The Cowra Breakout (-)
By: Mathew McLachlan
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The riveting story of the missing piece of Australia's World War II history, told by bestselling hi…
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1. The Full Cupboard of Life (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #5)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.03
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first audiobook, is still … read more
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"Perhaps the cloud had blown over and covered his sky."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Full Cupboard of Life (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #5)
"To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Full Cupboard of Life (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #5)
"Most people had something in their lives that was particularly important to them."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Full Cupboard of Life (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #5)
"It would be wonderful, she thought, to write a book which would help other people."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Full Cupboard of Life (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #5)
2. It's a Battlefield
By: Graham Greene
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison appealing his death sentence for killing a policeman d… read more
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3. The Good the Bad and the Unlikely Australia's Prime Ministers
By: Mungo MacCallum
2.43
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Good drinkers, bad swimmers and unlikely heroes Since Australia's birth in 1901, twenty-seven polit… read more
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- history
- australia
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more
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5. 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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6. The Architect Of Kokoda: Bert Kienzle The Man Who Made The Kokoda Track
By: None
4.25
Format: None pages,
The Kokoda story continues to have a very powerful resonance with all Australians, and this book te… read more
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7. Eucalyptus
By: Murray Bail
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
The gruff widower Holland has two possessions he cherishes above all others: his sprawling property… read more
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8. A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #23)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Grace Makutsi enco… read more
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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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"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. 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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- history
11. The Stable Boy of Auschwitz
By: Henry Oster
4.53
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This heart-wrenching memoir from a Holocaust survivor reveals the terrible realities of life in Aus… read more
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12. Murder in Williamstown (Phryne Fisher, #22)
By: Kerry Greenwood
3.97
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Accustomed to both murder and dalliance, Australia's favourite detective, the inimitable Miss Fishe… read more
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- australia
13. Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.19
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space oper… read more
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14. My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork
By: Ash Barty
4.23
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, ri… read more
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15. The War Pianist
By: Mandy Robotham
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Pianist: NOUN. Informal. A person who operates or controls a radio transmitter – often in code. … read more
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16. The Nazis Knew My Name
By: Magda Hellinger
4.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped ) memoir by a Holoca… read more
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- history
17. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)
By: Benjamin Stevenson
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the … read more
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- australia
18. 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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19. Cobalt Blue
By: Matthew Reilly
3.59
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
For 35 years, the United States and Russia each had their own superhero. Three days ago, America… read more
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20. The Ghost Tattoo
By: Tony Bernard
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective, this is the story of… read more
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- history
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21. Fire with Fire
By: Candice Fox
4.20
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
A pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop. Four people with everything on the li… read more
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- australia
22. Conviction
By: Frank Chalmers
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A town ruled by fear. A cop who won't be broken. A pulse-pounding debut thriller that pulls no punc… read more
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- australia
23. A Room Made of Leaves
By: Kate Grenville
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney-had wr… read more
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"We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there."-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to la…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was …"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"My husband had no one and that must be why some central part of him, some steady sense of who he was, had years ago gone like a mouse to hide away in its hole. But he could never admit the pain. He h…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
24. The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler
By: Deborah Cadbury
4.38
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Named one of Book Riot's BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022 The extraordinary true story of a courageous sch… read more
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25. The Digger of Kokoda: The Official Biography of Reg Chard
By: Daniel Lane
4.45
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
"Reg Chard endured hell as an 18-year-old Australian soldier who fought in 1942 on the infamous Kok… read more
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26. Banks
By: Grantlee Kieza
4.25
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery The extraordinary life of one… read more
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27. My Journey to the World Cup
By: Sam Kerr
3.44
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Follow Sam Kerr’s incredible journey from playing Aussie Rules as a kid to becoming one of the worl… read more
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28. April in Paris, 1921 (A Kiki Button Mystery, #1)
By: Tessa Lunney
3.32
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Paris in 1921 is the city of freedom, where hatless and footloose Kiki Button can drink champagne a… read more
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29. Big Things Grow: A memoir of teaching on Country in Wilcannia
By: Sarah Donnelley
4.08
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
An inspiring memoir about passion, music and community within a remote outback town, from the winne… read more
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30. The Cowra Breakout (-)
By: Mathew McLachlan
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The riveting story of the missing piece of Australia's World War II history, told by bestselling hi… read more
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31. A Periodic Tale: My Sciencey memoir, the life-long experiment of Australia's favourite science champion Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, for fans of David Attenborough, Adam Spencer and Brian Cox
By: Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
4.53
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
How did a shy Polish immigrant kid - Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki - evolve … read more
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