23 Best australia books like The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott

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The Rain Heron

By: Robbie Arnott

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slop…

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1. Song of the Sun God

By: Shankari Chandran

4.36

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the eve of Sri Lanka's indepen… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook

2. Ghost River

By: Tony Birch

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated new novel from the Miles Franklin-shortlisted author of Blood 'You find your… read more

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3. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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4. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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

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  • fiction
  • 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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7. The Labyrinth

By: Amanda Lohrey

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge. Trapped in her … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Exhausted, I go to bed early again and for the first time in a long while sleep an unbroken sleep that lasts until dawn. When I wake my body is soft; it feels as if in my dreamless state I have known…"

-Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth

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8. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

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  • audiobook
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9. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

By: Heather Rose

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from t… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Bodies of Light

By: Jennifer Down

4.29

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The Sydney of this time was a different place to the honeymoon city I'd visited with Damien. That one was the crescent of the bridge, the rolling waves beneath the ferry, the shaded streets in The Ro…"

-Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light

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12. A Brief Affair

By: Alex Miller

3.59

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A moving novel about storytelling, about truths, and love, from twice Miles Franklin Award winner A… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
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13. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Women & Children

By: Tony Birch

4.22

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
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15. Days of Innocence and Wonder

By: Lucy Treloar

3.71

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

When someone is taken away, what is left behind? All her life, Till has lived in the shadow of t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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17. The Conversion

By: Amanda Lohrey

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

From Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey comes a stunning literary foray into place, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • 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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19. The Hummingbird Effect

By: Kate Mildenhall

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more

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  • dystopia
  • australia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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20. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Rain Heron

By: Robbie Arnott

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slop… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Arnott's The Rain Heron book and Robbie Arnott's The Rain Heron

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • dystopia
  • environment
  • fiction
  • australia
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • nature
  • audiobook
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22. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. We All Lived in Bondi Then

By: Georgia Blain

4.16

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collecti… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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24. Feast

By: Emily O'Grady

3.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A compelling novel of three women and their dark secrets from the award-winning author of The Yello… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Wolfe Island

By: Lucy Treloar

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

For years Kitty Hawke has lived alone on Wolfe Island, witness to the island’s erosion and clinging… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • australia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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26. The Settlement

By: Jock Serong

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen’s Land, the Commandant huddles with a… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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27. To Sing of War

By: Catherine McKinnon

4.19

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrill… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now

By: Ellen Van Neerven

4.09

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

This wide-ranging and captivating anthology showcases both the power of First Nations writing and t… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
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29. Dirt Poor Islanders

By: Winnie Dunn

3.96

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

Dirt Poor Islanders is a potent, mesmerising novel that opens our eyes to the brutal fractures navi… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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30. Why Do Horses Run?

By: Cameron Stewart

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A lyrical and profound debut novel that celebrates the kindness of strangers and those living in pa… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook

27 Best fiction books like The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott

Transform Your Habits

Song of the Sun God

Shankari Chandran

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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19 Best fiction books like Days of Innocence and Wonder by Lucy Treloar

Transform Your Habits

Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Edenglassie

Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Women & Children

Tony Birch

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Days of Innocence and Wonder

Lucy Treloar

3.71

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