5 best-selling science books like Through Ice & Fire by Sarah Laverick

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Through Ice & Fire

By: Sarah Laverick

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The wild and desolate expanses of Antarctica have been the setting for many famous exploits and mis…

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1. The Chrysalids

By: John Wyndham

3.93

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A world paralysed by genetic mutation John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of … read more

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"We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that."

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for"

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth."

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructiv…"

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

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2. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

By: Alfred Lansing

4.44

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, on… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"[...] "Who the hell are you?" he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. "My name is Shackleton" he replied in a quiet voice."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looke…"

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

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3. Tobruk

By: Peter FitzSimons

3.02

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Tobruk" narrates the taking of Tobruk as part of a general thrust in North Africa by Allied forces… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Ice Station (Shane Schofield, #1)

By: Matthew Reilly

3.83

Format: 208 pages,

Antarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteo… read more

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5. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

By: Holly Ringland

4.75

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story … read more

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6. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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7. 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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8. The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance

By: Mensun Bound

4.12

Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition

"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. ... Bound's account is a triumph. The… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • science
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9. 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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"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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10. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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11. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

By: Barbara Demick

4.45

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

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14. The Bookseller at the End of the World

By: Ruth Shaw

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."

-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World

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15. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

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"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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16. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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17. The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

By: Richard Fidler

4.11

Format: 448 pages, ebook

A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

By: Grace Tame

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

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19. Clarke

By: Holly Throsby

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Goodwood and Cedar Valley. 'Clarke is illu… read more

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"He was so stocky. He was like a wheelie bin."

-Holly Throsby, Clarke

"Leelee?’ ‘Yes, Joe?’ ‘Would you still love me if I was a donkey?’ Leonie said, ‘Sweetheart, I’d love you no matter what you were. If you turned into a donkey, I’d just find us a house with a big barn…"

-Holly Throsby, Clarke

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20. The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)

By: Samantha Shannon

3.82

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

The lavishly reimagined 10th Anniversary Edition of the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller.… read more

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"I do."

-Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)

"No, Paige. I am trying to help you."

-Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)

"Paige, you will have two tasks tonight,"

-Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)

"Nothing’s worse than a story without an end."

-Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)

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21. Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life

By: Michael Mosley

4.03

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

Based on the popular BBC podcast, Just One Thing, this book brings to life Dr Mosley's mission to u… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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22. Isaac and the Egg

By: Bobby Palmer

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Heartbreaking and heart-stealing, this bestselling modern-day fable is an unforgettable novel about… read more

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23. 537 Days of Winter: A Tale of Resilience, Endurance and Humanity while Stranded in Antarctica During the Pandemic

By: David Knoff

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What would you do if you were stranded in the coldest place on earth as the world you knew back hom… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • science
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24. Barney Greatrex: From Bomber Command to the French Resistance - the stirring story of an Australian hero

By: Michael Veitch

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The incredible untold World War II story of Australian hero BARNEY GREATREX - from Bomber Command t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life

By: Paul Callaghan

4.16

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Tired of going around in circles? The Dreaming Path ensures our life journey is one of fulfilment.… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of James Cook: The Story Behind the Man Who Mapped the World by Peter FitzSimons

26. James Cook: The Story Behind the Man Who Mapped the World

By: Peter FitzSimons

4.18

Format: 654 pages, Kindle Edition

The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. 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

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. The Motherhood

By: Jamila Rizvi

4.25

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

'Welcome to The Motherhood, my dear.'After her son was born, Jamila Rizvi felt isolated, exhausted … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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29. Through Ice & Fire

By: Sarah Laverick

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The wild and desolate expanses of Antarctica have been the setting for many famous exploits and mis… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Laverick's Through Ice & Fire book and Sarah Laverick's Through Ice & Fire

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • science
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30. The Art of Breaking Ice

By: Rachael Mead

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In 1960, when the legendary icebreaker Magga Dan set sail for Antarctica, it contained a secret. Hi… read more

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31. You Don't Have To Have A Dream: Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious

By: Tim Minchin

4.42

Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Life will sometimes seem long and tough. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And th… read more

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  • nonfiction

10 Best history books like Through Ice & Fire by Sarah Laverick

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Alfred Lansing

4.44

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Peter FitzSimons

3.02

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

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Mensun Bound

4.12

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Rambling Man: My Life on the Road

Billy Connolly

4.16

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The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

Emma Carey

4.38

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My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork

Ash Barty

4.23

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The Boy from Boomerang Crescent

Eddie Betts

4.17

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