6 best-selling history books like Oil Under Troubled Water: Australia's Timor Sea Intrigue by Bernard Collaery

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Oil Under Troubled Water: Australia's Timor Sea Intrigue

By: Bernard Collaery

3.86

Format: 446 pages, Paperback

In May 2018 Bernard Collaery, a former Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory and lon…

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1. Supermarket Monsters: The Price of Coles and Woolworths' Dominance

By: Malcolm Knox

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Down, down . . . In hardware, petrol, merchandise, liquor and above all in groceries, Coles and Woo… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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2. 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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"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

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3. 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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  • australia
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4. Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

4.07

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands. In the desolate outback tow… read more

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  • australia
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5. Lessons

By: Ian McEwan

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more

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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

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6. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. 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

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8. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

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"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

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9. Once There Were Wolves

By: Charlotte McConaghy

4.10

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the beloved national bestseller Migrations, a pulse-pounding new novel set in th… read more

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"Can’t track wolves, not really."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

"Wolves don't need forests, they grow them."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

"Then take from me. I have more than enough."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

"I think it's civilization [that] makes us violent."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

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10. Hummingbird Salamander

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.25

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered sp… read more

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"But the trick of the world was to contain all things."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

"Were companies units or loose, ever-shifting alliances of individuals? Still didn't know."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

"I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

"The Christmas decorations at the entrance were garish, incomprehensible, partisan. What kind of a country did we live in?"

-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

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11. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

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  • australia
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12. Trust (Martin Scarsden, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.05

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

He violated her past and haunts her present. Now he's threatening their future. She breathes deep… read more

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  • australia
Cover of Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3) by Jane Harper

13. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)

By: Jane Harper

4.05

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more

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  • australia
Cover of Did I Ever Tell You This? by Sam Neill

14. Did I Ever Tell You This?

By: Sam Neill

4.06

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
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15. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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16. The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China

By: Kevin Rudd

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need

By: Thomas Mayo

4.52

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who hav… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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18. Puff Piece

By: John Safran

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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19. The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)

By: Alan Kohler

4.31

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

What caused Australia's housing crisis -- and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Au… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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20. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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21. Truganini

By: Cassandra Pybus

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The haunting story of the extraordinary Aboriginal woman behind the myth of 'the last Tasmanian Abo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
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22. Country: Future Fire, Future Farming

By: Bill Gammage

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges ser… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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23. Oil Under Troubled Water: Australia's Timor Sea Intrigue

By: Bernard Collaery

3.86

Format: 446 pages, Paperback

In May 2018 Bernard Collaery, a former Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory and lon… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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24. The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace

By: Sam Roggeveen

4.03

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself?The Echid… read more

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4.27

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Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Anna Funder

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