Close to Where the Heart Gives Out: A Year in the Life of an Orkney Doctor
By: Malcolm Alexander
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Close to Where the Heart Gives Out is the unflinchingly honest and moving memoir of rural life in O…
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1. Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
By: Susan Hill
4.23
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This is a year of reading from home, by one of Britain's most distinguished authors. Early one autu… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
2. With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
By: Kathryn Mannix
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Through stories from her own practice, a palliative care doctor takes the reader on a journey throu… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- memoir
3. Island Wife: Living on the Edge of the Wild
By: None
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
Island Wifetells the story of Judy, who, at 19, met her Wild Pioneer. He whisked her off into an ad… read more
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4. The Sealwoman's Gift
By: Sally Magnusson
4.15
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people, including … read more
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- audiobook
5. Queen Macbeth
By: Val McDermid
3.77
Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition
Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more
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- adult
- scotland
- audiobook
6. 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
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- scotland
- audiobook
"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
7. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness
By: Christian Lewis
4.40
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- scotland
8. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
By: Robin Ince
3.84
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- scotland
- audiobook
"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
9. No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective
By: Jess McDonald
3.81
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'Probably the most important book on the state of British policing you'll ever read' Graham Bartlet… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
10. Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans
By: Elise Downing
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Running away from your problems doesn’t solve anything – but sometimes it’s more fun than dealing w… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. The Wild Silence
By: Raynor Winn
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
12. A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story
By: Polly Morland
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and work of a country… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. A Year of Living Simply: The joys of a life less complicated
By: Kate Humble
3.81
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
If there is one thing that most of us aspire to, it is, simply, to be happy. And yet attaining hap… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
By: Helen Rebanks
3.89
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
15. The Island Swimmer
By: Lorraine Kelly
3.98
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
🎧Listening Length = 9 hrs and 16 mins Penned by “a Scottish Maeve Binchy” (Veronica Henry, autho… read more
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- audiobook
16. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- scotland
- audiobook
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
17. Boy Friends
By: Michael Pedersen
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland’s brightest y… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- scotland
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting, instant fondness - part chemical, part kismet. This is how I've felt about every friend I've fallen in love with …"-Michael Pedersen, Boy Friends
18. Close to Where the Heart Gives Out: A Year in the Life of an Orkney Doctor
By: Malcolm Alexander
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Close to Where the Heart Gives Out is the unflinchingly honest and moving memoir of rural life in O… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- scotland
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
19. The Frequency of Us
By: Keith Stuart
3.97
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In Second World War Bath, young, naïve wireless engineer Will meets German refugee Elsa Klein: she … read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"Most people never have love – what they experience is desire and then routine. Real love, lasting love – it is rare. There isn’t enough to go around. So no, there was no one else for me."-Keith Stuart, The Frequency of Us
"There are rare moments in your life so vivid that you know they will be unforgettable from the very outset. They have about them an ethereal quality separate from other events in our lives."-Keith Stuart, The Frequency of Us
20. A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
By: Dorthe Nors
3.93
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A celebrated Danish writer explores the unsung histories and geographies of her beloved slice of th… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
21. Wild Hope: Healing Words to Find Light on Dark Days
By: Donna Ashworth
4.41
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
Wild Hope is Donna Ashworth's powerful new collection of wisdom to help us find hope, peace, self-a… read more
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