The Drover’s Wives
By: Ryan O'Neill
4.01
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Henry Lawson’s short story ‘The Drover’s Wife’ is an Australian classic that has sparked interpreta…
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1. High-Rise
By: J.G. Ballard
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more
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- fiction
"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
2. About a Boy
By: Nick Hornby , Udo Wachtveitl
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Mass Market Paperback
'How cool was Will Freeman?' Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child… read more
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- humor
- fiction
3. Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History
By: Richard J. Evans
5.00
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy,… read more
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4. Hello From the Gillespies
By: Monica McInerney
3.71
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
For the past thirty-three years, Angela Gillespie has sent to friends and family around the world a… read more
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- fiction
- australia
5. Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings
By: Craig Brown
3.66
Format: 256 pages,
From "one of the funniest writers in Britain--wise, clever, hilarious, and a national treasure" (He… read more
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6. Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.00
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Ursula K. Le Guin generously shares the accumulated wisdom of a lifetime's work. read more
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7. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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"People were crazy with pain and secrets."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
8. Case Study
By: Graeme Macrae Burnet
3.60
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting … read more
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- fiction
"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
9. 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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- fiction
"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
10. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- fiction
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
11. Ghost Wall
By: Sarah Moss
3.73
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie an… read more
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- fiction
"It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain"-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Lights blind you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Haven't you been listening, people don't bother to hurt what they don't love. To sacrifice it."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"I knew better than to challenge him; even the word 'Negro' was already some concession to my ideas because he preferred to use a more offensive term and wait, chin raised, for a reaction."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
12. 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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13. 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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- fiction
- australia
"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
14. 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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- fiction
- australia
"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
15. Geneva
By: Richard Armitage
3.64
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has started to show the same tell-tale signs of the Alz… read more
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- fiction
16. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
17. I Hope This Doesn't Find You
By: Ann Liang
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Snarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lar… read more
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"No,"-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You
"I think you're obsessed with me, Sadie Wen."-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You
"She clucks her tongue at me. “Where’s your confidence disappeared to?"-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You
"I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost."-Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You
18. Boy Swallows Universe
By: Trent Dalton
4.34
Format: 474 pages, Paperback
A novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class subu… read more
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- fiction
- australia
"Don't fuckin' swear."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"Stay sweet, Eli Bell."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"Most things people say don't need to be said."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"To burn this house down or set the world on fire. Up to you, Eli."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
19. The Woman in the Purple Skirt
By: Natsuko Imamura
3.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmar… read more
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- fiction
20. Love Stories
By: Trent Dalton
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more
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- australia
"True love is exposing all the pieces."-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
"Love is knowing when you've come home."-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
21. 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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- fiction
"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
22. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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- fiction
23. Murder Town
By: Shelley Burr
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Gemma Guillory knows her once-charming town is now remembered for one reason, and one reason only. … read more
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- fiction
- australia
24. Flyaway
By: Kathleen Jennings
3.56
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
In a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one of her vanished… read more
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- fiction
- australia
"Strange, what chooses to flourish here. Which plants. Which stories."-Kathleen Jennings, Flyaway
25. When Things Are Alive They Hum
By: Hannah Bent
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781761150081. Marlowe and Harper share a bond de… read more
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- australia
26. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
By: Behrouz Boochani
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Winner of The Victorian Prize for Literature, and the Prize for Non-Fiction, Victorian Premier's Li… read more
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- australia
"At times the cooks express a small amount of generosity and pour half a glass of milk for every prisoner."-Behrouz Boochani, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
27. Stone Town (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #2)
By: Margaret Hickey
4.07
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
Stone Town is captivating new rural crime drama from the author of the bestselling Cutters End. … read more
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- fiction
- australia
28. With My Little Eye
By: Sandra Hogan
3.58
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The very funny true story of three children recruited by their parents to work for ASIO in the 1950… read more
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- australia
29. The Drover’s Wives
By: Ryan O'Neill
4.01
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Henry Lawson’s short story ‘The Drover’s Wife’ is an Australian classic that has sparked interpreta… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- humor
- australia
30. The Drover's Wife
By: Henry Lawson
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
A famous Australian short story read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- australia
"here is nothing to see, however, and not a soul to meet. You might walk for twenty miles along this track without being able to fix a point in your mind, unless you are a bushman. This is because of …"-Henry Lawson, The Drover's Wife
31. The Drover's Wife
By: Frank Moorhouse
3.68
Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition
Since Henry Lawson wrote his story 'The Drover's Wife' in 1892, Australian writers, painters, perfo… read more
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- short stories
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