The Consul: An insider account from Australia's diplomatic frontline
By: Ian Kemish
4.12
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
An absorbing insider’s account of leadership and service within Australia’s Consular service, throu…
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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. Joe Cinque's Consolation, A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law
By: Helen Garner
3.81
Format: 320 pages,
A TRUE STORY OF DEATH, GRIEF AND THE LAW In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a … read more
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3. Cloudstreet
By: Tim Winton
3.93
Format: 512 pages,
Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australian… read more
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4. Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
By: Cody Keenan
4.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan’s n… read more
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5. 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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6. 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
7. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
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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9. 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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10. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise
By: Niki Savva
4.21
Format: 320 pages, ebook
‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires ‘It’s… read more
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11. The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison
By: Kylie Moore-Gilbert
4.34
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
‘The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.’ The extraordinary true story of Kyli… read more
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12. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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13. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more
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14. Did I Ever Tell You This?
By: Sam Neill
4.06
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more
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15. Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
By: James R. Clapper
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The former Director of National Intelligence speaks out When he stepped down in January 2017 as … read more
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16. Rage
By: Bob Woodward
4.17
Format: 475 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency from Bob … read more
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"Trump is the wrong man for the job."-Bob Woodward, Rage
"Cohn offered one more argument against steel tariffs. "We're not a steel-producing nation. We're a good-producing nation. If we increase the price of steel, out goods become overprices and we can't c…"-Bob Woodward, Rage
"Many foreign policy leaders had said that Trump gave Kim (Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea) too much by agreeing to meet without formal, written conditions. "So, have you given Kim too much power…"-Bob Woodward, Rage
"Kushner said that Scott Adam's approach could be applied to Trump's recent February 4 State of the Union speech when he had claimed, "Our economy is the best it has ever been." The economy was indeed…"-Bob Woodward, Rage
17. Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World Since 1942
By: Allan Gyngell
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The fear of abandonment lies deep in the history of European settlement in Australia. In this na… read more
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18. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech
By: Julia Gillard
4.28
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more
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19. Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay, #93)
By: Lech Blaine
4.17
Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogatio… read more
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20. 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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21. The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
By: Ben Rhodes
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Oba… read more
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"For a moment, we all just stared out the window at the crowds. “I’m reading a good book now,"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"I watched the speech backstage on the teleprompter. Obama paused for a moment, and I saw the text freeze. “I’m going off script here for a second,"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"He said we had to find a way to reach Muslims who “didn’t think it was such a great thing to have a McDonald’s down the street and American pop culture on their television."-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"And then Obama said what he believed: that people should be equal under the law; that citizens should be free to criticize their government and protest peacefully; that voters should have the freedom…"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
22. 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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23. 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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24. Crossing the Line: The Explosive Inside Story Behind the Headlines
By: Nick McKenzie
4.58
Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition
War is brutal—but some lines should never be crossed. In mid-2017 whispers of executions and cover-… read more
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25. The Frenchman (The Frenchman #1)
By: Jack Beaumont
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A gripping debut thriller based on the real-life experiences of a former French intelligence operat… read more
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26. Life and Death Decisions
By: Lachlan McIver
4.19
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
I found Dad dead on the side of a dirt road. I was sixteen; he was forty-nine. After Lachlan Mc… read more
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27. Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)
By: Michael Robotham
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN 9781668030998 can be found here The mystery of Evie C… read more
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"... as though men were the solution to every problem."-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)
"Introspection leads to self-analysis, which leads to self-hatred."-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)
28. Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia
By: Samantha Faulkner
4.14
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
A journey through Torres Strait Islander culture and identity, past and present "My people are e… read more
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29. The Consul: An insider account from Australia's diplomatic frontline
By: Ian Kemish
4.12
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
An absorbing insider’s account of leadership and service within Australia’s Consular service, throu… read more
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30. Dead in the Water: The AUKUS Delusion (Australian Foreign Affairs, #20)
By: Jonathan Pearlman
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Canberra's strategic illusions are the ultimate cause of our AUKUS debacle, but politics is involv… read more
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