The Brightest Star
By: Emma Harcourt
3.53
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
A thirst for learning and a passion for astronomy draw an extraordinary young woman deep into the i…
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1. The Mirror & the Maze (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1.5)
By: Renée Ahdieh
3.80
Format: 275 pages,
The city of Rey is burning. With smoke billowing, fires blazing and his people fleeing, Khalid race… read more
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2. 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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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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
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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- historical
- feminism
- audiobook
4. All That's Left Unsaid
By: Tracey Lien
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
5. 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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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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
6. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
By: Julia Baird
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more
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- audiobook
"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
7. 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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- feminism
- fiction
- audiobook
8. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
By: Holly Ringland
4.04
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
9. The Accident
By: Fiona Lowe
3.86
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
A terrible crash... but the facts don't add up. Worlds converge and two women's lives are torn … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
10. 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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- fiction
- audiobook
"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
11. The Butterfly Collector
By: Tea Cooper
3.82
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A botanical illustration of a butterfly, a missing baby, and a twisty mystery fifty years in the ma… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
12. The Talented Mrs Greenway
By: Tea Cooper
3.93
Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition
From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of … read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
13. Keeping Up Appearances
By: Tricia Stringer
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
As tensions simmer in a small country town, three women are going to need more than CWA sausage rol… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
14. One Illumined Thread
By: Sally Colin-James
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A beautiful, enthralling and powerful story of three women separated by centuries, yet connected by… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"As she leaves, I wonder if I said goodbye. If she did. So many of these unfinished and fleeting moments pinned, stitched, patched together in a never-whole recollection."-Sally Colin-James, One Illumined Thread
"After rain, when the cloud is still low, the hard edges of Florence are softened like Leonardo's sfumato. Smoky lines transforming from shadow to a light that appears as if cast through white silk, s…"-Sally Colin-James, One Illumined Thread
15. The Winter Dress
By: Lauren Chater
3.89
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Two women separated by centuries but connected by one beautiful silk dress. A captivating novel bas… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
16. The French Agent
By: Belinda Alexandra
4.10
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
A world in chaos. Two very different women. And the mystery of the man who may connect them. The st… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
17. Becoming Mrs Mulberry
By: Jackie French
4.28
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
From bestselling author Jackie French comes a book about the secrets we carry, those that we uneart… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. The Escapades of Tribulation Johnson
By: Karen Brooks
3.95
Format: 644 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this brilliant recreation of the vibrant, optimistic… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. Dancing with the Enemy
By: Diane Armstrong
4.25
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of The Collaborator comes a compelling story of betrayal, collusion, re… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
20. The Brightest Star
By: Emma Harcourt
3.53
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
A thirst for learning and a passion for astronomy draw an extraordinary young woman deep into the i… read more
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- italy
- historical
- feminism
- harlequin
- fiction
- historical fiction
- astronomy
- audiobook
21. The Crimson Thread
By: Kate Forsyth
4.03
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
In Crete during World War II, Alenka, a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brut… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
