Slow Trains Around Spain: A 3,000-Mile Adventure on 52 Rides
By: Tom Chesshyre
4.20
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and ol…
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1. Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
By: Tim Parks
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of Italian Neighborsreturns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian li… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
2. The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
By: Helen Russell
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Denmark is officially the happiest nation on Earth. When Helen Russell is forced to move to rural J… read more
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- nonfiction
3. The Italians
By: John Hooper
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Washington Post bestseller Los Angeles Times bestseller A vivid and surprising portrait of the Ital… read more
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4. Spain
By: Jan Morris
3.99
Format: None pages,
First published in 1964, this universally praised odyssey through Spain has been revised and superb… read more
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5. The Light of Day
By: Eric Ambler
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin's classic film, Topkapi. When Arthur Abdel Simpson … read more
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6. Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
By: Giles Tremlett
3.66
Format: 32 pages,
The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing … read more
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7. Instructions for a Heatwave
By: Maggie O'Farrell
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O'Farrell's beguiling novels blend richl… read more
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8. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
By: Laurie Lee , Leonard Rosoman
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune… read more
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9. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
10. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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- nonfiction
11. España: A Brief History of Spain
By: Giles Tremlett
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric … read more
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- spain
- nonfiction
12. Honeybees and Distant Thunder
By: Riku Onda
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Tender and intense, Honeybees and Distant Thunder is the unflinching story of love, courage and riv… read more
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"The highest form of human achievement was music. Human beings might have dirty, repulsive aspects to them, but out of the sordid swamp that was humanity - no, it was precisely because of this chaotic…"-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder
"Music always had to be of the now. It couldn't just be something preserved in a museum, and it was meaningless unless it was alive in the present. If you were satisfied with merely unearthing a lovel…"-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder
"What kind of job was it to be a musician? What sort of vocation was it, anyway? Vocation - that was the perfect word for it. It really was a calling, a living calling. It didn't fill your stomach, di…"-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder
"What a strange thing music was. It was just one small individual up there performing, and the notes created by those fingers were here one moment and gone the next. Yet what was there was almost the …"-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder
13. The Romantic
By: William Boyd
4.15
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more
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14. Murder on Lake Garda
By: Tom Hindle
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more
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15. 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
16. Tyll
By: Daniel Kehlmann
3.94
Format: 474 pages, Hardcover
Tyll, der neue Roman des Erfolgsautors Daniel Kehlmann – er veröffentlichte u.a. Die Vermessung der… read more
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"What should he do if word went around that in his throne room hung a magic picture that only the highborn could see, but he couldn't? Of course there was no picture there, it had been one of the fool…"-Daniel Kehlmann, Tyll
"Die Liebe zu den Kindern - besser, man kämpft gegen sie an. Man kommt ja auch nicht einem Hund zu nahe; sogar wenn er freundlich aussieht, kann er zuschnappen. Stets muss man einen Abstand lassen zwi…"-Daniel Kehlmann, Tyll
17. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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- nonfiction
18. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
By: Alan Rickman
3.58
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
Madly Deeply is a rare invitation into the mind of Alan Rickman—one of the most magnetic, beloved … read more
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- nonfiction
"The trouble with death is that there is no next."-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
"Why was I dreaming about having got myself a Saturday job at Woolworth's??"-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
"The walls we are surrounded by, the objects we fill the spaces with, the lives they all describe."-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
"Savoy Grill with Emma[Thompson]. A very easy, enjoyable meal with an easy enjoyable person. She says 'fuck' a lot. Much laughter."-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
19. The World: A Family History of Humanity
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.00
Format: 1344 pages, Hardcover
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from pre… read more
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- nonfiction
20. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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21. The Shortest History of England
By: James Hawes
3.73
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
As James Hawes moves through time, from Caesar to Brexit, through conquests, empires and wars, he w… read more
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- nonfiction
22. Into Iraq
By: Michael Palin
4.00
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense o… read more
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- nonfiction
23. A Chip Shop in Poznań
By: Ben Aitken
3.45
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
'One of the funniest books of the year' - Paul Ross, talkRADIO Not many Brits move to Poland to … read more
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24. The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
By: Rebecca Lowe
4.19
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
ONE WOMAN, ONE BIKE AND ONE RICHLY ENTERTAINING, PERCEPTION-ALTERING JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY. In 201… read more
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25. The Enigma of Garlic (44 Scotland Street, #16)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.08
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
The latest in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series from the worldwide bestselling author, A… read more
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"He loved Elspeth so much, and he hoped that she knew it. Yet it occurred to him that she might not be sure of that because he had not told her – or at least he had not told her recently. Wives and hu…"-Alexander McCall Smith, The Enigma of Garlic (44 Scotland Street, #16)
26. Slow Trains Around Spain: A 3,000-Mile Adventure on 52 Rides
By: Tom Chesshyre
4.20
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and ol… read more
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27. Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War
By: Tim Marshall
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular wr… read more
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28. Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery
By: David Harewood
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S BEST MEMOIRS OF 2021 AND THE TIMES' BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOKS OF THE YEAR.'… read more
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29. A Month in Siena
By: Hisham Matar
4.04
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
When Hisham Matar was nineteen years old he came across the Sienese School of painting for the firs… read more
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30. Not Cool: Europe by Train in a Heatwave
By: Jules Brown
4.26
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
9 cities, 9 countries, 9 days 1 ridiculously hot summer What could possibly go wrong? A laugh-… read more
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31. Berlin: The Story of a City
By: Barney White-Spunner
4.15
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The intoxicating history of an extraordinary city and her people—from the medieval kings surroundin… read more
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