A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story
By: Polly Morland
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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1. A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
By: John Berger , Jean Mohr
2.18
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winni… read more
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2. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
3. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
By: Nina Stibbe
3.66
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more
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4. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
5. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
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"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
6. Darling
By: India Knight
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for grea… read more
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7. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
By: Adam Kay
3.91
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more
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8. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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9. 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
10. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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11. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
12. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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13. 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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"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
14. What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry
By: Ben Cave
4.26
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AWARD --- 'Poignant, funny, engross… read more
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15. A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story
By: Polly Morland
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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16. This Family
By: Kate Sawyer
3.83
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more
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17. 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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18. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
By: Katherine Rundell
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more
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"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
19. Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care
By: Jim Down
4.36
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
'A remarkably honest memoir of a life spent pulling people back from death' - Adam KayIn these stor… read more
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20. 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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