All My Wild Mothers: Motherhood, Loss and an Apothecary Garden
By: Victoria Bennett
4.46
Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition
An intimate weaving of memoir and herbal folklore, All My Wild Mothers is a story of rewilding our …
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1. If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
By: Sharon Blackie
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
'Rising high up on the heather-covered moorlands, seeping through our bogs, flowing down our stream… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"Menopause is not a medical condition, it is an earthquake, shaking us to our deepest foundations, wiping out the edifices we've so carefully constructed on what we once imagined to be the solid groun…"-Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
"If women remember that once upon a time we sand with the tongues of seals and flew with the wings of swans, that we forged our own paths through the dark forest while creating a community of its many…"-Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
2. Standard Deviation
By: Katherine Heiny
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A rueful, funny examination of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami. Simultaneously hilarious an… read more
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3. Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
By: Wayne W. Dyer , Anita Moorjani
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this truly inspirational memoir,Anita Moorjanirelates how, after fighting cancer for almost four… read more
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4. The List of Suspicious Things
By: Jennie Godfrey
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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5. The Household
By: Stacey Halls
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more
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6. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more
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7. The Last Witch of Scotland
By: Philip Paris
3.95
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a tragic fire… read more
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8. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
9. Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky
By: Caro Giles
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Nor… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- nature
10. Thin Places
By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
3.83
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking mix of memoir, nature writing and social history: this is Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s sto… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- nature
"Naming things, in the language that should always have been offered to you, is a way to sculpt loss. A way to protect that which we still have."-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
"Heaven and earth, the Celtic saying goes, are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even shorter. They are places that make us feel something larger than ourselves, as though we …"-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
"Grief is a country that has no definite borderlines and that recognises no single trajectory. It is a space that did not exist before your loss, and that will never disappear from your map, no matter…"-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
11. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
12. The Coast Road
By: Alan Murrin
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more
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13. Let the Light Pour In
By: Lemn Sissay
3.67
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE BOOK TO G… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
15. Frank and Red
By: Matt Coyne
4.57
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more
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16. All My Wild Mothers: Motherhood, Loss and an Apothecary Garden
By: Victoria Bennett
4.46
Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition
An intimate weaving of memoir and herbal folklore, All My Wild Mothers is a story of rewilding our … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
17. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
18. Fair Rosaline
By: Natasha Solomons
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Was the greatest ever love story a lie? The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capule… read more
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19. Amma
By: Saraid de Silva
4.45
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Three generations. Three continents. Three sexualities. 1951. Singapore. Ten-year-old Josep… read more
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20. The Night in Question
By: Susan Fletcher
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, an… read more
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"So walk into your life. Do what you want to do, Florrie, always – because a timid, obedient woman is quite the tragedy… Life. What a shame we only get one shot at it."-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
".. they discussed what they wanted from this life- this brief, single dance in the sunlight of life. "Adventures," she told him... "I've always wanted them." from the moment that Bobs drew the world …"-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
"… how on earth had it come to this; how was she looking at care homes for the elderly when she still felt twenty years old inside, still believed she could do headstands, and when there was still so …"-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
"We think, for so long, that old age will never find us. We feel that we, as individuals, might somehow be exempt from it, that we might be given some sort of ticket that allows us to sidestep death, …"-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
21. 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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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- nature
22. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
By: Alice Vincent
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more
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- gardening
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
23. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- nature
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
24. The Silence Factory
By: Bridget Collins
3.55
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more
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25. Four Seasons in Japan
By: Nick Bradley
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation… read more
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"Without losing to the rain,’ Ayako quoted the Miyazawa Kenji poem. ‘Without losing to the wind."-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan
"You don’t have to, though,’ his friend said, with a tilt of his head. ‘You can do whatever you like, man. It’s your life. Don’t live it for other people."-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan
"But the important thing is that you turn up, you get out your pen, and you draw one small thing, one line at a time. That’s how you achieve something big."-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan
"I remember looking out into that dark night sky, and I remember feeling something I hadn’t in a long time – I want to live. Having found myself that close to death, I suddenly knew that I wasn’t read…"-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan
26. Hagstone
By: Sinéad Gleeson
3.63
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more
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27. Cairn
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.34
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
28. The Ponies at the Edge of the World: A Story of Hope and Belonging in Shetland
By: Catherine Munro
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Catherine Munro transforms her life when she moves to Shetland to study the hardy ponies who call t… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
29. Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better
By: Polly Atkin
4.18
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
'It raises the standard of nature writing. This is both radical manifesto and activism in book form… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
30. Slow Seasons: A Creative Guide to Reconnecting with Nature the Celtic Way
By: Rosie Steer
4.08
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
Woman's Own Book Club 2023'A truly beautiful book. Rosie's writing makes me want to close my laptop… read more
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- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
31. The Interior Silence: My Encounters with Calm, Joy, and Compassion at 10 Monasteries Around the World
By: Sarah Sands
3.10
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
A journey around the world to find tranquility, quiet the mind, and understand the power of silence… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
