The Shape of Sound
By: Fiona Murphy
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
I am still unlearning the habit of secrecy. And yet, whenever somebody discovers that I am deaf, my…
Want to Read $ 8.99"Even when I am not actively feeling lonely, I know that loneliness is still in my blood. This is what frightens me most of all."-Fiona Murphy, The Shape of Sound
"Even when I am not actively feeling lonely, I know that loneliness is still in my blood. This is what frightens me most of all."-Fiona Murphy, The Shape of Sound
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1. Pulse Points
By: Jennifer Down
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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2. 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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3. 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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- biography
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4. Bodies of Light
By: Jennifer Down
4.29
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found… read more
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"The Sydney of this time was a different place to the honeymoon city I'd visited with Damien. That one was the crescent of the bridge, the rolling waves beneath the ferry, the shaded streets in The Ro…"-Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light
5. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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6. 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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7. Safe Haven
By: Shankari Chandran
4.18
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more
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8. Gods of Want: Stories
By: K-Ming Chang
3.68
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American wome… read more
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"She claimed she could read palms, but when I gave her mine, she kissed my palms instead of reading them. She said my hands were designed to catch the rain like coins, even though it never rained. Her…"-K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories
9. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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- nonfiction
10. 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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11. Any Ordinary Day
By: Leigh Sales
4.13
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after… read more
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- nonfiction
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"The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries."-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
"I felt this lightness settling on me, which was new. It's not closure, because I will live with Matt's death and the pain of it every day and the grief will stay with me. I just felt that I was carry…"-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
"Stuart Diver has had years of extensive professional counselling to retrain his brain so that he can replace the thought of how helpless he was when Sally dies with the truth that he tried everything…"-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
12. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech
By: Julia Gillard
4.28
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more
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- biography
- memoir
13. Tell Me Again
By: Amy Thunig
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
"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
"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
14. Everyone and Everything
By: Nadine J. Cohen
4.29
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more
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15. Something Bad is Going to Happen
By: Jessie Stephens
3.86
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more
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16. The Work
By: Bri Lee
3.43
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more
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17. 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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18. Road to Ruin (Magebike Courier, #1)
By: Hana Lee
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
An electrifying, gritty fantasy from debut author Hana Lee that takes a royal messenger on a high-s… read more
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19. The House With All The Lights On
By: Jessica Kirkness
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
The House With All The Lights On is a lyrical exploration of family, identity and history, and what… read more
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20. Breath
By: Carly-Jay Metcalfe
4.38
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Queensland Literary Award Winner 2024 Queensland Book of the Year People's Choice Award 'I am d… read more
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21. The Shape of Sound
By: Fiona Murphy
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
I am still unlearning the habit of secrecy. And yet, whenever somebody discovers that I am deaf, my… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
"Even when I am not actively feeling lonely, I know that loneliness is still in my blood. This is what frightens me most of all."-Fiona Murphy, The Shape of Sound
