The Shut Ins
By: Katherine Brabon
3.58
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Mai and Hikaru went to school together in the city of Nagoya, until Hikaru disappeared when they we…
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1. The Strays
By: Emily Bitto
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
On her first day at a new school, Lily meets Eva, one of the daughters of the infamous avant-garde … read more
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2. All the Birds, Singing
By: Evie Wyld
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful ne… read more
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3. 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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4. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more
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5. 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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6. 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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- fiction
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7. 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
8. 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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9. 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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- adult
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- contemporary
"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
10. The Registrar
By: Neela Janakiramanan
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Sometimes in hospital people die - but not all of them should. A moving, addictive debut novel for … read more
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11. Everyone and Everything
By: Nadine J. Cohen
4.29
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more
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12. The Work
By: Bri Lee
3.43
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more
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13. The Coast
By: Eleanor Limprecht
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Alice is only nine years old in 1910 when she is sent to the feared Coast Hospital lazaret at Littl… read more
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14. Search History
By: Amy Taylor
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A woman's obsession with her new boyfriend's dead ex-girlfriend fuels this sharp and honest debut n… read more
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15. The Bass Rock
By: Evie Wyld
3.70
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its … read more
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"Joseph recalls his mother who was “mad and screaming like birds were sewn under her skin"-Evie Wyld, The Bass Rock
16. Ghost Cities
By: Siang Lu
3.91
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
Ghost Cities – inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China – follows multiple narrative… read more
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17. Thunderhead
By: Miranda Darling
3.62
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman’s struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway beg… read more
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18. Wildflowers
By: Peggy Frew
3.29
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forg… read more
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- novels
- adult
"There were open paddocks winking with sugar cane, and distant silos and then a billboard that they all yelped at because it showed a huge picture of a foetus alongside a picture of a young woman with…"-Peggy Frew, Wildflowers
19. Sunbathing
By: Isobel Beech
4.05
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each… read more
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20. The Shut Ins
By: Katherine Brabon
3.58
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Mai and Hikaru went to school together in the city of Nagoya, until Hikaru disappeared when they we… read more
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- novels
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- japan
21. You Don't Have To Have A Dream: Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious
By: Tim Minchin
4.42
Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Life will sometimes seem long and tough. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And th… read more
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