Amy's Children
By: Olga Masters
3.84
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her country town—and …
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1. The Perfumer's Secret
By: Fiona McIntosh
3.69
Format: 440 pages, ebook
On the eve of the First World War, Fleurette, the only daughter of the wealthy Delacroix perfume ho… read more
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- fiction
2. A Descant for Gossips
By: Thea Astley
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
This stylish reissue of one of Thea Astley's finest early novels is a classic story of small-town l… read more
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- australia
- fiction
3. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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- womens
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
4. The Slap
By: Christos Tsiolkas
3.86
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet … read more
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- australia
- fiction
5. The Harp in the South
By: Ruth Park
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Paperback
Since it was first published in 1948, this compassionate novel has become a favourite with generati… read more
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- australia
- classics
- fiction
6. Kitchen
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, t… read more
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- fiction
7. The Shiralee
By: D'Arcy Niland
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A shiralee is a swag, a burden, a bloody millstone - and that's what four-year-old Buster is to her… read more
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- australia
- classics
- fiction
8. Joan Makes History
By: Kate Grenville
4.27
Format: 24 pages,
In this rollicking, irreverent tour de force, Kate Grenville rewrites the familiar past. Joan is a … read more
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- australia
- fiction
9. David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling
4.03
Format: 882 pages, Paperback
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Trifles make the sum of life. "-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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- australia
- fiction
11. That Eye, the Sky
By: Tim Winton
4.30
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
Tim Winton is at his most viscerally powerful in this boy's vision of the world: the dreamed, the l… read more
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13. Frost in May
By: Antonia White
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wou… read more
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14. Lilian's Story
By: Kate Grenville
4.10
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Shielded from emotional and physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocati… read more
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15. Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Vintage Departures)
By: Robyn Davidson
3.87
Format: 334 pages,
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Robyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 m… read more
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16. 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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- australia
- fiction
17. The Little Wartime Library
By: Kate Thompson
4.25
Format: 468 pages, Paperback
An uplifting and inspiring novel based on the true story of a librarian who created an underground … read more
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- fiction
18. 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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- australia
- fiction
19. 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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- 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
20. Too Much Lip
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.06
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Wise-cracking Ke… read more
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- australia
- fiction
21. Canticle Creek (Jesse Redpath #1)
By: Adrian Hyland
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two bodies. One long hot summer. A town that will never be the same. When Adam Lawson’s wrecked … read more
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- australia
- fiction
22. Assembly
By: Natasha Brown
3.84
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Ho… read more
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- fiction
"I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Explain air. Convince a sceptic. Prove it's there. Prove what cant be seen."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Because they watch (us). They're taught how to, from school. They are taught to view our bodies (selves) as objects."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
23. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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- fiction
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
24. The Survivors
By: Jane Harper
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets... Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day… read more
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- australia
- fiction
25. The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison
By: Meredith Jaffe
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Can a wedding dress save a bunch of hardened crims? The Full Monty meets Orange is the New Black in… read more
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- australia
- fiction
26. Sisters Under the Rising Sun
By: Heather Morris
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more
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- fiction
27. Clean Straw for Nothing
By: George Johnston
3.61
Format: None pages, Paperback
David Meredith abandons his career as a journalist to live in exile as a writer on a Greek Island w… read more
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- australia
- classics
- fiction
"Everyone gets to the stage, or should get to it, where it's more important to stop doing things than to keep on trying to do them."-George Johnston, Clean Straw for Nothing
28. Tiny Uncertain Miracles
By: Michelle Johnston
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Miracles are notoriously unreliable. But sometimes, just when they're needed, they turn up - althou… read more
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- fiction
- australia
29. Amy's Children
By: Olga Masters
3.84
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her country town—and … read more
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- womens
- classics
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30. Postcards from Surfers
By: Helen Garner
3.56
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
Eleven stories deal with fathers and sons, a mysterious visitor, a little girl who learns about suf… read more
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- australia
- classics
- fiction
31. The Silver River
By: Jim Moginie
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary … read more
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