17 must-read historical books like Secrets My Father Kept by Rachel Givney

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Secrets My Father Kept

By: Rachel Givney

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Set in Poland on the eve of the Second World War, Secrets My Father Kept is the gripping story of a…

If you liked the historical plot in Secrets My Father Kept by Rachel Givney , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. The Perfumer's Secret

By: Fiona McIntosh

3.69

Format: 440 pages, ebook

On the eve of the First World War, Fleurette, the only daughter of the wealthy Delacroix perfume ho… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McIntosh's The Perfumer's Secret book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Past the Shallows

By: Favel Parrett

3.49

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Brothers Joe, Harry and Miles live with their father, an abalone fisherman, on the south-east coast… read more

Similar categories in Favel Parrett's Past the Shallows book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • fiction

3. Bye Bye Baby

By: Fiona McIntosh

3.81

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

It all began in Brighton. Now there is a killer on the loose. Scotland Yard's brightest talent is c… read more

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4. The Family Farm

By: Fiona Palmer

3.50

Format: None pages,

Isabelle Simpson longs to take over the family farm, but her ailing father won't give her a chance.… read more

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5. 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 Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"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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6. Black Sheep

By: Judy Nunn

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

Black sheep - there's one in every family . . . Orphaned at sixteen, James Wakefield was determi… read more

Similar categories in Judy Nunn's Black Sheep book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Sugar Palace

By: Fiona McIntosh

3.89

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

One woman’s ambition Sydney, 1925: When Grace Fairweather meets the irresistible Londoner Alfie Swe… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McIntosh's The Sugar Palace book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Champagne War

By: Fiona McIntosh

4.02

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

The heart-stopping new blockbuster by the bestselling author of The Diamond Hunter . In the summer… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McIntosh's The Champagne War book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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

Similar categories in Fiona McIntosh's The Spy's Wife book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Long Road Home

By: Fiona McCallum

3.74

Format: 432 pages, ebook

You can't find where you truly belong until you discover who you really are... Alice Hamilton is… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McCallum's The Long Road Home book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Dead Tide (DCI Jack Hawksworth #4)

By: Fiona McIntosh

3.94

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Superintendent Jack Hawksworth of Scotland Yard has headed up three major serial operatio… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McIntosh's Dead Tide (DCI Jack Hawksworth #4) book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The French Agent

By: Belinda Alexandra

4.10

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

A world in chaos. Two very different women. And the mystery of the man who may connect them. The st… read more

Similar categories in Belinda Alexandra's The French Agent book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Foul Play (DCI Jack Hawksworth #5)

By: Fiona McIntosh

4.09

Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition

Superstar footballer Luca Bruni is being blackmailed for a night of lust he swears he didn’t partic… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McIntosh's Foul Play (DCI Jack Hawksworth #5) book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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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17. The Diamond Hunter

By: Fiona McIntosh

4.15

Format: 432 pages, ebook

‘It won’t matter how many diamonds you find if you lose the love of your child.’ When six-year-o… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McIntosh's The Diamond Hunter book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Zwischen Welten

By: Juli Zeh

3.68

Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition

Zwanzig Jahre sind vergangen: Als sich Stefan und Theresa zufällig in Hamburg über den Weg laufen, … read more

Similar categories in Juli Zeh's Zwischen Welten book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Crimson Lake (Crimson Lake, #1) by Candice Fox

19. Crimson Lake (Crimson Lake, #1)

By: Candice Fox

3.98

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

Crimson Lake, by Sydney-based, Ned Kelly Award-winning author Candice Fox, is a thrilling contempor… read more

Similar categories in Candice Fox's Crimson Lake (Crimson Lake, #1) book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. 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

Similar categories in Alli Parker's At the Foot of the Cherry Tree book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Girl from London

By: Olivia Spooner

4.04

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1940. Ruth, a young schoolteacher, volunteers as an escort helping to evacuate children fro… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Spooner's The Girl from London book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4)

By: Sarah Bailey

3.91

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

DS Gemma Woodstock returns to Smithson in a mysterious new thriller from the bestselling author of … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bailey's Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4) book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. A Woman of Courage

By: Tania Blanchard

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, moving story of love, tenacity and the right to be heard by bestseller Tania Blanchard,… read more

Similar categories in Tania Blanchard's A Woman of Courage book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. The Call

By: Gavin Strawhan

3.84

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Allen & Unwin Fiction Prize 2023A brilliant debut crime novel centred on a 501 deport… read more

Similar categories in Gavin Strawhan's The Call book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • audiobook
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25. In a Great Southern Land

By: Mary-Anne O'Connor

3.85

Format: 416 pages, ebook

From the soft green hills of Ireland to the wild Shipwreck Coast of southern Victoria, the rich far… read more

Similar categories in Mary-Anne O'Connor's In a Great Southern Land book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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26. A Life of Her Own

By: Ellen Feldman

3.58

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

When life doesn't give you a happily ever after ...New York City, 1945. The war is over, the men ar… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Feldman's A Life of Her Own book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • historical fiction
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27. Secrets My Father Kept

By: Rachel Givney

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Set in Poland on the eve of the Second World War, Secrets My Father Kept is the gripping story of a… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • poland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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28. Dressed by Iris

By: Mary-Anne O'Connor

4.14

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A vivid, romantic story of Sydney in the 1930s Depression - the heartbreak, the glamour, the dark u… read more

Similar categories in Mary-Anne O'Connor's Dressed by Iris book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • historical fiction
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29. Sisters of Freedom

By: Mary-Anne O'Connor

4.11

Format: 384 pages, ebook

'Rich, transportive historical fiction with empowering, female characters ... meticulously research… read more

Similar categories in Mary-Anne O'Connor's Sisters of Freedom book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • historical
  • historical fiction
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30. Never to Surrender

By: Mary-Anne O'Connor

4.25

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

A young German-Australian soldier meets a passionate Cretan girl and together they are caught up in… read more

Similar categories in Mary-Anne O'Connor's Never to Surrender book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • historical fiction
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31. The Eighth Wonder

By: Tania Farrelly

4.10

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The Suffragette meets The Greatest Showman in this story ofpassion and courage, as a young feminist… read more

Similar categories in Tania Farrelly's The Eighth Wonder book and Rachel Givney's Secrets My Father Kept

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Fiona McIntosh

3.69

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Favel Parrett

3.49

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Pip Williams

4.07

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Judy Nunn

4.05

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Fiona McIntosh

3.89

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Joanna Nell

3.77

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Mary-Lou Stephens

3.96

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Victoria Purman

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