The School of Restoration: The story of one Ugandan woman who has given hope to hundreds of female survivors of war and violence
By: Alice Achan
4.46
Format: 352 pages, kindle_edition
Alice Achan was just thirteen when the Lord's Resistance Army first terrorised her village in north…
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1. The Things We Keep
By: Sally Hepworth
3.95
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
With honesty and true understanding, Sally Hepworth pens this poignant story of one of today's nigh… read more
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"I like it when people remember that I'm a person, not just a person with Alzheimer's."-Sally Hepworth, The Things We Keep
2. Burial Rites
By: Hannah Kent
2.62
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of mu… read more
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3. The Mother's Promise
By: Sally Hepworth
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Hardcover
A new poignant and breathtaking novel from the author of The Things We Keepand The Secrets of Midwi… read more
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4. The Space Between Us
By: Thrity Umrigar
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in modern-day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an… read more
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5. Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)
By: John Marsden
4.28
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hide… 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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7. 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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8. 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
9. Light at Lavelle
By: Paullina Simons
4.37
Format: 708 pages, Kindle Edition
'Paullina Simons pulls on every heartstring, she's a master of epic love stories' COLLEEN HOOVER … read more
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10. 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
11. Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
By: Steve Magness
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From beloved performance expert, executive coach, and coauthor of Peak Performance Steve Magness co… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Boy Swallows Universe
By: Trent Dalton
4.34
Format: 474 pages, Paperback
A novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class subu… read more
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"Don't fuckin' swear."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"Stay sweet, Eli Bell."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"Most things people say don't need to be said."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"To burn this house down or set the world on fire. Up to you, Eli."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
13. Here One Moment
By: Liane Moriarty
4.15
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? Aside from a delay, there will be no probl… read more
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14. Love Stories
By: Trent Dalton
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"True love is exposing all the pieces."-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
"Love is knowing when you've come home."-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."-Trent Dalton, Love Stories
15. Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
By: Julia Baird
3.78
Format: 320 pages, ebook
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘This book is beautiful … Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"McCarthy insists if we delight in nature and find joy there, we will not so carelessly plunder, neglect and destroy it. He calls it 'defence through joy'."-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"Seek awe and nature daily... show kindness; practise grace; eschew vanity; be bold; embrace friends, family, faith and doubt, imperfection and mess; and live deliberately."-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"Findings revealed Type As focus on how proud they are and [how] impressed others are, but are only moderately to weakly involved in actively seeing positive memories for later recall, or in reminisci…"-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings…"-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
16. The Space Between
By: Michelle Andrews
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From the creators of the hit podcast Shameless: relatable ruminations on the mess, the madness and … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
17. 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
18. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
By: Grace Tame
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
19. Emotional Female
By: Yumiko Kadota
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream- model student, top of her class in medical school and… read more
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20. The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe is te… read more
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"Never try to reach a conclusion before you reach the conclusion."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
"There were times, she thought, when 'ah' said everything that needed to be said"-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
"We have always asked too much of women in this country. They hold up the sky on their shoulders."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
"People had to be left to make their own mistakes, even if the rest of us could see quite clearly the dangers that lay ahead."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
21. The Strangers We Know
By: Pip Drysdale
3.60
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Imagine seeing your loving husband on a dating app. Now imagine that’s the best thing to happen to … read more
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22. Rental Person Who Does Nothing
By: Shoji Morimoto
3.34
Format: 160 pages, ebook
Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more
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- memoir
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
23. Sisters Under the Rising Sun
By: Heather Morris
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more
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24. Tell Me Again
By: Amy Thunig
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more
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- memoir
"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
25. 488 Rules for Life
By: Kitty Flanagan
3.87
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Provi… read more
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26. Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
By: Salman Rushdie
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction--including many texts never previously in print--… read more
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- nonfiction
"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame."-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
"…Shakespeare is both my door knocker and the owner of the domains to which the knock admits me, at once my Virgil opening the gates of hell and heaven, and the devil, and God, and I say this as a per…"-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
"In America, if you dismiss religion from a lecture podium, you often hear noises of shock: gasps, sharp intakes of breath. In America, you can't be elected dogcatcher if you can't prove that you go t…"-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
"Christopher came to believe that the people who understood the dangers posed by radical Islam were on the right, that his erstwhile comrades on the left were arranging with one another to miss what s…"-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
27. Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons
By: Julia Gillard
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and… read more
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- nonfiction
28. The Book of Burnout: What it is, why it happens, who gets it, and how to stop it before it stops you!
By: Bev Aisbett
3.15
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
Australia's bestselling anxiety and mental health expert, Bev Aisbett, tackles a growing mental hea… read more
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- nonfiction
29. The Last Daughter
By: Brenda Matthews
4.32
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
An unmissable First Nations memoir that tells of the shattering experience of being stolen, The Las… read more
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- memoir
30. We Can't Say We Didn't Know
By: Sophie McNeill
4.53
Format: 434 pages, Paperback
Dispatches from an age of impunity by the ABCTV award-winning investigative reporter and former for… read more
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- memoir
31. The School of Restoration: The story of one Ugandan woman who has given hope to hundreds of female survivors of war and violence
By: Alice Achan
4.46
Format: 352 pages, kindle_edition
Alice Achan was just thirteen when the Lord's Resistance Army first terrorised her village in north… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
