Anam
By: Andre Dao
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, ab…
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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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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. 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. 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
12. 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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13. 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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14. 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
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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. Hospital
By: Sanya Rushdi
3.70
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
A strong and courageous novel that deftly tackles psychosis. In Melbourne, Australia, a woman in h… read more
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20. 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
By: Nam Le
4.05
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat In his first … read more
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21. Wall
By: Jen Craig
3.55
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
“ Every new novel by Jen Craig is cause for celebration. They are a reminder that literature is sti… read more
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22. Ghost Cities
By: Siang Lu
3.91
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
Ghost Cities – inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China – follows multiple narrative… read more
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23. Anam
By: Andre Dao
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, ab… read more
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24. Death of a Foreign Gentleman (Stephen Minter #1)
By: Steven Carroll
3.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Who killed Martin Friedrich? From award-winning writer Steven Carroll comes the first book in a ser… read more
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25. Strangers at the Port
By: Lauren Aimee Curtis
3.46
Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition
Giulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left. H… read more
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26. 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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27. Only Sound Remains
By: Hossein Asgari
3.67
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Saeed has not returned to Iran after publishing his novel The Imaginary Narrative of a Real Murder … read more
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28. A Language of Limbs
By: Dylin Hardcastle
4.56
Format: 277 pages, ebook
The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more
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29. The Echoes
By: Evie Wyld
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and … read more
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30. The Bell of The World
By: Gregory Day
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
When a troubled Sarah Hutchinson returns to Australia from boarding school in England and time spen… read more
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