6 must-read autobiography books like Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town by Lamorna Ash

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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

Similar categories in Daniel Gordis's Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • nonfiction
  • history
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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

Similar categories in Damian Barr's Maggie & Me book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • 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

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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

Similar categories in Lol Tolhurst's Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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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

Similar categories in Darren McGarvey's Poverty Safari book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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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

Similar categories in Magdalena Rittenhouse's Nowy Jork. Od Mannahatty do Ground Zero book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
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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

Similar categories in Tony Hawks's Round Ireland with a Fridge book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • 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

Similar categories in James Rebanks's The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

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

Similar categories in Jennifer Egan's The Invisible Circus book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

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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

Similar categories in Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • 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

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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

Similar categories in Raynor Winn's Landlines book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • 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

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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

Similar categories in Tamsin Calidas's I Am an Island book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • 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

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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

Similar categories in Peter Ross's Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • british literature
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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

Similar categories in Kerry Hudson's Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • 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

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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

Similar categories in Mark Boyle's The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nature
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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

Similar categories in Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • 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

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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

Similar categories in Therese Bohman's Andromeda book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

"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

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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

Similar categories in Sophie Elmhirst's Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Love, Shipwreck and Survival book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation by Nancy Guthrie

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

Similar categories in Nancy Guthrie's Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • 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

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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

Similar categories in Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • adventure
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • nature
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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

Similar categories in Sarah Langford's Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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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

Similar categories in Wyl Menmuir's The Draw of the Sea book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed by Catrina Davies

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

Similar categories in Catrina Davies's Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • 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

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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

Similar categories in Rafael Behr's Politics: A Survivor's Guide: How to Stay Engaged without Getting Enraged book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • nonfiction
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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

Similar categories in Rob Cowen's The Heeding book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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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

Similar categories in Natasha Carthew's Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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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

Similar categories in Leonie Charlton's Marram book and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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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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7 must-read history books like Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town by Lamorna Ash

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4.31

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4.12

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Cal Flyn

4.20

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Peter Ross

4.37

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One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke

4.35

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Simon Armitage

4.09

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Henry B. Kane , John J. Rowlands

3.53

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Raynor Winn

4.33

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