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10 best books like Monkey Grip (Helen Garner): Boy Swallows Universe, My Brilliant Career, The Harp in the South, Carpentaria, My Brother Jack, Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back, Tirra Lirra by the River, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire, Room for a Stranger, Too Much Lip

Boy Swallows Universe
AuthorTrent Dalton
ISBN1460753895
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....
My Brilliant Career
AuthorMiles Franklin
ISBN1600963781
"My Brilliant Career" is the story of Sybylla, a headstrong young girl growing up in early 20th century Australia. Sybylla rejects the opportunity to marry a wealthy young man in order to maintain her independence. As a consequence she must take a job as a governess to a local family to which her father...
The Harp in the South
AuthorRuth Park
ISBN0140008535
Since it was first published in 1948, this compassionate novel has become a favourite with generations of Australian readers.

The Harp in the South is a nostalgic and moving portrait of the eventful family life of the Darcys of Number Twelve-and-a-Half Plymouth Street in Surry Hills, a Sydney...
Carpentaria
AuthorAlexis Wright
ISBN1920882176
Hailed as a "literary sensation" by The New York Times Book Review, Carpentaria is the luminous award-winning novel by Australian Aboriginal writer and activist Alexis Wright.

Alexis Wright employs mysticism, stark reality, and pointed imagination to re-create the land and the Aboriginal...
My Brother Jack
AuthorGeorge Johnston
ISBN0207187320
3.5 stars
It was only after I finished reading My Brother Jack by George Johnston that I discovered it had been the winner of the 1964 Miles Franklin award. To win, novels must be of the highest literary merit and present Australian life in any of its phases There is no question in my mind that this was...
Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back
AuthorBri Lee
ISBN1760295779
'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...
Tirra Lirra by the River
AuthorJessica Anderson
ISBN0140069457
One of Australia’s most celebrated novels: one woman’s journey from Australia to London

Nora Porteous, a witty, ambitious woman from Brisbane, returns to her childhood home at age seventy. Her life has taken her from a failed marriage in Sydney to freedom in London; she forged a modest...
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
AuthorChloe Hooper
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as firebugs....
Room for a Stranger
AuthorMelanie Cheng
By the winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, 2018.

Since her sister died, Meg has been on her own. She doesn’t mind, not really—not with Atticus, her African grey parrot, to keep her company—but after her house is broken into by a knife-wielding intruder, she...
Too Much Lip
AuthorMelissa Lucashenko
ISBN0702259969
Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise her voice in anger.

Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding...
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