9 Best nonfiction books like Bennelong and Phillip by Kate Fullagar

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Bennelong and Phillip

By: Kate Fullagar

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australia…

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Cover of 1788 by Tim Flannery, Watkin Tench, None

1. 1788

By: Tim Flannery , Watkin Tench , None

4.11

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

'I do not hesitate to declare that the natives of New South Wales possess a considerable portion of… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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2. 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

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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3. 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

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  • australia
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4. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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  • australia
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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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

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  • australia
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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

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  • australia
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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

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
"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. 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

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  • australia
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9. Sanctuary

By: Garry Disher

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more

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  • australia
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10. All the Words We Know

By: Bruce Nash

3.58

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A wickedly funny and genuinely moving novel about memory, language and love, perfect for fans of Ri… read more

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  • australia
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11. 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

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  • australia
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12. 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

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  • australia
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13. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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14. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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15. Praiseworthy

By: Alexis Wright

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale… read more

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  • australia
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16. 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

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  • australia
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17. It Takes a Town

By: Aoife Clifford

3.63

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

So many people had reason to hate her, but did anyone have reason to kill her?   Everyone dies fa… read more

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  • australia
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18. 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

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  • australia
Cover of The Work by Bri Lee

19. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

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20. Salonika Burning

By: Gail Jones

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Greece, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war. … read more

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  • australia
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21. Hospital

By: Sanya Rushdi

3.70

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

A strong and courageous novel that deftly tackles psychosis. In Melbourne, Australia, a woman in h… read more

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  • australia
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22. Kind of, Sort of, Maybe, But Probably Not

By: Imbi Neeme

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A charming, nostalgic, quirky, uplifting novel of people young and old finding their tribe, gaining… read more

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  • australia
Cover of Bennelong and Phillip by Kate Fullagar

23. Bennelong and Phillip

By: Kate Fullagar

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australia… read more

Similar categories in Kate Fullagar's Bennelong and Phillip book and Kate Fullagar's Bennelong and Phillip

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Under a Rock: A Memoir by Chris Stein

24. Under a Rock: A Memoir

By: Chris Stein

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

At its heart, Under A Rock is a love story. The codependent bond between Chris Stein and Debbie Har… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map by Grantlee Kieza

25. 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
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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26. No Church in the Wild

By: Murray Middleton

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

Five years after violence erupted between young migrants and local police in Melbourne's inner west… read more

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  • australia
Cover of Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law by Alecia Simmonds

27. Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law

By: Alecia Simmonds

4.63

Format: 670 pages, Kindle Edition

Award-winning author Alecia Simmonds uncovers a hidden history of love and heartbreak in the archiv… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media

By: Amy McQuire

4.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From one of this country' s leading Indigenous journalists comes a collection of fierce and powerfu… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Bee Miles: Australia's famous bohemian rebel, and the untold story behind the legend by Rose Ellis

29. Bee Miles: Australia's famous bohemian rebel, and the untold story behind the legend

By: Rose Ellis

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The untold story of the uncompromising and fearless woman who captivated mid-20th century Australia… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • australia
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30. Always Will Be

By: Mykaela Saunders

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question:… read more

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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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Kate Fullagar

4.16

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Under a Rock: A Memoir

Chris Stein

3.74

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Grantlee Kieza

4.48

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Safe Haven

Shankari Chandran

4.18

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Garry Disher

3.99

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Glenna Thomson

3.97

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Annie de Monchaux

4.05

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