7 must-read nonfiction books like Rocky Road: The incredible true story of the fractured family behind the Darrell Lea chocolate empire by Robert Wainwright

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Rocky Road: The incredible true story of the fractured family behind the Darrell Lea chocolate empire

By: Robert Wainwright

3.62

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

The marvellously strange but true story of the family behind the famous Darrell Lea confectionery c…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Rocky Road: The incredible true story of the fractured family behind the Darrell Lea chocolate empire by Robert Wainwright , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Sapphire Falls

By: Fleur McDonald

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Fiona Forrest is devastated when her husband Charlie commits suicide after the accidental shooting … read more

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2. Trafficked

By: Sophie Hayes

3.93

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

When Sophie Hayes met Bledi she knew he'd change her life – but she had no idea how much. At first,… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
"...it really struck me that, just as people might look at me and never imagine I'd worked as a prostitute, they must look at some of those girls and see only the alienation and disaffection that hide…"

-Sophie Hayes, Trafficked

"Part of the problem was that I couldn't seem to get past the fact that I hadn't tried to escape from Kas. Even in France, when he'd left me on my own for several days, I'd carried on working [as a pr…"

-Sophie Hayes, Trafficked

"It's easy to dismiss girls who work on the streets as deadbeats or drug addicts without ever thinking about why they're working as prostitutes. And the truth is that many of them have been trafficked…"

-Sophie Hayes, Trafficked

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3. The Secret Keeper

By: Kate Morton

4.15

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

During a summer party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicols… read more

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"A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven"

-Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

"I was an only child. It was lonely." "I was one of four. It was noisy."

-Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

"Make sure you write it all down, now. Everything you see and think and feel. Your voice is your own, it matters."

-Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

"It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person's presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to wilderness."

-Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

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4. Emerald Springs

By: Fleur McDonald

4.10

Format: 668 pages, Paperback

When suspicions are wrongly aimed at Amelia following the theft of proceeds from the local rodeo af… read more

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5. Outback Dreams (Bunyip Bay, #1)

By: Rachael Johns

2.00

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Faith and Monty are both looking for love...but they're looking in the wrong direction. Faith Forre… read more

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6. Run

By: Ann Patchett

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexis… read more

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7. One Quiet Woman (Ellindale Saga #1)

By: Anna Jacobs

4.00

Format: None pages,

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8. The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club

By: Sophie Green

4.36

Format: 39 pages,

Books bring them together - but friendship will transform all of their lives. Five very different w… read more

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9. The Paris Agent

By: Kelly Rimmer

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

1970—In the aftermath of his war-ravaged past, Noah Ainsworth is still haunted by memories of his t… read more

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"To truly love someone, we must accept the real version of them, scars and all."

-Kelly Rimmer, The Paris Agent

"And whatever we do with the freedom we have been gifted, whether our achievements and our struggles are big or small, we will do it in honor of those who gave so much so that we could live in a bette…"

-Kelly Rimmer, The Paris Agent

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10. Voices in the Dark

By: Fleur McDonald

4.18

Format: 368 pages, ebook

A powerful and poignant rural family story told by the acclaimed Fleur McDonald, bestselling author… read more

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11. 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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12. Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder

By: Kerryn Mayne

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day,… read more

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13. A Pocketful of Happiness

By: Richard E. Grant

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has be… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
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14. The Space Between the Stars

By: Indira Naidoo

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

"A tender, touching and at times bloody funny meditation on life. And death. And how to live."  - D… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
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15. 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

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16. 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

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17. Broad River Station

By: Fleur McDonald

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A young constable faces prejudice in a small country town, but the search for a missing child chang… read more

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18. 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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19. The Orphans

By: Fiona McIntosh

4.13

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Orphan Fleur Appleby is adopted by a loving undertaker and his wife and she quickly develops a spec… read more

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20. 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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21. Stone Town (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #2)

By: Margaret Hickey

4.07

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Stone Town is captivating new rural crime drama from the author of the bestselling Cutters End. … read more

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22. Fool's Gold (Young Detective Dave Burrows)

By: Fleur McDonald

4.03

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

'To Dave, the posting to Barrabine was exactly what he'd wanted - it was a town on the edge, the wi… read more

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23. One Kind Man (Ellindale Saga #2)

By: Anna Jacobs

4.52

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

Just one man can make all the difference . . .1931, When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn ch… read more

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24. How to be Remembered

By: Michael Thompson

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without t… read more

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25. Deception Creek

By: Fleur McDonald

4.40

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

A returned criminal, a cult-like family and cybercrime all clash against the backdrop of the Flinde… read more

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26. My Mother's Eyes

By: Shanelle Dawson

3.73

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine living with the knowledge that your father had murdered your mother and lied to you your wh… read more

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27. The Digger of Kokoda: The Official Biography of Reg Chard

By: Daniel Lane

4.45

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

"Reg Chard endured hell as an 18-year-old Australian soldier who fought in 1942 on the infamous Kok… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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28. One Special Village (Ellindale Saga, #3)

By: Anna Jacobs

4.52

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

One Special Village . . . can make the world a better placeLancashire, 1932Widower Harry Makepeace … read more

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29. Out of the Box: Raw and hilarious tales of heartache, triumph and truth

By: Isabelle Silbery

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Three women, three voices, three the Silbery family share their most personal memories and lessons… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. One Perfect Family (Ellindale Saga, #4)

By: Anna Jacobs

4.58

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

Lancashire, 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money, he can finally realise h… read more

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31. Rocky Road: The incredible true story of the fractured family behind the Darrell Lea chocolate empire

By: Robert Wainwright

3.62

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

The marvellously strange but true story of the family behind the famous Darrell Lea confectionery c… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business

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4.36

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