Room for a Stranger
By: Melanie Cheng
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
By the winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, 2018. Since her sister died…
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1. Laurinda
By: Alice Pung
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Laurinda is an exclusive school for girls. At its hidden centre of power is The Cabinet, a triangle… read more
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"To be part of the Cabinet, I'd had to keep my true self apart. and there's only so much of yourself you can hide, Linh, before you start to fall apart."-Alice Pung, Laurinda
"I was crying out of frustration, frustration that I could not be left alone, that no girl at this school could possibly be allowed some space to breathe and sort out her own thoughts."-Alice Pung, Laurinda
"And here was the bitter paradox of adolescense: alone, I was most myself, most true. But the self that really mattered was the self that was visible, the self that could be shown to other people."-Alice Pung, Laurinda
"All teenagers are drama queens inside their minds, even the mousiest of us. We load and reload movies of ourselves in heroic postures and outlandish triumphs, movies that if they were ever to be play…"-Alice Pung, Laurinda
2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. Bodies of Light
By: Jennifer Down
4.29
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found… read more
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- adult fiction
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"The Sydney of this time was a different place to the honeymoon city I'd visited with Damien. That one was the crescent of the bridge, the rolling waves beneath the ferry, the shaded streets in The Ro…"-Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light
6. 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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7. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)
By: Chris Hammer
4.23
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… 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. 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
10. 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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11. Clarke
By: Holly Throsby
3.88
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Goodwood and Cedar Valley. 'Clarke is illu… read more
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"He was so stocky. He was like a wheelie bin."-Holly Throsby, Clarke
"Leelee?’ ‘Yes, Joe?’ ‘Would you still love me if I was a donkey?’ Leonie said, ‘Sweetheart, I’d love you no matter what you were. If you turned into a donkey, I’d just find us a house with a big barn…"-Holly Throsby, Clarke
12. The Fish
By: Joanne Stubbs
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
'There is a fish on the sand; I see it clearly. But it is not on its side, lying still. It is partl… read more
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13. 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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14. The Registrar
By: Neela Janakiramanan
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Sometimes in hospital people die - but not all of them should. A moving, addictive debut novel for … read more
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15. 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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"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
16. The Weekend
By: Charlotte Wood
3.38
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Three women in their seventies reunite for one last, life-changing weekend in the beach house of t… read more
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"No, it wasn't lovers but friends - these courageous, shining people - you pursued, romanced with dinners and gifts and weekends away."-Charlotte Wood, The Weekend
17. Tell Me Again
By: Amy Thunig
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more
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"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
18. 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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19. Unnecessary Drama
By: Nina Kenwood
3.80
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From the award-winning author of It Sounded Better in My Head comes a deliciously entertaining enem… read more
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20. Room for a Stranger
By: Melanie Cheng
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
By the winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, 2018. Since her sister died… read more
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21. 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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