Fry's Ties
By: Stephen Fry
3.80
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Book of Merlyn
By: T.H. White
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
This magical account of King Arthur's last night on earth spent weeks on the New York Times best-se… read more
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"Merlyn, […] was a staunch conservative – which was rather progressive of him, when you reflect that he was living backwards"-T.H. White, The Book of Merlyn
"Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish."-T.H. White, The Book of Merlyn
"Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good."-T.H. White, The Book of Merlyn
"I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the glo…"-T.H. White, The Book of Merlyn
2. Tales from Watership Down (Watership Down, #2)
By: Richard Adams
3.83
Format: 335 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Watership Down was one of this century's best-loved works of imaginative literature. Now Richard Ad… read more
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"He fell on his back and lay there, staring stupidly up at the sky. Then he began to tremble with fear. In the blue curve of the sky he saw a great rent, a cleft which, he perceived, was an open, gapi…"-Richard Adams, Tales from Watership Down (Watership Down, #2)
3. The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
By: Muriel Spark
3.65
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—i… read more
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- audiobook
"it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls."-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
"- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment …"-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
4. The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
By: Lizzie Collingham
3.95
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a pineapple with a slave trader… Surveyors in Bri… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
5. Karakter
By: F. Bordewijk
3.77
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Katadreuffe is bezeten van het verlangen advocaat te worden. Als zoon van een arme ongehuwde moeder… read more
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6. Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
By: Shaun Usher
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Letters of Noteis a collection of one hundred and twenty five of the world's most entertaining, ins… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- essays
7. Leave It to Psmith (Psmith, #4)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.27
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Ronald Psmith (“the ‘p’ is silent, as in pshrimp”) is always willing to help a damsel in distress. … read more
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- humor
- audiobook
"It seems to me that you and I were made for each other. I am your best friend’s best friend and we both have a taste for stealing other people’s jewellery."-P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith (Psmith, #4)
"Very rapidly now Freddie realised that what he had been wishing for was a partner to share the perils of this enterprise which he had so rashly undertaken. In fact, not so much to share them as to ta…"-P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith (Psmith, #4)
"In the past she had been compelled to describe this man as a hunk of cheese and to express the opinion that his crookedness was such as to enable him to hide at will behind a spiral staircase; but no…"-P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith (Psmith, #4)
8. Fludd
By: Hilary Mantel
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal villa… read more
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9. 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
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10. Freud: A Very Short Introduction
By: Anthony Storr
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, developed a totally new way of looking at human natur… read more
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11. The Ill-Made Knight (The Once and Future King, #3)
By: T.H. White
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Ill-Made Knight is based around the adventures, perils and mistakes of Sir Lancelot. Lancelot, … read more
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12. The Coroner's Daughter
By: Andrew Hughes
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Dublin, 1816. A young nursemaid conceals a pregnancy and then murders her newborn in the home of th… read more
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13. The Candle in the Wind (The Once and Future King, #4)
By: T.H. White
4.33
Format: 226 pages,
The Candle in the Wind is the fourth book from the collection The Once and Future King by T. H. Whi… read more
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14. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- biography
- history
- humor
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
15. Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland
By: Lisa Schneidau
3.81
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
The islands of Britain and Ireland hold a rich heritage of plant folklore and wisdom, from the magi… read more
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- audiobook
"In the old days, there were bogles, the horrid things, creeping in the darkness, ready to take people. And even in the daytime, when there weren't bogles, people were always fretting about them, or s…"-Lisa Schneidau, Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland
16. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets
By: Dawn French
3.87
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life
By: Josh Widdicombe
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could de… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Berserker!
By: Adrian Edmondson
4.32
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language
By: Paul Baker
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. I… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
20. The God Desire
By: David Baddiel
3.69
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count ‘ A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, hum… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"But also, the cynic may have to accept something else. That he, as a human, is not exceptional. He might have to accept that perhaps, when you look at how animals, certainly mammals, behave – how the…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
"Martin Amis once said, of death, that ‘after forty, it’s a full-time job looking the other way’. I sometimes wonder if, at any adult age, it’s also a full-time job – although a less conscious one – l…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
"Some religious ideas may be on the decline, but not, I would say, human exceptionalism. Fewer people might believe in God than they used to, yet, although veganism is on the rise, most of us are stil…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
"Because another thing we look away from, in the killing of animals, is just how much they are like us. One of the things the internet has done is circulate, on a vast scale, short films of animals be…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
21. 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
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- history
- memoir
- audiobook
"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
22. Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
By: The Secret Barrister
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who c… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"We deceive ourselves, our cognitive dissonance only resolved by our brains reassuring us that, in spite of what anyone else might think, we know we're in the right."-The Secret Barrister, Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
23. Fry's Ties
By: Stephen Fry
3.80
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Discover the tales behind the ties in Stephen Fry's witty companion to our most distinguished acces… read more
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- autobiography
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- essays
- fashion
- adult
- audiobook
24. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
By: Bettany Hughes
4.02
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Th… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- history
- audiobook
25. A Book of Secrets: Finding Solace in a Stubborn World
By: Derren Brown
3.73
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
."Friction and struggle lead to growth." In A Book of Secrets, internationally bestselling author … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
26. Rising to the Surface
By: Lenny Henry
3.58
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s. 'Mo… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Ayoade On Top
By: Richard Ayoade
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the T… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- audiobook
"We can't live in dreams any more that we can live in the clouds or under socialism."-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
"Because to be moved by something made by someone who has done something bad would mean that a bad person possesses the capacity to connect to us; that they haven't, somehow, forfeited their humanity."-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
"When I buy Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, the acquisitive part of me is buying it for the deluded part of me that thinks I’ll read it one day, while the archivist part of me keeps it on a shelf with …"-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
"This shadowy, depersonalised, frankly militaristic ‘they’ (why should I call the pilot ‘captain’ – I didn’t join his army) is what makes commercial air travel so Orwellian. Say you want to take a nap…"-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
28. Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death
By: Richard Holloway
4.13
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
Where do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just s… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
29. A Frightfully Fatal Affair (The Dinner Lady Detectives, #4)
By: Hannah Hendy
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker are coming to the end of another busy half term as dinner ladi… read more
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30. Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory in Action
By: Oliver Lovell
4.51
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
What is it that enables students to learn from some classroom activities, yet leaves them totally c… read more
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- nonfiction
31. The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History
By: Rachel Smith
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and inspiring collection of letters revealing some of the greatest queer love stories i… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- history
