13 must-read australia books like A Bloody Good Rant: My passions, memories and demons by Thomas Keneally

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A Bloody Good Rant: My passions, memories and demons

By: Thomas Keneally

3.70

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

Following a lifetime observing Australia and its people, Tom Keneally turns inwards to reflect on w…

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1. A Fortunate Life

By: Albert B. Facey , A.B. Facey

4.23

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

This is the extraordinary life of an ordinary man. It is the story of Albert Facey, who lived with … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
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2. The Choke

By: Sofie Laguna

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A mesmerising, harrowing and ultimately uplifting novel from the 2015 Miles Franklin winner. Abando… read more

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  • australia

3. The Girl from Munich

By: Tania Blanchard

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Germany, 1943. The choices she makes will change her life forever. Growing up in Hitler's Germany, … read more

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4. Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1)

By: David Hunt

3.14

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2014 Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Nonfiction Girt. No word… read more

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5. When God Was a Rabbit

By: Sarah Winman

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When God was a Rabbitis an incredibly exciting debut from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Sp… read more

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6. True History of the Kelly Gang

By: Peter Carey

3.87

Format: 334 pages,

"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dea… read more

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7. 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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  • australia
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8. 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

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9. The Magician

By: Colm Tóibín

4.02

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, whe… read more

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"...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat. [Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"The Nazis, he realized, were not like the poets of the Munich Revolution. They were street fighters who had taken power without losing their sway over the streets. They managed to be both government …"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"He [Thomas Mann] remembered this Beethoven quartet [his op. 132] as being sad, sometimes mournful. What was surprising now was that, while the undertone was melancholy, the way the instruments stoppe…"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

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10. A Keeper

By: Graham Norton

3.99

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

When Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, she’s focused only on saying good… read more

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"I've always found there are far fewer answers than there are questions."

-Graham Norton, A Keeper

"The dead don't vanish, they leave a negative of themselves stamped on the world."

-Graham Norton, A Keeper

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11. 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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  • 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

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12. Wake (PI Lane Holland #1)

By: Shelley Burr

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

'The tiny outback town of Nannine lies in the harsh red interior of Australia. Once a thriving cent… read more

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  • australia
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13. 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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  • australia
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14. Munich Wolf

By: Rory Clements

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Führer. In t… read more

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15. The Hummingbird Effect

By: Kate Mildenhall

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more

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  • australia
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16. The Rain Heron

By: Robbie Arnott

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slop… read more

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  • australia
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17. The Cryptic Clue (The Tea Ladies, #2)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Look who's back in hot water! The highly anticipated new novel in The Tea Ladies cosy crime series,… read more

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  • australia
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18. Sisters Under the Rising Sun

By: Heather Morris

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more

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19. In Plain Sight: A fascinating investigation into UFOs and alien encounters from an award-winning journalist, fully updated and revised new edition for 2023

By: Ross Coulthart

4.33

Format: 471 pages, Kindle Edition

An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right ther… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Foul Play (DCI Jack Hawksworth #5)

By: Fiona McIntosh

4.09

Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition

Superstar footballer Luca Bruni is being blackmailed for a night of lust he swears he didn’t partic… read more

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21. The Weekend

By: Charlotte Wood

3.38

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three women in their seventies reunite for one last, life-changing weekend in the beach house of t… read more

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  • australia
"No, it wasn't lovers but friends - these courageous, shining people - you pursued, romanced with dinners and gifts and weekends away."

-Charlotte Wood, The Weekend

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22. The Pearl Thief

By: Fiona McIntosh

4.23

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Severine Kassel is asked by the Louvre in 1963 to aid the British Museum with curating its antique … read more

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23. The Angel of Waterloo

By: Jackie French

4.26

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The powerful new novel from master storyteller Jackie French The soldiers she saved called her t… read more

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  • australia
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24. The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)

By: Alan Kohler

4.31

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

What caused Australia's housing crisis -- and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Au… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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25. The Lace Weaver

By: Lauren Chater

4.01

Format: 420 pages, ebook

A breathtaking debut about love and war, and the battle to save a precious legacy Each lace shawl … read more

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26. 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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"We exist before we are born and after we die."

-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

"... everything I want is on the other side of fear."

-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

"... 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)

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27. Fool Me Twice

By: Benjamin Stevenson

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two fiendishly twisty crime stories from the author of international bestsellers Everyone In My Fam… read more

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28. A Bloody Good Rant: My passions, memories and demons

By: Thomas Keneally

3.70

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

Following a lifetime observing Australia and its people, Tom Keneally turns inwards to reflect on w… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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29. The Ledge

By: Christian White

4.39

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

When human remains are discovered in the forests of regional Victoria, the police are baffled, the … read more

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30. High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink; Quarterly Essay 95

By: Don Watson

4.00

Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition

Is the United States disintegrating? Don Watson offers a report from America that catches the ma… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

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Transform Your Habits

A Fortunate Life

Albert B. Facey , A.B. Facey

4.23

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In Plain Sight: A fascinating investigation into UFOs and alien encounters from an award-winning journalist, fully updated and revised new edition for 2023

Ross Coulthart

4.33

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The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)

Alan Kohler

4.31

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3.70

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Safe Haven

Shankari Chandran

4.18

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Garry Disher

3.99

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Dervla McTiernan

4.11

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Fiona Lowe

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