21 must-read fiction books like The Wakes by Dianne Yarwood

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The Wakes

By: Dianne Yarwood

3.92

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

It's winter in Sydney and the lives of two strangers have fallen apart. Newly separated and in need…

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Cover of Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder by Kerryn Mayne

1. Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder

By: Kerryn Mayne

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day,… read more

Similar categories in Kerryn Mayne's Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder book and Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. The Things That Matter Most

By: Gabbie Stroud

4.44

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of… read more

Similar categories in Gabbie Stroud's The Things That Matter Most book and Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. 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 Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • romance
  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Without Further ADO

By: Jessica Dettmann

3.72

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Can a modern woman take lessons in love from Shakespeare? Beth O'Leary meets 10 Things I Hate About… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Dettmann's Without Further ADO book and Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • romance
  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. 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 Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Joy Moody is Out of Time

By: Kerryn Mayne

3.96

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

On her twin daughters’ twenty-first birthday, Joy Moody – proprietor of Bayside’s premier laundroma… read more

Similar categories in Kerryn Mayne's Joy Moody is Out of Time book and Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The Redgum River Retreat

By: Sandie Docker

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The heart-warming new novel by the bestselling author of The Kookaburra Creek Hotel and The Wattle … read more

Similar categories in Sandie Docker's The Redgum River Retreat book and Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. 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 Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance

By: Kate Solly

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meredith established the Copeton Crochet Collective (no knitters please) because it would be like h… read more

Similar categories in Kate Solly's Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance book and Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The problem was with the constant deliciousness of a new idea. It was always more exciting to start a new project than to plod away with one whose appeal had gone stale."

-Kate Solly, Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance

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11. The Running Club

By: Ali Lowe

3.92

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

The rules of the running club are the same as they have always been: keep your breath steady, keep … read more

Similar categories in Ali Lowe's The Running Club book and Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. The Glass House

By: Anne Buist

3.89

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to The Menzies. Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic hi… read more

Similar categories in Anne Buist's The Glass House book and Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. 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 Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The One and Only Dolly Jamieson

By: Lisa Ireland

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The One and Only Dolly Jamieson is a compelling feel-good novel featuring a proud and gutsy heroine… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Ireland's The One and Only Dolly Jamieson book and Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. I’ll Leave You With This

By: Kylie Ladd

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

I’ll Leave You With This is a heartbreaking, funny, thought-provoking and honest novel about a brot… read more

Similar categories in Kylie Ladd's I’ll Leave You With This book and Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. 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 Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Heart Is a Star

By: Megan Rogers

3.64

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Absorbing, lyrical, vivid and compulsively readable - The Heart is a Star is beautiful storytelling… read more

Similar categories in Megan Rogers's The Heart Is a Star book and Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Fancies

By: Kim Lock

3.49

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Abigail Fancy returns to the tiny town that the Fancys have ruled for decades, fresh from her secon… read more

Similar categories in Kim Lock's The Fancies book and Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Prettier If She Smiled More

By: Toni Jordan

3.63

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

'A contemporary comic masterpiece. Practically every page boasts lines redolent of humour, wit and … read more

Similar categories in Toni Jordan's Prettier If She Smiled More book and Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Wakes by Dianne Yarwood

20. The Wakes

By: Dianne Yarwood

3.92

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

It's winter in Sydney and the lives of two strangers have fallen apart. Newly separated and in need… read more

Similar categories in Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes book and Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • romance
  • relationships
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
Cover of Family Baggage by Ilsa Evans

21. Family Baggage

By: Ilsa Evans

3.58

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Packing up her mother's life, George instead unpacks her own... A deeply insightful and wryly funny… read more

Similar categories in Ilsa Evans's Family Baggage book and Dianne Yarwood's The Wakes

  • fiction
  • contemporary

20 must-read contemporary books like The Wakes by Dianne Yarwood

Transform Your Habits

Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder

Kerryn Mayne

4.07

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The Things That Matter Most

Gabbie Stroud

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year

Joanna Nell

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Without Further ADO

Jessica Dettmann

3.72

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Back on Track

Tricia Stringer

3.95

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Tilda Is Visible

Jane Tara

4.02

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The Accident

Fiona Lowe

3.86

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The Chocolate Factory

Mary-Lou Stephens

3.96

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