A Witness of Fact: the peculiar case of chief forensic pathologist Colin Manock
By: Drew Rooke
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The compelling story of South Australia’s disgraced former chief forensic pathologist and the legal…
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1. Hide and Seek (Helen Grace, #6)
By: M.J. Arlidge
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Prison is no place for a detective Helen Grace was one of the country's best police investigators.… read more
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- crime
2. Law & Disorder: The Legendary FBI Profiler's Relentless Pursuit of Justice
By: None , Mark Olshaker
4.48
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
From law enforcement legend John Douglas, the FBI's pioneer of criminal profiling and the model for… read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
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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4. All the Lovers in the Night
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city wher… read more
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"It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself."-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright."-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
5. 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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"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
6. Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)
By: Chris Hammer
4.07
Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition
An unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands. In the desolate outback tow… read more
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- crime
7. 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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"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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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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- crime
11. A Little Luck
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.29
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
After twenty years, a woman returns to the suburban Argentina she had fled to escape a dreadful acc… read more
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"Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo."-Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck
12. Love & Virtue
By: Diana Reid
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of young Australian uni students in a contemporar… read more
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"Its feminism operated on the level of ‘Women in Medicine’ and ‘Women in Finance’ discussion panels, always conducted in a tone of revolutionary awe, as if any combination of women and profession were…"-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue
"I just don't want to mediate my whole identity through social media.' Eve resumed the vigorous hair brushing. 'I think photos should be a stolen moment in time. Not this thing on your phone: this way…"-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue
13. 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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- crime
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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- nonfiction
"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. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
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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- nonfiction
"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. Clarke
By: Holly Throsby
3.88
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Goodwood and Cedar Valley. 'Clarke is illu… read more
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- crime
"He was so stocky. He was like a wheelie bin."-Holly Throsby, Clarke
"Leelee?’ ‘Yes, Joe?’ ‘Would you still love me if I was a donkey?’ Leonie said, ‘Sweetheart, I’d love you no matter what you were. If you turned into a donkey, I’d just find us a house with a big barn…"-Holly Throsby, Clarke
18. Grimmish
By: Michael Winkler
3.86
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
Pain was Joe Grim's self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being. In 1908-09 the Italian-Am… read more
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19. CSI Told You Lies
By: Meshel Laurie
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meshel Laurie, host of the incredibly successful Australian True Crime podcast speaks to the forens… read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
20. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
21. 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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22. Nothing But The Truth
By: The Secret Barrister
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more
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- law
- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
23. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
By: Maddie Mortimer
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and d… read more
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"the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"For we inherit the haunts of our mothers; we are left with the guests they let in."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"Sometimes it takes a lifetime to receive the world in a language different to your own; to let the shape and taste and sense of a thing eclipse its own translation."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
24. The Widow of Walcha
By: Emma Partridge
4.23
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The Widow of Walcha is a shocking true story about death, love and lies in the small NSW town of Wa… read more
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- nonfiction
- true crime
25. Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4)
By: Sarah Bailey
3.91
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
DS Gemma Woodstock returns to Smithson in a mysterious new thriller from the bestselling author of … read more
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- crime
26. Daughters of Eve
By: Nina D. Campbell
4.00
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
When a high-profile murder lands literally at her feet, Detective Emilia Hart sees a chance to expa… read more
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27. Our King: Charles III: The Man and the Monarch Revealed
By: Robert Jobson
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF KING CHARLES III, BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROBERT JOBSON, PUB… read more
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- nonfiction
28. The Greater Good (John Bailey #1)
By: Tim Ayliffe
4.04
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
SET TO BE ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN. Like Michael Connelly’s Bosch, John Bailey will risk everything t… read more
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- crime
29. Rattled
By: Ellis Gunn
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A nail-biting, unputdownable memoir that brings a confronting new perspective on the safety of wome… read more
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- true crime
30. A Witness of Fact: the peculiar case of chief forensic pathologist Colin Manock
By: Drew Rooke
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The compelling story of South Australia’s disgraced former chief forensic pathologist and the legal… read more
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- medicine
- law
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- crime
31. Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne's Most Notorious Woman
By: Barbara Minchinton
3.63
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
A must-read biography of an enigmatic personality who helped shape early MelbourneMadame Brussels, … read more
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