On Violence
By: Natasha Stott Despoja
4.38
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Why is violence against women endemic, and how do we stop it? Every two minutes, police are call…
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1. Picnic at Hanging Rock
By: Joan Lindsay
3.67
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more
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- australia
"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
2. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
By: Kabi Nagata , Jocelyne Allen
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience … read more
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3. 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
- audiobook
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie
4. 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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- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
"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
5. Pet
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more
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6. Bingo Love
By: Tee Franklin
3.93
Format: 92 pages, ebook
Bingo Love is a story of a same-sex romance that spans over 60 years. A chance meeting at church bi… read more
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7. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- politics
- audiobook
8. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
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
- audiobook
10. Salt Slow
By: Julia Armfield
3.99
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more
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- feminism
"She was a gentle sort of horror,"-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
11. 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
- australia
- audiobook
"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
12. Seeing Other People
By: Diana Reid
3.42
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat … read more
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13. Showing Up
By: Nedd Brockmann
4.34
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable–the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body ‘throug… read more
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- audiobook
14. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By: Deesha Philyaw
4.17
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more
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- feminism
- audiobook
"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
15. All Our Shimmering Skies
By: Trent Dalton
3.95
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering Skies… read more
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"In all these years, he said, he was yet to come across a single gold nugget that brought any real happiness to the person who held it. Long coat bob said his family had found one large nugget long ag…"-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies
"She spots a large army of green ants building a nest between two thin twig branches of a flimsy tree with floppy green leaves. "Look at this, Yukio," Molly whispers, leaning into the tree where a lin…"-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies
"And you wouldn't believe what he said then, Tom Berry whispered to his enraptured audience. He said, he and his family saw no value whatsoever in all that gold. He said real treasure was a fresh wate…"-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies
16. Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more
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17. 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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- australia
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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
18. The Redgum River Retreat
By: Sandie Docker
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The heart-warming new novel by the bestselling author of The Kookaburra Creek Hotel and The Wattle … read more
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- audiobook
19. The House of Now and Then
By: Jo Dixon
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition
You should leave the past in the past ... or should you? A vividly told, jaw-droppingly twisty and … read more
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- audiobook
20. The Mother Wound
By: Amani Haydar
4.48
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at… read more
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21. Burnt Sugar
By: Avni Doshi
3.26
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Uma história de obsessões e traição. Uma história de amor envenenada, cujos protagonistas, ao contr… read more
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"Ma naps on the sofa, and for a moment I can imagine what she’ll look like when she dies, when her face slackens and the air abandons her lungs. Around her are objects, papers, photo frames filled wit…"-Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar
22. Teacher of the Year (Teachers in Love, #1)
By: M.A. Wardell
3.78
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
Love: Not as easy as ABC. They were supposed to keep things casual. Who’d expect they’d be schoo… read more
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23. The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
By: Chloe Hooper
4.05
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in V… read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
- audiobook
24. En Garde
By: Sarah Hanson-Young
4.20
Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition
In the era of wolf-whistle politics, women are sick of being degraded. When Sarah Hanson-Young cal… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"The confected fight over freedom of speech has become a lazy, yet deliberate, excuse for ‘freedom to abuse’ without rhyme, reason or consequence."-Sarah Hanson-Young, En Garde
25. Every Last Suspect
By: Nicola Moriarty
3.95
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
Who killed Harriet? Complicated, driven, loving; manipulative, irresistible, monstrous – whether… read more
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26. Fearless: Finding the Power to Thrive
By: Jelena Dokic
4.01
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
How do you find hope when all is lost? How do you find strength when you feel broken? How do you fi… read more
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- audiobook
27. Love & Autism
By: Kay Kerr
4.29
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
'Love has always intrigued me, in part because I have carried for a long time a feeling that I am d… read more
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28. It's Probably Your Hormones: From Appetite to Sleep, Periods to Sex Drive, Balance Your Hormones to Unlock Better Health
By: Mary Ryan
3.63
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Weight gain, insomnia, libido loss, fertility issues and acne are just some of the possible signs t… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Unknown: A Refugee’s Story
By: Akuch Kuol Anyieth
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A moving, confronting and ultimately uplifting story about a young girl’s escape, with her family, … read more
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- audiobook
30. The Venice Hotel
By: Tess Woods
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
When the lives of four very different women become entangled in a boutique Venice hotel, dark secre… read more
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31. On Violence
By: Natasha Stott Despoja
4.38
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Why is violence against women endemic, and how do we stop it? Every two minutes, police are call… read more
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