Childhood
By: Shannon Burns
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Things may have been good for a while, but it didn’t last: they argued fiercely and he left. Weeks …
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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. 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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3. 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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4. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here
By: Heather Rose
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from t… read more
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5. 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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6. 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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"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
7. 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
8. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
9. 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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"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
10. 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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11. 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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12. All the Words We Know
By: Bruce Nash
3.58
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A wickedly funny and genuinely moving novel about memory, language and love, perfect for fans of Ri… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. The Empty Honour Board
By: Martin Flanagan
3.99
Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1966, at the age of 10, Martin Flanagan was sent to a Catholic boarding school in north-west Tas… read more
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17. The Sun Walks Down
By: Fiona McFarlane
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-ye… read more
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18. 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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19. Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay, #93)
By: Lech Blaine
4.17
Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogatio… read more
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20. 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
21. Everyone and Everything
By: Nadine J. Cohen
4.29
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more
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22. The Revenge Club
By: Kathy Lette
3.39
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
When the odds are against you, it's time to get even.Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressy are all women at… read more
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23. Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
By: Thomas Page McBee
4.22
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even me… read more
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"Most of us experience gender conditioning so young—research shows it begins in infancy—that we misunderstand the relationship between nature and nurture, culture and biology, fitting in and being one…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"Boxing breaks many of the binaries that men are conditioned to believe about our bodies, our genders, ourselves. With its cover of 'realness' and violence, it provides room for what so many men lack:…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"I thought about the advantages thrown at me for an aesthetic that looked like a birthright. I thought about passing, and how it erased a part of me, and how hormones responded to context, and how rac…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, fa…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
24. The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)
By: Alan Kohler
4.31
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
What caused Australia's housing crisis -- and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Au… read more
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25. The Albatross
By: Nina Wan
3.48
Format: None pages, ebook
'The albatross is just about the rarest thing in golf - two shots on a par 5. A hole-in-one, anywhe… read more
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26. Childhood
By: Shannon Burns
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Things may have been good for a while, but it didn’t last: they argued fiercely and he left. Weeks … read more
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27. Fragile Creatures: A Memoir
By: Khin Myint
3.55
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
A powerful debut from an extraordinary voice, gentle in the face of extremityKhin's sister Theda ha… read more
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28. The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell
By: Lucia Osborne-Crowley
4.49
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The explosive, behind-the-scenes account of the criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell.'Lucia Osborne-… read more
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29. The Idealist
By: Nicholas Jose
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Set in Australia, East Timor and Washington in the lead up to the East Timorese independence refere… read more
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30. The Skeleton House
By: Katherine Allum
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meg’s life is woven into the fabric of St. Stephens. It’s a tapestry made of two precious children,… read more
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