5 best-selling history books like The High Road: What Australia can learn from New Zealand (Quarterly Essay #80) by Laura Tingle

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The High Road: What Australia can learn from New Zealand (Quarterly Essay #80)

By: Laura Tingle

3.79

Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition

Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. But why, despite being so close, do w…

If you liked the history plot in The High Road: What Australia can learn from New Zealand (Quarterly Essay #80) by Laura Tingle , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan … read more

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2. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

By: Ann Leckie

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once,… read more

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3. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.05

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

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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

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Lola in the Mirror book and Laura Tingle's The High Road: What Australia can learn from New Zealand (Quarterly Essay #80)

  • australia
  • audiobook
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5. Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

4.07

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands. In the desolate outback tow… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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6. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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7. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

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  • audiobook
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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8. 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
  • audiobook
"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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9. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2)

By: Garth Nix

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Return to the enchanting world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London in this sequel by Garth Nix… read more

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  • audiobook
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10. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise

By: Niki Savva

4.21

Format: 320 pages, ebook

‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires ‘It’s… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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11. Kill Your Husbands

By: Jack Heath

3.77

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A witty, page-turning, twisty whodunit from the bestselling author of the Hangman series, perfect f… read more

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  • audiobook
"Burn your bras. Kill your husbands."

-Jack Heath, Kill Your Husbands

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12. Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

By: Faith G. Harper

3.32

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Our brains do their best to help us out, but every so often they can be real assholes--having melt … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We either win or we learn. So take the fuck-ups as new ways of getting good information about yourself."

-Faith G. Harper, Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

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13. Caught in the Act

By: Courtney Act

4.10

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

Boy, girl, artist, advocate. Courtney is more than the sum of her parts. Meet Shane Jenek. Raised … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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14. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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15. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage

By: Clementine Ford

4.13

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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16. Ready When You Are

By: Gary Lonesborough

4.20

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable YA love story between two Aboriginal boys -- one who doesn’t want to accept he’s gay, … read more

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  • australia
"Go to your elders. You should ask them about your country and your totem. Because that is your identity. A blackfella with no identity is a lost blackfella. He don't know where he belongs."

-Gary Lonesborough, Ready When You Are

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17. Tell Me Again

By: Amy Thunig

4.41

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

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18. 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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  • audiobook
"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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19. Car Crash: A Memoir of the Aftermath

By: Lech Blaine

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

“A story of carnage and life-long consequences. A brave and unsettling account.” —Tim Winton, autho… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. The High Road: What Australia can learn from New Zealand (Quarterly Essay #80)

By: Laura Tingle

3.79

Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition

Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. But why, despite being so close, do w… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • essays
  • economics
  • audiobook

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4.07

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4.13

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