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…
Want to Read $ 9.99"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 Rocks where we'd bought touristy postcards to send home. Everywhere was so lush, everything blue and green. This Sydney was more or less the space between Campsie and Dulwich Hill. Suburban streets, 7-Eleven hot chocolate, stream, car fumes, perc in my nose and throat, light dancing across the scratched Perspex of train window."-Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light
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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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- literary fiction
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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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- literary fiction
- australia
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3. 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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- book club
- audiobook
4. 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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- literary fiction
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- audiobook
"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
5. 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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- audiobook
6. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- australia
- book club
- audiobook
"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
7. 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
8. 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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9. 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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- 21st century
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10. 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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- adult fiction
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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
11. 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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- literary fiction
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- australia
- contemporary
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- book club
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12. No Hard Feelings
By: Genevieve Novak
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed, this isn't where Penny expected to be as she reached her late … read more
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- adult fiction
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- audiobook
13. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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14. Everyone and Everything
By: Nadine J. Cohen
4.29
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- australia
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15. Something Bad is Going to Happen
By: Jessie Stephens
3.86
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more
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- adult fiction
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16. 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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- literary fiction
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17. Between You and Me
By: Joanna Horton
3.72
Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition
Between You and Me is a riveting portrayal of female friendship, and the frayed boundary between lo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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18. Crushing
By: Genevieve Novak
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Gettin… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- literature
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19. Marshmallow
By: Victoria Hannan
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Some moments change everything. For five friends, what should have been a birthday to remember will… read more
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- literary fiction
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20. Wildflowers
By: Peggy Frew
3.29
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forg… read more
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- literary fiction
- australia
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"There were open paddocks winking with sugar cane, and distant silos and then a billboard that they all yelped at because it showed a huge picture of a foetus alongside a picture of a young woman with…"-Peggy Frew, Wildflowers
21. Sunbathing
By: Isobel Beech
4.05
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each… read more
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