Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra - The Irresistible Story of an Irrepressible Woman
By: Anne Aly
4.18
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and the firs…
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1. One Life: My Mother's Story
By: Kate Grenville
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark … read more
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2. Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
By: None , Aaron Patrick
3.51
Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition
Credlin was Abbott’s enforcer, his disciplinarian, his counsellor, his brain, his mother. Her stren… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- australia
3. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
By: Sarah Krasnostein
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
4. The Daughters of Mars
By: Thomas Keneally , Tom Keneally
3.54
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of th… read more
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- australia
5. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
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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- australia
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7. 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
"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
8. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
9. Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)
By: Chris Hammer
3.96
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated yo… read more
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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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- audiobook
11. Prima Facie
By: Suzie Miller
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more
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- audiobook
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie
12. 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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- australia
- audiobook
13. Challenge Accepted!
By: Celeste Barber
3.84
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Funny woman, Instagram star and international comedy sensation, Celeste Barber's guide to life, lau… read more
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14. Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)
By: Margaret Hickey
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spe… read more
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15. What Happened to Nina?
By: Dervla McTiernan
4.11
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more
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- audiobook
16. The Promise
By: Lucy Diamond
4.02
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
The Promise is a moving novel of love and loss, by the Sunday Times bestseller Lucy Diamond. Whe… read more
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17. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
By: Grace Tame
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more
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"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
18. Murder Town
By: Shelley Burr
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Gemma Guillory knows her once-charming town is now remembered for one reason, and one reason only. … read more
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19. The Remarkable Mrs Reibey
By: Grantlee Kieza
4.03
Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first… read more
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20. Rebel Rising
By: Rebel Wilson
3.91
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilariou… read more
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"Would this performance feel internally like I was going to die? Yes. But my desire to win, my desire to be somebody, is so strong that it compels me to do the hardest thing possible: to perform in pu…"-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising
"People would come up to me on the street and say, 'I just want to thank you for being so brave!' Why am I so fucking brave? I'm not going off to fight in a war! I'm not running into a burning buildin…"-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising
21. 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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22. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech
By: Julia Gillard
4.28
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more
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23. 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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24. A Woman of Courage
By: Tania Blanchard
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping, moving story of love, tenacity and the right to be heard by bestseller Tania Blanchard,… read more
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25. Able: Gold Medals, Grand Slams and Smashing Glass Ceilings
By: Dylan Alcott
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The astonishing life of Australia's most inspirational athlete Not long after he was born in 1990, … read more
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26. See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
By: Jess Hill
4.66
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria’s dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone … read more
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"I don't bash you with my fists, I bash you with my emotions, to keep you under control."-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
"I explain patriarchy as a dual system of power: men's power over women, and some men's power over other men. - Michael Kimmel"-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
"Mangan is adamant: women's violence may cause distress to men in abusive relationships, but men are almost never in danger of being killed."-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
"Whether perpetrators abuse strategically or on impulse, however, they usually have one thing in common: a supercharged sense of entitlement."-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
27. Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience
By: Veronica Gorrie
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within … read more
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28. Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra - The Irresistible Story of an Irrepressible Woman
By: Anne Aly
4.18
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and the firs… read more
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29. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)
By: Richard Osman
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more
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30. Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History
By: Eliza Reilly
3.74
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining romp through Australian history that celebrates the badass sheroes we were never ta… read more
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"If a Shelia is gonna break the rules, she has to have studied the rule book first."-Eliza Reilly, Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History
31. A Repurposed Life
By: Ronni Kahn
4.15
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
'From the founder of OzHarvest, an ebullient, generous memoir with an exhilarating message.' ANNABE… read more
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