5 Top family books like Mallee Boys by Charlie Archbold

Cover of Mallee Boys by Charlie Archbold

Mallee Boys

By: Charlie Archbold

3.80

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

'Sometimes I feel like I'm neither one thing nor another. I live in the Mallee but I don't like the…

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Cover of Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family by Cameron Bloom, Bradley Trevor Greive

1. Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family

By: Cameron Bloom , Bradley Trevor Greive

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Penguin Bloom is an extraordinary true story full of hope and courage, featuring Cameron Bloom's ex… read more

Similar categories in Cameron Bloom's Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family book and Charlie Archbold's Mallee Boys

  • family
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2. 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 Charlie Archbold's Mallee Boys

  • contemporary
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3. 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 Charlie Archbold's Mallee Boys

  • coming of age
  • family
  • contemporary
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4. 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 Charlie Archbold's Mallee Boys

  • contemporary
"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

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5. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Love Stories book and Charlie Archbold's Mallee Boys

  • romance
  • contemporary
"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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6. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

By: Emma Carey

4.38

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

From a terrible accident that left her paraplegic, Emma Carey has become an inspiration for hundred… read more

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7. What Happened to Nina?

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.11

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more

Similar categories in Dervla McTiernan's What Happened to Nina? book and Charlie Archbold's Mallee Boys

  • contemporary
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8. Nightshade Revenge (Alex Rider, #14)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The world’s bestselling teenage spy takes on a new and daring mission. This much-awaited new boo… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's Nightshade Revenge (Alex Rider, #14) book and Charlie Archbold's Mallee Boys

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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9. The Broken Wave

By: Matthew Ryan Davies

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

"We never talked about what happened in 1992. Did it quietly haunt him the way it did me?" In th… read more

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10. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

Similar categories in Craig Silvey's Runt book and Charlie Archbold's Mallee Boys

  • family
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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11. The School Run

By: Ali Lowe

3.86

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

How far would you go to protect your children? For parents living in the beautiful coastal town … read more

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12. 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

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13. Dying to Know

By: Rae Cairns

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A desperate phone call. A decade of questions. A deadly race to the truth. A new heartstopping t… read more

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14. Something Bad is Going to Happen

By: Jessie Stephens

3.86

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Stephens's Something Bad is Going to Happen book and Charlie Archbold's Mallee Boys

  • contemporary
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15. A Room Made of Leaves

By: Kate Grenville

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney-had wr… read more

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"We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there."

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to la…"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was …"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"My husband had no one and that must be why some central part of him, some steady sense of who he was, had years ago gone like a mouse to hide away in its hole. But he could never admit the pain. He h…"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

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16. Becoming Mrs Mulberry

By: Jackie French

4.28

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

From bestselling author Jackie French comes a book about the secrets we carry, those that we uneart… read more

Similar categories in Jackie French's Becoming Mrs Mulberry book and Charlie Archbold's Mallee Boys

  • romance
Cover of The Place on Dalhousie by Melina Marchetta

17. The Place on Dalhousie

By: Melina Marchetta

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'You look the type to break your father’s heart.' 'Yeah, but he broke mine first.’ When Rosie G… read more

Similar categories in Melina Marchetta's The Place on Dalhousie book and Charlie Archbold's Mallee Boys

  • romance
  • family
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Guilt is a burden, so forgive yourself for the mistakes."

-Melina Marchetta, The Place on Dalhousie

"My favourite photos of my mum and dad are those from before I was born. Because they were so into each other and I can see this love in her eyes that says, I trust this guy to fucking bits."

-Melina Marchetta, The Place on Dalhousie

"Working with them was tough at first, because the Mackees were dealing with their own shit, and most times it was Jimmy who did the talking. Mackee’s dad later wrote to say that Jimmy had filled in t…"

-Melina Marchetta, The Place on Dalhousie

"Jimmy’s wedding day is literally the best day of his life. He hasn’t had many of those, so he’s able to differentiate. After the barbecue is lit, he holds Rosie’s hand and they watch it all in silenc…"

-Melina Marchetta, The Place on Dalhousie

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18. Six Minutes

By: Petronella McGovern

3.85

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

An unputdownable thriller for fans of Liane Moriarty and Caroline Overington. If you were gripped w… read more

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"Some detectives believed they could pick the perp straight away. Caruso wasn't in that camp, but he knew something was off kilter here. The husband and wife almost seemed afraid of each other."

-Petronella McGovern, Six Minutes

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19. Elizabeth & Elizabeth

By: Sue Williams

3.82

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

The story of how two women, who should have been bitter foes, combined their courage and wisdom to … read more

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20. Clancy of the Overflow (The Matilda Saga, #9)

By: Jackie French

4.43

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From Australia's best-loved storyteller comes the final book in the bestselling Matilda Saga This i… read more

Similar categories in Jackie French's Clancy of the Overflow (The Matilda Saga, #9) book and Charlie Archbold's Mallee Boys

  • young adult
Cover of Mallee Boys by Charlie Archbold

21. Mallee Boys

By: Charlie Archbold

3.80

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

'Sometimes I feel like I'm neither one thing nor another. I live in the Mallee but I don't like the… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Archbold's Mallee Boys book and Charlie Archbold's Mallee Boys

  • romance
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary

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