10 Top nonfiction books like The Freedom Circus by Sue Smethurst

Cover of The Freedom Circus by Sue Smethurst

The Freedom Circus

By: Sue Smethurst

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

One family's death-defying act to escape the Nazis and start a new life in Australia. Written by…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Freedom Circus by Sue Smethurst , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough

1. The Ladies of Missalonghi

By: Colleen McCullough

3.81

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes fairy tales can come true--even for plain, shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pr… read more

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  • australia
Cover of The Fifth Letter by Nicola Moriarty

2. The Fifth Letter

By: Nicola Moriarty

4.38

Format: None pages, ebook

A fun vacation game turns destructive, exposing dark secrets, deeply buried grudges, and a shocking… read more

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Cover of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

3. 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

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  • australia
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4. 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

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  • australia
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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

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  • war
"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

Cover of Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

6. Boy Swallows Universe

By: Trent Dalton

4.34

Format: 474 pages, Paperback

A novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class subu… read more

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  • australia
"Don't fuckin' swear."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Stay sweet, Eli Bell."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Most things people say don't need to be said."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"To burn this house down or set the world on fire. Up to you, Eli."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

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7. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

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  • australia
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

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  • australia
Cover of 1989 (Allie Burns, #2) by Val McDermid

9. 1989 (Allie Burns, #2)

By: Val McDermid

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the new installment to her historical crime series that began with 1979, internationally bestsel… read more

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10. 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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  • australia
Cover of Unbreakable by Jelena Dokic

11. Unbreakable

By: Jelena Dokic

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived … read more

Similar categories in Jelena Dokic's Unbreakable book and Sue Smethurst's The Freedom Circus

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • australia
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12. 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

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  • australia
Cover of Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota

13. Emotional Female

By: Yumiko Kadota

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream- model student, top of her class in medical school and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • australia
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14. Mr Einstein's Secretary

By: Matthew Reilly

4.22

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A SECRETARY LIKE NO OTHERIN AN EPIC SPANNING 40 YEARSAll Hanna Fischer ever wanted to do was to stu… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Reilly's Mr Einstein's Secretary book and Sue Smethurst's The Freedom Circus

  • world war ii
  • war
"But to hate is cheap. One does not need any money to hate."

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

"Every decision comes down to a choice. This is the right choice."

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

"Some readers turn up their noses at such books, considering them to be too lowbrow. But not I. One who reads such a book reads it for pleasure, for joy. pg43"

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

"I am supposed to be this brilliant man. Well, here is the most important thing I know: retain your inner joy. If you do that, you will live a successful and happy life."

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

Cover of The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert

15. The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison

By: Kylie Moore-Gilbert

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

‘The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.’ The extraordinary true story of Kyli… read more

Similar categories in Kylie Moore-Gilbert's The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison book and Sue Smethurst's The Freedom Circus

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • australia
Cover of The Girl Behind the Wall by Mandy  Robotham

16. The Girl Behind the Wall

By: Mandy Robotham

3.98

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

A city divided. When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on the wrong side of the city. Overnight,… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
Cover of The Auschwitz Photographer: The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls by Luca Crippa

17. The Auschwitz Photographer: The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls

By: Luca Crippa

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The Nazis asked him to swear allegiance to Hitler, betraying his country, his friends, and everythi… read more

Similar categories in Luca Crippa's The Auschwitz Photographer: The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls book and Sue Smethurst's The Freedom Circus

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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18. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

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  • australia
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19. Sisters Under the Rising Sun

By: Heather Morris

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more

Similar categories in Heather Morris's Sisters Under the Rising Sun book and Sue Smethurst's The Freedom Circus

  • world war ii
  • war
Cover of Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert

20. Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live

By: Lily Ebert

4.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming Holocaust survivor story that demonstrates the powe… read more

Similar categories in Lily Ebert's Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live book and Sue Smethurst's The Freedom Circus

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of You Called an Ambulance for What? by Tim Booth

21. You Called an Ambulance for What?

By: Tim Booth

3.98

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • australia
Cover of Hart voor de zaak by Charlotte de Monchy

22. Hart voor de zaak

By: Charlotte de Monchy

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Voor Julia is Magnus Estate in Ierland de fijnste plek ter wereld om te wonen. Tot een verwende roc… read more

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23. Your Own Kind of Girl

By: Clare Bowditch

4.12

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

"This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and w… read more

Similar categories in Clare Bowditch's Your Own Kind of Girl book and Sue Smethurst's The Freedom Circus

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • australia
"Songs were homes for things that needed containing."

-Clare Bowditch, Your Own Kind of Girl

"When I am with him, my sensitivity does not feel like a liability - it just feels like the truth, sometimes inconvenient, but a truth that I'm allowed to speak without worrying that it will break us."

-Clare Bowditch, Your Own Kind of Girl

Cover of Salt River Road by Molly Schmidt

24. Salt River Road

By: Molly Schmidt

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of their mother’s death, the Tetley siblings’ lives are falling apart. Left to fen… read more

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  • australia
"Over there somewhere, down at the house, Dad and the boys are moving in silent circles round each other. Even though inside us, nothing is quiet at all."

-Molly Schmidt, Salt River Road

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25. In Bad Faith

By: Dassi Erlich

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The true story of Dassi Erlich - a woman who grew up in a closed ultra-Orthodox sect and endured a … read more

Similar categories in Dassi Erlich's In Bad Faith book and Sue Smethurst's The Freedom Circus

  • biography
  • memoir
  • jewish
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of The Girl Across the Wire Fence by Imogen Matthews

26. The Girl Across the Wire Fence

By: Imogen Matthews

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

1944, Amersfoort Concentration Camp, Holland. Based on a true story, the unforgettable tale of two … read more

Similar categories in Imogen Matthews's The Girl Across the Wire Fence book and Sue Smethurst's The Freedom Circus

  • world war ii
  • holocaust
Cover of Córka nazisty by Max Czornyj

27. Córka nazisty

By: Max Czornyj

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Gen zła. Czy coś takiego w ogóle istnieje? Alicja Nowińska uśmiecha się do mnie. Unosi na powita… read more

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Cover of The Freedom Circus by Sue Smethurst

28. The Freedom Circus

By: Sue Smethurst

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

One family's death-defying act to escape the Nazis and start a new life in Australia. Written by… read more

Similar categories in Sue Smethurst's The Freedom Circus book and Sue Smethurst's The Freedom Circus

  • survival
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • jewish
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • holocaust
Cover of The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die by Peter Lantos

29. The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die

By: Peter Lantos

4.23

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

  “Deeply moving” - Booktrust “A gripping story of love, courage and triumph over evil” - The Boo… read more

Similar categories in Peter Lantos's The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die book and Sue Smethurst's The Freedom Circus

  • history
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Star on the Grave by Linda Margolin Royal

30. The Star on the Grave

By: Linda Margolin Royal

4.03

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

In 1940, as the Nazis sweep toward Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defies his own gove… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war

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Shari J. Ryan

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