Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death
By: Richard Holloway
4.13
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
Where do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just s…
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1. The Unmumsy Mum
By: Sarah Turner
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
THIS IS NOT A PARENTING MANUAL. THIS IS REAL LIFE. The Unmumsy Mum writes candidly about motherh… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- self help
2. What the Buddha Taught
By: Walpola Rahula , None
4.18
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. “For years,” s… read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- self help
"Whatever is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ)."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
"You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
"Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found; The deed are, but no doer is found."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
"The name one gives is inessential. What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
3. The Genius of Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
3.84
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds … read more
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4. Status Anxiety
By: Alain de Botton
3.90
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
“There's no writer alive like de Botton” ( Chicago Tribune ), and now this internationally heralded… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
"Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
"Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
5. The Grass is Singing
By: Doris Lessing
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of h… read more
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6. The Descent of Man
By: Grayson Perry
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys ar… read more
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7. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
8. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"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
9. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Rambling Man: My Life on the Road
By: Billy Connolly
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Being a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met … read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- scotland
11. House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries
By: Alan Bennett
3.81
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution aga… read more
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12. 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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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- self help
13. Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
By: Michael A. Singer
4.45
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The book you need right now is finally here! From beloved spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer—autho… read more
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- audiobook
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- self help
14. The Book-Lovers' Retreat
By: Heidi Swain
3.93
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One long summer. One perfect setting. Can fiction inspire real life…? Sometimes a book grabs yo… read more
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- audiobook
15. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
16. The Exhibitionist
By: Charlotte Mendelson
3.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The longer the marriage, the harder truth becomes . . . Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for … read more
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- audiobook
17. Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
By: Lara Maiklem
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert “mudlarker” Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in th… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"The Thames is England's longest archaeological landscape and thousands of the objects that fill our museums have come from its foreshore. (p.47)"-Lara Maiklem, Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
18. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
By: James Rebanks
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
19. 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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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- death
20. Fry's Ties
By: Stephen Fry
3.80
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Discover the tales behind the ties in Stephen Fry's witty companion to our most distinguished acces… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
21. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
By: James Bridle
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching explor… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this wo…"-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
22. Keir Starmer: The Biography
By: Tom Baldwin
4.06
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. Medusa's Sisters
By: Lauren J.A. Bear
4.18
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A vivid and moving reimagining of the myth of Medusa and the sisters who loved her. The end of t… read more
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- audiobook
"To have choices is to have power. Most women have neither."-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters
"When I choose myself, do not be afraid if my choice looks different than yours"-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters
"She thought love a perfect pain. Come then. Break me, bend me. Hurt me flawless."-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters
"Find delight in your pain, she said, and rejoice in your longing. If it still hurts, you are alive, you are alive."-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters
24. Have A Little Faith: Life Lessons on Love, Death and How Lasagne Always Helps
By: Kate Bottley
4.24
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
'Thank God for Kate and this book' Dawn French 'Kate's natural warmth, wit and wisdom shines thro… read more
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25. All The Young Men
By: Ruth Coker Burks
4.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
All The Young Men , a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth C… read more
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- memoir
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"That's right. I have you. And I have my guys. And I have Allison. But I spent all this time believing everything I heard in church--that I need a husband to be whole, to have a family for Allison. An…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"I go to the grave shared by my father and Jimmy. The question I get most, the one I hate, is why I went into his room. And why I helped people. Again and again, "Why did you do it? How?" The answer i…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"It wasn't just the people who died of AIDS. Even many who did not have the virus ended up committing suicide. They lived through the depths of the epidemic only to take their own lives. But I knew th…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"I'm here," I'd say. And I'd listen to them cry for an hour, because they couldn't get it out or they didn't know how. "It's okay, just go ahead and cry. And if you can talk then you can talk. And if …"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
26. Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death
By: Richard Holloway
4.13
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
Where do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just s… read more
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- audiobook
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- death
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- scotland
- self help
27. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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- audiobook
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
28. How to Fail
By: Elizabeth Day
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully… read more
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- self help
- memoir
- psychology
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
"It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bles…"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
"Life crises have a way of doing that: they strip you of your old certainties and throw you into chaos. The only way to survive is to surrender to the process. When you emerge, blinking, into the ligh…"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
"For so long, we woman have turned our anger inwards, redirecting it towards ourselves and allowing it to manifest as shame. We have told ourselves, instead, that we are sad or hormonal or stressed, b…"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
29. Resilient Grieving: How to Find Your Way Through a Devastating Loss
By: Lucy Hone
4.28
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Resilient Grieving offers an empowering alternative to the five stages of grief―and makes clear our… read more
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- self help
- psychology
- death
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- audiobook
30. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
