16 must-read fiction books like The Other Side of Paradise by Noel Barber

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The Other Side of Paradise

By: Noel Barber

4.13

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

When pioneering doctor Kit Masters is forced to flee England, he makes a new start on the South Sea…

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1. Avalon

By: Philippa Gregory , Anya Seton

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

This saga of yearning and mystery travels across oceans and continents to Iceland, Greenland, and N… read more

Similar categories in Philippa Gregory's Avalon book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical romance
"There was no such thing as pure happiness. How many years it took to learn that! Always some dark fretted thing which unbalanced the ease one had laboriously found."

-Philippa Gregory, Avalon

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2. A Lesser Evil

By: Lesley Pearse

4.20

Format: 498 pages, Paperback

Would you cross the street if wickedness lived there? When Fifi moves to London with her brickla… read more

Similar categories in Lesley Pearse's A Lesser Evil book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • romance
  • fiction
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3. Little Women / Little Men / Jo's Boys

By: Louisa May Alcott , Elaine Showalter

4.36

Format: 1064 pages, Hardcover

The beloved March family trilogy—presented in one “single, beautifully crafted volume” featuring or… read more

Similar categories in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women / Little Men / Jo's Boys book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
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4. Time's Legacy

By: Barbara Erskine

3.65

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In present-day Cambridge, Abi, a recently ordained priest of the Church of England, is appointed to… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Erskine's Time's Legacy book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction

5. The Tea Rose (The Tea Rose, #1)

By: Jennifer Donnelly

3.80

Format: 654 pages, Paperback

East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers m… read more

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6. The Far Pavilions

By: M.M. Kaye

3.97

Format: 12 pages,

A magnificent romantic/historical/adventure novel set in India at the time of mutiny. The Far Pavil… read more

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7. Diana

By: R.F. Delderfield

3.19

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Beautiful, resourceful, treacherous, vulnerable - she was a woman full of contradictions and he wou… read more

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8. The Other Passenger

By: Louise Candlish

3.78

Format: 11 pages, Audiobook

From the bestselling author of Our House, winner of the Crime and Thriller Book of the Year Award Y… read more

Similar categories in Louise Candlish's The Other Passenger book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • fiction
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9. The Castaways

By: Lucy Clarke

3.97

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A SECRET BEACH. A HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME. WISH YOU WERE HERE? THINK AGAIN… It should be like an… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Clarke's The Castaways book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • fiction
"For so long I believed that I should only feel pleasure when I no longer feel all the other things: the sadness, the loss, the fear. But emotions don't come parcelled neatly. They're shaken together …"

-Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

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10. Tidelands (The Fairmile, #1)

By: Philippa Gregory

3.83

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and Engl… read more

Similar categories in Philippa Gregory's Tidelands (The Fairmile, #1) book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
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11. The Sleeping and the Dead

By: Ann Cleeves

3.91

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

The Sleeping and the Dead is a tense psychological crime thriller from CWA Gold Dagger award-winnin… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Sleeping and the Dead book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • fiction
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12. The Secret Midwife

By: Soraya M. Lane

4.59

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1995: When on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz a news broadcast runs… read more

Similar categories in Soraya M. Lane's The Secret Midwife book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
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13. The Cypress Maze

By: Fiona Valpy

4.39

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

In this haunting tale from the bestselling author of The Storyteller of Casablanca, Beatrice kept a… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Valpy's The Cypress Maze book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • romance
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
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14. The Botanist's Daughter

By: Kayte Nunn

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Winston Graham Historical Fiction Prize Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondr… read more

Similar categories in Kayte Nunn's The Botanist's Daughter book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
"You just have to keep walking through the fire. And then you'll bloom."

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"The truth had been hiding in plain sight: a margeurite was a type of daisy."

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers. - Sonnet XVII, Pablo Neruda "

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"Elizabeth had lent her an aquamarine dress, originally made for Georgiana, with elbow-length sleeves and intricate embroidery of butterflies and bees. It set Daisy's red hair ablaze. 'Fire on water,'…"

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

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15. The German Daughter

By: Marius Gabriel

4.48

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

The band new absolutely gripping and heartbreaking World War II historical novel from master storyt… read more

Similar categories in Marius Gabriel's The German Daughter book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • historical
  • fiction
Cover of None Stood Taller - The Price of Freedom (None Stood Taller #3) by Peter Turnham

16. None Stood Taller - The Price of Freedom (None Stood Taller #3)

By: Peter Turnham

4.63

Format: 715 pages, Kindle Edition

An SOE field agent. Audacious, charismatic, charming, a fearless assassin. Also a woman. A reluc… read more

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17. None Stood Taller (None stood taller, #1)

By: Peter Turnham

4.48

Format: 637 pages, Kindle Edition

This book is a window into Britain's secret wartime past, step through it and this inspirational st… read more

Similar categories in Peter Turnham's None Stood Taller (None stood taller, #1) book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
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18. The Snow Gypsy

By: Lindsay Jayne Ashford

4.04

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Woman on the Orient Express comes a haunting novel of two women—… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Jayne Ashford's The Snow Gypsy book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
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19. The Pearl of Penang: A powerful love story in the Far East pre World War 2

By: Clare Flynn

4.20

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

"Following the death of my wife, I am in need of support and companionship. I am prepared to make y… read more

Similar categories in Clare Flynn's The Pearl of Penang: A powerful love story in the Far East pre World War 2 book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • romance
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
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20. The Other Side of Paradise

By: Noel Barber

4.13

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

When pioneering doctor Kit Masters is forced to flee England, he makes a new start on the South Sea… read more

Similar categories in Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise book and Noel Barber's The Other Side of Paradise

  • romance
  • historical
  • war
  • historical romance
  • fiction
Cover of Parallel Lives: A Story of the Greatest Generation. Two people, two lives, a serial killer and the bombing of London during WW2 (None Stood Taller Book 1) by Peter Turnham

21. Parallel Lives: A Story of the Greatest Generation. Two people, two lives, a serial killer and the bombing of London during WW2 (None Stood Taller Book 1)

By: Peter Turnham

4.76

Format: 687 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of ‘None Stood Taller’, short-listed for the self-published book of th… read more

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