Sydney: A Biography
By: Louis Nowra
3.81
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
‘I came to Sydney from Melbourne in 1978 and immediately fell in love with its history, the sandsto…
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1. The Railway Children
By: E. Nesbit
4.02
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-… read more
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"Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!"-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children
"I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year"-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children
"It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done."-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children
"Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that…"-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children
2. Batavia
By: Peter FitzSimons
4.25
Format: 490 pages, Hardcover
The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporati… read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
3. Minding Frankie
By: Maeve Binchy
4.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Maeve Binchy is back with a tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively … read more
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4. The Force
By: Don Winslow
4.57
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author of The Cartel--voted one of the Best Books of the … read more
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5. Island Home
By: Tim Winton
4.32
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
'I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Ti… read more
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6. One Crowded Hour
By: Tim Bowden
3.53
Format: 349 pages,
This is the story of Neil Davis, the celebrated combat cameraman in Vietnam. read more
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7. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
8. The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
By: Alison Goodman
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as a… read more
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"What makes you think he is trustworthy?’ ‘ He has a sense of humor,’ I said, and then added the final proof. ‘And he found my observations funny too."-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
"If you need me, just yell,' he said. 'Ladies do not yell,' I replied over my shoulder. 'But renegades do.' I caught a glimpse of myself in one of the mirrors as I passed; my color was high and I had …"-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
"My brother pursed his lips. 'Love? Really, Augusta, this is an important decision. If you think love is essential to a good match it is no wonder you are still unmarried.' 'Duffy, that is unkind,' Ju…"-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
"He took the offering and positioned it behind his head with a baleful look. 'If I recall, it is your fault I have lost a great deal of blood,' Undeniable, but then again, I had not started the encoun…"-Alison Goodman, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
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. The Murder Rule
By: Dervla McTiernan
3.67
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter s… read more
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"Because it has to be done. Because if you see something like this, and you can fix it, then it’s your mess to clean up."-Dervla McTiernan, The Murder Rule
11. 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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12. 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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- australia
13. 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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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie
14. 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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"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
15. Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder
By: Kerryn Mayne
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day,… read more
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16. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
By: Julia Baird
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more
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- australia
"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything
17. Milkman
By: Anna Burns
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attem… read more
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"how much I’d been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man"-Anna Burns, Milkman
"It’s not about being happy,’ he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I’ve ever heard."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"even though it was weird to talk on the telephone. Only eight times, seven, maybe six, ever had I done so."-Anna Burns, Milkman
18. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)
By: Don Winslow
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more
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19. The Ruin (Cormac Reilly, #1)
By: Dervla McTiernan
3.95
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
It's been twenty years since Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling Ge… read more
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20. 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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- australia
21. Any Ordinary Day
By: Leigh Sales
4.13
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after… read more
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"The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries."-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
"I felt this lightness settling on me, which was new. It's not closure, because I will live with Matt's death and the pain of it every day and the grief will stay with me. I just felt that I was carry…"-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
"Stuart Diver has had years of extensive professional counselling to retrain his brain so that he can replace the thought of how helpless he was when Sally dies with the truth that he tried everything…"-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
22. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
By: Robert Waldinger
4.16
Format: 352 pages, ebook
What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more
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23. 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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24. This Is Where You Have To Go: A forced adoption. A heartbreaking reunion. A mother's fight for justice.
By: Lynda Holden
4.38
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one in 15 was… read more
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25. Saga Land
By: Richard Fidler
4.03
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah Kent A new friends… read more
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26. The Silver River
By: Jim Moginie
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary … read more
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27. Why Do Horses Run?
By: Cameron Stewart
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A lyrical and profound debut novel that celebrates the kindness of strangers and those living in pa… read more
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28. The Waiting (Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch, #25; Harry Bosch Universe, #39)
By: Michael Connelly
4.47
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a terrifying serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, with the… read more
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29. The Crag
By: Claire Sutherland
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Will the mountain give up its secrets? While walking on an isolated track in the windswept Wimmera,… read more
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30. Sydney: A Biography
By: Louis Nowra
3.81
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
‘I came to Sydney from Melbourne in 1978 and immediately fell in love with its history, the sandsto… read more
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