7 must-read biography books like The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History by Adam Courtenay

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The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History

By: Adam Courtenay

4.01

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia’s best-loved story…

If you liked the biography plot in The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History by Adam Courtenay , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1)

By: David Hunt

3.14

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2014 Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Nonfiction Girt. No word… read more

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2. Home Fire

By: Kamila Shamsie

4.09

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's de… read more

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3. Dark Emu

By: Bruce Pascoe

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more

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4. The Dressmaker

By: Rosalie Ham

3.50

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture--soon to be a major motion pictu… read more

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5. Back on Track

By: Tricia Stringer

3.95

Format: 454 pages, Paperback

Bestselling author and voice of Australian storytelling Tricia Stringer tackles troubled relationsh… read more

Similar categories in Tricia Stringer's Back on Track book and Adam Courtenay's The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History

  • audiobook
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6. 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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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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7. Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

4.07

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands. In the desolate outback tow… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1) book and Adam Courtenay's The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History

  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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8. Birds in Flight

By: Anni Taylor

4.18

Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition

Two estranged sisters reunite to solve the harrowing mystery of their missing mother. In 1998, t… read more

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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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9. Showing Up

By: Nedd Brockmann

4.34

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable–the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body ‘throug… read more

Similar categories in Nedd Brockmann's Showing Up book and Adam Courtenay's The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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10. 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

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  • audiobook
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11. 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

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  • historical
  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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12. The Wild Silence

By: Raynor Winn

3.98

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

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13. The Weekend

By: Charlotte Wood

3.38

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three women in their seventies reunite for one last, life-changing weekend in the beach house of t… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
"No, it wasn't lovers but friends - these courageous, shining people - you pursued, romanced with dinners and gifts and weekends away."

-Charlotte Wood, The Weekend

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14. The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History

By: Adam Courtenay

4.01

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia’s best-loved story… read more

Similar categories in Adam Courtenay's The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History book and Adam Courtenay's The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History

  • biography
  • history
  • adventure
  • travel
  • historical
  • maritime
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Macquarie

By: Grantlee Kieza

4.38

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history. … read more

Similar categories in Grantlee Kieza's Macquarie book and Adam Courtenay's The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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16. More Than I Ever Had

By: Rae Blair

4.27

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

1789, Birmingham, Theo makes a life changing decision and sails to the other side of the world as p… read more

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17. Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map

By: Grantlee Kieza

4.48

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map In 1810, Matthew… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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18. Hell Ship

By: Michael Veitch

4.11

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken… read more

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  • history
  • adventure
  • travel
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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19. Moonlite: The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody End of the Bushrangers

By: Garry Linnell

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Charismatic, intelligent and handsome, George Scott is unlike any other bushranger. Born into a pri… read more

Similar categories in Garry Linnell's Moonlite: The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody End of the Bushrangers book and Adam Courtenay's The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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20. The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower: My Life (without the boring bits)

By: Paul Hogan

4.31

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

The icon and legend at last tells his story his way -- without the boring bits Paul Hogan first ap… read more

Similar categories in Paul Hogan's The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower: My Life (without the boring bits) book and Adam Courtenay's The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • australia
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21. Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers

By: Peter FitzSimons

4.27

Format: 868 pages, Kindle Edition

The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storytel… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • travel
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook

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Tricia Stringer

3.95

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Trent Dalton

4.41

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4.07

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Anni Taylor

4.18

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Sleepless in Stringybark Bay

Susan Duncan

3.57

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Tricia Stringer

3.95

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Fiona McIntosh

3.89

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Kerryn Mayne

4.07

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