11 must-read audiobook books like Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames by Lara Maiklem

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Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

By: Lara Maiklem

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert “mudlarker” Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in th…

"The Thames is England's longest archaeological landscape and thousands of the objects that fill our museums have come from its foreshore. (p.47)"

-Lara Maiklem, Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

If you liked the audiobook plot in Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames by Lara Maiklem , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of London in Fragments: A Mudlark's Treasures by Ted Sandling

1. London in Fragments: A Mudlark's Treasures

By: Ted Sandling

4.53

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Mudlarking, searching the Thames foreshore, has a long tradition: mudlarks used to be small boys gr… read more

Similar categories in Ted Sandling's London in Fragments: A Mudlark's Treasures book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • history
  • british literature
  • travel
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
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2. The Survival of the Princes in the Tower: Murder, Mystery and Myth

By: Matthew Lewis

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The murder of the Princes in the Tower is the most famous cold case in English or British history. … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Lewis's The Survival of the Princes in the Tower: Murder, Mystery and Myth book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • british literature

3. A Realm Divided: England in 1215

By: Dan Jones

3.93

Format: 300 pages,

1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history … read more

Similar categories in Dan Jones's A Realm Divided: England in 1215 book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

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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

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • historical
  • audiobook
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5. 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

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's Cuddy book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • british literature
"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

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6. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

By: Clare Hunter

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to… read more

Similar categories in Clare Hunter's Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving the indelible evidence of our presence …"

-Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

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7. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church

By: Peter Ross

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

*Featuring a brand new chapter!* Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in … read more

Similar categories in Peter Ross's Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • history
  • british literature
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

By: Lara Maiklem

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert “mudlarker” Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in th… read more

Similar categories in Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • audiobook
  • history
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • travel
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
  • nature
  • science
"The Thames is England's longest archaeological landscape and thousands of the objects that fill our museums have come from its foreshore. (p.47)"

-Lara Maiklem, Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

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9. The Lost Rainforests of Britain

By: Guy Shrubsole

4.30

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more

Similar categories in Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • audiobook
  • history
  • british literature
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"

-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain

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10. A Very Private School: A Memoir

By: Charles Spencer

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more

Similar categories in Charles Spencer's A Very Private School: A Memoir book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • history
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. London Clay: Journeys into the Deep City

By: Tom Chivers

3.94

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

What secrets lie beneath a city? Tom Chivers follows hidden pathways, explores lost islands and un… read more

Similar categories in Tom Chivers's London Clay: Journeys into the Deep City book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
  • audiobook
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12. The Accidental Detectorist: The Adventures of a Reluctant Metal Detectorist

By: Nigel Richardson

4.03

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

One man's accidental journey into uncovering Britain's underground obsession. A fascinating and eng… read more

Similar categories in Nigel Richardson's The Accidental Detectorist: The Adventures of a Reluctant Metal Detectorist book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
Cover of A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards by Peter Ross

13. A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards

By: Peter Ross

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the … read more

Similar categories in Peter Ross's A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • history
  • british literature
  • travel
  • historical
  • nonfiction
"Exposure to a particle of darkness means one does not sicken with it."

-Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards

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14. Ancestry

By: Simon Mawer

4.02

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

Beginning with his great-great-grandfather Abraham Block, acclaimed novelist Simon Mawer sifts thro… read more

Similar categories in Simon Mawer's Ancestry book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • british literature
Cover of Thames Mudlarking: Searching for London's Lost Treasures by Jason Sandy

15. Thames Mudlarking: Searching for London's Lost Treasures

By: Jason Sandy

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Often seen combing the shoreline of the River Thames at low tide, groups of archaeology enthusiasts… read more

Similar categories in Jason Sandy's Thames Mudlarking: Searching for London's Lost Treasures book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
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16. The Moonlight Market

By: Joanne Harris

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Joanne Harris comes a richly imagined and captivating novel … read more

Similar categories in Joanne Harris's The Moonlight Market book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • audiobook
" Love never ends--- but it changes. In some cases, it grows like a tree, stronger and more fruitful. In others, it changes nature, like chrysalis to butterfly. "

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

"And, at that, picking up his parcel of books, Spider began to walk purposefully down the road, a river of light at his ragged heels, his spindly shadow beside him."

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

"He was close to her now, close enough to smell her scent, which was like bluebells in the rain, and the aroma of a forest in spring, and the peppery sweetness of petrichor."

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

"There's daylight names and midnight names. Daylight names are safe enough. A spider brings good luck before midnight, but bad luck after. And you look to me like the kind of young man who needs good …"

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

Cover of Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away by Lisa Woollett

17. Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away

By: Lisa Woollett

4.24

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged-out re… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Woollett's Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
Cover of Seven Lively Suspects (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #3) by Katy  Watson

18. Seven Lively Suspects (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #3)

By: Katy Watson

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

It's been five years since Dahlia fan Scott Baker was arrested for a murder that had eerie echoes o… read more

Similar categories in Katy Watson's Seven Lively Suspects (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #3) book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • audiobook
Cover of The Wood That Built London: A Human History of the Great North Wood by C.J. Schüler

19. The Wood That Built London: A Human History of the Great North Wood

By: C.J. Schüler

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Standing in the busy streets of South London today, it is hard to imagine that much of this suburba… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Schüler's The Wood That Built London: A Human History of the Great North Wood book and Lara Maiklem's Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

  • history
  • nonfiction

13 Top history books like Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames by Lara Maiklem

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Ted Sandling

4.53

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Matthew Lewis

3.97

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Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

Clare Hunter

4.09

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Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church

Peter Ross

4.37

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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

Virginia Postrel

4.17

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Cuddy

Benjamin Myers

4.33

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Clare Hunter

4.09

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Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior

Catherine Hanley

4.20

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