Axiomatic
By: Maria Tumarkin
4.10
Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition
How to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past—ours, our family’s, our culture’s—wi…
Want to Read $ 11.39"Few things are worse than being disbelieved when the darkest stuff that ever happened to you creeps out to the open. New shame on top of the old shame, rage too, so urgent it wants to suck the bone marrow out of you."-Maria Tumarkin, Axiomatic
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1. This House of Grief
By: Helen Garner
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
On the evening of 4 September 2005, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- australia
2. Between a Wolf and a Dog
By: Georgia Blain
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Ester is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogues the anxieties of the middle cl… read more
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- australia
- contemporary
3. Hot Milk
By: Deborah Levy
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Hardcover
Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more
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- contemporary
4. 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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- australia
- contemporary
5. 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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- australia
- contemporary
"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
6. 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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- australia
- contemporary
"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
7. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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8. Dropbear
By: Evelyn Araluen
4.13
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winnin… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- australia
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- 21st century
9. The Yield
By: Tara June Winch
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spen… read more
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- australia
- contemporary
"My mummy, she said, 'The Aborigine is a pity, my son.' She said everyone was always insulted by her no matter what she did, so she let herself do the most insulting thing she could think of - take th…"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"The story goes that the church brought time to us, and the church, if you let it, will take it away. I’m writing about the other time, though, deep time. This is a big, big story. The big stuff goes …"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"I was born on Ngurambang — can you hear it? — Ngu-ram-bang. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. Every person around should learn the word for …"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"The evidence of their civilisation, after so many years of farming, was difficult to find on the surface of the land. But they said it was embedded in the language of Albert’s dictionary, that with t…"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
10. My Mother Laughs
By: Chantal Akerman
4.25
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for … read more
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- memoir
11. Another Day in the Colony
By: Chelsea Watego
4.43
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing an… read more
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- australia
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
12. 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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- contemporary
- australia
- mental health
13. 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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- contemporary
14. Eyes Guts Throat Bones
By: Moïra Fowley-Doyle
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What will the end of the world look like? Will it be an old man slowly turned to gold, flowers rain… read more
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- short stories
15. West Girls
By: Laura Elizabeth Woollett
3.36
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
‘I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I'd choose it ag… read more
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16. 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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17. Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
By: Ellena Savage
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
‘I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only o… read more
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- essays
- contemporary
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"Sadness is not always a terrible illness. Sadness is, perhaps, the most honest response to living."-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
"I need to manage the unmanageable, to contain, correct and formalise the world, because I need to survive it."-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
"Is 'self-care' a neoliberal scam promoting individualistic coping strategies in the absence of broader social obligations or the possibility of radical structural change? (Well, yes, I say to myself …"-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
"If there is always a question, and I believe there is, in this case it is this: where is home and what is freedom. The promise we accept is that freedom is the freedom to make ourselves anew, but in …"-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
18. Blakwork
By: Alison Whittaker
4.30
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
A stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice… read more
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19. Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century
By: Jenny Minton Quigley
3.97
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on the perennially controversial Lolita, … read more
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- essays
20. Axiomatic
By: Maria Tumarkin
4.10
Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition
How to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past—ours, our family’s, our culture’s—wi… read more
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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- 21st century
- australia
"Few things are worse than being disbelieved when the darkest stuff that ever happened to you creeps out to the open. New shame on top of the old shame, rage too, so urgent it wants to suck the bone m…"-Maria Tumarkin, Axiomatic
21. A Language of Limbs
By: Dylin Hardcastle
4.56
Format: 277 pages, ebook
The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more
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