10 Best nonfiction books like Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups by William Miller

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Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups

By: William Miller

3.98

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Ackerley PrizeGloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked b…

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1. In a Good Light

By: Clare Chambers

4.36

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction … read more

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2. Notes to My Mother-in-law

By: Phyllida Law

4.12

Format: None pages,

'My mother-in-law Annie lived with us for 17 years and was picture-book perfect.' It took a while b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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3. The Long View

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

'The Long View', a revealing portrait of a marriage, is the ingenious construction of a couple's st… read more

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4. The Lady In The Van

By: Alan Bennett

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Life imitates art in The Lady in the Van, the story of the itinerant Miss Shepherd, who lived in a … read more

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5. The House in France: A Memoir

By: None

4.43

Format: 63 pages, Hardcover

Set in Provence, London, and New York, this is a daughter's brilliant and witty memoir of her mothe… read more

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6. Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

By: Nina Stibbe

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the 1980s Nina Stibbe wrote letters home to her sister in Leicester describing her trials and tr… read more

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7. Man at the Helm

By: Nina Stibbe

3.64

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

My sister and I and our little brother were born (in that order) into a very good situation and apa… read more

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8. The Durrells of Corfu

By: Michael Haag

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Simon Nye's TV series, The Durrells, is based loosely on Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy and in part… read more

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9. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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10. 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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11. 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

Similar categories in Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary book and William Miller's Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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12. 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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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"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

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13. This Could Be Everything

By: Eva Rice

3.83

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From the author of ‘modern vintage classic’ The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good nosta… read more

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14. Over Sharing

By: Jane Fallon

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The queen of revenge comedy is back with a hilariously sharp and refreshing new novel Can you li… read more

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15. Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7)

By: Val McDermid

4.26

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Val McDermid returns with DCI Karen Pirie in a new thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against th… read more

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16. A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)

By: Richard Coles

3.90

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Cl… read more

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17. Way Back

By: Sara Cox

4.18

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

THE BIG-HEARTED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THROWN, RADIO 2 BROADCASTER A… read more

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18. House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

By: Alan Bennett

3.81

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution aga… read more

Similar categories in Alan Bennett's House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries book and William Miller's Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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19. 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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20. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

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21. The Book of Beginnings

By: Sally Page

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more

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22. The Wild Silence

By: Raynor Winn

3.98

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more

Similar categories in Raynor Winn's The Wild Silence book and William Miller's Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

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23. At the Table

By: Claire Powell

3.74

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple - a suburban double act, happily m… read more

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24. Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups

By: William Miller

3.98

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Ackerley PrizeGloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked b… read more

Similar categories in William Miller's Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups book and William Miller's Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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25. Reasons to Be Cheerful

By: Nina Stibbe

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city they tried to unsettle m… read more

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26. One Day I Shall Astonish the World

By: Nina Stibbe

3.49

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of  Love, Nina , a frank, tender, and poignantly funny story about the ebb … read more

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27. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

By: James Rebanks

4.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more

Similar categories in James Rebanks's Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey book and William Miller's Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

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28. 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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29. 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
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30. An Almost Perfect Christmas

By: Nina Stibbe

3.53

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Love, Nina -- a hilarious ode to the joys and insanities of the most wonderful t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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31. The Centre of the Bed

By: Joan Bakewell

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The story of Joan Bakewell's life and times spans the Blitz in Manchester, Cambridge during the gli… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

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4.12

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3.66

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Rory Stewart

4.36

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Sophie Hannah

3.75

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Robert Thorogood

3.92

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Mark Billingham

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Tom Hindle

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