The First Casualty: A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Global War on Journalism
By: Peter Greste
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Extremely timely, enlightening and passionate, The First Casualty is foreign correspondent Peter Gr…
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1. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
By: Sarah Krasnostein
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more
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2. Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
By: Stephen Walker
3.00
Format: 1118 pages, Paperback
A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world forever On a qui… read more
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3. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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"People were crazy with pain and secrets."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
4. 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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5. The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.05
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthe… read more
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6. Episode Thirteen
By: Craig DiLouie
3.53
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more
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7. The Hollow Places
By: T. Kingfisher
3.80
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in thi… read more
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"If there's a way into hell, someone will always find it."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
"No one has zombie raccoons roaming around their museum. That would just be silly."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
"We had passed close in space, but separated by far too much time to make a difference."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
"You're from Florida. There's got to be more holes to hell in Florida than any other state."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
8. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
9. Honeybee
By: Craig Silvey
4.40
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more
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"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"-Craig Silvey, Honeybee
"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."-Craig Silvey, Honeybee
"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"-Craig Silvey, Honeybee
10. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
By: Caroline Criado Pérez
4.35
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and… read more
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"When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
"It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
"You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
"There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
11. Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism
By: Leigh Sales
3.88
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream … read more
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12. Wakenhyrst
By: Michelle Paver
3.87
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wa… read more
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13. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
By: Emma Carey
4.38
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
From a terrible accident that left her paraplegic, Emma Carey has become an inspiration for hundred… read more
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14. The Space Between the Stars
By: Indira Naidoo
4.06
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
"A tender, touching and at times bloody funny meditation on life. And death. And how to live." - D… read more
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15. 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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16. Any Ordinary Day
By: Leigh Sales
4.13
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after… read more
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"The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries."-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
"I felt this lightness settling on me, which was new. It's not closure, because I will live with Matt's death and the pain of it every day and the grief will stay with me. I just felt that I was carry…"-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
"Stuart Diver has had years of extensive professional counselling to retrain his brain so that he can replace the thought of how helpless he was when Sally dies with the truth that he tried everything…"-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
17. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage
By: Clementine Ford
4.13
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more
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18. Rogue Forces: An Explosive Insiders' Account of Australian SAS War Crimes in Afghanistan
By: Mark Willacy
4.38
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction. Shortlisted for NSW Premier's L… read more
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"[Excerpt from Brereton Report] We embarked on this Inquiry with the hope that we would be able to report that the rumours of war crimes were without substance. None of us desired the outcome to which…"-Mark Willacy, Rogue Forces: An Explosive Insiders' Account of Australian SAS War Crimes in Afghanistan
19. The Land Before Avocado
By: Richard Glover
3.91
Format: 288 pages, ebook
The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Austral… read more
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20. Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra - The Irresistible Story of an Irrepressible Woman
By: Anne Aly
4.18
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and the firs… read more
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21. The First Casualty: A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Global War on Journalism
By: Peter Greste
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Extremely timely, enlightening and passionate, The First Casualty is foreign correspondent Peter Gr… read more
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- audiobook
