Adrift in Melbourne
By: Robyn Annear
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Melbourne’s streets have always been marvellous—but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boo…
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1. Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
By: Bill Hayes
4.41
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he … read more
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- nonfiction
"O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in the world at this time"-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
"Wouldn't it be nice if there weree a planet where the sound of rain falling is like Bach?" he says. "Yes, Planet Bach," I respond. He smiles -"Yes", he murmurs- picturing it, hearing it."-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
"I have come to believe that kindness is repaid in unexpected ways and that if you are lonely or bone-tired or blue, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New York—which is to say,…"-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
"Sad, shocking, horrible, yes," underlining each word, "but..." (Oliver often said that but was his favorite word, a kind of etymological flip of the coin, for it allowed consideration of both sides o…"-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
2. Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.95
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" comes an enc… read more
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"Our memories change as we do."-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
"Most of us can only see the world we know."-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
"Love affairs are discoveries of new worlds."-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
"The future is not fixed unless we allow it to be so."-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
3. The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir
By: Anh Do
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on th… read more
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4. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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- travel
- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"People were crazy with pain and secrets."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
5. 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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- historical
- australia
6. 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
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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- historical
"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. 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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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
9. 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
10. 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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- australia
11. 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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- 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
12. 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
- 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
13. 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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- historical
- australia
14. Women & Children
By: Tony Birch
4.22
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more
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- historical
- australia
15. 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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- historical
- australia
"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
16. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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- nonfiction
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
17. The Hummingbird Effect
By: Kate Mildenhall
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more
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- historical
- australia
18. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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- historical
- australia
19. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
20. Pomegranate & Fig
By: Zaheda Ghani
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
'The women arrive first, on an afternoon like any other, when Henna is safely enclosed behind her d… read more
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- historical
21. The Anniversary
By: Stephanie Bishop
3.10
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
For fans of Lisa Halliday and Susan Choi, The Anniversary is a simmering page-turner about an ascen… read more
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22. Another Day in the Colony
By: Chelsea Watego
4.43
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing an… read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
23. The Work
By: Bri Lee
3.43
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more
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24. I Am NOT Fine, Thanks
By: Wil Anderson
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
'How are you?' How am I? How am I? How do you think I am? I know in the Before Times the traditi… read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
25. Mermaid Singing & Peel Me A Lotus
By: Charmian Clift
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
These two classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the life she and her Australian family … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
26. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-len… read more
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- nonfiction
"In many college English courses the words “myth"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
27. The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.47
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and … read more
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28. The Bone Maker
By: Sarah Beth Durst
3.85
Format: 478 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years ago, five heroes risked their lives to defeat the bone maker Eklor—a corrupt magi… read more
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"I require pie before I desecrate a mass grave."-Sarah Beth Durst, The Bone Maker
"Take my day, take my night, take my sunrise, take my life."-Sarah Beth Durst, The Bone Maker
"I would have lied to you until we died. Sometimes honesty is cruelty, and love is lies."-Sarah Beth Durst, The Bone Maker
"I've lived life without you, and I couldn't bear it. Not when I had the strength to save you."-Sarah Beth Durst, The Bone Maker
29. Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave
By: Mark Mordue
3.98
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling, award-winning and critically acclaimed biography of the young Nick Cave, by award-… read more
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- australia
30. Adrift in Melbourne
By: Robyn Annear
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Melbourne’s streets have always been marvellous—but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boo… read more
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- history
- travel
- historical
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- australia