Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
By: Lucy Mangan
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on …
Want to Read $ 10.99"Each book is a world entire. You're going to have to take more than one pass at it."-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
"The intensity of childhod reading, the instant and complete absorption in a book - a good book, a bad book, in any kind of book - is something I would give much to recapture"-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
"The philosopher and psychologist Riccardo Manzotti describes the process of reading and rereading as creating both locks and keys with which to open them; it shows you an area of life you didn't even know was there and, almost simultaneously, starts to give you the tools with which to decipher it."-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
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1. How Many Camels Are There in Holland?
By: Phyllida Law
3.73
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The charming, funny successor to the hugely popular 'Notes to my Mother-in-Law', from the inimitabl… read more
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2. Private Keep Out!
By: None
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Growing up in a North Midlands colliery town just after the war, the narrator, youngest in a family… read more
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3. The Greengage Summer
By: Rumer Godden
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by … read more
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4. Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
By: Cathy Rentzenbrink
4.20
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love. 'Reading has saved my life, ag… read more
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"It is both simple and profound to consider the vastness of human experience that sits on one small shelf of books"-Cathy Rentzenbrink, Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
"Don’t allow anything to dent your reading pleasure. Don’t let anyone tell you that what you like isn’t proper, that what brings comfort and ease to your soul isn’t good enough."-Cathy Rentzenbrink, Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
"The very way that fiction works – the process of conflict and resolution at the heart of every story – means that novels are full of people encountering challenging situations and, usually, surviving…"-Cathy Rentzenbrink, Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
5. The Household
By: Stacey Halls
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more
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6. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)
By: Shaun Bythell
4.11
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more
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7. Tackle!
By: Jilly Cooper
3.74
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Jilly Cooper's legendary hero returns! Rupert Campbell-Black, undefeated race-horse owner and ha… read more
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8. Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
By: Susie Dent
4.30
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to a year of wonder through the English language with Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordina… read more
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9. 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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10. Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
By: Lucy Mangan
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on … read more
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"Each book is a world entire. You're going to have to take more than one pass at it."-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
"The intensity of childhod reading, the instant and complete absorption in a book - a good book, a bad book, in any kind of book - is something I would give much to recapture"-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
"The philosopher and psychologist Riccardo Manzotti describes the process of reading and rereading as creating both locks and keys with which to open them; it shows you an area of life you didn't even…"-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
11. The Painter's Daughters
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3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more
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12. Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
By: Simon Barnes
3.92
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost … read more
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"We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really …"-Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
13. Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru
By: Hugh Bonneville
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A The Times (UK) and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one o… read more
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14. The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary
By: Melissa Harrison
4.21
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
A nature diary by award-winning novelist, nature writer and hit podcaster Melissa Harrison, followi… read more
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15. The Puzzle Wood
By: Rosie Andrews
3.37
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Deep in the woods, something is stirring. When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a posit… read more
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16. Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries
By: Martin Edwards
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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17. The Moonlight Market
By: Joanne Harris
3.54
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
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"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
18. The Story Spinner
By: Barbara Erskine
4.42
Format: 513 pages, Kindle Edition
The land of the Silures, 382 AD Elen is a princess promised to a general of Rome. Macsen came to… read more
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19. Hell's Bells (Eustacia Rose #2)
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Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition
Eustacia Rose's life is beginning to return to normal: she is back teaching at UCL and her relation… read more
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