The Tales of Mr Walker
By: Jess Black
4.37
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Introducing Mr Walker – a hotel dog with a nose for adventure! Share this On a brilliant autumn’s…
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1. The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes, #1)
By: Nancy Springer
3.80
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
When Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has d… read more
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- fiction
2. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
By: Judy Blume
4.05
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are p… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
3. The Secret River
By: Kate Grenville
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compas… read more
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- fiction
- australia
4. The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #1)
By: None
3.78
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who esc… read more
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5. 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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- fiction
- australia
6. Comfort Me with Apples
By: Catherynne M. Valente
3.59
Format: 103 pages, Hardcover
Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their ho… read more
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- fiction
"Why doesn’t He love me like He loves you?"-Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me with Apples
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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- fiction
"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
8. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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- fiction
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
9. 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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- fiction
"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
10. 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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- fiction
- australia
"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
11. Death of a Bookseller
By: Alice Slater
3.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more
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- fiction
12. The Drift
By: C.J. Tudor
3.71
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly grippin… read more
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- fiction
13. The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
By: Graeme Simsion
4.04
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
I was standing on one leg shucking oysters when the problems began… Don and Rosie are back in Me… read more
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- fiction
- australia
"Lack of coolness can be pretty cool."-Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
"Humans instinctively trust personal experience over research"-Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
"I had learned that people with irrational beliefs in one domain could be sensible and reliable in others."-Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
"I had learned, reluctantly and over many years, that rational argument seldom overcame irrational resistance."-Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
14. Other Words for Home
By: Jasmine Warga
4.42
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
I am learning how to be sad and happy at the same time. Jude never thought she’d be leaving h… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
"Americans are obsessed with murder"-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home
"You will belong here. . .You will make anywhere beautiful."-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home
"It seems like the kind of place where dreams could grow and live."-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home
"Mama hugs me and I hold her back. Sometimes all you can do is hold on."-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home
15. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
16. The Bookseller at the End of the World
By: Ruth Shaw
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more
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"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World
17. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
By: Edward Chisholm
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more
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18. Assembly
By: Natasha Brown
3.84
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Ho… read more
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- fiction
"I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Explain air. Convince a sceptic. Prove it's there. Prove what cant be seen."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Because they watch (us). They're taught how to, from school. They are taught to view our bodies (selves) as objects."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
19. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)
By: Marian Keyes
4.02
Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition
The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more
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- fiction
20. Between Us
By: Mhairi McFarlane
3.74
Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition
International bestseller Mhairi McFarlane delivers a witty, clever, emotional new novel about a wom… read more
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- fiction
21. The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
By: Richard Osman
4.37
Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition
It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with w… read more
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- fiction
"Does it hurt?" asks Ibrahim. "Only when I breathe," says Donna."-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
"Why did people always get so angry? We'll all be dead soon enough."-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
"La gente que nunca se pierde no ha viajado nunca a ningún sitio interesante."-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
"He buys three other books too, because he wants the bookshop still to be there when he comes back next week."-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
22. Balada para Sophie
By: Filipe Melo
4.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A vida de Julien Dubois, pianista de sucesso, confunde-se com a história da Europa do século XX. De… read more
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- fiction
23. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- fiction
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
24. Séance Tea Party
By: Reimena Yee
4.25
Format: 272 pages, None
After watching her circle of friends seemingly fade away, Lora is determined to still have fun on h… read more
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- fiction
"To childhood, and growing up, and growing old, and magic – whatever age we are."-Reimena Yee, Séance Tea Party
25. The Lost Man
By: Jane Harper
4.16
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outbac… read more
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- fiction
- australia
"I've given you a power over me that you do not deserve."-Jane Harper, The Lost Man
"Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, there's not a single person here who isn't lying to themselves about something."-Jane Harper, The Lost Man
"Someone can decide it’s in their best interests to agree to something, but a choice is only really a choice if there’s a genuine alternative. Otherwise it’s manipulation and it’s taking advantage."-Jane Harper, The Lost Man
26. Just Last Night
By: Mhairi McFarlane
4.01
Format: 393 pages, Paperback
Eve, Justin, Susie, and Ed have been friends since they were teenagers. Now in their thirties, the … read more
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- fiction
"The strangest thing, Eve, is you don't know how to talk about what to have for tea."-Mhairi McFarlane, Just Last Night
"How can all these people be living, how can everything be carrying on as usual, if Susie is dead?"-Mhairi McFarlane, Just Last Night
"Thinking about how Finlay never abandoned me, whether it was on bike rides as children, or in hotel rooms as grown-ups."-Mhairi McFarlane, Just Last Night
"Her body is a vacated premises. It's like turning up to a house you know well, and finding it emptied and stripped to the fittings."-Mhairi McFarlane, Just Last Night
27. Waiting for the Storks
By: Katrina Nannestad
4.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The powerful new novel from master storyteller Katrina Nannestad. I don't want to remember the … read more
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- childrens
- fiction
28. Wurrtoo: The Wombat Who Fell in Love with the Sky
By: Tylissa Elisara
4.29
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
Described as an Indigenous Blinky Bill meets Winnie the Pooh, this heartwarming and beautifully ill… read more
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29. The Tales of Mr Walker
By: Jess Black
4.37
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Introducing Mr Walker – a hotel dog with a nose for adventure! Share this On a brilliant autumn’s… read more
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- fiction
- animals
- australia
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30. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
31. The Hotel Balzaar
By: Kate DiCamillo
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
In a wise and magical follow-up to The Puppets of Spelhorst, Kate DiCamillo revisits the land of No… read more
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- fiction
