Speaking Up
By: Gillian Triggs
3.99
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
Gillian Triggs invites you to speak up "As president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Trigg…
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1. Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family
By: Cameron Bloom , Bradley Trevor Greive
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Penguin Bloom is an extraordinary true story full of hope and courage, featuring Cameron Bloom's ex… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- australia
2. How to Be a Woman
By: Caitlin Moran
4.25
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't ex… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. The Wife Drought
By: Annabel Crabb
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
'I need a wife' It's a common joke among women juggling work and family. But it's not actually a jo… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- australia
4. Status Anxiety
By: Alain de Botton
3.90
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
“There's no writer alive like de Botton” ( Chicago Tribune ), and now this internationally heralded… read more
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- nonfiction
"Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
"Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
"Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
5. Dark Emu
By: Bruce Pascoe
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more
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6. 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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- audiobook
"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
7. 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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- australia
- audiobook
8. 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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- audiobook
"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
9. The Labyrinth
By: Amanda Lohrey
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge. Trapped in her … read more
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- australia
- audiobook
"Exhausted, I go to bed early again and for the first time in a long while sleep an unbroken sleep that lasts until dawn. When I wake my body is soft; it feels as if in my dreamless state I have known…"-Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth
10. 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
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder
By: Kerryn Mayne
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day,… read more
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- australia
- audiobook
12. 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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- audiobook
"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
13. Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
By: Julia Baird
3.78
Format: 320 pages, ebook
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘This book is beautiful … Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
"McCarthy insists if we delight in nature and find joy there, we will not so carelessly plunder, neglect and destroy it. He calls it 'defence through joy'."-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"Seek awe and nature daily... show kindness; practise grace; eschew vanity; be bold; embrace friends, family, faith and doubt, imperfection and mess; and live deliberately."-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"Findings revealed Type As focus on how proud they are and [how] impressed others are, but are only moderately to weakly involved in actively seeing positive memories for later recall, or in reminisci…"-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings…"-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
14. Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
By: Clementine Ford
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
'Everyone's afraid that their daughters might be hurt. No one seems to be scared that their sons mi… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
"Not all men!" isn't just a mating call for the lazy and aggrieved, it's also a diversionary tactic used to shift attention away from the substantial issues of discrimination and oppression that impac…"-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
"Ah yes, the meritocracy. Isn't it amazing how so many of the 'best people for the job' always happen to be white, cis-het, middle-class men? It couldn't be that structural inequality and hierarchal p…"-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
"What I'm suggesting is that your impulse to assign meaning to something as arbitrary and functional as genitalia is born out of a cultural imperative to affix labels where none are necessary, and tha…"-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
"It doesn't matter how politically progressive your household is when it comes to aspirations outside the home and the limitless capabilites of women; if it's made clear within those four walls that i…"-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
15. What Happened to Nina?
By: Dervla McTiernan
4.11
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more
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- audiobook
16. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
By: Grace Tame
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
17. The Scholar (Cormac Reilly, #2)
By: Dervla McTiernan
4.05
Format: 377 pages, Paperback
When DS Cormac Reilly’s girlfriend Emma stumbles across the victim of a hit and run early one morni… read more
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- audiobook
18. Lioness
By: Emily Perkins
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more
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- audiobook
19. I Don't Need Therapy: and other lies I've told myself
By: Toni Lodge
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A hilarious memoir of home truths and whatever the opposite of 'that girl energy' is, from one half… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
20. Love Objects
By: Emily Maguire
3.76
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A stunning, simply told story of great compassion and insight, from the author of the Stella Prize-… read more
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- australia
- audiobook
21. The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison
By: Meredith Jaffe
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Can a wedding dress save a bunch of hardened crims? The Full Monty meets Orange is the New Black in… read more
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- audiobook
22. 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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- australia
- audiobook
"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
23. 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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- memoir
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
24. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
By: Behrouz Boochani
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Winner of The Victorian Prize for Literature, and the Prize for Non-Fiction, Victorian Premier's Li… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
"At times the cooks express a small amount of generosity and pour half a glass of milk for every prisoner."-Behrouz Boochani, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
25. 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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- australia
- audiobook
"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
26. 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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- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
27. Your Own Kind of Girl
By: Clare Bowditch
4.12
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
"This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and w… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
"Songs were homes for things that needed containing."-Clare Bowditch, Your Own Kind of Girl
"When I am with him, my sensitivity does not feel like a liability - it just feels like the truth, sometimes inconvenient, but a truth that I'm allowed to speak without worrying that it will break us."-Clare Bowditch, Your Own Kind of Girl
28. Australia Day
By: Stan Grant
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can rea… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
"Storytellers work with and against history. In history we find difference and conflict, yet the storyteller must find us in each other."-Stan Grant, Australia Day
29. Heartsick
By: Jessie Stephens
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
'Heartbreak does not seem to be a brand of grief we respect. And so we are left in the middle of th… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
30. Truganini
By: Cassandra Pybus
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The haunting story of the extraordinary Aboriginal woman behind the myth of 'the last Tasmanian Abo… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- australia
31. Speaking Up
By: Gillian Triggs
3.99
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
Gillian Triggs invites you to speak up "As president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Trigg… read more
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- biography
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- feminism
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- nonfiction
- australia
- leadership
