Reaching Tin River
By: Thea Astley
3.43
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Belle's life is defined by three men: the American father - a musician - whom she never knew; Seb, …
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1. Voss
By: Patrick White , Robert Macfarlane
3.78
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story… read more
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"The map? I will first make it."-Patrick White, Voss
"I am compelled into this country."-Patrick White, Voss
"If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others."-Patrick White, Voss
"History is not acceptable until it has been sifted for the truth."-Patrick White, Voss
2. A Passage to India
By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass
3.68
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more
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"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
3. Picnic at Hanging Rock
By: Joan Lindsay
3.67
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more
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"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
4. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more
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5. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.33
Format: 700 pages, Paperback
Maggie O'Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires … read more
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7. Year of Wonders
By: Geraldine Brooks
2.65
Format: 34 pages,
When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named… read more
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8. Bliss
By: Peter Carey
3.71
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
This novel, by the author of Oscar and Lucinda, tells the story of a man who, recovering from death… read more
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9. 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
10. 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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11. Lola in the Mirror
By: Trent Dalton
4.41
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more
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12. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
13. 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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14. Iris
By: Fiona Kelly McGregor
3.53
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Who is Iris Webber? A thief, a fighter, a wife, a lover. A scammer, a schemer, a friend. A… read more
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"Thought doesn't necessarily calm a person, nor does confinement calm thought."-Fiona Kelly McGregor, Iris
15. Too Much Lip
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.06
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Wise-cracking Ke… read more
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16. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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17. 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
18. Limberlost
By: Robbie Arnott
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more
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"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
19. The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
By: Leah Purcell
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Deep in the heart of Australia’s high country, along an ancient, hidden track, lives Molly Johnson … read more
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20. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
21. Dirt Creek
By: Hayley Scrivenor
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more
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22. Here One Moment
By: Liane Moriarty
4.15
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? Aside from a delay, there will be no probl… read more
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23. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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24. 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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"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
25. The Shepherd's Hut
By: Tim Winton
4.05
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Pr… read more
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"Liam Rector’s “Song Years"-Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut
"Peace, that’s all I’m after."-Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut
"God is what you do, not what you believe in."-Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut
"...discretion will generally keep a fella safe."-Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut
26. 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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"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
27. Losing Face
By: George Haddad
3.97
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
A stunning, thought-provoking novel about facing up to your family and your future, Losing Face dea… read more
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28. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
29. Hopeless Kingdom
By: Kgshak Akec
3.81
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
Akita’s family have always kept moving to survive. Sudan to Cairo. Cairo to Sydney. Sydney to Geelo… read more
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30. Reaching Tin River
By: Thea Astley
3.43
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Belle's life is defined by three men: the American father - a musician - whom she never knew; Seb, … read more
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31. Books that Made Us: The companion to the ABC TV series
By: Carl Reinecke
3.63
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction. Australia's novels lie at the heart o… read more
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