Nellie, the life and loves of Dame Nellie Melba
By: Robert Wainwright
3.84
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
AUSTRALIA'S FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR When most Australians think of Nellie Melba they pictu…
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1. Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
By: Craig Brown , None
3.34
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humili… read more
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2. 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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3. The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
By: Alison Goodman
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as a… read more
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"What makes you think he is trustworthy?’ ‘ He has a sense of humor,’ I said, and then added the final proof. ‘And he found my observations funny too."-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
"If you need me, just yell,' he said. 'Ladies do not yell,' I replied over my shoulder. 'But renegades do.' I caught a glimpse of myself in one of the mirrors as I passed; my color was high and I had …"-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
"My brother pursed his lips. 'Love? Really, Augusta, this is an important decision. If you think love is essential to a good match it is no wonder you are still unmarried.' 'Duffy, that is unkind,' Ju…"-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
"He took the offering and positioned it behind his head with a baleful look. 'If I recall, it is your fault I have lost a great deal of blood,' Undeniable, but then again, I had not started the encoun…"-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
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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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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"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. 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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7. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here
By: Heather Rose
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from t… read more
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8. Prima Facie
By: Suzie Miller
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more
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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie
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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"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. 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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"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
11. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
By: Julia Baird
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more
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- nonfiction
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"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
12. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)
By: Chris Hammer
4.23
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more
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13. The Mother
By: Jane Caro
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Just like the garden, the fuse box, the bills, bin night and blown light bulbs, this was just somet… read more
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"There's no need to charm your mother, she thought. Which is both a compliment and a burden."-Jane Caro, The Mother
"The pall bearers were holding Pete's coffin, waiting to walk down the aisle—just like bridesmaids. The music began and they started to move, trying to keep pace with David Bowie's 'Changes'."-Jane Caro, The Mother
14. 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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15. The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)
By: Amanda Hampson
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Trade Paperback
They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter w… read more
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16. Dark Tides (The Fairmile, #2)
By: Philippa Gregory
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the R… read more
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17. Tidelands (The Fairmile, #1)
By: Philippa Gregory
3.83
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and Engl… read more
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18. Sister Viv
By: Grantlee Kieza
4.65
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to s… read more
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19. Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance
By: Kate Solly
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meredith established the Copeton Crochet Collective (no knitters please) because it would be like h… read more
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"The problem was with the constant deliciousness of a new idea. It was always more exciting to start a new project than to plod away with one whose appeal had gone stale."-Kate Solly, Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance
20. The Good Wife of Bath
By: Karen Brooks
4.20
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
In the middle ages, a famous poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary cla… read more
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"I've always said, never trust a person without brows, a maxim that has proven true on more than one occasion."-Karen Brooks, The Good Wife of Bath
21. We All Lived in Bondi Then
By: Georgia Blain
4.16
Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collecti… read more
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22. The Sun Rose in Paris (Portraits in Blue #1)
By: Penny Fields-Schneider
4.13
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
When a chance foray into the midst of the 1930s Parisian art world ignites passions Jack did not kn… read more
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23. Fled
By: Meg Keneally
4.13
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
The outlaw who became a folk hero for her courage and her daring escape by “An epic story of love… read more
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24. Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter
By: Lizzie Pook
3.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For readers of The Light Between Oceans and The Island of Sea Women, a feminist adventure story set… read more
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25. 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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26. Obsession: A journalist and victim-survivor’s investigation into stalking
By: Nicole Madigan
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A gripping blend of memoir, investigation and expert analysis, Obsession takes a deep dive into the… read more
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27. The Last Station
By: Nicole Alexander
3.54
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In nineteenth-century New South Wales, the name Dalhunty stood for prosperity and prestige. The fam… read more
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28. The Honeyeater
By: Jessie Tu
3.59
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner… read more
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29. Nellie, the life and loves of Dame Nellie Melba
By: Robert Wainwright
3.84
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
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30. The Story Thief
By: Kyra Geddes
4.04
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
Fact and fiction meld into one in this stirring family saga set against shifting landscapes and piv… read more
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31. Bluebird
By: Malcolm Knox
3.45
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
'If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones.' The Guardian A stunning new novel about long… read more
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