The Town
By: Shaun Prescott
3.44
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"A powerfully doomy debut" (The Guardian), Shaun Prescott's The Town is a novel of a rural Australi…
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1. The Loney
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
"If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere be… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
2. The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Henry James , Rudyard Kipling , Various , Ambrose Bierce , Charles Dickens , Edith Wharton , Lafcadio Hearn , Elizabeth Gaskell , M.R. James , Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Mrs. Oliphant , W.W. Jacobs , Michael Newton , Mary Hunter Austin , Mary Elizabeth Braddon , Fitz-James O'Brien , Amelia B. Edwards
3.24
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
'The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible... … read more
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- fiction
3. Asymmetry: A Novel
By: None
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of l… read more
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4. An Isolated Incident
By: Emily Maguire
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community … read more
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5. 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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- magical realism
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
6. Last Night in Nuuk
By: Niviaq Korneliussen
3.59
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
A witty and fearless debut from a stunning new voice, Last Night in Nuuk is a work of daring invent… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
7. 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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- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
8. 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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- literature
- australia
- fiction
- 21st century
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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
9. 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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- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"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
10. All Down Darkness Wide
By: Seán Hewitt
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more
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"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
11. The Yield
By: Tara June Winch
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spen… read more
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- literature
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"My mummy, she said, 'The Aborigine is a pity, my son.' She said everyone was always insulted by her no matter what she did, so she let herself do the most insulting thing she could think of - take th…"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"The story goes that the church brought time to us, and the church, if you let it, will take it away. I’m writing about the other time, though, deep time. This is a big, big story. The big stuff goes …"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"I was born on Ngurambang — can you hear it? — Ngu-ram-bang. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. Every person around should learn the word for …"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"The evidence of their civilisation, after so many years of farming, was difficult to find on the surface of the land. But they said it was embedded in the language of Albert’s dictionary, that with t…"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
12. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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- audiobook
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
13. The Jaguar
By: Sarah Holland-Batt
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
With electrifying boldness, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishi… read more
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- 21st century
- australia
14. Another Day in the Colony
By: Chelsea Watego
4.43
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing an… read more
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- australia
- audiobook
15. The Visitors
By: Jane Harrison
3.86
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stan… read more
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- australia
- fiction
- audiobook
16. The Water Cure
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"New dangers, though, coming to the surface like the bubbles of soap."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"Sometimes she was my enemy and sometimes she was just my mother, an enemy in a different way."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"Love as a protest within my body. Or perhaps it’s just that I am unused to touch, am out of practice. Bodies do not lie. This all acts as proof that he has touched me here, here, here."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"It used to bother me that we would leave little trace, but now I have never been more glad about anything. I will wake up in the empty mornings with the absence of you, and I will think, Glad, glad, …"-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
17. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
By: Richard Flanagan
3.71
Format: 240 pages, ebook
In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying—if her three chil… read more
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- magical realism
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- science fiction
- australia
- audiobook
18. De buitengewoon geslaagde opvoeding van Frida Wolf
By: Maria Kager
3.91
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
Frida’s excentrieke vader is niet geschikt voor de rol van vader en ook niet voor die van gevangeni… read more
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19. The Magpie Wing
By: Max Easton
3.58
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Helen, Walt and Duncan are looking for ways to entertain themselves in the sprawl of Sydney’s weste… read more
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- fiction
- australia
- 21st century
- novels
- audiobook
20. Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life
By: Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle
3.77
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
"From the discomfort of my own home I buy dresses, look up recipes, do online surveys." In Nosta… read more
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- australia
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
21. The Town
By: Shaun Prescott
3.44
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"A powerfully doomy debut" (The Guardian), Shaun Prescott's The Town is a novel of a rural Australi… read more
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- magical realism
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- australia
- novels
- adult
- science fiction
