13 must-read australia books like The Butterfly Collector by Tea Cooper

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The Butterfly Collector

By: Tea Cooper

3.82

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A botanical illustration of a butterfly, a missing baby, and a twisty mystery fifty years in the ma…

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1. Back on Track

By: Tricia Stringer

3.95

Format: 454 pages, Paperback

Bestselling author and voice of Australian storytelling Tricia Stringer tackles troubled relationsh… read more

Similar categories in Tricia Stringer's Back on Track book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

Similar categories in Pip Williams's The Bookbinder book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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3. The Sugar Palace

By: Fiona McIntosh

3.89

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

One woman’s ambition Sydney, 1925: When Grace Fairweather meets the irresistible Londoner Alfie Swe… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McIntosh's The Sugar Palace book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Sunrise Over Mercy Court

By: Fiona McCallum

3.42

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

There's life in these old dogs yet ... and they're about to discover it. A heartwarming and humorou… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McCallum's Sunrise Over Mercy Court book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Trade Paperback

They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter w… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Hampson's The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1) book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of The Butterfly Collector by Tea Cooper

6. The Butterfly Collector

By: Tea Cooper

3.82

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A botanical illustration of a butterfly, a missing baby, and a twisty mystery fifty years in the ma… read more

Similar categories in Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • australia
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Keeping Up Appearances by Tricia Stringer

7. Keeping Up Appearances

By: Tricia Stringer

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

As tensions simmer in a small country town, three women are going to need more than CWA sausage rol… read more

Similar categories in Tricia Stringer's Keeping Up Appearances book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. The Redgum River Retreat

By: Sandie Docker

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The heart-warming new novel by the bestselling author of The Kookaburra Creek Hotel and The Wattle … read more

Similar categories in Sandie Docker's The Redgum River Retreat book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • womens fiction
  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Orphans

By: Fiona McIntosh

4.13

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Orphan Fleur Appleby is adopted by a loving undertaker and his wife and she quickly develops a spec… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McIntosh's The Orphans book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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10. That Bligh Girl

By: Sue Williams

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A fascinating story of Governor Bligh's trouble-making daughter, Mary, a powerful and determined wo… read more

Similar categories in Sue Williams's That Bligh Girl book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • australia
  • historical fiction
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11. The Ship's Midwife

By: Peta Miller

3.99

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Lives are about to be irrevocably changed following a typhus outbreak on a cramped emigrant ship bo… read more

Similar categories in Peta Miller's The Ship's Midwife book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. A Woman's Work

By: Victoria Purman

4.10

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The astonishingly rich prize of the 1956 Australian Women's Weekly cookery competition offers two w… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Purman's A Woman's Work book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Sea Captain's Wife

By: Jackie French

4.36

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From bestselling author Jackie French comes a compelling story of murder, mystery, and mutiny on th… read more

Similar categories in Jackie French's The Sea Captain's Wife book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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14. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree

By: Alli Parker

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more

Similar categories in Alli Parker's At the Foot of the Cherry Tree book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Becoming Mrs Mulberry

By: Jackie French

4.28

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

From bestselling author Jackie French comes a book about the secrets we carry, those that we uneart… read more

Similar categories in Jackie French's Becoming Mrs Mulberry book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Artist's Secret

By: Alexandra Joel

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The sweeping new saga of strong heroines and family secrets from the bestselling author of The Pari… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Joel's The Artist's Secret book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • historical fiction
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17. A Woman of Courage

By: Tania Blanchard

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, moving story of love, tenacity and the right to be heard by bestseller Tania Blanchard,… read more

Similar categories in Tania Blanchard's A Woman of Courage book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Radio Hour

By: Victoria Purman

4.24

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Nurses' War comes this charming, funny, pointed look at the gold… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Purman's The Radio Hour book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • historical
  • australia
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Too many women kept too many secrets. For too long, women had buried their ambitions and their intelligence, succumbed to the law of the land made by men, and put up with behaviour and situations no …"

-Victoria Purman, The Radio Hour

Cover of The Forthright Woman by Darry Fraser

19. The Forthright Woman

By: Darry Fraser

4.27

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Widow Marcella Ross won't let anything - or anyone - stop her from discovering the truth behind a d… read more

Similar categories in Darry Fraser's The Forthright Woman book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Postmistress (Maiden's Creek #1)

By: Alison Stuart

4.11

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

A stunning historical tale of loss, desire and courage that is full of the terror and the beauty of… read more

Similar categories in Alison Stuart's The Postmistress (Maiden's Creek #1) book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lyrebird Lake Ladies Choir by Sandie Docker

21. The Lyrebird Lake Ladies Choir

By: Sandie Docker

4.35

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Sisters Eleanor and Maggie have been running the Lyrebird Lake Ladies’ Choir for years. The choir m… read more

Similar categories in Sandie Docker's The Lyrebird Lake Ladies Choir book and Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector

  • australia

19 Top fiction books like The Butterfly Collector by Tea Cooper

Transform Your Habits

Back on Track

Tricia Stringer

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Bookbinder

Pip Williams

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Sugar Palace

Fiona McIntosh

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Sunrise Over Mercy Court

Fiona McCallum

3.42

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20 Top fiction books like The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1) by Amanda Hampson

Transform Your Habits

Sleepless in Stringybark Bay

Susan Duncan

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Back on Track

Tricia Stringer

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Sugar Palace

Fiona McIntosh

3.89

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Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder

Kerryn Mayne

4.07

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