Joan Makes History
By: Kate Grenville
4.27
Format: 24 pages,
In this rollicking, irreverent tour de force, Kate Grenville rewrites the familiar past. Joan is a …
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1. Death in the Vines (Verlaque and Bonnet, #3)
By: M.L. Longworth
3.94
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
A crime wave jolts Aix-en-Provence in the third delightful Verlaque and Bonnet mystery Fans of Donn… read more
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- fiction
2. A Thousand Acres
By: Jane Smiley
3.82
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm—one of the largest in Zeb… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burden of having to wait and see what was going to happen."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
3. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
By: Deborah Rodriguez
3.67
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
From the author of the memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life:… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Miluješ, zemřeš a mezitím se snažíš žít, jak nejlíp dokážeš."-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
"Remember that life is short and full of surprises. If you wait too long, opportunities fade like setting sun."-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
"The moon is made round by the right hand of God. The moon is made crescent by His left. But it is God’s heart that makes my love for you forever."-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
4. The First Stone: Some Questions of Sex and Power
By: Helen Garner
4.27
Format: 24 pages,
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming… read more
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- australia
5. Joan Makes History
By: Kate Grenville
4.27
Format: 24 pages,
In this rollicking, irreverent tour de force, Kate Grenville rewrites the familiar past. Joan is a … read more
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6. At Home With the Templetons
By: Monica McInerney
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
When the Templeton family from England takes up residence in a stately home in country Australia, t… read more
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- fiction
7. The Museum of Modern Love
By: Heather Rose
3.80
Format: 654 pages, Paperback
A mesmerising literary novel about a lost man in search of connection - a meditation on love, art a… read more
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8. Jasper Jones
By: Craig Silvey
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Late on a hot summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is s… read more
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9. Cloudstreet
By: Tim Winton
3.93
Format: 512 pages,
Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australian… read more
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10. 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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- literary fiction
- historical
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11. 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
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12. 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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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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
13. Devotion
By: Hannah Kent
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
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- historical fiction
"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."-Hannah Kent, Devotion
"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"-Hannah Kent, Devotion
14. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
15. The Drowning
By: Bryan Brown
3.56
Format: 288 pages, ebook
With sales of over 16,000 copies of Sweet Jimmy , Bryan Brown's distinctive storytelling voice cont… read more
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- fiction
16. 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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- historical
17. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here
By: Heather Rose
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from t… read more
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- australia
18. Day's End (Hirsch, #4)
By: Garry Disher
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Hirsch’s rural beat is wide. Daybreak to day’s end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets … read more
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19. 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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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
- novels
20. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie
21. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
22. Return to Valetto
By: Dominic Smith
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A captivating and moving new novel from the international bestselling author of The Last Painting o… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Susan is the opposite,"-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto
"The bell ringer’s green walnut liqueur was famous in Valetto for its ability to strip paint and dignity."-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto
"I read aloud from my phone. “‘A cappuccino with low-quality milk … the only good things is the kindness of the bartenders…’"-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto
"Was this where my fascination for documented history came from? From a family so afraid of earthly erasure that they couldn’t discard the transcript of ordering two pounds of prosciutto on June 15, 1…"-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto
23. 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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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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)
24. Warlight
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.60
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"A memoir is the lost inheritance."-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"we order our lives with barely held stories"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"the lost sequence in a life, they say, is the thing we always search out"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"I was about to enter a borderless terrain between adolescence and adulthood"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
25. After Story
By: Larissa Behrendt
4.07
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered… read more
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- australia
- fiction
- novels
26. The Rain Heron
By: Robbie Arnott
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slop… read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
27. Trio
By: William Boyd
3.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Mart… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"People come to us...us novelists...looking for information about all the other people in the world; what we're thinking, what we need, what we dream about, what we hate, what makes us tick.... People…"-William Boyd, Trio
28. 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
"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
29. The Colony
By: Audrey Magee
4.11
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
30. The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions
By: Kerry Greenwood
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The elegant Miss Phryne Fisher returns in this scintillating collection, featuring four brand-new s… read more
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- historical
- australia
- fiction
- historical fiction
"It's a good idea, generally, not to offend women with that shade of Titian hair,' mused Phryne."-Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions
31. 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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- australia
"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
