9 best-selling historical fiction books like Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar

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Salt Creek

By: Lucy Treloar

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

1855. Failed entrepreneur Stanton Finch moves his family from Adelaide to the remote Coorong area o…

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1. The Birdman's Wife

By: Melissa Ashley

3.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a letter found tucked inside her famous husband's papers, The Birdman's Wifeimagines th… read more

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2. Mullumbimby

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare from one of Australia's most admired Ind… read more

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3. 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
  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
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4. 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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  • literary fiction
  • 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
  • australia
  • fiction
  • book club
  • 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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  • 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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7. 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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  • historical
  • book club
  • audiobook
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8. 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
  • book club
  • audiobook
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9. 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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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
"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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10. 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
  • historical
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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11. 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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  • historical
  • indigenous
  • australia
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • book club
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12. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

By: Julia Baird

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"

-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

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13. 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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  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
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14. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

By: Anita Heiss

4.17

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • australia
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family."

-Anita Heiss, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

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15. 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
  • book club
  • 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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16. Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year

By: Joanna Nell

3.77

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural … read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
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17. 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

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  • australia
  • book club
  • 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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18. 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
  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
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19. Did I Ever Tell You This?

By: Sam Neill

4.06

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar

20. Salt Creek

By: Lucy Treloar

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

1855. Failed entrepreneur Stanton Finch moves his family from Adelaide to the remote Coorong area o… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • australia
  • book club
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Vardaesia (The Medoran Chronicles, #5) by Lynette Noni

21. Vardaesia (The Medoran Chronicles, #5)

By: Lynette Noni

4.60

Format: 498 pages, Paperback

“When Day and Night combine and fight against one Enemy, then Dark and Light shall meet mid-strike… read more

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  • audiobook
"Do not doubt in darkness what you believed in times of light."

-Lynette Noni, Vardaesia (The Medoran Chronicles, #5)

"You know the funny thing about regrets?" Jordan said, his eyes full of mischief. "You don't know you're going to have them until afterwards."

-Lynette Noni, Vardaesia (The Medoran Chronicles, #5)

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

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4.21

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3.96

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4.41

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Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

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4.21

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4.07

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4.31

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