House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
By: Hadley Freeman
4.41
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A writer investigates her family’s secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two Wor…
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1. Love and War in the Apennines
By: Eric Newby
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An account of the author's experiences, 28 years ago, as an escaping POW in Italy during World War … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- world war ii
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter inkpot, rising out of the haze to the north of where I was treading water."-Eric Newby, Love and War in the Apennines
"It is not pleasant to be disliked,' he said, 'and it is very unpleasant to be German and to know that one is hated because one is German and because, collectively, we are wrong in what we are doing. …"-Eric Newby, Love and War in the Apennines
"But in spite of the stones it was marvellous to be working up on the Pian del Sotto: going out on to it while the morning star was still shining brilliantly in a sky that was the colour of blue-black…"-Eric Newby, Love and War in the Apennines
2. Puckoon
By: Spike Milligan
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Puckoon is Spike Milligan's classic slapstick novel, reissued for the first time since it was publi… read more
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3. Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star
By: Tracey Thorn
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A frank and funny pop culture memoir in the vein of Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman,this is "how … read more
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4. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- jewish
5. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- audiobook
6. 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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- audiobook
"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
7. 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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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
8. 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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- historical
- audiobook
"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
9. 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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- historical
- audiobook
10. Paris Echo
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Here is Paris as you have never seen it before – a city in which every building seems to hold the e… read more
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- world war ii
- audiobook
11. On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
By: Laura Cumming
3.58
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riv… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
"To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forg…"-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
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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- historical
- audiobook
13. My Name Is Why
By: Lemn Sissay
4.29
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an adopted family followed by six years in care homes… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
By: Hadley Freeman
4.41
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A writer investigates her family’s secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two Wor… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- jewish
- historical
- world war ii
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- holocaust
- audiobook
15. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By: Daniel Finkelstein
4.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- jewish
- world war ii
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- holocaust
16. Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Love, Shipwreck and Survival
By: Sophie Elmhirst
4.12
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
**A Guardian, Observer & Waterstones Nonfiction Book of 2024**'One of those very special books that… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
17. Broken Greek: A Story of Chip Shops and Pop Songs
By: Pete Paphides
4.10
Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition
'Do you sometimes feel like the music you're hearing is explaining your life to you?'When Pete's pa… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On
By: Wes Streeting
4.30
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
Wes Streeting might have ended up in prison rather than in parliament. His maternal grandfather Bil… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
19. Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It
By: Jake Wallis Simons
4.25
Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition
'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualifi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- jewish
20. Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
By: Hannah Barnes
4.40
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS’s flagship gender service… read more
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- nonfiction
"GIDS’s own limited data, which found ‘no evidence of change in psychological function’ with puberty-blocker treatment."-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
"The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has undoubtedly helped some people. It has unquestionably harmed others."-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
"NHS England. Why did they allow the early blocking of puberty to be rolled out as routine practice without demanding to see some data supporting this radical shift? Why didn’t it insist on seeing any…"-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
"It is mad,’ was the reply. Hutchinson paused. When one of the leaders of a service that helps children to access powerful, life-changing drugs comments that what they’re doing is ‘mad’, there is clea…"-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
21. A Little Trickerie
By: Rosanna Pike
4.33
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Listen. My one-time friend Maria did tell me once: "Make your own paradise, Tibb, since this world … read more
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