The Life to Come
By: Michelle de Kretser
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The dazzling new novel from Michelle de Kretser, author of Questions of Travel, bestseller and winn…
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1. The Life to Come
By: Michelle de Kretser
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The dazzling new novel from Michelle de Kretser, author of Questions of Travel, bestseller and winn… read more
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2. All That I Am
By: Anna Funder
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
All That I Amis a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and … read more
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3. Dark Emu
By: Bruce Pascoe
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more
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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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
7. The Labyrinth
By: Amanda Lohrey
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge. Trapped in her … read more
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"Exhausted, I go to bed early again and for the first time in a long while sleep an unbroken sleep that lasts until dawn. When I wake my body is soft; it feels as if in my dreamless state I have known…"-Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth
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. Too Much Lip
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.06
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Wise-cracking Ke… read more
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10. 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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11. 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
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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13. Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism
By: Leigh Sales
3.88
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream … read more
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14. One Hundred Days
By: Alice Pung
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
One day, a boy in a nice silver car gives sixteen-year-old Karuna a ride. So Karuna returns the fav… read more
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"They couldn't see that the bigger I got, the smaller I became, and they didn't understand that once the baby came, I would be gone."-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days
"I'm keeping this record to let you know that it wasn't always that way. That you were once mine, and when I looked in your dark eyes, you made me very happy."-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days
15. The Conversion
By: Amanda Lohrey
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
From Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey comes a stunning literary foray into place, … read more
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16. 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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17. The Hummingbird Effect
By: Kate Mildenhall
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more
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18. 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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19. The Work
By: Bri Lee
3.43
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more
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20. 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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