By: Eloise Grills
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Part feminist manifesto, part comic book, big beautiful female theory is a carnivalesque exploratio… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- art
- australia
28. Little Plum
By: Laura McPhee-Browne
3.70
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
On the cusp of thirty, Coral learns that a thing is growing inside her body. It is not necessarily … read more
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29. 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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30. The Honeyeater
By: Jessie Tu
3.59
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner… read more
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