Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria
By: Janet McCalman
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From award-winning author and historian Janet McCalman, the engrossing tale of Tasmanian convict se…
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1. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
By: Hilary Mantel
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more
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2. Giving Up the Ghost
By: Hilary Mantel
3.89
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most improbable of accomplishmen… read more
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3. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
By: Matthew Dicks
4.11
Format: 274 pages,
Imaginary friend Budo narrates this heartwarming story of love, loyalty, and the power of the imagi… read more
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4. The Ghost Fields (Ruth Galloway, #7)
By: Elly Griffiths
3.00
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
The chilling discovery of a downed World War II plane with a body inside leads Ruth and DCI Nelson … read more
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5. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
By: Huw Lemmey
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more
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6. 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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7. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.39
Format: 759 pages, Paperback
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more
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"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
8. 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
9. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
10. 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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"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
11. Day's End (Hirsch, #4)
By: Garry Disher
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Hirsch’s rural beat is wide. Daybreak to day’s end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets … read more
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12. 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
13. 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
14. Wake (PI Lane Holland #1)
By: Shelley Burr
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
'The tiny outback town of Nannine lies in the harsh red interior of Australia. Once a thriving cent… read more
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15. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.09
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit followin… read more
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"It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions."-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)
"Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own..."-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)
16. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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17. 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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18. Sanctuary
By: Garry Disher
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more
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19. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise
By: Niki Savva
4.21
Format: 320 pages, ebook
‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires ‘It’s… read more
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20. Stone Town (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #2)
By: Margaret Hickey
4.07
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
Stone Town is captivating new rural crime drama from the author of the bestselling Cutters End. … read more
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21. The Visitors
By: Jane Harrison
3.86
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stan… read more
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22. Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics (Quarterly Essay #88)
By: Katharine Murphy
4.02
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
A prime minister in the making, and a nation on the move. In Lone Wolf, Katharine Murphy offers a n… read more
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23. Ancestry
By: Simon Mawer
4.02
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
Beginning with his great-great-grandfather Abraham Block, acclaimed novelist Simon Mawer sifts thro… read more
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24. The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek
By: Kate Holden
4.15
Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition
On a country road in Croppa Creek, farmer Ian Turnbull faced environmental officer Glen Turner. Wha… read more
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25. 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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26. The Phillip Island Murder
By: Vikki Petraitis
3.89
Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition
The discovery of the body of Beth Barnard in her Phillip Island farmhouse in 1986, began a homicide… read more
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27. Hell Ship
By: Michael Veitch
4.11
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken… read more
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28. Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria
By: Janet McCalman
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From award-winning author and historian Janet McCalman, the engrossing tale of Tasmanian convict se… read more
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29. The Idea of Australia: A Search for the Soul of the Nation
By: Julianne Schultz
4.10
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Former publisher of Griffith Review Professor Julianne Schultz challenges our notions of what it me… read more
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30. Back Up: Why back pain treatments aren’t working and the new science offering hope
By: Liam Mannix
4.54
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Back pain is one of the world’ s greatest public health challenges. It is the leading reason we vis… read more
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