18 Top australia books like The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics (Quarterly Essay #79) by Katharine Murphy

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The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics (Quarterly Essay #79)

By: Katharine Murphy

3.63

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Epidemics are mirrors. What has COVID-19 revealed about Australia, and about Scott Morrison and his…

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1. Fight Like a Girl

By: Clementine Ford

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our m… read more

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"A friend of mine once said to me that feminism helped to figure out a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt."

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

"Boys are given the universe in which to carve out their identities, the promise of infinite space for them to expand into and contract upon. Girls are allowed only enough room to be stars, and they m…"

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

"-no matter what we do, we'll never succeed in attaining the 'perfect' body or the 'perfect' face. This isn't just because perfection is an unattainable goal; it's because capitalism relies on people …"

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

"We know how unsafe the world is for us. We are like cliffs staring down at a raging sea, battered by winds and salt and spray and unable to wrench ourselves away from the supposed inevitability of it…"

-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

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2. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

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3. Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)

By: Jane Harper

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of Th… read more

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4. After You'd Gone

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she… read more

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5. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage

By: Ann Patchett

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run,and Bel Canto,examines… read more

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6. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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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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"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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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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9. 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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10. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more

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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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12. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

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"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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13. 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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Cover of Trust (Martin Scarsden, #3) by Chris Hammer

14. 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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15. Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.01

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping… read more

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16. 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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17. Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

By: Faith G. Harper

3.32

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Our brains do their best to help us out, but every so often they can be real assholes--having melt … read more

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"We either win or we learn. So take the fuck-ups as new ways of getting good information about yourself."

-Faith G. Harper, Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

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18. Pure Colour

By: Sheila Heti

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more

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"And what opens one heart opens many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

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19. 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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20. 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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21. Last Night in Montreal

By: Emily St. John Mandel

3.73

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adol… read more

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"She was unsettling. But sometimes there was something perfect about it."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

"It was never very easy to reach her, like loving someone who was rarely in the same room"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

"His only part in the story: to observe and remember the chain of events. Not all of us will be cast in the greatest dramas; someone has to remember them"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

"What she aspired to was a kind of delirious perfection. What Lilia wanted was to travel, but not only that; she wanted to be a citizen of everywhere, free-wheeling and capable of instant flight."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

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22. The Children's Bach

By: Helen Garner

3.53

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels … read more

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23. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage

By: Clementine Ford

4.13

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more

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24. Best of Friends

By: Kamila Shamsie

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Home Fire comes the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendsh… read more

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"Perhaps friendship was not only about what you said to each other, but also about what you didn't"

-Kamila Shamsie, Best of Friends

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25. We All Lived in Bondi Then

By: Georgia Blain

4.16

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collecti… read more

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26. Car Crash: A Memoir of the Aftermath

By: Lech Blaine

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

“A story of carnage and life-long consequences. A brave and unsettling account.” —Tim Winton, autho… read more

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27. 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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28. Willowman

By: Inga Simpson

4.06

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

Cricket has a willow heart. Batmakers around the world have tried everything, crafting bats from bi… read more

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29. The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics (Quarterly Essay #79)

By: Katharine Murphy

3.63

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Epidemics are mirrors. What has COVID-19 revealed about Australia, and about Scott Morrison and his… read more

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Cover of 21st-Century Virtues: How They Are Failing Our Democracy (In the National Interest) by Lucinda Holdforth

30. 21st-Century Virtues: How They Are Failing Our Democracy (In the National Interest)

By: Lucinda Holdforth

4.05

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues pro… read more

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Clementine Ford

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Jane Harper

3.24

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Shankari Chandran

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There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

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