Little Gods
By: Jenny Ackland
3.24
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 STELLA PRIZE The setting is the Mallee, wide flat scrubland in north-we…
Want to Read $ 15.00"You carry your past with you and along the way it repeats."-Jenny Ackland, Little Gods
"The Mallee floor discombobulated the young Lenore and Edgar."-Jenny Ackland, Little Gods
"It was children who got possessed by the spirits most easily."-Jenny Ackland, Little Gods
"Memories get you where they want you, not the other way around."-Jenny Ackland, Little Gods
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1. The Gathering
By: Anne Enright
3.13
Format: 261 pages, Paperback
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voice… read more
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- literary fiction
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"A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"Jej błękit zajął miejsce w szarych zakamarkach jego mózgu i pozostał tam do końca życia"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
2. 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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- australia
- audiobook
"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
3. The Museum of Modern Love
By: Heather Rose
3.80
Format: 654 pages, Paperback
A mesmerising literary novel about a lost man in search of connection - a meditation on love, art a… read more
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4. The Lightkeeper's Wife
By: Karen Viggers
0.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A woman at the end of her life, a man unable to restart his, and a history of guilty secrets and th… read more
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5. Life or Death
By: Michael Robotham
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Why would a man serving a long prison sentence escape the day before he's due to be released? Audie… read more
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6. Barracuda
By: Christos Tsiolkas
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kelly is special. Despite his upbringing in working-class Melbourne, he kn… read more
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7. 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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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- book club
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8. 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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- book club
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9. 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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- literary fiction
- australia
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10. 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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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- book club
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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
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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- literary fiction
- australia
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"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. Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder
By: Kerryn Mayne
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day,… read more
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- australia
- fiction
- mystery
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13. 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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- literary fiction
- australia
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14. Dirt Creek
By: Hayley Scrivenor
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more
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- australia
- fiction
- mystery
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15. 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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- australia
- fiction
- mystery
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- audiobook
16. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
By: Anita Heiss
4.17
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in … read more
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- australia
- fiction
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- audiobook
"Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family."-Anita Heiss, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
17. After Story
By: Larissa Behrendt
4.07
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered… read more
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18. 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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- audiobook
19. The Angry Women's Choir
By: Meg Bignell
4.07
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more
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20. 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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- mystery
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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
21. Taken (Detective Kate Miles, #2)
By: Dinuka McKenzie
4.00
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
'Dinuka McKenzie has talent to burn' Dervla McTiernan A parent's worst nightmare. A case that's … read more
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22. A Bird in Winter
By: Louise Doughty
3.68
Format: None pages, ebook
Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, … read more
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23. Crows Nest
By: Nikki Mottram
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Fleeing problems in her own marriage, child protection worker Dana Gibson leaves Sydney for a job i… read more
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24. Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3)
By: Dinuka McKenzie
4.06
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. The must-read new Detective Kate M… read more
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25. The Lucky Galah
By: Tracy Sorensen
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A magnificent novel about fate, Australia and what it means to be human... it just happens to be na… read more
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"He drinks espresso coffee made in a little Italian percolator and seeks out controversial or banned books on the premise if a book is banned, it is probably interesting"-Tracy Sorensen, The Lucky Galah
26. The Secrets of the Huon Wren
By: Claire van Ryn
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Senior journalist Allira is writing a story for Folk magazine when she meets Nora, a nursing home r… read more
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27. The Great Undoing
By: Sharlene Allsopp
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
How long can you run from a lie, if that lie is what your life is founded on? In a near future all… read more
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28. Little Gods
By: Jenny Ackland
3.24
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 STELLA PRIZE The setting is the Mallee, wide flat scrubland in north-we… read more
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- coming of age
- young adult
- fiction
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- mystery
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- birds
- book club
- audiobook
"You carry your past with you and along the way it repeats."-Jenny Ackland, Little Gods
"The Mallee floor discombobulated the young Lenore and Edgar."-Jenny Ackland, Little Gods
"It was children who got possessed by the spirits most easily."-Jenny Ackland, Little Gods
"Memories get you where they want you, not the other way around."-Jenny Ackland, Little Gods
29. The Yellow House
By: Emily O'Grady
3.71
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Ten-year-old Cub lives with her parents, older brother Cassie, and twin brother Wally on a lonely p… read more
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30. Life Skills for a Broken World
By: Ahona Guha
3.95
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary framework for living well in a broken world, from acclaimed author and psychologist… read more
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31. The Seachangers
By: Meredith Appleyard
4.03
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
A thoughtful, charming and sensitive story about aging, resilience and the delight of rediscovery. … read more
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