18 Best nonfiction books like Line in the Sand by Dean Yates

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Line in the Sand

By: Dean Yates

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Dean Yates was the ideal warzone correspondent: courageous, compassionate, dedicated. After years o…

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Cover of Am I Black Enough For You? by Anita Heiss

1. Am I Black Enough For You?

By: Anita Heiss

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. What do… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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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

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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

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4. Women & Children

By: Tony Birch

4.22

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more

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5. 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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6. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

By: Julia Baird

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"

-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

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7. Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism

By: Leigh Sales

3.88

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream … read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. A Father's Son: Family, football and forgiveness

By: Mat Rogers

4.21

Format: 352 pages, ebook

'A book about humanity as much as sport. It’s like sitting at the kitchen table with your best mate… read more

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9. Lies My Mirror Told Me

By: Wendy Harmer

3.98

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

Entertainer and national treasure Wendy Harmer tells all in her frank, fearless and funny memoir, L… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. 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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11. All Our Shimmering Skies

By: Trent Dalton

3.95

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering Skies… read more

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"In all these years, he said, he was yet to come across a single gold nugget that brought any real happiness to the person who held it. Long coat bob said his family had found one large nugget long ag…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

"She spots a large army of green ants building a nest between two thin twig branches of a flimsy tree with floppy green leaves. "Look at this, Yukio," Molly whispers, leaning into the tree where a lin…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

"And you wouldn't believe what he said then, Tom Berry whispered to his enraptured audience. He said, he and his family saw no value whatsoever in all that gold. He said real treasure was a fresh wate…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

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12. 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

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13. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

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14. Book of Life

By: Deborah Conway

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A no-holds-barred memoir that charts the rise and fall - and rise - of one of Australia's most icon… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. Crossing the Line: The Explosive Inside Story Behind the Headlines

By: Nick McKenzie

4.58

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

War is brutal—but some lines should never be crossed. In mid-2017 whispers of executions and cover-… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl

By: Sonia Henry

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A memoir The bestselling author of Going Under recounts her real-life journey from hard-partying… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. In Bad Faith

By: Dassi Erlich

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The true story of Dassi Erlich - a woman who grew up in a closed ultra-Orthodox sect and endured a … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Fearless: Finding the Power to Thrive

By: Jelena Dokic

4.01

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you find hope when all is lost? How do you find strength when you feel broken? How do you fi… read more

Similar categories in Jelena Dokic's Fearless: Finding the Power to Thrive book and Dean Yates's Line in the Sand

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life story of Australia’s first MasterChef

By: Julie Goodwin

4.57

Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition

Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef Australia. In m… read more

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20. Hope

By: Rosie Batty

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. Broken Girl: A true story

By: Bradley Trevor Greive

4.28

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

'Harrowing, yet ultimately hopeful' GERALDINE BROOKS Sometimes the whole truth is the death of ever… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"There are pieces of me that I may never find, never recover. My search will continue. But I am enough as I am."

-Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story

"Girlchild in a hurry. Life was never fast enough. I wanted to gallop, wanted to fly. Feel the wind run its fingers through my hair."

-Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story

"I can’t recall how old I was when my mother told me her story. Our story. For the first time. It was, as with most stories about women and men, a cautionary tale."

-Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story

"But, in my experience, the greatest casualty of a brain injury is friendship. The defining symptom is loneliness. I came home to watch my friends leave me. One by one."

-Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story

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22. Muddy People: A Muslim Coming of Age

By: Sara El Sayed

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"By turns heartfelt, bitingly funny, and emotionally devastating, Muddy People is not your average … read more

Similar categories in Sara El Sayed's Muddy People: A Muslim Coming of Age book and Dean Yates's Line in the Sand

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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23. Breath

By: Carly-Jay Metcalfe

4.38

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Queensland Literary Award Winner 2024 Queensland Book of the Year People's Choice Award 'I am d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

24. The Silver River

By: Jim Moginie

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary … read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. One of Us is Missing

By: B.M. Carroll

3.96

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

There's no such thing as safety in numbers ...Rachel and Rory Sullivan decide to celebrate making i… read more

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26. The Honeyeater

By: Jessie Tu

3.59

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner… read more

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27. The Last Victim: A serial con man. The ultimate betrayal. An unbreakable woman. The full story behind the relationship made famous by the hit podcast Who the Hell is Hamish?

By: Tracy Hall

4.21

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

When Who the Hell is Hamish? hit podcast platforms in 2019, Tracy Hall quickly became known as the … read more

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28. You Don't Have To Have A Dream: Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious

By: Tim Minchin

4.42

Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Life will sometimes seem long and tough. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And th… read more

Similar categories in Tim Minchin's You Don't Have To Have A Dream: Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious book and Dean Yates's Line in the Sand

  • nonfiction
Cover of Line in the Sand by Dean  Yates

29. Line in the Sand

By: Dean Yates

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Dean Yates was the ideal warzone correspondent: courageous, compassionate, dedicated. After years o… read more

Similar categories in Dean Yates's Line in the Sand book and Dean Yates's Line in the Sand

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of We Are the Stars: A misfit's story of love, connection and the glorious power of letting go by Gina Chick

30. We Are the Stars: A misfit's story of love, connection and the glorious power of letting go

By: Gina Chick

4.56

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Gina Chick, the inaugural winner of Alone Australia, tells the story of her extraordinary, indomita… read more

Similar categories in Gina Chick's We Are the Stars: A misfit's story of love, connection and the glorious power of letting go book and Dean Yates's Line in the Sand

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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31. Just Don't Be a D**khead znd Other Profound Things I've Learnt

By: Kasey Chambers

4.40

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A book of inspirational stories drawn from Kasey Chambers' life and music career. Kasey has stayed … read more

Similar categories in Kasey Chambers's Just Don't Be a D**khead znd Other Profound Things I've Learnt book and Dean Yates's Line in the Sand

  • nonfiction

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Anita Heiss

4.00

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Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

Julia Baird

3.89

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Deborah Conway

3.90

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Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl

Sonia Henry

4.29

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Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

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Alex Finlay

3.79

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Sally Hepworth

4.04

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Garry Disher

3.99

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