Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond
By: John Lyons
4.34
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
Lyons explains the Middle East through every day life and experiences - his son's school, his wife'…
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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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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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3. Prima Facie
By: Suzie Miller
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more
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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie
4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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9. Mr Einstein's Secretary
By: Matthew Reilly
4.22
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A SECRETARY LIKE NO OTHERIN AN EPIC SPANNING 40 YEARSAll Hanna Fischer ever wanted to do was to stu… read more
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"But to hate is cheap. One does not need any money to hate."-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary
"Every decision comes down to a choice. This is the right choice."-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary
"Some readers turn up their noses at such books, considering them to be too lowbrow. But not I. One who reads such a book reads it for pleasure, for joy. pg43"-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary
"I am supposed to be this brilliant man. Well, here is the most important thing I know: retain your inner joy. If you do that, you will live a successful and happy life."-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary
10. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
11. Sister Viv
By: Grantlee Kieza
4.65
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to s… read more
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12. 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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13. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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14. Songs for the Dead and the Living
By: Sara M. Saleh
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
When the ground beneath your feet is always shifting, how can you ever know where you belong? Ja… read more
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15. War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
By: Mikhail Zygar
4.28
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
From an award-winning Russian journalist, a brisk, clearly written history of Ukraine—from its emer… read more
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16. This Is Where You Have To Go: A forced adoption. A heartbreaking reunion. A mother's fight for justice.
By: Lynda Holden
4.38
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one in 15 was… read more
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17. Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond
By: John Lyons
4.34
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
Lyons explains the Middle East through every day life and experiences - his son's school, his wife'… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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20. Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
By: Sima Samar
4.49
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima medical doctor, public official, f… read more
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"Mothers as brave as lionesses, poor Belcourt children, little Kabyles starving to death in 1939 – those people also earned the applause."-Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
"They are staring at the photographer in perplexity. A few even wear naive smiles, as if forgetting the extreme poverty of the arid plains."-Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
"If hope and optimism could be measured in facial expressions, the smiles and sparkling eyes in the room that day would have guaranteed our success"-Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
"In the intoxication of being twenty and swept up by my reading, I hoped to live in the light of day, in joy, refusing submission, shackles and conformity."-Sima Samar, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
