Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS (Quarterly Essay #91)
By: Micheline Lee
4.19
Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition
What ails the NDIS?Caring or careless? In this powerful and moving essay, Micheline Lee tells the s…
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By: Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky , Connie Burk
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
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3. Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire
By: Chanel Contos
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4. Lola in the Mirror
By: Trent Dalton
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5. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
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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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6. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
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A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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7. 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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8. Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All
By: Hannah Ferguson
4.29
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9. 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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10. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
By: Julia Baird
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more
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"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
11. Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism
By: Leigh Sales
3.88
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Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream … read more
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12. Days of Innocence and Wonder
By: Lucy Treloar
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13. Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award
By: David Marr
4.39
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A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked… read more
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14. The In-Between
By: Christos Tsiolkas
3.70
Format: 400 pages, ebook
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"There was respite in history. The beligerence and intolerance of the contemporary age was of no consequence to the past. And there was no shouting."-Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between
15. Showing Up
By: Nedd Brockmann
4.34
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable–the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body ‘throug… read more
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16. 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
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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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18. I'd Rather Not
By: Robert Skinner
3.72
Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition
An endlessly entertaining collection of wayward autobiographical tales about a search for a richer … read more
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19. The House That Joy Built
By: Holly Ringland
3.88
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An uplifting, powerful and inspiring book about breaking through fear and finding joy through creat… read more
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20. Pheasants Nest
By: Louise Milligan
3.59
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She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more
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21. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage
By: Clementine Ford
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22. Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge
By: Bri Lee
3.65
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Bri Lee, best-selling and award-winning author of Eggshell Skull, asks Who gets to be smart? in thi… read more
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23. Ready When You Are
By: Gary Lonesborough
4.20
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable YA love story between two Aboriginal boys -- one who doesn’t want to accept he’s gay, … read more
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"Go to your elders. You should ask them about your country and your totem. Because that is your identity. A blackfella with no identity is a lost blackfella. He don't know where he belongs."-Gary Lonesborough, Ready When You Are
24. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
4.36
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This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and … read more
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"The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity."-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
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"Understanding your own culture and the ways it interacts with others, particularly the power dynamics of it, is far more appreciated. My reading of Germane Greer when I was a young lad was a lot more…"-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
25. Tell Me Again
By: Amy Thunig
4.41
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For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more
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"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
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26. No Silly Questions: The Daily Aus explains how the world works (and why you should care)
By: Zara Seidler
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27. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need
By: Thomas Mayo
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28. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
By: Anita Heiss
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29. Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS (Quarterly Essay #91)
By: Micheline Lee
4.19
Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition
What ails the NDIS?Caring or careless? In this powerful and moving essay, Micheline Lee tells the s… read more
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30. The Ledge
By: Christian White
4.39
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
When human remains are discovered in the forests of regional Victoria, the police are baffled, the … read more
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