Penny Wong: Passion and Principle
By: Margaret Simons
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A revelatory portrait of one of the most talented, poised and respected women in Australian politic…
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1. Fight Like a Girl
By: Clementine Ford
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our m… read more
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- biography
- politics
- nonfiction
- australia
- womens
"A friend of mine once said to me that feminism helped to figure out a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt."-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl
"Boys are given the universe in which to carve out their identities, the promise of infinite space for them to expand into and contract upon. Girls are allowed only enough room to be stars, and they m…"-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl
"-no matter what we do, we'll never succeed in attaining the 'perfect' body or the 'perfect' face. This isn't just because perfection is an unattainable goal; it's because capitalism relies on people …"-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl
"We know how unsafe the world is for us. We are like cliffs staring down at a raging sea, battered by winds and salt and spray and unable to wrench ourselves away from the supposed inevitability of it…"-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl
2. The Harp in the South
By: Ruth Park
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Paperback
Since it was first published in 1948, this compassionate novel has become a favourite with generati… read more
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- australia
3. American Wife
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
4.18
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end … read more
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- politics
4. The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government
By: Niki Savva
3.82
Format: 254 pages,
Kevin Rudd was given no warning, but even he lasted longer than Abbott. Julia Gillard had plenty of… read more
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- politics
- biography
- nonfiction
- australia
5. Talking To My Country
By: Stan Grant
3.11
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture and national identity. In July… read more
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6. Dark Emu
By: Bruce Pascoe
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more
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7. 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
8. 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
9. 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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- womens
- nonfiction
- biography
10. 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
11. 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
"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
12. 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
13. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise
By: Niki Savva
4.21
Format: 320 pages, ebook
‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires ‘It’s… read more
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- politics
- biography
- nonfiction
- australia
14. My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork
By: Ash Barty
4.23
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, ri… read more
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- womens
- nonfiction
- biography
- australia
15. Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year
By: Joanna Nell
3.77
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural … read more
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- australia
16. The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)
By: Amanda Hampson
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Trade Paperback
They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter w… read more
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- australia
17. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
By: Grace Tame
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
18. 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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- womens
- australia
19. 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
- biography
- australia
20. Any Ordinary Day
By: Leigh Sales
4.13
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- australia
"The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries."-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
"I felt this lightness settling on me, which was new. It's not closure, because I will live with Matt's death and the pain of it every day and the grief will stay with me. I just felt that I was carry…"-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
"Stuart Diver has had years of extensive professional counselling to retrain his brain so that he can replace the thought of how helpless he was when Sally dies with the truth that he tried everything…"-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
21. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech
By: Julia Gillard
4.28
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more
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- biography
- politics
- nonfiction
- australia
- womens
22. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree
By: Alli Parker
4.28
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more
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- australia
23. 488 Rules for Life
By: Kitty Flanagan
3.87
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Provi… read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
24. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need
By: Thomas Mayo
4.52
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who hav… read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
25. Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics (Quarterly Essay #88)
By: Katharine Murphy
4.02
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
A prime minister in the making, and a nation on the move. In Lone Wolf, Katharine Murphy offers a n… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- australia
26. The Radio Hour
By: Victoria Purman
4.24
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of The Nurses' War comes this charming, funny, pointed look at the gold… read more
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- australia
"Too many women kept too many secrets. For too long, women had buried their ambitions and their intelligence, succumbed to the law of the land made by men, and put up with behaviour and situations no …"-Victoria Purman, The Radio Hour
27. Penny Wong: Passion and Principle
By: Margaret Simons
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A revelatory portrait of one of the most talented, poised and respected women in Australian politic… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- australia
- womens
28. Tripping Over Myself: A Memoir of a Life in Comedy
By: Shaun Micallef
3.80
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
From Shaun Micallef, beloved host of ABC TV’s news satire Mad as Hell, comes Tripping Over Myself –… read more
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- biography
- australia
29. The Naturalist of Amsterdam
By: Melissa Ashley
3.69
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Amsterdam, at the turn of the 18th century. For as long as she can remember, Dorothea Graff has liv… read more
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30. Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader
By: Madeleine Chapman
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern is a leader for a new generation, one tired of inertia… read more
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- politics
- biography
- nonfiction
"Each improvement was celebrated, with Ardern quick to give credit to everyone watching at home."-Madeleine Chapman, Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader
"We have been strong enough and honest enough with our supporters to make it home and to have not all the cards, but we do have the main cards."-Madeleine Chapman, Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader
"Ardern ordered pizza and opened a good bottle of whisky. Tomorrow they had a lot of work to do: moving offices, beginning the transition to being in power. But that was tomorrow. Tonight, they would …"-Madeleine Chapman, Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader
31. Under Her Skin: The life and work of Professor Fiona Wood AM, National Living Treasure
By: Sue Williams
4.44
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
The remarkable story of Professor Fiona Wood AM, world-leading burns specialist and one of Australi… read more
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- nonfiction
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