The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Philosophy
By: Andy West
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Andy West teaches philosophy in prisons. He has conversations with people inside about their lives,…
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1. The Sea, the Sea
By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more
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2. Black Dogs
By: Ian McEwan
4.75
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogsis the intimate stor… read more
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3. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
By: Jennifer A. Doudna , Samuel H. Sternberg
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a c… read more
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4. 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
5. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
6. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
7. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets
By: Dawn French
3.87
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more
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8. 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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9. Every Move You Make
By: C.L. Taylor
3.90
Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer… Alexandra, Lucy, Bridget, River and Natalie. Fi… read more
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10. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
By: Wendy Joseph
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more
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- memoir
11. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
12. A Bit of a Stretch
By: Chris Atkins
4.21
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A shocking and darkly funny account of the reality of Britain's prisons. Where can a tin of tun… read more
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13. 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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14. You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here
By: Benji Waterhouse
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Humane, hilarious, and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and… read more
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- biography
- memoir
15. 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
16. What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry
By: Ben Cave
4.26
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AWARD --- 'Poignant, funny, engross… read more
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- biography
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17. The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
By: Kerry Daynes
4.03
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to the world of the forensic psychologist, where the people you meet are wildly unpredictab… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"There is no them and us, it is just us."-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
"It's a shithole but at least I can get a decent brew.' How very British, I thought to myself."-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
"[t]he art of talking comes easier to some of us but others. For boys and men, so many of them still socialised in a myriad of destructive ways to hide weakness and took out their difficulties, the id…"-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
18. And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy
By: Joshua Fletcher
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the closed door of the therapist's office? Psychotherapi… read more
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- memoir
19. The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
By: Gwen Adshead
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure ho… read more
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- memoir
20. The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough
By: Thomas Curran
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF 2023 “Offers a hopeful beacon and a steady path for anyone struggling t… read more
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21. And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
By: Henry Marsh
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unf… read more
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- biography
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22. Kendiyle Dost Olmak Hayatı Nasıl Kolaylaştırır?
By: Wilhelm Schmid
3.56
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
Başkalarıyla ilişkimizde, zaman zaman mola alabilir, araya mesafe koyabilir, hatta gerekirse karşım… read more
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23. Gas Man
By: Colin Black
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
10… 9… 8… 7… 6… That’s about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for surgery to begi… read more
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24. The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Philosophy
By: Andy West
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Andy West teaches philosophy in prisons. He has conversations with people inside about their lives,… read more
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25. Life In Pieces
By: Dawn O'Porter
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Dawn O'Porter has been thinking about life. In lockdown. Mostly from a cupboard. From reflectio… read more
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26. Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories
By: Chris Atkins
4.34
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
A funny, touching, challenging and campaigning book about our prisons crisis by the Sunday Times be… read more
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27. The Right Sort of Girl
By: Anita Rani
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Anita's debut novel Baby Does a Runner is available to pre-order now - coming July 2023! Fizzing w… read more
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28. The Suspect
By: Rob Rinder
3.96
Format: 400 pages, ebook
**THE GRIPPING SECOND NOVEL FROM ROB RINDER AND FOLLOW-UP TO NO. 1 BESTSELLER THE TRIAL**When Hanna… read more
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29. Behind These Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival in Prison
By: Alex South
4.52
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
'The men I have worked with and the staff I've worked alongside over the last ten years in prison h… read more
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30. Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power
By: Sasha Swire
3.47
Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition
What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the l… read more
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31. A Life Reimagined: My Journey of Hope in the Midst of Loss
By: Jill Halfpenny
3.90
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
Heartfelt and honest, A Life Reimagined is a touching memoir of love, loss and life after tragedy f… read more
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