Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain
By: Pen Vogler
3.78
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Avocado or beans on toast? Gin or claret? Nut roast or game pie? Milk in first or milk in last? And…
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1. Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
By: Barbara Comyns
3.85
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid… read more
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2. Black and British: A Forgotten History
By: David Olusoga
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series. In … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
3. The Survival of the Princes in the Tower: Murder, Mystery and Myth
By: Matthew Lewis
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The murder of the Princes in the Tower is the most famous cold case in English or British history. … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
4. The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List
By: Hallie Rubenhold
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
The Covent Garden Ladiestells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose … read more
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5. Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
By: Nigel Slater
3.69
Format: 496 pages,
'My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window, a crease of annoyance acr… read more
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6. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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- history
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7. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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- food
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8. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
By: Matthew Green
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more
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- history
- british literature
- historical
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- audiobook
9. Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
By: Susie Dent
4.30
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to a year of wonder through the English language with Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordina… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
10. It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's history one country at a time
By: Astrid Madimba
3.65
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Why is Africa still perceived as a country when there are around 2,000 languages spoken on the cont… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
11. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape
By: Henry Dimbleby
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more
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12. Red Sauce Brown Sauce
By: Felicity Cloake
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
If there's one thing that truly unites this country from Aberdeen to Abernethy, St Ives to St Pancr… read more
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13. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
By: Noreen Masud
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more
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"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
14. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
15. 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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"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
16. A Cheesemonger's History of The British Isles
By: Ned Palmer
4.29
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Every cheese tells a story. Whether it's a fresh young goat's cheese or a big, beefy eighteen-month… read more
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- food writing
17. 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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18. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
By: Angela Hui
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more
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- audiobook
19. Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well
By: Tim Spector
4.27
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth , a comprehensive guide to the new scien… read more
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20. Lost in the Garden
By: Adam S. Leslie
3.73
Format: 446 pages, Paperback
"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more
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21. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK
By: Simon Kuper
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more
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22. The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
By: Bee Wilson
4.06
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
An award-winning food writer takes us on a global tour of what the world eats - and shows us how we… read more
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- audiobook
"But in most places, the new global diet has involved a narrowing down of what people eat. Our world contains around seven thousand edible crops, yet 95 per cent of what we eat comes from just thirty …"-Bee Wilson, The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
"Then I realised the very question I was asking was wrong. The whole point is that in the 1960s, there was no such thing as an average eater across most countries, just lots of specific and wildly div…"-Bee Wilson, The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
"A survey of more than three hundred international policymakers found that 90 per cent of them still believed that personal motivation – aka willpower – was a very strong cause of obesity.6 This is ab…"-Bee Wilson, The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
"It is only now that we can, following Khoury, speak of a Global Standard Eater, because it is only now that humans have come to eat in such startlingly similar ways. Perhaps the biggest change is in …"-Bee Wilson, The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
23. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
By: Katherine Rundell
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more
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"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
24. Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain
By: Pen Vogler
3.78
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Avocado or beans on toast? Gin or claret? Nut roast or game pie? Milk in first or milk in last? And… read more
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- historical
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- food
- nonfiction
- food and drink
- sociology
- food writing
25. Uproar!: Satire, Scandal & Printmakers in Georgian London
By: Alice Loxton
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstree… read more
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- audiobook
26. Victory Disc (The Vinyl Detective, #3)
By: Andrew Cartmel
4.20
Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition
The third book in the hilarious and enthralling Vinyl Detective mystery series. "Like an old 45rpm … read more
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27. Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
By: Johny Pitts
4.32
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A cont… read more
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"It's not terrorism when white people plot organised murders in the name of an extreme ideology."-Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
"Those unemployed black men I saw loitering all over Europe weren’t inherently lazy, but lost and low on confidence and opportunities, and their crime was that they were visible, unlike the black staf…"-Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
"For most black people in Europe, the battle against prejudice is for life, which is why you have to pace yourself to run a marathon instead of exerting all your energy in a spring if you want to surv…"-Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
28. My Last Supper
By: Jay Rayner
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
You're about to die. What would your final meal be? This question has long troubled Jay Rayner. As … read more
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29. English Food: A People's History
By: Diane Purkiss
3.78
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
In this delicious history of England’s food traditions, Diane Purkiss invites readers on a unique j… read more
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30. A Necessary Kindness: Stories From the Frontline of Abortion Care
By: Juno Carey
4.38
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2015, Juno Carey left her job as a midwife, burnt out, frustrated and looking for a better way t… read more
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