Waypoints
By: Adam Ouston
4.07
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In 1910 the famed escapologist Harry Houdini made an ill-fated attempt to become the first person t…
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1. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
2. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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- fiction
"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
3. A Heart So White
By: Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa
4.02
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles w… read more
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- fiction
"No es fácil saber por qué se mata la gente, ni los más próximos, todo el mundo está trastornado, todo el mundo las pasa putas, a veces sin causa y casi siempre en secreto, la gente vuelve cara contra…"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
"Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words…"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
"Casi todo el mundo se avergüenza de su juventud, no es muy cierto que se añore como se dice, más bien se relega o rehúye y con facilidad o esfuerzo se confina el origen a la esfera de los malos sueño…"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
"I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one of the innumerable languages I don’t know, even if …"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
4. Concrete
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more
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- fiction
5. The Third Tower: Journeys in Italy
By: Len Rix , Antal Szerb
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey over… read more
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6. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- fiction
7. Garden, Ashes
By: Aleksandar Hemon , İlknur Özdemir , Danilo Kiš , None
3.74
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
In Yugoslavia during the Second World War, young Andi Scham and his beleaguered family are constant… read more
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8. 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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- fiction
- australia
9. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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- fiction
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
10. 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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11. The Lovers
By: Yumna Kassab
2.95
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What happens when we become used to each other, when we become bored, when we anticipate each other… read more
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- fiction
- australia
12. 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
- australia
"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
13. 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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- fiction
- australia
14. 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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- novella
- fiction
- australia
"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
15. 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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- fiction
- australia
"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
16. 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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- australia
17. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
18. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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- fiction
19. Grimmish
By: Michael Winkler
3.86
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
Pain was Joe Grim's self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being. In 1908-09 the Italian-Am… read more
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- 21st century
- fiction
- australia
20. 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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21. Saint Sebastian's Abyss
By: Mark Haber
3.71
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
“What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at th… read more
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- novella
- fiction
"...Schmidt admitted in private that if were up to him he would've happily burned them, burned them with glee and without thinking twice and kept the ashes too, he'd said, in an urn that he'd place pr…"-Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss
22. Hydra
By: Adriane Howell
3.62
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Anja is a young, ambitious antiquarian, passionate for the clean and balanced lines of mid-century … read more
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- fiction
- australia
23. Losing Face
By: George Haddad
3.97
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
A stunning, thought-provoking novel about facing up to your family and your future, Losing Face dea… read more
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- australia
24. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
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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- australia
26. Hopeless Kingdom
By: Kgshak Akec
3.81
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
Akita’s family have always kept moving to survive. Sudan to Cairo. Cairo to Sydney. Sydney to Geelo… read more
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- australia
27. Aphrodite's Breath
By: Susan Johnson
4.00
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly… read more
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- australia
28. Waypoints
By: Adam Ouston
4.07
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In 1910 the famed escapologist Harry Houdini made an ill-fated attempt to become the first person t… read more
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- 21st century
- novella
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29. Eventually Everything Connects: Eight Essays on Uncertainty
By: Sarah Firth
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A delicious mix of daily life, science, philosophy, pop culture, daydreams and irreverent humour, E… read more
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30. Mister, Mister
By: Guy Gunaratne
3.73
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A blazingly propulsive novel from the prize-winning author of In Our Mad and Furious City, followin… read more
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31. From Here on, Monsters
By: Elizabeth Bryer
3.31
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In a city locked in a kind of perpetual twilight, antiquarian bookseller Cameron Raybould accepts a… read more
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- fiction
- australia
"Fascinating things can be learned about the past, no?"-Elizabeth Bryer, From Here on, Monsters
"Every performance is a deceit and deceits have their place. I thought back to the painted library, remembered that deceits could even be an artform."-Elizabeth Bryer, From Here on, Monsters
"Of course, in deciding to manipulate the language of public discussion, they encouraged the unseeing for which some of us have shown such aptitude in times past."-Elizabeth Bryer, From Here on, Monsters
"For an unknown thing to have verisimilitude, it had to be different, but in recognisable ways; it had to include some likeness, and yet hold the promise of surpassing the known."-Elizabeth Bryer, From Here on, Monsters
