Women of a Certain Rage
By: Liz Byrski
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This book is the result of what happened when Liz Byrski asked 20 Australian women from widely diff…
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1. Blind Faith
By: Ben Elton
3.73
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
As Trafford Sewell struggles to work through the usual crowds of commuters, he is confronted by the… read more
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"Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it."-Ben Elton, Blind Faith
"...no society based on nothing more constructive than fear and brutish ignorance culd survive for ever. No people who raised up the least inventive, the least challenging, the least interesting of th…"-Ben Elton, Blind Faith
"Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real se…"-Ben Elton, Blind Faith
"She spoke loudly in order to be heard above the noise of personal communitainers that were thudding and banging all around them. Some people used earphones, some didn't, clearly believing that as man…"-Ben Elton, Blind Faith
2. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
By: Sarah Krasnostein
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
3. A Field Guide to Getting Lost
By: Rebecca Solnit
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
4. The Secret River
By: Kate Grenville
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compas… read more
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5. Jasper Jones
By: Craig Silvey
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Late on a hot summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is s… read more
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6. Honeybee
By: Craig Silvey
4.40
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more
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"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"-Craig Silvey, Honeybee
"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."-Craig Silvey, Honeybee
"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"-Craig Silvey, Honeybee
7. 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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- feminism
- womens
- nonfiction
- memoir
8. 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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"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
9. 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
10. Prima Facie
By: Suzie Miller
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more
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- feminism
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie
11. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more
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12. The Things That Matter Most
By: Gabbie Stroud
4.44
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of… read more
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13. The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
By: Peter Wohlleben
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The H… read more
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- nonfiction
"The more we acknowledge that even the smallest disturbance can lead to unpredictable changes, the stronger the arguments for protecting larger areas of the environment."-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
"A whole generation of trees, including many that are deciduous, is standing by to form a solid foundation for the old-growth forest of the future, which means that bark beetles are more than just fun…"-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
14. The Yield
By: Tara June Winch
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spen… read more
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"My mummy, she said, 'The Aborigine is a pity, my son.' She said everyone was always insulted by her no matter what she did, so she let herself do the most insulting thing she could think of - take th…"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"The story goes that the church brought time to us, and the church, if you let it, will take it away. I’m writing about the other time, though, deep time. This is a big, big story. The big stuff goes …"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"I was born on Ngurambang — can you hear it? — Ngu-ram-bang. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. Every person around should learn the word for …"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"The evidence of their civilisation, after so many years of farming, was difficult to find on the surface of the land. But they said it was embedded in the language of Albert’s dictionary, that with t…"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
15. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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16. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
17. When Things Are Alive They Hum
By: Hannah Bent
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781761150081. Marlowe and Harper share a bond de… read more
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- womens
18. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech
By: Julia Gillard
4.28
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
19. Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance
By: Kate Solly
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meredith established the Copeton Crochet Collective (no knitters please) because it would be like h… read more
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"The problem was with the constant deliciousness of a new idea. It was always more exciting to start a new project than to plod away with one whose appeal had gone stale."-Kate Solly, Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance
20. The Lost Letters of Evelyn Wright
By: Clare Swatman
3.89
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
Starting over can be hard to do… So when mum of two Beth moves out of her beloved marital home and … read more
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21. The Wartime Book Club
By: Kate Thompson
4.31
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
From enchanting cliff tops and white sandy bays to the pretty cobbled streets of St Helier, Jersey … read more
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- womens
22. Salt River Road
By: Molly Schmidt
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of their mother’s death, the Tetley siblings’ lives are falling apart. Left to fen… read more
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"Over there somewhere, down at the house, Dad and the boys are moving in silent circles round each other. Even though inside us, nothing is quiet at all."-Molly Schmidt, Salt River Road
23. Book of Life
By: Deborah Conway
3.90
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A no-holds-barred memoir that charts the rise and fall - and rise - of one of Australia's most icon… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
24. Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra
By: Bruce Pascoe
4.20
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony. From the… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
25. Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
By: Catrina Davies
4.23
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"The house in Bristol belonged to a family who were traveling the world on our combined rent."-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
"People I know with houses squeeze every drop of capital out of them, because, even when it's hard, squeezing capital out of a house is a hell of a lot easier than squeezing it out of work."-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
26. See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
By: Jess Hill
4.66
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria’s dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone … read more
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- feminism
- womens
- nonfiction
"I don't bash you with my fists, I bash you with my emotions, to keep you under control."-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
"I explain patriarchy as a dual system of power: men's power over women, and some men's power over other men. - Michael Kimmel"-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
"Mangan is adamant: women's violence may cause distress to men in abusive relationships, but men are almost never in danger of being killed."-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
"Whether perpetrators abuse strategically or on impulse, however, they usually have one thing in common: a supercharged sense of entitlement."-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
27. In/Out: A Story of Sex and Religion
By: Steph Lentz
3.72
Format: 320 pages, ebook
In January 2021, Steph Lentz was fired from her job as an English teacher at a Sydney Christian sch… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Fragile Creatures: A Memoir
By: Khin Myint
3.55
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
A powerful debut from an extraordinary voice, gentle in the face of extremityKhin's sister Theda ha… read more
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29. Women of a Certain Rage
By: Liz Byrski
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This book is the result of what happened when Liz Byrski asked 20 Australian women from widely diff… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
30. Tilda Is Visible
By: Jane Tara
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A woman starts to disappear—literally—in midlife, and only then begins to discover herself in this … read more
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"Support groups are like bras – some aren’t that supportive."-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible
"Once we’ve grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts."-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible
"How the world sees us, how other people see us is meaningless. What’s important is how we see ourselves. We must be visible to ourselves."-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible
31. What the fuck is this
By: Celeste Mountjoy
4.18
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Australian artist Celeste Mountjoy (aka Filthyratbag) aims for the heart in her first book, WHAT TH… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
