29 Best fiction books like Fanatic Heart by Thomas Keneally

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Fanatic Heart

By: Thomas Keneally

3.48

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

John Mitchel, Irishman, lawyer, journalist, activist and politician, is a complex character. Charge…

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1. The Daughters of Mars

By: Thomas Keneally , Tom Keneally

3.54

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of th… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • historical fiction
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2. 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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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • australia
  • historical fiction
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3. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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5. 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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  • audiobook
  • 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

Cover of Grenseløs (William Wisting, #16) by Jørn Lier Horst

6. Grenseløs (William Wisting, #16)

By: Jørn Lier Horst

3.88

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

William Wisting blir kontaktet av lederen for en gruppe mennesker som har funnet hverandre på inter… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Day's End (Hirsch, #4)

By: Garry Disher

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Hirsch’s rural beat is wide. Daybreak to day’s end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets … read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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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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  • fiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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11. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • australia
  • historical fiction
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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12. 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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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • australia
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2) by Chris Hammer

13. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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14. Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7)

By: Val McDermid

4.26

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Val McDermid returns with DCI Karen Pirie in a new thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against th… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) by Colm Tóibín

16. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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17. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) by Chris Hammer

18. 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

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • australia
  • historical fiction
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19. 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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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • australia
  • historical fiction
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20. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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22. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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23. The Trial

By: Jo Spain

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fanatic Heart by Thomas Keneally

24. Fanatic Heart

By: Thomas Keneally

3.48

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

John Mitchel, Irishman, lawyer, journalist, activist and politician, is a complex character. Charge… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of Lost and Never Found  (DI Wilkins Mysteries #3) by Simon Mason

25. Lost and Never Found (DI Wilkins Mysteries #3)

By: Simon Mason

4.35

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

'Ryan and Ray go from strength to strength, and this, their third outing, is the best yet. Simon Ma… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Corporal Hitler’s Pistol: Winner of the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize by Tom Keneally

26. Corporal Hitler’s Pistol: Winner of the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize

By: Tom Keneally

3.59

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

How did Corporal Hitler's Luger from the First World War end up being the weapon that killed an IRA… read more

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  • audiobook
  • australia
  • historical fiction
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27. The Dickens Boy

By: Thomas Keneally

3.54

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The tenth child of Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn, had consistently … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • australia
  • historical fiction
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28. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

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  • audiobook
  • ireland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

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29. There Are Rivers in the Sky

By: Elif Shafak

4.58

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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30. The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2)

By: Mark Billingham

4.41

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . . The second rip-roaring mystery from m… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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3.85

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4.07

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4.10

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3.96

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