15 Top fiction books like The Ripping Tree by Nikki Gemmell

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The Ripping Tree

By: Nikki Gemmell

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An illustrious family. A beautiful home. A shipwrecked young woman left on its doorstep. Don't …

If you liked the fiction plot in The Ripping Tree by Nikki Gemmell , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. The Riders

By: Tim Winton

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fred Scully waits at the arrival gate of an international airport, anxious to see his wife and seve… read more

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2. Tom Appleby, Convict Boy

By: Jackie French

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

At the tender age of eight, chimney sweep Tom Appleby is convicted of stealing and sentenced to dep… read more

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3. 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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4. 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 Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • historical
  • australia
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. 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 Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. 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 Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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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7. 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

Similar categories in Tony Birch's Women & Children book and Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) by Chris Hammer

8. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) book and Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • historical fiction
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9. The Mother

By: Jane Caro

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Just like the garden, the fuse box, the bills, bin night and blown light bulbs, this was just somet… read more

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  • thriller
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There's no need to charm your mother, she thought. Which is both a compliment and a burden."

-Jane Caro, The Mother

"The pall bearers were holding Pete's coffin, waiting to walk down the aisle—just like bridesmaids. The music began and they started to move, trying to keep pace with David Bowie's 'Changes'."

-Jane Caro, The Mother

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10. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

By: Anita Heiss

4.17

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in … read more

Similar categories in Anita Heiss's Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray book and Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family."

-Anita Heiss, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

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11. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's Restless Dolly Maunder book and Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. One Illumined Thread

By: Sally Colin-James

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A beautiful, enthralling and powerful story of three women separated by centuries, yet connected by… read more

Similar categories in Sally Colin-James's One Illumined Thread book and Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"As she leaves, I wonder if I said goodbye. If she did. So many of these unfinished and fleeting moments pinned, stitched, patched together in a never-whole recollection."

-Sally Colin-James, One Illumined Thread

"After rain, when the cloud is still low, the hard edges of Florence are softened like Leonardo's sfumato. Smoky lines transforming from shadow to a light that appears as if cast through white silk, s…"

-Sally Colin-James, One Illumined Thread

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13. Other People's Houses

By: Kelli Hawkins

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A stunningly tense, page-turning debut for all fans of The Woman in the Window and The Girl on the … read more

Similar categories in Kelli Hawkins's Other People's Houses book and Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
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14. The Caretaker

By: Gabriel Bergmoser

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

An isolated, empty ski resort in the off-season. A woman who doesn't want to be found. A man who ma… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Bergmoser's The Caretaker book and Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • fiction
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15. Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music

By: Archie Roach

4.63

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07S8QVZR5 A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen… read more

Similar categories in Archie Roach's Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music book and Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • australia
Cover of The Coast by Eleanor Limprecht

16. The Coast

By: Eleanor Limprecht

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Alice is only nine years old in 1910 when she is sent to the feared Coast Hospital lazaret at Littl… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Limprecht's The Coast book and Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

By: Peter Papathanasiou

3.88

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

A small town in outback Australia wakes to a crime of medieval savagery. A local schoolteacher i… read more

Similar categories in Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1) book and Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • fiction
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18. The Lost Jewels

By: Kirsty Manning

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Song of the Jade Lily comes a thrilling story of a family secret that leads … read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Manning's The Lost Jewels book and Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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19. Daughter of the Home Front

By: Jennie Jones

4.23

Format: 419 pages, Kindle Edition

A war. The girl she'd been. And the woman she was forced to become. A dazzling, heartbreaking story… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Jones's Daughter of the Home Front book and Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • historical
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Ripping Tree by Nikki Gemmell

20. The Ripping Tree

By: Nikki Gemmell

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An illustrious family. A beautiful home. A shipwrecked young woman left on its doorstep. Don't … read more

Similar categories in Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree book and Nikki Gemmell's The Ripping Tree

  • gothic
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • australia

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4.21

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4.41

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4.23

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Jane Caro

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