Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town
By: Lamorna Ash
4.03
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A captivating, lyrical and deeply discerning portrait of life in the Cornish town of Newlyn, the la…
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1. Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
By: Daniel Gordis
4.31
Format: 560 pages, ebook
Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. Maggie & Me
By: Damian Barr
4.12
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, Winner of the Stonewall Award and The Sunday Times Memoir of the Yea… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"There's no place like home. No place safer. No place scarier."-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me
"Maggie, tou made it possible -but not probably for me to be the man I am now."-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me
"Reading is an act of radical empathy: turning the page instead of turning away."-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me
"The second time I try to kill a man I'm fourteen. Killing a man seems a very grown-up thing to do - like writing in Biro."-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me
3. Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys
By: Lol Tolhurst
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Hardcover
"On our first day of school, Robert and I stood at the designated stop at Hevers Avenue with our mo… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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4. Poverty Safari
By: Darren McGarvey
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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5. Nowy Jork. Od Mannahatty do Ground Zero
By: Magdalena Rittenhouse
4.12
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
Czy holenderscy osadnicy naprawde kupili Manhattan od Indian za garsc paciorkow? Czemu budowa Brook… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
6. Round Ireland with a Fridge
By: Tony Hawks
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Have you ever made a drunken bet? Worse still, have you ever tried to win one? In attempting to hit… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
7. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
By: Peter Heather
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordina… read more
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8. The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
By: James Rebanks
4.18
Format: 578 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James … read more
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9. The Invisible Circus
By: Jennifer Egan
3.00
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tens… read more
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10. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
By: Bridget Collins
4.06
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more
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11. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- nature
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
12. 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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13. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- nature
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
14. I Am an Island
By: Tamsin Calidas
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on an island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home.… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- nature
"It was a time of hope and dreaming of your beautiful life, and Brit Pop singing the world real again."-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"On dementia: It is like you are living in a world with no connection to anyone or anything. It is lonely. It is like nobody is there."-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"Cancer bleeds the life out of you until there is nothing left. Once the body is not able to eat, it starts to sleep and its muscles and strength begin to waste away. But even then, the mind can still…"-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"When someone dies, their spirit is free. But no one is free that is left behind. (...) Grief is like soil. It is heavy and clings to your skin, even when you come up for air. And sometimes, even afte…"-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
15. 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
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
16. Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
By: Kerry Hudson
4.15
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhoo… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"I was a private investigator, digging my way through my own deeply buried secrets, both desperate for answers and fighting to keep them hidden."-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
"Here I was chasing my past, trying to piece things together but perhaps the real courage was in simply accepting the things that happen and learning to live with them."-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
17. The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology
By: Mark Boyle
3.94
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
It was 11:00 pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- nature
18. 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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- history
- british literature
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
"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
19. Andromeda
By: Therese Bohman
3.63
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
”Förlagshuset ligger som ett fartyg som ankrat mitt i stan, en stor ljus byggnad som kröns av en ta… read more
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"Jeśli rozumie się ludzi, wszyscy stają się interesujący."-Therese Bohman, Andromeda
"Pamiętasz jak raz powiedziałaś, że masz wrażenie jakbyś przez całe życie biegła? Dokładnie wiedziałem co masz na myśli, ze mną było tak samo. Biegłem sam, tak jak Ty. Ale przez te kilka lat miałem wr…"-Therese Bohman, Andromeda
20. The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this latest installment of the beloved Isabel Dalhousie series, Isabel finds herself navigating … read more
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21. 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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- history
- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
22. Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation
By: Nancy Guthrie
4.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An Understandable and Reliable Guide to Revelation Blessed , by bestselling author and speaker Nanc… read more
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- nonfiction
"Jesus doesn't just look at us; he looks into us. And if we are willing to hold his gaze, he will burn away what is meaningless and frivolous and contaminating."-Nancy Guthrie, Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation
23. Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town
By: Lamorna Ash
4.03
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A captivating, lyrical and deeply discerning portrait of life in the Cornish town of Newlyn, the la… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- british literature
- adventure
- travel
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- journalism
- nature
24. Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution
By: Sarah Langford
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Sarah Langford left her city life behind she found herself unexpectedly back in the world of f… read more
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- memoir
- nature
25. The Draw of the Sea
By: Wyl Menmuir
4.24
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Wyl Menmuir’s The Draw of the Sea is a book about the fishermen, surfers, swimmers, beachcombers, c… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
26. Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
By: Catrina Davies
4.23
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- british literature
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- nonfiction
- nature
"The house in Bristol belonged to a family who were traveling the world on our combined rent."-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
"People I know with houses squeeze every drop of capital out of them, because, even when it's hard, squeezing capital out of a house is a hell of a lot easier than squeezing it out of work."-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
27. Politics: A Survivor's Guide: How to Stay Engaged without Getting Enraged
By: Rafael Behr
3.97
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
A WATERSTONES BEST POLITICS BOOK OF 2023 'Passionate, clever, and often very funny' Marina Hyde 'A … read more
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- nonfiction
28. The Heeding
By: Rob Cowen
4.14
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which… read more
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- memoir
- nature
29. Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience
By: Natasha Carthew
3.79
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
There's a Cornish saying that nothing is left behind in an autumnal tide, the powerful tug between … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
30. Marram
By: Leonie Charlton
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the southern tip of Barra to the ancient stone circle of Callanish, Leonie and her friend Shun… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
31. Rzeki, których nie ma
By: Maciej Robert
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Rzeka, której nie ma, może (nie) istnieć na wiele sposobów. Może to być rzeka, która wysycha okreso… read more
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