13 Best historical fiction books like From the Ashes by Deborah Challinor

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From the Ashes

By: Deborah Challinor

4.07

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Four women. Three families. One decade of incredible change. Auckland,1956. Allie Manaia works a…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in From the Ashes by Deborah Challinor , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Lavender Garden

By: Lucinda Riley

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

An aristocratic French family, a legendary chateau, and buried secrets with the power to destroy tw… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction

2. The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3)

By: Mary Stewart

4.02

Format: 982 pages, Paperback

Arthur Pendragon is King! Unchallenged on the battlefield, he melds the country together in a time … read more

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3. The Angel Tree

By: Lucinda Riley

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Thirty years have passed since Greta left Marchmont Hall, a grand and beautiful house nestled in th… read more

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4. The Dressmaker

By: Rosalie Ham

3.50

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture--soon to be a major motion pictu… 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

Similar categories in Lucinda Riley's Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt (The Seven Sisters, #8) book and Deborah Challinor's From the Ashes

  • historical
  • historical fiction
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6. Light at Lavelle

By: Paullina Simons

4.37

Format: 708 pages, Kindle Edition

'Paullina Simons pulls on every heartstring, she's a master of epic love stories' COLLEEN HOOVER … read more

Similar categories in Paullina Simons's Light at Lavelle book and Deborah Challinor's From the Ashes

  • historical
  • historical fiction
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7. Take Two

By: Danielle Hawkins

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant, funny new novel from the bestselling, beloved Danielle Hawkins'Take Two is that rare a… read more

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8. The Spy's Wife

By: Fiona McIntosh

4.11

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated new historical adventure from the bestselling author of The Champagne War. … read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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9. Remember Me

By: Charity Norman

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

They never found Leah Parata. Not a boot, not a backpack, not a turquoise beanie. After she left me… read more

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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 Deborah Challinor's From the Ashes

  • historical
  • historical fiction
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11. Gone

By: Glenna Thomson

3.97

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

A missing girl ... a cold case ... a sister who won’t give up … 'I was there on the day Rebecca … read more

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12. Liar

By: Lesley Pearse

3.90

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

Amelia White dreamed of being a reporter, but the closest she'd come was selling advertising in the… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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13. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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14. 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

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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15. Straight Up

By: Ruby Tui

4.38

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable child… read more

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"True leadership is the opposite of individualism, the opposite of one person standing above the rest. It's an encompassing, inclusive thing. I never liked the top-down way of leading. Even if I've be…"

-Ruby Tui, Straight Up

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16. One of Those Mothers

By: Megan Nicol Reed

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

The residents of Point Heed keep nice houses and sign up as parent help at the local school. Occasi… read more

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17. The Axeman's Carnival

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more

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18. Harbouring

By: Jenny Pattrick

3.88

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1839 and Huw Pengellin is desperate to find a better life for his family than the one he ekes… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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19. 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 Deborah Challinor's From the Ashes

  • historical
  • book club
  • historical fiction
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20. The Guest House by the Sea

By: Faith Hogan

4.21

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

People come to the guest house for fresh air and views across the Atlantic. But if they're lucky, t… read more

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21. The Long and Winding Road: the extraordinary life story of Lesley Pearse

By: Lesley Pearse

4.37

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

'I couldn’t put this book down. Although harrowing at times, Lesley’s indomitable spirit shines thr… read more

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22. 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

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  • historical
  • book club
  • historical fiction
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23. The Girl Who Wants (Shee McQueen, #1)

By: Amy Vansant

4.33

Format: 471 pages, Kindle Edition

Shee wants a home. Shee McQueen grew up skip tracing and hunting military criminals with her fat… read more

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24. The Lost Letters of Evelyn Wright

By: Clare Swatman

3.89

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

Starting over can be hard to do… So when mum of two Beth moves out of her beloved marital home and … read more

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25. The Silent Boy (Sloane & Maddie, Peril Awaits #1)

By: Cheryl Bradshaw

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Private Investigator Sloane Monroe is about to face the most challenging case of her life, and this… read more

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26. Becoming Beth

By: Meredith Appleyard

4.01

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Beth has forgotten the core truth of her own life. In a cruel move, her dead mother is about to rem… read more

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27. A Soft Place to Fall

By: Liz Flaherty

4.35

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

Early McGrath doesn't want freedom from her thirty-year marriage to Nash, but when it's forced upon… read more

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28. From the Ashes

By: Deborah Challinor

4.07

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Four women. Three families. One decade of incredible change. Auckland,1956. Allie Manaia works a… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Challinor's From the Ashes book and Deborah Challinor's From the Ashes

  • historical
  • book club
  • historical fiction
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29. The Tiger Catcher (End of Forever, #1)

By: Paullina Simons

3.17

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

The first novel in a beautiful, heartbreaking new trilogy from Paullina Simons, the international b… read more

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  • historical fiction
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30. A Beggar's Kingdom (End of Forever, #2)

By: Paullina Simons

3.82

Format: 641 pages, Paperback

The second novel in Paullina Simons's stunning End of Forever saga continues the heartbreaking stor… read more

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  • historical fiction
"You looked at me like I broke your heart, yet I didn't know you at all."

-Paullina Simons, A Beggar's Kingdom (End of Forever, #2)

"What was the point of falling in love if you stayed exactly as you were?"

-Paullina Simons, A Beggar's Kingdom (End of Forever, #2)

"The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. [...] The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything."

-Paullina Simons, A Beggar's Kingdom (End of Forever, #2)

"Sometimes the beast needs to be loved before it can be lovable. Love her in her sin, that's what divine love means. Love her with the highest form of love on earth. Love everything. Then you will see…"

-Paullina Simons, A Beggar's Kingdom (End of Forever, #2)

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31. The Life of Dai

By: Dai Henwood

4.43

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving and profoundly uplifting story about living with joy, even in the face of adversity… read more

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11 Best historical books like From the Ashes by Deborah Challinor

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Lucinda Riley

3.69

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

Lucinda Riley

4.50

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Light at Lavelle

Paullina Simons

4.37

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The Spy's Wife

Fiona McIntosh

4.11

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Trent Dalton

4.41

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How to Loiter in a Turf War

Coco Solid

4.23

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Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2)

Michael Bennett

3.94

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Lioness

Emily Perkins

3.43

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