Books that Made Us: The companion to the ABC TV series
By: Carl Reinecke
3.63
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction. Australia's novels lie at the heart o…
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1. Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family
By: Cameron Bloom , Bradley Trevor Greive
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Penguin Bloom is an extraordinary true story full of hope and courage, featuring Cameron Bloom's ex… read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
2. Suite Française
By: Irène Némirovsky , Sandra Smith
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first two stories of a masterwork once thought lost, written by a pre-WWII bestselling author w… 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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- australia
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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- australia
5. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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- literature
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
6. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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- books about books
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
7. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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- literature
- australia
8. Haven
By: Emma Donoghue
3.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more
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"Fog makes an island of every man."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"-Emma Donoghue, Haven
9. 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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- australia
10. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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11. 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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- australia
12. The Angry Women's Choir
By: Meg Bignell
4.07
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more
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- australia
13. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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- australia
14. Mr Einstein's Secretary
By: Matthew Reilly
4.22
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A SECRETARY LIKE NO OTHERIN AN EPIC SPANNING 40 YEARSAll Hanna Fischer ever wanted to do was to stu… read more
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"But to hate is cheap. One does not need any money to hate."-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary
"Every decision comes down to a choice. This is the right choice."-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary
"Some readers turn up their noses at such books, considering them to be too lowbrow. But not I. One who reads such a book reads it for pleasure, for joy. pg43"-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary
"I am supposed to be this brilliant man. Well, here is the most important thing I know: retain your inner joy. If you do that, you will live a successful and happy life."-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary
15. Praiseworthy
By: Alexis Wright
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale… read more
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- literature
- australia
16. The Remarkable Mrs Reibey
By: Grantlee Kieza
4.03
Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first… read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
17. Eggshell Skull
By: Bri Lee
4.36
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they … read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
"The ugly parts of my life kept crashing into the beautiful ones."-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull
"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of fucks to give"-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull
"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of ducks to give."-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull
"Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted."-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull
18. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree
By: Alli Parker
4.28
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more
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- australia
19. Salonika Burning
By: Gail Jones
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Greece, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war. … read more
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20. The Coast
By: Eleanor Limprecht
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Alice is only nine years old in 1910 when she is sent to the feared Coast Hospital lazaret at Littl… read more
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- australia
21. The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)
By: Alan Kohler
4.31
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
What caused Australia's housing crisis -- and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Au… read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
22. Hospital
By: Sanya Rushdi
3.70
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
A strong and courageous novel that deftly tackles psychosis. In Melbourne, Australia, a woman in h… read more
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- australia
23. Bennelong and Phillip
By: Kate Fullagar
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australia… read more
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- australia
24. The Outback Court Reporter
By: Jamelle Wells
3.61
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
One of Australia's most experienced court reporters goes on a judicial road trip. Outback Court … read more
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- australia
25. Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map
By: Grantlee Kieza
4.48
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map In 1810, Matthew… read more
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- australia
26. The Luminous Solution: Creativity, Resilience and the Inner Life
By: Charlotte Wood
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An inspiring work about creativity and resilience from the multi-award-winning author of The Weeken… read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
"The unknown is always a threat. Unruly artists take to all this eagerly; they find a home in outsiderness. But while history has always made a certain space available to feral men, from Caravaggio to…"-Charlotte Wood, The Luminous Solution: Creativity, Resilience and the Inner Life
"Art urges us to imagine and inhabit lives other than our own, to be more thoughtful, to feel more deeply, to challenge what we think we already know. Art declares that we contain multitudes, that mor…"-Charlotte Wood, The Luminous Solution: Creativity, Resilience and the Inner Life
"Another word for idealism might be delusion, I'm well aware. But this is home territory for me and for all artists, whose daily lives depend on the vigorous deployment of rampant delusion. We must co…"-Charlotte Wood, The Luminous Solution: Creativity, Resilience and the Inner Life
27. Breaker Morant
By: Peter FitzSimons
3.99
Format: 547 pages, Hardcover
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer o… read more
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- australia
28. Books that Made Us: The companion to the ABC TV series
By: Carl Reinecke
3.63
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction. Australia's novels lie at the heart o… read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
- books about books
29. Appreciation
By: Liam Pieper
3.78
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
Everything in this world has a price. A great work of art is no exception. And what fortune was eve… read more
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30. Vegemite
By: Jamie Callister
3.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
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