The Eye of the Sheep
9 best books like The Eye of the Sheep (Sofie Laguna): Boy Swallows Universe, All That I Am, The Nowhere Child, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster, Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back, Foal's Bread, The Erratics, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire, Too Much Lip
| 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....
| Author | Anna Funder |
| ISBN | 0062077562 |
All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places.
When eighteen-year-old Ruth Becker visits her cousin Dora in Munich in 1923, she meets the...
| Author | Christian White |
| ISBN | 1925584526 |
Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White’s internationally bestselling debut thriller of psychological suspense about a woman uncovering devastating secrets about her family—and her very identity…
Kimberly Leamy...
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
| Author | Sarah Krasnostein |
| ISBN | 1250101204 |
Husband, father, drag queen, sex worker, wife. Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner is a love letter to an extraordinary ordinary life. In Sandra Pankhurst she discovered a woman capable of taking a lifetime of hostility and transphobic abuse and using it to care for some of society's most in-need...
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...
| Author | Gillian Mears |
| ISBN | 1742376290 |
The sound of horses' hooves turns hollow on the farms west of Wirri. If a man can still ride, if he hasn't totally lost the use of his legs, if he hasn't died to the part of his heart that understands such things, then he should go for a gallop. At the very least he should stand at the road by the river imagining...
| Author | Vicki Laveau-Harvie |
| ISBN | 0648100855 |
When her elderly mother is hospitalised after an accident, Vicki is summoned to her parents' isolated and run-down ranch home in Alberta, Canada, to care for her father. She has been estranged from her parents for many years (the reasons for which become quickly clear) and is horrified by what she discovers...
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
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....
| Author | Melissa Lucashenko |
| ISBN | 0702259969 |
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...
