To My Country
By: Ben Lawson
4.50
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Ben Lawson was preparing for another Christmas away from home when the Black Summer bushfires began…
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1. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
By: Elisabeth Tova Bailey
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey s… read more
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- nonfiction
2. 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
3. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
4. Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)
By: James Norbury
4.40
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
Joing Big Panda & Tiny Dragon on their travels. They often get lost and make a lot of mistakes. … read more
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- poetry
"Time doing nothing is never wasted."-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)
"Incluso un árbol herido puede florecer de la forma más bella."-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)
"Intenta sacar tiempo para las pequeñas cosas, a menudo son lo más importante."-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)
"A cherry tree doesn't compare itself to other trees,' said Big Panda, 'it just blossoms."-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)
5. Devotion
By: Hannah Kent
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more
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- australia
"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."-Hannah Kent, Devotion
"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"-Hannah Kent, Devotion
6. Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
By: Ali Wong
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Ali Wong's heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they wer… read more
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- nonfiction
"That day, my co-workers found out my secret: I'm a fucking idiot."-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
"I don't care how funny or beloved someone is. Take his ass down if he fucks with you."-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
"My dad would sometimes say things to my mom like, “Devil, get away, for I am God’s property!"-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
"When in doubt, go out. Not just for material, but to experience new people, new social situations, and unfamiliar surroundings."-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
7. Boy Swallows Universe
By: Trent Dalton
4.34
Format: 474 pages, Paperback
A novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class subu… read more
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"Don't fuckin' swear."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"Stay sweet, Eli Bell."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"Most things people say don't need to be said."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"To burn this house down or set the world on fire. Up to you, Eli."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
8. Dropbear
By: Evelyn Araluen
4.13
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winnin… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
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9. How We Love: Notes on a Life
By: Clementine Ford
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author … read more
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- australia
10. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
By: Michiko Aoyama
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel show… read more
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11. The Divorcées
By: Rowan Beaird
3.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Lois Saunders thought marrying the right man would cure her loneliness, but as picture-perfect as h… read more
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12. The Nowhere Child
By: Christian White
3.99
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White… read more
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- australia
13. The Soul of a Woman
By: Isabel Allende
4.03
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspir… read more
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- nonfiction
"I was a voracious reader and what I had learned in books confirmed that the world changes constantly and humanity evolves, but the changes are only obtained after much struggle."-Isabel Allende, The Soul of a Woman
"This is what women want: to be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved."-Isabel Allende, The Soul of a Woman
"Since my daughter died I am perfectly aware of death's proximity; and now, in my seventies, death is my friend. It's not true that she looks like a skeleton armed with a scythe and trailed by a rotte…"-Isabel Allende, The Soul of a Woman
14. The Rain Heron
By: Robbie Arnott
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slop… read more
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- australia
15. Sea Prayer
By: Khaled Hosseini
4.10
Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition
A short, powerful, illustrated book written by Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee c… read more
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- poetry
"I pray the sea knows this. Inshallah."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
"I wish you remembered Homs as I do, Marwan."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
"All of us inpatient for the sunrise, all of us in dread of it. All of us in search of home."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
"You know a bomb crater can be made into a swimming hole. You have learned dark blood is better news than bright."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
16. A Room Made of Leaves
By: Kate Grenville
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney-had wr… read more
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"We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there."-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to la…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was …"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"My husband had no one and that must be why some central part of him, some steady sense of who he was, had years ago gone like a mouse to hide away in its hole. But he could never admit the pain. He h…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
17. 488 Rules for Life
By: Kitty Flanagan
3.87
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Provi… read more
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- australia
18. Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella
By: Jack Charles
4.42
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life: actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict, a… read more
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- australia
19. To My Country
By: Ben Lawson
4.50
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Ben Lawson was preparing for another Christmas away from home when the Black Summer bushfires began… read more
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- poetry
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20. A Language of Limbs
By: Dylin Hardcastle
4.56
Format: 277 pages, ebook
The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more
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21. Husband Hunting with Confidance
By: Fidan Shevket
3.71
Format: 704 pages, Kindle Edition
Set the time for two years! Fidan needs to find a husband ... Can she do it?Fidan is a successful w… read more
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