13 must-read australia books like Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson

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Hold Your Fire

By: Chloe Wilson

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Dark and dangerous, brilliantly unsettling and chillingly funny, this extraordinary debut shows us …

If you liked the australia plot in Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. Animals

By: Emma Jane Unsworth

3.68

Format: 200 pages, ebook

Laura and Tyler are two young women who have been tearing up the city streets for ten years, leavin… read more

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2. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

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  • short stories
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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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  • fiction
  • australia
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4. 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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5. All That's Left Unsaid

By: Tracey Lien

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

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6. 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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  • fiction
  • australia
"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

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7. 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

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8. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

By: Grace Tame

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more

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"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

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9. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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10. The Glass House

By: Anne Buist

3.89

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to The Menzies. Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic hi… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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11. Love and Other Puzzles

By: Kimberley Allsopp

3.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Following the clues doesn't always lead you where you might expect ... A witty, warm-hearted an… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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12. Search History

By: Amy Taylor

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A woman's obsession with her new boyfriend's dead ex-girlfriend fuels this sharp and honest debut n… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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13. The Book of X

By: Sarah Rose Etter

4.04

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot… read more

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  • fiction
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14. The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

By: Chloe Hooper

4.05

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in V… read more

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  • australia
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15. Crushing

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Gettin… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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16. Shirley

By: Ronnie Scott

3.07

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

It’s been twenty years since her mother was photographed, blood-soaked, outside the family home. A … read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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17. Permafrost

By: S.J. Norman

3.88

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Visual and performance artist, and winner of the inaugural Kill Your Darlings Manuscript Award, SJ … read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • australia
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18. Gifted

By: Suzumi Suzuki

3.22

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A moving portrayal of a troubled mother–daughter relationship, shortlisted for Japan’s prestigious … read more

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  • fiction
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19. Hold Your Fire

By: Chloe Wilson

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Dark and dangerous, brilliantly unsettling and chillingly funny, this extraordinary debut shows us … read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • australia
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20. She's Always Hungry: Stories

By: Eliza Clark

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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All That's Left Unsaid

Tracey Lien

3.97

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3.73

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Limberlost

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4.25

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Trent Dalton

4.41

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Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

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Diana Reid

3.42

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