6 Top historical books like The Visitors by Jane Harrison

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The Visitors

By: Jane Harrison

3.86

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stan…

If you liked the historical plot in The Visitors by Jane Harrison , here is a list of 6 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 Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • 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 Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. 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

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • historical
  • audiobook
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4. 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

Similar categories in Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. 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

Similar categories in Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • historical
  • indigenous
  • australia
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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

Similar categories in Tony Birch's Women & Children book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • historical
  • indigenous
  • australia
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
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7. 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

Similar categories in Julia Baird's Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • 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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8. Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism

By: Leigh Sales

3.88

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream … read more

Similar categories in Leigh Sales's Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • australia
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9. 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

Similar categories in Lucy Treloar's Days of Innocence and Wonder book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Safe Haven book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • fiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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11. 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

Similar categories in Amanda Lohrey's The Conversion book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The In-Between

By: Christos Tsiolkas

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap … read more

Similar categories in Christos Tsiolkas's The In-Between book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • australia
  • fiction
"There was respite in history. The beligerence and intolerance of the contemporary age was of no consequence to the past. And there was no shouting."

-Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between

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13. Tilda Is Visible

By: Jane Tara

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Tilda Finch is diagnosed with invisibility, she's not overly surprised – she's felt invisible … read more

Similar categories in Jane Tara's Tilda Is Visible book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • fiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"Support groups are like bras – some aren’t that supportive."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"Once we’ve grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"How the world sees us, how other people see us is meaningless. What’s important is how we see ourselves. We must be visible to ourselves."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

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14. 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

Similar categories in Kate Mildenhall's The Hummingbird Effect book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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15. 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

Similar categories in Louise Milligan's Pheasants Nest book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Everyone and Everything

By: Nadine J. Cohen

4.29

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more

Similar categories in Nadine J. Cohen's Everyone and Everything book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • australia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Visitors by Jane Harrison

17. The Visitors

By: Jane Harrison

3.86

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stan… read more

Similar categories in Jane Harrison's The Visitors book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • school
  • historical
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • australia
  • plays
  • audiobook
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18. Salt River Road

By: Molly Schmidt

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of their mother’s death, the Tetley siblings’ lives are falling apart. Left to fen… read more

Similar categories in Molly Schmidt's Salt River Road book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • fiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"Over there somewhere, down at the house, Dad and the boys are moving in silent circles round each other. Even though inside us, nothing is quiet at all."

-Molly Schmidt, Salt River Road

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19. Sidelines

By: Karen Viggers

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A teenage sports game descends into a brawl after a controversial line call in a fast-paced contemp… read more

Similar categories in Karen Viggers's Sidelines book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • fiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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20. 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

Similar categories in Ellen Van Neerven's Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now book and Jane Harrison's The Visitors

  • australia
  • fiction
  • school
  • indigenous

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