All That I Am

9 best books like All That I Am (Anna Funder): Boy Swallows Universe, The Secret River, Burial Rites, Unpolished Gem, Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back, The Eye of the Sheep, Bereft, Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

Boy Swallows Universe

Author	Trent Dalton
ISBN	1460753895

A novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class suburban fringe - from one of Australia's most exciting new writers.

Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter....

The Secret River

Author	Kate Grenville
ISBN	1841959146

In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. The Secret River is the tale...

Burial Rites

Author	Hannah Kent
ISBN	0316243914

A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829.

Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated...

Unpolished Gem

Author

Alice Pung

After Alice Pung’s family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose Alice as her name because he thought their new country was a Wonderland. In this lyrical, bittersweet debut memoir & already an award- winning bestseller when it was published in Australia &...

Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back

Author	Bri Lee
ISBN	1760295779

'Scorching, self-scouring: a young woman finds her steel and learns to wield it' - Helen Garner

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness...

The Eye of the Sheep

Author

Sofie Laguna

"Ned was beside me, his messages running easily through him, with space between each one, coming through him like water. He was the go-between, going between the animal kingdom and this one. I watched the waves as they rolled and crashed towards us, one after another, never stopping, always changing....

Bereft

Author

Chris Womersley

A CRIME UNSPEAKABLEAustralia, 1919. Quinn Walker returns from the Great War to the New South Wales town of Flint: the birthplace he fled ten years earlier when he was accused of a heinous act.A LIE UNFORGIVABLEAware of the townsmen's vow to hang him, Quinn takes to the surrounding hills. Here, deciding...

Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee

Author	Chloe Hooper
ISBN	1416561595

In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "Deep North" of Australia, a thirty-six-year-old man named Cameron Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse. The police claimed he'd tripped on a step, but his liver was ruptured....

See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

Author	Jess Hill
ISBN	1760641405

At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria’s dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers: on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good.

‘You must get so frustrated...