Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia (Quarterly Essay #85)
By: Sarah Krasnostein
4.16
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
Around one-fifth of Australians will suffer from mental illness in any given year. And the pandemic…
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4.24
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
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2. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
By: Shankari Chandran
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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3. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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5. 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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6. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
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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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4.13
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9. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
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3.89
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10. Love & Virtue
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3.91
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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11. Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
By: Julia Baird
3.78
Format: 320 pages, ebook
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4.09
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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13. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise
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4.21
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3.42
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3.98
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18. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage
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3.65
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20. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech
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4.28
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4.41
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4.29
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4.31
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3.65
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4.66
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4.05
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4.39
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4.72
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30. Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia (Quarterly Essay #85)
By: Sarah Krasnostein
4.16
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
Around one-fifth of Australians will suffer from mental illness in any given year. And the pandemic… read more
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31. Do As I Say: How Cults Control, Why We Join Them, and What They Teach Us About Bullying, Abuse and Coercion
By: Sarah Steel
3.56
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