Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay (A&R Classics)
By: George Johnston
3.98
Format: 502 pages, Kindle Edition
In the sequel to his semi-autobiographical novel My Brother Jack, George Johnston concludes his Mer…
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1. A Mother's Story
By: Bryce Corbett , Rosie Batty
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
At the start of 2014, Rosie Batty was an ordinary single mum doing everything in her power to give … read more
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- australia
2. Night Train to Lisbon
By: Pascal Mercier , Barbara Harshav
4.09
Format: 129 pages, Hardcover
A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to … read more
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3. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
By: Josephine Tey
3.95
Format: None pages,
Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitiv… read more
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4. The Lost Life
By: None
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
The new novel from 2008 Miles Franklin Award-winner, Steven Carroll they may never have a life toge… read more
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5. The Dressmaker
By: Rosalie Ham
3.50
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture--soon to be a major motion pictu… read more
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6. 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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- fiction
- australia
7. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
8. 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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9. 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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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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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie
11. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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12. 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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- australia
13. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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- fiction
14. Before You Knew My Name
By: Jacqueline Bublitz
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This is not just another novel about a dead girl. Two women—one alive, one dead—are brought togethe… read more
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"I know what it's like for the horror to follow you home."-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name
"What happened to her makes me so mad. The entitlement of these fucking men who destroy lives, just because they can."-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name
"The thing is. When the dead speak back, we are seldom loud enough to be heard over the clamour of all that living going on."-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name
"For the first time, I understand it's not only the dead who have lives they don't get to live out. The people left behind have as many versions of themselves unexplored, as many possible paths that c…"-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name
15. Safe Haven
By: Shankari Chandran
4.18
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more
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- fiction
- australia
16. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more
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"Life schools you the way no catechism will."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
17. 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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- fiction
- australia
18. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
19. A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing
By: Jessie Tu
3.19
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-… read more
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20. 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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21. 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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22. 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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23. Take Nothing With You
By: Patrick Gale
4.07
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of A Place Called Winter comes a new novel of boyhood, coming of age, a… read more
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24. Mermaid Singing & Peel Me A Lotus
By: Charmian Clift
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
These two classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the life she and her Australian family … read more
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25. The End of the Morning
By: Charmian Clift
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift.‘In those days the end of the morning was always… read more
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26. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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27. Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift
By: Charmian Clift
4.39
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
‘I know it’s a daring suggestion, but I’ll make it anyway.’ Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of he… read more
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28. Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay (A&R Classics)
By: George Johnston
3.98
Format: 502 pages, Kindle Edition
In the sequel to his semi-autobiographical novel My Brother Jack, George Johnston concludes his Mer… read more
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29. Cherrywood
By: Jock Serong
3.89
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
From multiple award-winning author, Jock Serong, comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful a… read more
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30. Rapture
By: Emily Maguire
4.22
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
The motherless child of an English priest living in ninth-century Mainz, Agnes is a wild and brilli… read more
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31. Theory & Practice
By: Michelle de Kretser
4.13
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
It’s 1986, and ‘beautiful, radical ideas’ are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to res… read more
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