6 Top novels books like Secrets of the Sea by Nicholas Shakespeare

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Secrets of the Sea

By: Nicholas Shakespeare

3.30

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Torn by tragedy from his early life on a remote farm in Tasmania, Alex Dove has returned years late…

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1. Perfect Match

By: Jodi Picoult

3.97

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Picoult brings to life a female prosecutor whose cherished family is shattered when she learns that… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had."

-Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

"You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back."

-Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

"If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made."

-Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

"Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver-insult added to injury."

-Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

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2. The Girl on the Cliff

By: Lucinda Riley

4.10

Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition

The beautiful family drama from the international bestselling author of THE MURDERS AT FLEAT HOUSE … read more

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  • fiction
"Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic."

-Lucinda Riley, The Girl on the Cliff

"I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own experiences of living - will always have a Hero and a Heroine, a Fairy Godmother and…"

-Lucinda Riley, The Girl on the Cliff

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3. Birdsong

By: Sebastian Faulks

4.32

Format: 632 pages,

Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be r… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin, #1)

By: Michael Robotham

4.20

Format: 42 pages,

London psychiatrist Joseph O'Loughlin seems to have the perfect life. He has a beautiful wife, an a… read more

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  • fiction
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5. The Last Gift

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went b… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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6. Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)

By: Jane Harper

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of Th… read more

Similar categories in Jane Harper's Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2) book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Secrets of the Sea

  • fiction
  • australia
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7. News of the World

By: Paulette Jiles

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of the American Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a yo… read more

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  • fiction

8. Tin Man

By: Sarah Winman

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is almost a love story. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a… read more

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9. Sister

By: Rosamund Lupton

4.33

Format: 57 pages,

Nothing can break the bond between sisters... When Beatrice gets a frantic call in the middle of Su… read more

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10. Nora Webster

By: Colm Tóibín

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed and beloved authors comes this magnificent new… read more

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11. The Discomfort of Evening

By: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

3.45

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

I thought about being too small for so much, but that no one told you when you were big enough ... … read more

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  • 21st century
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"In de nacht is iedereen leeftijdsloos."

-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

"We can't simply swap God - he's the strongest Pokémon card we have."

-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

"Onze dagen zullen verlengd worden, net zoals we boeken uit de bibliotheek verlengen om er langer in te kunnen verdwalen zonder kans te maken op een geldboete."

-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

"En nu, doordat ik door mijn wimpers keek had ik ook het idee dat moeder en de veearts niet doorhadden dat ik meeluisterde, dat ik in gedachten de trekken rondom moeders mond en ogen uit kon gummen om…"

-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

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12. 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

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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13. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Ghost Wall

By: Sarah Moss

3.73

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie an… read more

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  • contemporary
  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature
"It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain"

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"Lights blind you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"Haven't you been listening, people don't bother to hurt what they don't love. To sacrifice it."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"I knew better than to challenge him; even the word 'Negro' was already some concession to my ideas because he preferred to use a more offensive term and wait, chin raised, for a reaction."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

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15. When She Was Good (Cyrus Haven, #2)

By: Michael Robotham

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Evie Cormack was found as a child at the scene of a brutal murder, and refuses to tell anything of … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Why do people think everything will be better if they pour boiling water on dried leaves?"

-Michael Robotham, When She Was Good (Cyrus Haven, #2)

"... but I have grown accustomed to living alone, having one-sides conversations and arguments with myself that I still manage to lose."

-Michael Robotham, When She Was Good (Cyrus Haven, #2)

"The real power belongs to the people who control information,’ he says, still staring at the ground. ‘Individuals who can suppress stories, fix problems, spin news and plant false information"

-Michael Robotham, When She Was Good (Cyrus Haven, #2)

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16. The Search Party

By: Hannah Richell

3.71

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

A spellbinding locked-room mystery about a glamping trip gone horribly wrong when a powerful storm … read more

Similar categories in Hannah Richell's The Search Party book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Secrets of the Sea

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • british literature
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17. Dawnlands (The Fairmile #3)

By: Philippa Gregory

4.07

Format: 526 pages, Paperback

It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many famili… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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18. 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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  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
"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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19. Reykjavík: A Crime Story

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.66

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, bri… read more

Similar categories in Ragnar Jónasson's Reykjavík: A Crime Story book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Secrets of the Sea

  • fiction
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20. Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1)

By: Attica Locke

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and p… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. The War Pianist

By: Mandy Robotham

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Pianist: NOUN. Informal. A person who operates or controls a radio transmitter – often in code. … read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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22. The Nowhere Child

By: Christian White

3.99

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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23. Wild Place

By: Christian White

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1989, a local teen goes missing from the idyllic suburb of Camp Hill in Australia.… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
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24. Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

By: Michael Robotham

4.16

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Half-starved and… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Guilt has to fall somewhere when logic fails."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"Maybe that's what's keeping me awake - the choices."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"A slow death, I know, but that's life, isn't it - a long, drawn-out suicide."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"As a forensic psychologist, I have met killers and psychopaths and sociopaths, but I refuse to define people as being good or evil. Wrongdoing is an absence of something good rather than something fa…"

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

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25. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Secrets of the Sea

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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26. What the Fireflies Knew

By: Kai Harris

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones and Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, a comin… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Code Name Hélène

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.41

Format: 451 pages, Hardcover

Told in interweaving timelines organized around the four code names Nancy used during the war, Code… read more

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  • fiction
"I am the same but different, and I greet this new reflection with a nod of acceptance. There is metal in my spine and there are fractures in my soul. I resemble Garrow now. I have been changed by war."

-Ariel Lawhon, Code Name Hélène

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28. Unforgiven (Lexi Winter #1)

By: Sarah Barrie

4.32

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Once a victim, she's now a vigilante. An addictive and suspenseful thriller for readers of Candice … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Barrie's Unforgiven (Lexi Winter #1) book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Secrets of the Sea

  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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29. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

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  • fiction
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

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30. The Vanishing Sky

By: L. Annette Binder

3.22

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Eyelands International Book Award for a Novel A New York Times Book Review Sele… read more

Similar categories in L. Annette Binder's The Vanishing Sky book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Secrets of the Sea

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. Secrets of the Sea

By: Nicholas Shakespeare

3.30

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Torn by tragedy from his early life on a remote farm in Tasmania, Alex Dove has returned years late… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Shakespeare's Secrets of the Sea book and Nicholas Shakespeare's Secrets of the Sea

  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • australia
  • novels
  • tasmania

28 Top fiction books like Secrets of the Sea by Nicholas Shakespeare

Transform Your Habits

Perfect Match

Jodi Picoult

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Girl on the Cliff

Lucinda Riley

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Birdsong

Sebastian Faulks

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin, #1)

Michael Robotham

4.20

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18 best-selling fiction books like Earth by John Boyne

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

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