Truganini
By: Cassandra Pybus
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The haunting story of the extraordinary Aboriginal woman behind the myth of 'the last Tasmanian Abo…
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1. Cloudstreet
By: Tim Winton
3.93
Format: 512 pages,
Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australian… read more
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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
6. 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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- biography
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7. 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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8. 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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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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- historical
- tasmania
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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. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more
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11. Boy Swallows Universe
By: Trent Dalton
4.34
Format: 474 pages, Paperback
A novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class subu… read more
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"Don't fuckin' swear."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"Stay sweet, Eli Bell."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"Most things people say don't need to be said."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"To burn this house down or set the world on fire. Up to you, Eli."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
12. Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award
By: David Marr
4.39
Format: 596 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked… read more
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13. 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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"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
14. Flames
By: Robbie Arnott
4.07
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, C… read more
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- tasmania
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15. The Rain Heron
By: Robbie Arnott
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slop… read more
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16. The White Girl
By: Tony Birch
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"A profound allegory of good and evil, and a deep exploration of human interaction, black and white… read more
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17. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
By: Behrouz Boochani
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Winner of The Victorian Prize for Literature, and the Prize for Non-Fiction, Victorian Premier's Li… read more
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"At times the cooks express a small amount of generosity and pour half a glass of milk for every prisoner."-Behrouz Boochani, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
18. The Animals in That Country
By: Laura Jean McKay
3.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to b… read more
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19. Truganini
By: Cassandra Pybus
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The haunting story of the extraordinary Aboriginal woman behind the myth of 'the last Tasmanian Abo… read more
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20. Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero
By: Henry Reynolds
4.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
During Tasmania’s gruesome Black War of 1823-31, Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal r… read more
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