11 Best historical fiction books like Gulliver's Wife by Lauren Chater

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Gulliver's Wife

By: Lauren Chater

3.69

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Birth. Death. Wonder … One woman’s journey to the edge of love and loyalty from the bestselling aut…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Gulliver's Wife by Lauren Chater , here is a list of 11 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 Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • 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 Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • book club
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • 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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4. 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 Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • drama
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Drowning

By: Bryan Brown

3.56

Format: 288 pages, ebook

With sales of over 16,000 copies of Sweet Jimmy , Bryan Brown's distinctive storytelling voice cont… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Brown's The Drowning book and Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • book club
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • book club
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • book club
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Holly Ringland's The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding book and Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • book club
  • fiction
  • 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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9. The Accident

By: Fiona Lowe

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrible crash... but the facts don't add up. Worlds converge and two women's lives are torn … read more

Similar categories in Fiona Lowe's The Accident book and Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • drama
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10. 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 Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

Similar categories in Craig Silvey's Runt book and Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. 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 Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison by Meredith Jaffe

14. The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison

By: Meredith Jaffe

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Can a wedding dress save a bunch of hardened crims? The Full Monty meets Orange is the New Black in… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Jaffe's The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison book and Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • adult
  • book club
  • 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 Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. A Room Made of Leaves

By: Kate Grenville

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney-had wr… read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's A Room Made of Leaves book and Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there."

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to la…"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was …"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"My husband had no one and that must be why some central part of him, some steady sense of who he was, had years ago gone like a mouse to hide away in its hole. But he could never admit the pain. He h…"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

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17. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree

By: Alli Parker

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more

Similar categories in Alli Parker's At the Foot of the Cherry Tree book and Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of Gulliver's Wife by Lauren Chater

18. Gulliver's Wife

By: Lauren Chater

3.69

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Birth. Death. Wonder … One woman’s journey to the edge of love and loyalty from the bestselling aut… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife book and Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • drama
Cover of The Milliner of Bendigo by Darry Fraser

19. The Milliner of Bendigo

By: Darry Fraser

4.10

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

Trouble with the law, a missing sister, and a growing attachment to the wrong man - Evie Emerson ha… read more

Similar categories in Darry Fraser's The Milliner of Bendigo book and Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • historical
  • historical fiction
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20. The Radio Hour

By: Victoria Purman

4.24

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Nurses' War comes this charming, funny, pointed look at the gold… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Purman's The Radio Hour book and Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • drama
"Too many women kept too many secrets. For too long, women had buried their ambitions and their intelligence, succumbed to the law of the land made by men, and put up with behaviour and situations no …"

-Victoria Purman, The Radio Hour

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21. 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 Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife

  • fiction
  • audiobook

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