John Curtin: A Life
By: David Day
4.15
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
David Day's biography John Curtin: A Life will be the first to critically reassess Australia's best…
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1. The Coming of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more
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- world war ii
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2. We of the Never Never
By: Jeannie Gunn
4.10
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Large Format for easy reading. An Australian classic. Depicts the enduring hardships of life in the… read more
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3. The Blind Assassin
By: Margaret Atwood
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer… read more
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4. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.79
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more
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"Never be daunted"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"I am always in love."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
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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"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. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
7. The Promise
By: Damon Galgut
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more
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"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
8. 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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9. Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021
By: Thomas Piketty
3.44
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A chronicle of events that shook the world from the author of Capital in the Twenty‑First Century O… read more
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10. The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison
By: Sean Kelly
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
What happens when the prime minister views politics only as a game? Australia wanted Scott Morri… read more
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11. The Palace Letters: The Queen, The Governor-General, and the Plot to Dismiss Gough Whitlam
By: Jenny Hocking
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A hidden correspondence. A political betrayal. A constitutional crisis. The Palace Letters is the g… read more
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12. Damascus
By: Christos Tsiolkas
3.54
Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition
WINNER - Best Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards'They kill us, they crucify us, they thro… read more
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13. Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia
By: Frank Bongiorno
4.23
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
A landmark book—the first full political history of Australia In this compelling and comprehensive… read more
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14. John Curtin: A Life
By: David Day
4.15
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
David Day's biography John Curtin: A Life will be the first to critically reassess Australia's best… read more
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- biography
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- australia
