10 best-selling nonfiction books like A High Country Life by Philippa Cameron

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A High Country Life

By: Philippa Cameron

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A High Country memoir of life through the seasons on a large sheep station, with delicious recipes.…

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1. A life on Gorge River: New Zealand's remotest family

By: Robert Long

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Robert Long and his family - wife Catherine, and children Christan (17) and Robyn (14) - live in co… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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2. The Pearl Sister (The Seven Sisters #4)

By: Lucinda Riley

3.77

Format: 52 pages,

CeCe D'Apliese has never felt she fitted in anywhere. Following the death of her father, the elusiv… read more

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3. Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different and How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men

By: Steve Biddulph , Paul Stanish

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Explores the development of boys from birth to manhood and discusses the relationship between sport… read more

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  • nonfiction

4. London

By: Edward Rutherfurd

2.69

Format: 88 pages,

Here is Edward Rutherfurd's classic novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning two thousand years… read more

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5. Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt (The Seven Sisters, #8)

By: Lucinda Riley

4.50

Format: 580 pages, Kindle Edition

1928, Paris A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle, precoci… read more

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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

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"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. Devotion

By: Hannah Kent

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more

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"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

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8. Honeybee

By: Craig Silvey

4.40

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more

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"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

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9. Lone Wolf (Orphan X, #9)

By: Gregg Hurwitz

4.37

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep und… read more

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10. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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11. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

By: Kate Atkinson

3.71

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more

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"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."

-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

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12. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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13. All My Mothers

By: Joanna Glen

4.44

Format: 400 pages, ebook

From the author of the Costa shortlisted debut, The Other Half of Augusta Hope, comes the story of … read more

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"What the hell is a man if he can’t cry for his son?"

-Joanna Glen, All My Mothers

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14. The Bookseller at the End of the World

By: Ruth Shaw

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."

-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World

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15. 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

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16. Here For a Good Time: Organised thoughts from a disorganised mind

By: Chris Parker

3.90

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Comedian Chris Parker brings his brilliant comic wit to the page. Star of stand-up, winner of Cele… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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18. When Things Are Alive They Hum

By: Hannah Bent

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781761150081. Marlowe and Harper share a bond de… read more

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19. The Sapphire Daughter (The Lost Daughters #4)

By: Soraya M. Lane

4.38

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Lake Geneva, 1951: Delphine looked up at Florian, her fingers grazing his cheek as she pressed her … read more

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20. The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard

By: Natasha Lester

4.12

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

Three generations. One chance to prove themselves. Can the women of the Bricard fashion dynasty fin… read more

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21. Best of Friends

By: Kamila Shamsie

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Home Fire comes the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendsh… read more

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"Perhaps friendship was not only about what you said to each other, but also about what you didn't"

-Kamila Shamsie, Best of Friends

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22. The Secretary

By: Renée Knight

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Renée Knight follows up her international sensation Disclaimer with this shivery tale of psychologi… read more

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23. After the Tampa

By: Abbas Nazari

4.69

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

The heart-rending story of a child 'Tampa' refugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. Suitcase of Dreams

By: Tania Blanchard

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

From the bestselling author of The Girl from Munich, a sweeping, dramatic tale of love and identity… read more

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25. A High Country Life

By: Philippa Cameron

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A High Country memoir of life through the seasons on a large sheep station, with delicious recipes.… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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26. Bookshop Dogs

By: Ruth Shaw

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Heartwarming and charming stories of dogs and books from the bestselling author of The Bookseller a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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27. A Remarkable Woman

By: Jules Van Mil

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From postwar Paris to Australia to find love, fashion and freedom One woman's quest to follow he… read more

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28. Excommunicated: A multigenerational story of leaving the Exclusive Bretheren

By: Craig Hoyle

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

After coming out as gay, Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the New Zealand Exclusive Brethren and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Faking It: My Life in Transition by Kyle Mewburn

29. Faking It: My Life in Transition

By: Kyle Mewburn

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Kyle Mewburn grew up in the sunburnt, unsophisticated Brisbane suburbs of the 1960s and '70s in a h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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30. Solo: Backcountry Adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand

By: Hazel Phillips

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One afternoon in Auckland, journalist Hazel Phillips decided to close her laptop and head for the h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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31. BBQ Economics: How money works and why it matters

By: Liam Dann

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Should I fix or float? Is now a good time to buy — or sell? What do self-made billionaires know tha… read more

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Robert Long

3.60

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The Bookseller at the End of the World

Ruth Shaw

4.25

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After the Tampa

Abbas Nazari

4.69

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Philippa Cameron

4.28

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Ruth Shaw

4.25

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Suzanne Heywood

4.27

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Sam Neill

4.06

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Ruby Tui

4.38

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