11 Top nonfiction books like Searching for Charlie: In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC & Bar by Tom Scott

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Searching for Charlie: In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC & Bar

By: Tom Scott

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Charles Upham was the most h soldier in the highly decorated soldier in the Commonwealth forces of …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Searching for Charlie: In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC & Bar by Tom Scott , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. 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

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. The Healer (Borderland Brides, #1)

By: Allison Butler

3.78

Format: 396 pages, ebook

Curb your Outlander cravings with Allison Butler's seriously sexy Scottish novel about an English w… read more

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3. The Flame Bearer (The Saxon Stories, #10)

By: Bernard Cornwell

3.51

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Britain is at an uneasy peace. After their bloody defeat of Danish-held East Anglia, the West Saxon… read more

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4. Stormbird (Wars of the Roses, #1)

By: Conn Iggulden

4.33

Format: 25 pages, Hardcover

King Henry V - the great Lion of England - is long dead. In 1437, after years of regency, the pious… read more

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5. Whitethorn

By: Bryce Courtenay

4.22

Format: 432 pages,

From Bryce Courtenay comes a new novel about Africa. The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deep… read more

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6. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

By: John Le Carré

4.06

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more

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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

7. Nancy Wake

By: Peter FitzSimons

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Freedom is the only thing worth living for. While I was doing that work I used to think that it di… read more

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8. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice

By: Bill Browder

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Hardcover

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder o… read more

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9. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently #1)

By: Douglas Adams

3.69

Format: 47 pages, Mass Market Paperback

What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum m… read more

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10. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

By: Jung Chang

3.68

Format: 113 pages,

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and th… read more

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11. 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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12. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

By: Ben Macintyre

4.16

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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13. The Murders at Fleat House

By: Lucinda Riley

4.12

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The Murders at Fleat House is a suspenseful and utterly compelling crime novel from the multi-milli… read more

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"He looked at her and smiled. ‘You know, one of the things I’ve thought about in here is the fact that during your life, I may have influenced your decision-making process far too much. Because I’m to…"

-Lucinda Riley, The Murders at Fleat House

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14. Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man

By: Lynn Vincent

4.45

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

A human drama unlike any other—the riveting and definitive full story of the worst sea disaster in … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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15. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

By: Ben Macintyre

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. Sanctuary

By: Garry Disher

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more

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Cover of Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder

17. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

By: Bill Browder

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browd… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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18. The Last Orphan (Orphan X #8)

By: Gregg Hurwitz

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan , the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when… read more

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"Don’t surround yourself with like-minded people. You’ll get limited or radicalized."

-Gregg Hurwitz, The Last Orphan (Orphan X #8)

Cover of Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3) by Jane Harper

19. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)

By: Jane Harper

4.05

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more

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20. Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

By: Stephen Fry

4.35

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty,… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"His reward is the eternal fame that is both priceless and worthless"

-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

"Bij onze geboorte ligt ons lot al vast, en niemand heeft ooit het zijne kunnen ontlopen (Hektor)"

-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

"Forget him. What is treasure? Or Briseis, or honor, or anything? Next to the life of the one I loved best and dearest? My beloved, my only Patroclus."

-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

"Zelfs de onsterfelijke goden waren niet bij machte zich te verhouden tot, mee te leven met, nakomelingen te verwekken bij en het lot te bepalen van zo'n aanzwellende schare eerzuchtige, vernuftige en…"

-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

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21. Dark Horse (Orphan X, #7)

By: Gregg Hurwitz

4.37

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Gregg Hurwitz's New York Times bestselling series returns when Orphan X faces his most challenging … read more

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"That is the awful, beautiful, sacrificial power of love. We sharpen ourselves against those we love in order to cut ourselves open and see what’s inside. Sometimes I wonder if wisdom is nothing more …"

-Gregg Hurwitz, Dark Horse (Orphan X, #7)

"Women are fucking Swiss Army knives. Throw anything at them and they figure out which part of them to use to fix it, care for it, make it better. They can hear if a baby’s cough is just a cough, can …"

-Gregg Hurwitz, Dark Horse (Orphan X, #7)

Cover of Lying Beside You (Cyrus Haven, #3) by Michael Robotham

22. Lying Beside You (Cyrus Haven, #3)

By: Michael Robotham

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in Robotham’s latest page-turning, psychological thriller in thi… read more

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23. 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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  • biography
  • nonfiction
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24. The Lost Man

By: Jane Harper

4.16

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outbac… read more

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"I've given you a power over me that you do not deserve."

-Jane Harper, The Lost Man

"Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, there's not a single person here who isn't lying to themselves about something."

-Jane Harper, The Lost Man

"Someone can decide it’s in their best interests to agree to something, but a choice is only really a choice if there’s a genuine alternative. Otherwise it’s manipulation and it’s taking advantage."

-Jane Harper, The Lost Man

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25. Auē

By: Becky Manawatu

4.50

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more

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"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."

-Becky Manawatu, Auē

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26. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa

By: Paul Kenyon

4.42

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica i… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s most infamous cold case by Kirsty Johnston

27. The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s most infamous cold case

By: Kirsty Johnston

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The murder of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 remains New Zealand' s… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. 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

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Cover of Gangland: New Zealand's Underworld of Organised Crime by Jared Savage

29. Gangland: New Zealand's Underworld of Organised Crime

By: Jared Savage

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

New Zealand's underworld of organised crime and deadly gangs New Zealand is now one of the most … read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Searching for Charlie: In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC & Bar

By: Tom Scott

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Charles Upham was the most h soldier in the highly decorated soldier in the Commonwealth forces of … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Liars by James O'Loghlin

31. Liars

By: James O'Loghlin

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A sleepy coastal town. Deep secrets. Deadly truths. 'Speak your truth. Or at least the truth you… read more

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4.16

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4.45

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4.26

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4.18

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Robyn Young

4.53

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Giles Kristian

3.90

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