10 Top historical books like There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett

Cover of There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett

There Was Still Love

By: Favel Parrett

3.86

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author…

"Lots of rules are pointless,' he said, 'you don't have to follow everything. Make your own mind up about what is right."

-Favel Parrett, There Was Still Love

"Lots of rules are pointless,' he said, 'you don't have to follow everything. Make your own mind up about what is right."

-Favel Parrett, There Was Still Love

"Lots of rules are pointless,' he said, 'you don't have to follow everything. Make your own mind up about what is right."

-Favel Parrett, There Was Still Love

If you liked the historical plot in There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1) by Garry Disher

1. Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)

By: Garry Disher

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A modern western set in an isolated Australian bush town with a soaring crime rate, where a local c… read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1) book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • audiobook
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The only good thing to come out of it was a kind of wisdom in Hirsch. He’d grown to understand that police officers can drift over time, and it isn’t always or entirely conscious but a loss of perspe…"

-Garry Disher, Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)

2. The Strays

By: Emily Bitto

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

On her first day at a new school, Lily meets Eva, one of the daughters of the infamous avant-garde … read more

Similar categories in Emily Bitto's The Strays book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • australia
  • historical fiction
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

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton

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 Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Pip Williams's The Bookbinder book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"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 The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey

6. The Labyrinth

By: Amanda Lohrey

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge. Trapped in her … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Exhausted, I go to bed early again and for the first time in a long while sleep an unbroken sleep that lasts until dawn. When I wake my body is soft; it feels as if in my dreamless state I have known…"

-Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth

Cover of Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

7. 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 Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • historical
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte  Wood

8. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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9. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Arnott's Limberlost book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

Cover of Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko

10. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran

11. 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

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Safe Haven book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of The Angry Women's Choir by Meg Bignell

12. The Angry Women's Choir

By: Meg Bignell

4.07

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more

Similar categories in Meg Bignell's The Angry Women's Choir book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1) by Amanda  Hampson

13. 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

Similar categories in Amanda Hampson's The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1) book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Weekend by Charlotte  Wood

14. The Weekend

By: Charlotte Wood

3.38

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three women in their seventies reunite for one last, life-changing weekend in the beach house of t… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Wood's The Weekend book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
"No, it wasn't lovers but friends - these courageous, shining people - you pursued, romanced with dinners and gifts and weekends away."

-Charlotte Wood, The Weekend

Cover of Everyone and Everything by Nadine J. Cohen

15. Everyone and Everything

By: Nadine J. Cohen

4.29

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more

Similar categories in Nadine J. Cohen's Everyone and Everything book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. The Bass Rock

By: Evie Wyld

3.70

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its … read more

Similar categories in Evie Wyld's The Bass Rock book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Joseph recalls his mother who was “mad and screaming like birds were sewn under her skin"

-Evie Wyld, The Bass Rock

Cover of The Heart Is a Star by Megan  Rogers

17. The Heart Is a Star

By: Megan Rogers

3.64

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Absorbing, lyrical, vivid and compulsively readable - The Heart is a Star is beautiful storytelling… read more

Similar categories in Megan Rogers's The Heart Is a Star book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Secrets of the Huon Wren by Claire van Ryn

18. The Secrets of the Huon Wren

By: Claire van Ryn

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Senior journalist Allira is writing a story for Folk magazine when she meets Nora, a nursing home r… read more

Similar categories in Claire van Ryn's The Secrets of the Huon Wren book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
Cover of Marshmallow by Victoria Hannan

19. Marshmallow

By: Victoria Hannan

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Some moments change everything. For five friends, what should have been a birthday to remember will… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Hannan's Marshmallow book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett

20. There Was Still Love

By: Favel Parrett

3.86

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author… read more

Similar categories in Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love book and Favel Parrett's There Was Still Love

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Lots of rules are pointless,' he said, 'you don't have to follow everything. Make your own mind up about what is right."

-Favel Parrett, There Was Still Love

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Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)

Garry Disher

4.04

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Emily Bitto

4.11

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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Sleepless in Stringybark Bay

Susan Duncan

3.57

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Back on Track

Tricia Stringer

3.95

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Safe Haven

Shankari Chandran

4.18

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Chris Hammer

4.23

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