31 must-read fiction books like The Wattle Island Book Club by Sandie Docker

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The Wattle Island Book Club

By: Sandie Docker

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Is it ever too late to rewrite your own story? COURAGE In 1950, teenager Anne flees Wattle Is…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Wattle Island Book Club by Sandie Docker , here is a list of 31 books like this:

Cover of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

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 Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • australia
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of Sleepless in Stringybark Bay by Susan Duncan

2. Sleepless in Stringybark Bay

By: Susan Duncan

3.57

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

A page-turning, mysterious, funny and delightful story by the bestselling author of Salvation Creek… read more

Similar categories in Susan Duncan's Sleepless in Stringybark Bay book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. 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 Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • romance
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. 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

Similar categories in Pip Williams's The Bookbinder book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • books about books
  • 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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5. The Sugar Palace

By: Fiona McIntosh

3.89

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

One woman’s ambition Sydney, 1925: When Grace Fairweather meets the irresistible Londoner Alfie Swe… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McIntosh's The Sugar Palace book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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6. The Angry Women's Choir

By: Meg Bignell

4.07

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more

Similar categories in Meg Bignell's The Angry Women's Choir book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • australia
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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7. 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

Similar categories in Joanna Nell's Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • romance
  • australia
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
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8. 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

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's The Work Wives book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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9. Something to Talk About (Rose Hill, #2)

By: Rachael Johns

4.25

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

It's the opposite of love at first sight...or is it? Dairy farmer Tabitha Cooper-Jones has a heart… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's Something to Talk About (Rose Hill, #2) book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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10. The Other Bridget

By: Rachael Johns

4.16

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A feelgood romantic comedy by Australia's bestselling romance writer, ideal for fans of Emily Henry… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's The Other Bridget book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • books about books
  • 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

Similar categories in Amanda Hampson's The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1) book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Butterfly Collector

By: Tea Cooper

3.82

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A botanical illustration of a butterfly, a missing baby, and a twisty mystery fifty years in the ma… read more

Similar categories in Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Talented Mrs Greenway

By: Tea Cooper

3.93

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of … read more

Similar categories in Tea Cooper's The Talented Mrs Greenway book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • australia
  • historical fiction
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14. Keeping Up Appearances

By: Tricia Stringer

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

As tensions simmer in a small country town, three women are going to need more than CWA sausage rol… read more

Similar categories in Tricia Stringer's Keeping Up Appearances book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • romance
  • australia
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. The Money Club

By: Fiona Lowe

3.94

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

A gripping exploration of modern greed as bestselling Australian author Fiona Lowe unpicks the mora… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Lowe's The Money Club book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. All About Ella

By: Meredith Appleyard

4.31

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

At 70, and widowed, Ella is about to find out that blood is not always thicker than water. A wise a… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Appleyard's All About Ella book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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17. The Cryptic Clue (The Tea Ladies, #2)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Look who's back in hot water! The highly anticipated new novel in The Tea Ladies cosy crime series,… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Hampson's The Cryptic Clue (The Tea Ladies, #2) book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Orphans

By: Fiona McIntosh

4.13

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Orphan Fleur Appleby is adopted by a loving undertaker and his wife and she quickly develops a spec… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McIntosh's The Orphans book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • romance
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
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19. A Woman's Work

By: Victoria Purman

4.10

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The astonishingly rich prize of the 1956 Australian Women's Weekly cookery competition offers two w… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Purman's A Woman's Work book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • australia
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Foul Play (DCI Jack Hawksworth #5) by Fiona McIntosh

20. Foul Play (DCI Jack Hawksworth #5)

By: Fiona McIntosh

4.09

Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition

Superstar footballer Luca Bruni is being blackmailed for a night of lust he swears he didn’t partic… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McIntosh's Foul Play (DCI Jack Hawksworth #5) book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Daisy and Kate

By: Meredith Appleyard

4.13

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

Friendship lost and found again. Jealousy destroyed their friendship decades ago, but now they n… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Appleyard's Daisy and Kate book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Five Bush Weddings

By: Clare Fletcher

3.98

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

As a photographer, Stevie’s been to enough bush weddings to last a lifetime. When’s it going to be … read more

Similar categories in Clare Fletcher's Five Bush Weddings book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • romance
  • australia
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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23. The Bellbird River Country Choir

By: Sophie Green

3.74

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A warm-hearted story of fresh beginnings, unexpected friendships and the sustaining power of love a… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Green's The Bellbird River Country Choir book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Thursdays at Orange Blossom House

By: Sophie Green

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From the author of beloved Top Ten bestsellers The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Cl… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Green's Thursdays at Orange Blossom House book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • audiobook
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"A wistfulness settles on Patricia's face and Grace Maud recognises it; the mixture of regret and relief that arises when you know you've become the person you want to be only because some of the thin…"

-Sophie Green, Thursdays at Orange Blossom House

Cover of Birds of a Feather by Tricia Stringer

25. Birds of a Feather

By: Tricia Stringer

3.94

Format: 464 pages, ebook

When three women are thrown together by unusual circumstances, ruffled feelings are just the beginn… read more

Similar categories in Tricia Stringer's Birds of a Feather book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society by Sophie Green

26. Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society

By: Sophie Green

3.75

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Noosa Heads, 1987: Newly-divorced Cynthia has returned to her hometown from Los Angeles to reconnec… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Green's Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Wattle Island Book Club by Sandie Docker

27. The Wattle Island Book Club

By: Sandie Docker

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Is it ever too late to rewrite your own story? COURAGE In 1950, teenager Anne flees Wattle Is… read more

Similar categories in Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • romance
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • chick lit
  • australia
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • books about books
  • audiobook
Cover of Becoming Mrs Mulberry by Jackie French

28. Becoming Mrs Mulberry

By: Jackie French

4.28

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

From bestselling author Jackie French comes a book about the secrets we carry, those that we uneart… read more

Similar categories in Jackie French's Becoming Mrs Mulberry book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • romance
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wonderful Thing about Phoenix Rose by Josephine Moon

29. The Wonderful Thing about Phoenix Rose

By: Josephine Moon

4.02

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

Phoenix Rose, a 35-year-old neurodivergent teacher, is at a crossroads in her career and in her rel… read more

Similar categories in Josephine Moon's The Wonderful Thing about Phoenix Rose book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
Cover of Every Last Suspect by Nicola Moriarty

30. Every Last Suspect

By: Nicola Moriarty

3.95

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Who killed Harriet? Complicated, driven, loving; manipulative, irresistible, monstrous – whether… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Moriarty's Every Last Suspect book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Flying the Nest by Rachael Johns

31. Flying the Nest

By: Rachael Johns

4.13

Format: 448 pages, ebook

They say a change is as good as a holiday...but what if you don't want either? Is her family's h… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's Flying the Nest book and Sandie Docker's The Wattle Island Book Club

  • romance
  • australia
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

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