12 Top historical books like The Secret World of Connie Starr by Robbi Neal

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The Secret World of Connie Starr

By: Robbi Neal

4.00

Format: 464 pages, ebook

A stunning evocation of Australian life through the war to the 1950s, this novel is intimate and sw…

If you liked the historical plot in The Secret World of Connie Starr by Robbi Neal , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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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

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Lola in the Mirror book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • australia
  • fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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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4. Southern Aurora

By: Mark Brandi

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The unforgettable new novel from the Dagger award-winning author of Wimmera. A novel that shows sma… read more

Similar categories in Mark Brandi's Southern Aurora book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • fiction
  • australia
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5. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • audiobook
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Sanctuary

By: Garry Disher

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Sanctuary book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3) by Margaret Hickey

7. Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)

By: Margaret Hickey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spe… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Hickey's Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3) book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • australia
  • fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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8. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

Similar categories in Holly Ringland's The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • australia
  • fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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9. The Work Wives

By: Rachael Johns

3.91

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

How well do you really know the people you work with? For work wives Debra and Quinn, it's a case… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's The Work Wives book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Clarke

By: Holly Throsby

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Goodwood and Cedar Valley. 'Clarke is illu… read more

Similar categories in Holly Throsby's Clarke book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"He was so stocky. He was like a wheelie bin."

-Holly Throsby, Clarke

"Leelee?’ ‘Yes, Joe?’ ‘Would you still love me if I was a donkey?’ Leonie said, ‘Sweetheart, I’d love you no matter what you were. If you turned into a donkey, I’d just find us a house with a big barn…"

-Holly Throsby, Clarke

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12. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's Restless Dolly Maunder book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • historical
  • fiction
  • australia
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Unbelieved

By: Vikki Petraitis

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

'So you believed the alleged rapists over the alleged victim?' Jane's voice took on an indignant pi… read more

Similar categories in Vikki Petraitis's The Unbelieved book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret World of Connie Starr by Robbi Neal

14. The Secret World of Connie Starr

By: Robbi Neal

4.00

Format: 464 pages, ebook

A stunning evocation of Australian life through the war to the 1950s, this novel is intimate and sw… read more

Similar categories in Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • historical
  • fiction
  • australia
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • australia
  • fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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16. Joy Moody is Out of Time

By: Kerryn Mayne

3.96

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

On her twin daughters’ twenty-first birthday, Joy Moody – proprietor of Bayside’s premier laundroma… read more

Similar categories in Kerryn Mayne's Joy Moody is Out of Time book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. 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 Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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18. The French Agent

By: Belinda Alexandra

4.10

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

A world in chaos. Two very different women. And the mystery of the man who may connect them. The st… read more

Similar categories in Belinda Alexandra's The French Agent book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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19. 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 Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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20. 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 Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Dinner with the Schnabels by Toni Jordan

21. Dinner with the Schnabels

By: Toni Jordan

3.68

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

You can marry into them, but can you ever really be one of them? A novel about marriage, love and … read more

Similar categories in Toni Jordan's Dinner with the Schnabels book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • australia
  • fiction
  • family
Cover of The Bellbird River Country Choir by Sophie Green

22. The Bellbird River Country Choir

By: Sophie Green

3.74

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A warm-hearted story of fresh beginnings, unexpected friendships and the sustaining power of love a… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Green's The Bellbird River Country Choir book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of At the Foot of the Cherry Tree by Alli Parker

23. 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 Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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24. 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 Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Dreaming in French

By: Vanessa McCausland

4.25

Format: 368 pages, ebook

A remote French island. A crumbling villa. A reclusive film star. And an inheritance Saskia never e… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa McCausland's Dreaming in French book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • fiction
Cover of The Wonderful Thing about Phoenix Rose by Josephine Moon

26. The Wonderful Thing about Phoenix Rose

By: Josephine Moon

4.02

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

Phoenix Rose, a 35-year-old neurodivergent teacher, is at a crossroads in her career and in her rel… read more

Similar categories in Josephine Moon's The Wonderful Thing about Phoenix Rose book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. 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 Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical 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

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28. The Whispering

By: Veronica Lando

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The whispering wild will take your child if you dare to look away ... The stunning Aussie crime … read more

Similar categories in Veronica Lando's The Whispering book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Every Last Suspect

By: Nicola Moriarty

3.95

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Who killed Harriet? Complicated, driven, loving; manipulative, irresistible, monstrous – whether… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Moriarty's Every Last Suspect book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. 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

Similar categories in Peggy Frew's Wildflowers book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • australia
  • fiction
  • family
  • 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

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31. The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird

By: Diane Connell

4.08

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

If you were charmed by The Curious Incident, laughed with Eleanor Oliphant and cried over A Man Cal… read more

Similar categories in Diane Connell's The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird book and Robbi Neal's The Secret World of Connie Starr

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"SHE BELIEVED THERE were two types of disaster. There were catastrophes like tidal waves and landslides that came crashing down on their victims with brutal and unavoidable force. Then there was the t…"

-Diane Connell, The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird

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