Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
By: Robin Ince
3.84
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P…
Want to Read $ 9.99"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
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1. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
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2. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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3. Rambling Man: My Life on the Road
By: Billy Connolly
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Being a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met … read more
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4. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)
By: Shaun Bythell
4.11
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more
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5. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
By: Oliver Darkshire
3.97
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more
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"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
6. Queen Macbeth
By: Val McDermid
3.77
Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition
Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more
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7. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
8. The Gifts of Reading
By: Jennie Orchard
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With contributions by William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer,… read more
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9. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
By: Robin Ince
3.84
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more
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- travel
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- scotland
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- audiobook
"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
10. Berserker!
By: Adrian Edmondson
4.32
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more
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11. Death at Dyke's Corner
By: E.C.R. Lorac
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Death at Dyke's Corner is a 1940 detective novel by E.C.R. Lorac, the pen name of the British write… read more
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12. Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3)
By: Richard Coles
3.87
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover, takes respite at the monastery whe… read more
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13. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
By: Helen Rebanks
3.89
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more
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14. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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15. The Bookseller's Tale
By: Martin Latham
3.81
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale the… read more
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"When one realizes the tremendous evolution of one's being which occurs in a lifetime one is bound to as: ...did I learn my lesson here on earth?"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"I have found time and time again that people's childhood comfort book prefigures, to an almost comical degree which they cannot always see, their adult mission in life."-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"I have seen this in thirty years of bookselling: customers stroking a book’s cover, peeking under the jacket, surreptitiously closing their eyes to smell the valley of pages - this sometimes accompan…"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"Where do we go in dreams if not to a universal library? Such a infinite library would be brain-lik, characterised by labyrinthine passages where firing synapses distantly crackle, mythic beings appea…"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
16. Crimes of Cymru: Classic Mystery Tales of Wales
By: Martin Edwards
3.68
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Mystery and murder runs amok amidst ominous peaks and icy lakes. In hushed valleys, venom flows thr… read more
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17. Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC
By: Rory Cellan-Jones
4.32
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
'Ruskin Park is so much more than a memoir. It is tribute to an individual woman and a whole genera… read more
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18. Days Like These: An alternative guide to the year in 366 poems
By: Brian Bilston
4.23
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the y… read more
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19. Rare Singles
By: Benjamin Myers
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more
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20. My Family: The Memoir
By: David Baddiel
4.41
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more
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