15 Top australia books like Kayang And Me by Hazel Brown

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Kayang And Me

By: Hazel Brown

4.32

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Novelist Kim Scott and his elder, Hazel Brown, have created a family history of the Wilomin Noongar…

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1. The Music Shop

By: Rachel Joyce

3.84

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel ab… read more

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"Aretha is soul. You can’t argue with Aretha."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

"...the vivid past would not go away. Like music, said Peg. Even when it was over, it kept living inside you."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

"Real love was a journey with many pitfalls and complications, and sometimes the place you ended up was not the one you hoped for."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

"Frank was so busy loving other people he had no room to accommodate the fact that someone might turn around one day and love him back."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

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2. The Sealed Letter

By: Emma Donoghue

3.36

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Miss Emily "Fido" Faithfull is a "woman of business" and a spinster pioneer in the British women's … read more

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"The grave is open and the dead friendship walks."

-Emma Donoghue, The Sealed Letter

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3. The Signature of All Things

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

3.87

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York… read more

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"She did not need a library; she was a library."

-Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

"Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?"

-Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

"The most urgent war is always the one fought at home"

-Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

"Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not."

-Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

4. When the Night Comes

By: Favel Parrett

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The hauntingly beautiful story of a young girl transformed by the power of kindness from award-winn… read more

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5. Death of a River Guide

By: Richard Flanagan

3.81

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

In this brilliant, labyrinthine second novel, a drowning man named Aljaz Cosini is granted visions … read more

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6. Working Class Boy

By: Jimmy Barnes

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

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7. The Elegance of the Hedgehog

By: Muriel Barbery , Alison Anderson

2.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us. We… read more

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8. Heat and Dust

By: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize Set in colonial India during the 1920s, H… read more

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9. 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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10. The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope, #9)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the … read more

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"And miles to go before I sleep . . ."

-Ann Cleeves, The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope, #9)

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11. 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

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12. The Murder Rule

By: Dervla McTiernan

3.67

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter s… read more

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"Because it has to be done. Because if you see something like this, and you can fix it, then it’s your mess to clean up."

-Dervla McTiernan, The Murder Rule

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13. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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14. Still Life

By: Sarah Winman

4.17

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English so… read more

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"But when have women not sacrificed to live as they feel?"

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"We were an unconventional family. Scandal was a rite of passage."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"No single act of generosity remains in isolation. The ripples are many."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"He needed to know everyone was safe because without them he was nothing."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

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15. The Labyrinth

By: Amanda Lohrey

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge. Trapped in her … read more

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"Exhausted, I go to bed early again and for the first time in a long while sleep an unbroken sleep that lasts until dawn. When I wake my body is soft; it feels as if in my dreamless state I have known…"

-Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth

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16. 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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17. 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

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18. 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

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19. A Brief Affair

By: Alex Miller

3.59

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A moving novel about storytelling, about truths, and love, from twice Miles Franklin Award winner A… read more

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20. 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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21. Before You Knew My Name

By: Jacqueline Bublitz

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This is not just another novel about a dead girl. Two women—one alive, one dead—are brought togethe… read more

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"I know what it's like for the horror to follow you home."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"What happened to her makes me so mad. The entitlement of these fucking men who destroy lives, just because they can."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"The thing is. When the dead speak back, we are seldom loud enough to be heard over the clamour of all that living going on."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"For the first time, I understand it's not only the dead who have lives they don't get to live out. The people left behind have as many versions of themselves unexplored, as many possible paths that c…"

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

22. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more

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23. 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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"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

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24. Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

By: Julia Baird

3.78

Format: 320 pages, ebook

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘This book is beautiful … Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and … read more

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"McCarthy insists if we delight in nature and find joy there, we will not so carelessly plunder, neglect and destroy it. He calls it 'defence through joy'."

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"Seek awe and nature daily... show kindness; practise grace; eschew vanity; be bold; embrace friends, family, faith and doubt, imperfection and mess; and live deliberately."

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"Findings revealed Type As focus on how proud they are and [how] impressed others are, but are only moderately to weakly involved in actively seeing positive memories for later recall, or in reminisci…"

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings…"

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

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25. The Angry Women's Choir

By: Meg Bignell

4.07

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more

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26. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

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27. 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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28. The Jane Austen Remedy

By: Ruth Wilson

3.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re… read more

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"These conversations were exhilarating. They alerted me to the way shared reading could be a source of light in a dark world, forging friendships and creating like-minded communities."

-Ruth Wilson, The Jane Austen Remedy

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29. A Room Made of Leaves

By: Kate Grenville

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney-had wr… read more

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"We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there."

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to la…"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was …"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"My husband had no one and that must be why some central part of him, some steady sense of who he was, had years ago gone like a mouse to hide away in its hole. But he could never admit the pain. He h…"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

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30. Infinite Splendours

By: Sofie Laguna

3.80

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

Lawrence is a bright, kind and talented boy of ten years old when he is groomed and … read more

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31. Kayang And Me

By: Hazel Brown

4.32

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Novelist Kim Scott and his elder, Hazel Brown, have created a family history of the Wilomin Noongar… read more

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