14 Best australia books like Hell Ship by Michael Veitch

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Hell Ship

By: Michael Veitch

4.11

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken…

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1. Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

By: Joan Druett

4.05

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

 Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island … read more

Similar categories in Joan Druett's Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World book and Michael Veitch's Hell Ship

  • history
  • adventure
  • travel
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. 1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet

By: David Hill

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In 1788, 11 small ships set sail from England on an eight-month-long voyage over the roughest of se… read more

Similar categories in David Hill's 1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet book and Michael Veitch's Hell Ship

  • history
  • travel
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • australia
"The First Fleet was the biggest single overseas migration the world had ever seen at the time."

-David Hill, 1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet

"Far from seeing it as Lord Ellenborough's 'summer excursion', most of the convicts regarded transportation as the most severe punishment available next to death, one that was intended 'to purge, dete…"

-David Hill, 1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet

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3. Batavia

By: Peter FitzSimons

4.25

Format: 490 pages, Hardcover

The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporati… read more

Similar categories in Peter FitzSimons's Batavia book and Michael Veitch's Hell Ship

  • history
  • adventure
  • travel
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook

4. Opium: A History

By: Martin Booth

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcoti… read more

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5. 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

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Michael Veitch's Hell Ship

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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6. The Bluffs

By: Kyle Perry

3.75

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

'Tense, atmospheric and unsettling, this book will stay with you long after you turn the last page,… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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7. 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

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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8. Time of My Life

By: Myf Warhurst

4.13

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

From the much-loved Myf Warhurst comes a captivating and joyous memoir of wisdom, humour and heart … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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9. All Our Shimmering Skies

By: Trent Dalton

3.95

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering Skies… read more

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's All Our Shimmering Skies book and Michael Veitch's Hell Ship

  • historical
  • australia
  • audiobook
"In all these years, he said, he was yet to come across a single gold nugget that brought any real happiness to the person who held it. Long coat bob said his family had found one large nugget long ag…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

"She spots a large army of green ants building a nest between two thin twig branches of a flimsy tree with floppy green leaves. "Look at this, Yukio," Molly whispers, leaning into the tree where a lin…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

"And you wouldn't believe what he said then, Tom Berry whispered to his enraptured audience. He said, he and his family saw no value whatsoever in all that gold. He said real treasure was a fresh wate…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

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10. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family

By: Susan Jonusas

3.45

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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11. Did I Ever Tell You This?

By: Sam Neill

4.06

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more

Similar categories in Sam Neill's Did I Ever Tell You This? book and Michael Veitch's Hell Ship

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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12. Any Ordinary Day

By: Leigh Sales

4.13

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries."

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"I felt this lightness settling on me, which was new. It's not closure, because I will live with Matt's death and the pain of it every day and the grief will stay with me. I just felt that I was carry…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"Stuart Diver has had years of extensive professional counselling to retrain his brain so that he can replace the thought of how helpless he was when Sally dies with the truth that he tried everything…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

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13. Sister Viv

By: Grantlee Kieza

4.65

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to s… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Eggshell Skull

By: Bri Lee

4.36

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they … read more

Similar categories in Bri Lee's Eggshell Skull book and Michael Veitch's Hell Ship

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"The ugly parts of my life kept crashing into the beautiful ones."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of fucks to give"

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of ducks to give."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

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15. The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

By: Chloe Hooper

4.05

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in V… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Hooper's The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire book and Michael Veitch's Hell Ship

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
  • audiobook
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16. The Boys' Club

By: Michael Warner

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

The Boys' Club is the must-read inside story behind the power and politics of AFL, Australia's bigg… read more

Similar categories in Michael Warner's The Boys' Club book and Michael Veitch's Hell Ship

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
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17. One Hundred Years of Dirt

By: Rick Morton

4.06

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you’ve scraped together enough for the ticket… read more

Similar categories in Rick Morton's One Hundred Years of Dirt book and Michael Veitch's Hell Ship

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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18. Hell Ship

By: Michael Veitch

4.11

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken… read more

Similar categories in Michael Veitch's Hell Ship book and Michael Veitch's Hell Ship

  • history
  • adventure
  • medical
  • historical
  • travel
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • scotland
  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of The Long Farewell: A history of the first migrations to Australia by Don Charlwood

19. The Long Farewell: A history of the first migrations to Australia

By: Don Charlwood

4.20

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of NSW Premier’s Literary Award During the nineteenth century more than a million people, … read more

Similar categories in Don Charlwood's The Long Farewell: A history of the first migrations to Australia book and Michael Veitch's Hell Ship

  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Cooper Not Out

By: Justin Smith

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A delightfully uplifting Australian novel about the joy of discovering your greatest potential. … read more

Similar categories in Justin Smith's Cooper Not Out book and Michael Veitch's Hell Ship

  • australia
  • audiobook

16 Best audiobook books like Hell Ship by Michael Veitch

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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

Joan Druett

4.05

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Batavia

Peter FitzSimons

4.25

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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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The Bluffs

Kyle Perry

3.75

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21 Best audiobook books like Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

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Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Chanel Contos

4.56

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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Honeybee

Craig Silvey

4.40

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Hannah Ferguson

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