Nomad Girl: My life on the gibber plains and beyond
By: Kanakiya Myra Ah Chee
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Kanakiya Myra Ah Chee was born at Oodnadatta in remote South Australia in 1932. When her mother tra…
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2. Auntie Rita
By: Jackie Huggins , None
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Exploring the memories of the author's mother Rita and their conversations, this book explores thei… read more
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3. 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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4. Lola in the Mirror
By: Trent Dalton
4.41
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more
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5. 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
6. Too Much Lip
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.06
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Wise-cracking Ke… read more
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7. 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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"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
8. 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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"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
9. 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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"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
10. 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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11. La felicità del lupo
By: Paolo Cognetti
3.68
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Arrivato alla fine di una lunga relazione, Fausto cerca rifugio tra i sentieri dove camminava da ba… read more
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12. Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life
By: Miriam Margolyes
4.08
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farc… read more
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13. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)
By: Chris Hammer
4.23
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more
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14. The Happiest Man on Earth
By: Eddie Jaku
4.62
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered hi… read more
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"It is never too late to be kind, polite, and a loving human being."-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth
"You see, your food is not enough. There is no medicine for your morals. If your morals are gone, you go."-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth
"Supranti, vien maisto nepakanka. Žlugusiai moralei vaistų nėra. Kai nebelieka moralės, nebelieka ir tavęs."-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth
"May you always have love to share, may you always have health to spare and may you always have friends that care"-Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth
15. Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.05
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bests… read more
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"Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when the pattern becomes briefly visible."-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
"I would kill myself tomorrow and I would except for the one brightness in my life, the one dawn that gives me hope."-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
"The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right. [Atticus Pūnd]"-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
16. 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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"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
17. Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)
By: Margaret Hickey
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spe… read more
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18. The Survivors
By: Jane Harper
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets... Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day… read more
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19. The Unbelieved
By: Vikki Petraitis
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
'So you believed the alleged rapists over the alleged victim?' Jane's voice took on an indignant pi… read more
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20. 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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21. 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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22. Crows Nest
By: Nikki Mottram
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Fleeing problems in her own marriage, child protection worker Dana Gibson leaves Sydney for a job i… read more
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23. Betty
By: Tiffany McDaniel
4.41
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl di… read more
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"The earth is warm enough."-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty
"A girl comes of age against the knife. She must learn to bear its blade. To be cut. To bleed."-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty
"Your life is what makes you rich,' they insisted. 'The people you love and the people who love you back."-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty
"She was born to a woman as telling as a dream and to a man who was a Cherokee, a moonshiner, and a mythmaker."-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty
24. Love Marriage
By: Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In present-day London, Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-bo… read more
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25. 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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26. Red Dirt Road (Detective Dana Russo, #3)
By: S.R. White
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One outback town. Two puzzling murders. Fifty suspects. In Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pu… read more
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27. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
4.36
Format: 256 pages, ebook
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and … read more
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- nonfiction
- indigenous
"The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity."-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
"Guilt is like any other energy: you can't accumulate it or keep it because it makes you sick and disrupts the system you live in - you have to let it go. Face the truth, make amends and let it go."-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
"Engaging with them (malignant narcissists) alone is futile - never wrestle a pig, as the old saying goes; you both end up covered in shit, and the pig likes it. The fundamental rules of human interac…"-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
"Understanding your own culture and the ways it interacts with others, particularly the power dynamics of it, is far more appreciated. My reading of Germane Greer when I was a young lad was a lot more…"-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
28. The Curlew's Eye
By: Karen Manton
3.49
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A richly atmospheric Gothic mystery set around a ruined homestead in the NT's Top End. 'It struc… read more
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29. The Queen Is Dead
By: Stan Grant
4.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to M… read more
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- indigenous
30. Nomad Girl: My life on the gibber plains and beyond
By: Kanakiya Myra Ah Chee
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Kanakiya Myra Ah Chee was born at Oodnadatta in remote South Australia in 1932. When her mother tra… read more
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- memoir
- indigenous
31. Collisions: Fictions Of The Future
By: Leah Jing McIntosh
4.08
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
This collection of short stories showcases some of the best work that Australian literature has to … read more
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