6 must-read historical books like Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr

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Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

By: David Marr

4.39

Format: 596 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked…

If you liked the historical plot in Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. 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 David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

  • historical
  • australia
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2. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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3. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional book and David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

  • australia
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4. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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  • historical
  • australia
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5. 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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  • historical
  • australia
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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
  • australia
"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. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Safe Haven book and David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

  • australia
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8. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) book and David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

  • australia
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9. Best Wishes

By: Richard Glover

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time. Do you hate gambling ads, pre-r… read more

Similar categories in Richard Glover's Best Wishes book and David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

  • nonfiction
  • australia
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10. Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

By: David Marr

4.39

Format: 596 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked… read more

Similar categories in David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award book and David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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11. The Conversion

By: Amanda Lohrey

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

From Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey comes a stunning literary foray into place, … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Lohrey's The Conversion book and David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

  • australia
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12. Sanctuary

By: Garry Disher

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more

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  • australia
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13. The In-Between

By: Christos Tsiolkas

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap … read more

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  • australia
"There was respite in history. The beligerence and intolerance of the contemporary age was of no consequence to the past. And there was no shouting."

-Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between

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14. The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

By: Richard Fidler

4.11

Format: 448 pages, ebook

A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever… read more

Similar categories in Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms book and David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • australia
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15. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

Similar categories in Louise Milligan's Pheasants Nest book and David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

  • australia
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16. Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay, #93)

By: Lech Blaine

4.17

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogatio… read more

Similar categories in Lech Blaine's Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay, #93) book and David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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17. The Glass House

By: Anne Buist

3.89

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to The Menzies. Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic hi… read more

Similar categories in Anne Buist's The Glass House book and David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

  • australia
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18. One Hundred Years of Dirt

By: Rick Morton

4.06

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you’ve scraped together enough for the ticket… read more

Similar categories in Rick Morton's One Hundred Years of Dirt book and David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
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19. One Another

By: Gail Jones

3.24

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

At Cambridge University, in the summer of 1992, Australian student Helen is completing her thesis o… read more

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20. The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself

By: Nick Bryant

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Forever War tells the story of how America's political polarization is 250 years in the making,… read more

Similar categories in Nick Bryant's The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself book and David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

  • nonfiction
  • history

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