11 Best british literature books like The Fens: Discovering England's Ancient Depths by Francis Pryor

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The Fens: Discovering England's Ancient Depths

By: Francis Pryor

4.13

Format: 463 pages, Kindle Edition

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply per…

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1. How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

By: Tristan Gooley

3.97

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

A must-have book for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural wor… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • science
"This is what the great artists manage. They flatter us, by observing better than others and then speaking to each of us as individuals and in a language that we worry we may be the only ones left car…"

-Tristan Gooley, How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

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2. The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

By: Natalie Livingstone

3.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Sunday Times bestseller, The Mistresses of Cliveden is the extraordinary story of how five women … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • british literature
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3. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

By: W.B. Yeats , Richard J. Finneran

4.15

Format: 333 pages,

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeatsincludes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in hi… read more

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4. The Places in Between

By: Rory Stewart

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir

5. The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World

By: Marti Olsen Laney

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Do you "zone out" if too much is going on? Are you energised by spending time alone? In meetings, d… read more

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6. Living With Books

By: Alan Powers

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Some people never have more than a shelf or two of books. Others are more committed: they hoard boo… read more

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7. Landmarks

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Landmarksis Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between … read more

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8. Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

By: Tom Holland

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In AD 900, few would have guessed that the splintering kingdoms of Christendom were candidates for … read more

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9. The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts

By: Graham Robb

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and … read more

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10. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.13

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

11. Remarkable Creatures

By: Tracy Chevalier

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

In 1810, a sister and brother uncover the fossilized skull of an unknown animal in the cliffs on th… read more

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12. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

By: Ian Mortimer

4.01

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • british literature
"Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception."

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"So, as long as you can get enough to eat, and can avoid all the various lethal infections, the dangers of childbirth, lead poisoning, and the extreme violence, you should live a long time. All you ha…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"Collectively they remind us that history is much more than an education process. Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

13. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

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14. The Essex Serpent

By: Sarah Perry

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, and enlivened by the debates on scienti… read more

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15. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

By: Adam Nicolson

3.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."

-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

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16. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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17. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

By: Cat Jarman

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more

Similar categories in Cat Jarman's River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road book and Francis Pryor's The Fens: Discovering England's Ancient Depths

  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
  • science
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18. The Lost Spells

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a bea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Loss is the tune of our age, hard to miss and hard to bear. Creatures, places and words disappear, day after day, year on year. But there has always been singing in the dark times-- and wonder is nee…"

-Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Spells

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19. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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  • british literature
  • audiobook
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20. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
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21. Underland: A Deep Time Journey

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.22

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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22. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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  • audiobook
  • british literature
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23. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages

By: Matthew Green

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
  • nature
  • audiobook
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24. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more

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  • audiobook
"Love shared is no sin."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

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25. 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

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  • science
  • history
  • british literature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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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26. A Short History of the World According to Sheep

By: Sally Coulthard

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An addictively free-ranging survey of the huge impact that sheep have had on human history. From… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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27. The Fens: Discovering England's Ancient Depths

By: Francis Pryor

4.13

Format: 463 pages, Kindle Edition

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply per… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • memoir
  • archaeology
  • british literature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • prehistory
  • nature
  • audiobook
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28. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People

By: Stuart Maconie

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • british literature
  • history
  • audiobook
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29. English

By: Ben Fogle

3.42

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • british literature
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30. Something of his Art: Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach (Field Notes)

By: Horatio Clare

3.93

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Something of his Art is Horatio Clare’s recreation of the long walk that J. S. Bach took in the dep… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

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3.70

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4.13

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Adam Nicolson

3.51

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Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter

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4.00

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Anna Keay

4.39

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