A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s Only All-Girl Garage
By: Loretta Smith
4.11
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls meets Australia's Sweetheart meets Amelia Earhart. It's …
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1. 16th Seduction (Women's Murder Club, #16)
By: James Patterson , Maxine Paetro
4.11
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen months ago, Detective Lindsay Boxer's life was perfect--she had a beautiful child and a dot… read more
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2. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
By: Dai Sijie , Ina Rilke
3.84
Format: 208 pages,
In this enchanting tale about the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening, two haples… read more
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- historical
3. 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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- historical
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4. 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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- book club
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5. 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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- historical
"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
6. The Murder Rule
By: Dervla McTiernan
3.67
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter s… read more
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"Because it has to be done. Because if you see something like this, and you can fix it, then it’s your mess to clean up."-Dervla McTiernan, The Murder Rule
7. 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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- historical
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"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
8. 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
- history
- historical
- feminism
- nonfiction
- book club
9. 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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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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"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. 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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- historical
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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
12. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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13. Women & Children
By: Tony Birch
4.22
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more
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- historical
- book club
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14. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)
By: Chris Hammer
4.29
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more
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15. 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
16. One Hundred Days
By: Alice Pung
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
One day, a boy in a nice silver car gives sixteen-year-old Karuna a ride. So Karuna returns the fav… read more
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"They couldn't see that the bigger I got, the smaller I became, and they didn't understand that once the baby came, I would be gone."-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days
"I'm keeping this record to let you know that it wasn't always that way. That you were once mine, and when I looked in your dark eyes, you made me very happy."-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days
17. Safe Haven
By: Shankari Chandran
4.18
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more
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18. The Harbor House (Thistle Island, #1)
By: Mia Kent
4.16
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
A message in a bottle. A small-town mystery. And a summer where life takes an unexpected turn. R… read more
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19. The Promise
By: Damon Galgut
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more
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- historical
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"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
20. After Story
By: Larissa Behrendt
4.07
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered… read more
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- australia
21. 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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22. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)
By: Jane Harper
4.05
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more
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23. Dust Child
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more
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"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
24. Pheasants Nest
By: Louise Milligan
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more
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25. The Spotted Dog (Corinna Chapman, #7)
By: Kerry Greenwood
3.79
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Intrepid baker and erstwhile investigator Corinna Chapman returns triumphantly in her first advent… read more
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26. Rodham
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
3.83
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel that imagines a d… read more
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- feminism
"There are two kinds of marriages: the ones where you're privy to how messy they are, and the ones where you're not."-Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham
"I've learned over many decades that people are likeliest to declare their respect when their behavior suggests the opposite."-Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham
27. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need
By: Thomas Mayo
4.52
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who hav… read more
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- history
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28. Suitcase of Dreams
By: Tania Blanchard
3.70
Format: 400 pages, ebook
From the bestselling author of The Girl from Munich, a sweeping, dramatic tale of love and identity… read more
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29. Ciao Bella!: Six Take Italy
By: Kate Langbroek
4.28
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Kate Langbroek’s deliciously funny and inspiring memoir about moving to Italy with her family to se… read more
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30. Back, After the Break
By: Osher Günsberg
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Osher Gunsberg, one of Australia's most loved celebrities, opens up in a powerful, dark, funny and … read more
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- biography
31. A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s Only All-Girl Garage
By: Loretta Smith
4.11
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls meets Australia's Sweetheart meets Amelia Earhart. It's … read more
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- history
- historical
- feminism
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- australia
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