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…
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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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"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
4. 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
5. 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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6. 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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- audiobook
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- contemporary
- australia
- adult
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- queer
7. 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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8. Bodies of Light
By: Jennifer Down
4.29
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found… read more
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"The Sydney of this time was a different place to the honeymoon city I'd visited with Damien. That one was the crescent of the bridge, the rolling waves beneath the ferry, the shaded streets in The Ro…"-Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light
9. 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
10. Women & Children
By: Tony Birch
4.22
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more
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11. Love & Virtue
By: Diana Reid
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of young Australian uni students in a contemporar… read more
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"Its feminism operated on the level of ‘Women in Medicine’ and ‘Women in Finance’ discussion panels, always conducted in a tone of revolutionary awe, as if any combination of women and profession were…"-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue
"I just don't want to mediate my whole identity through social media.' Eve resumed the vigorous hair brushing. 'I think photos should be a stolen moment in time. Not this thing on your phone: this way…"-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue
12. 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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13. 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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14. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
By: Anita Heiss
4.17
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in … read more
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"Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family."-Anita Heiss, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
15. 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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16. 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
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. The White Girl
By: Tony Birch
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"A profound allegory of good and evil, and a deep exploration of human interaction, black and white… 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 Visitors
By: Jane Harrison
3.86
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stan… read more
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