Belles and Whistles: Five Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
By: Andrew Martin
3.90
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Bell…
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1. Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
By: Douglas Adams
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu o… read more
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"Fuck ’em,"-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"Life will always find a way og hanging on in somewhere."-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford"-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
2. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
By: Douglas Adams
4.09
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ra… read more
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"Shit!"-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
"Non tout baigne, tout ce qui est susceptible de biagner, baigne."-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
"Non è un vero scienziato chi ha timore che la gente lo ritenga pazzo."-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
"God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience."-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
3. Not Tonight, Josephine: A Road Trip Through Small-Town America
By: George Mahood
4.12
Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition
Two Brits, George and Mark, set off from New York City to explore the back roads of America. In thi… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
4. Free Country: A Penniless Adventure the Length of Britain
By: George Mahood
4.13
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
The plan is simple. George and Ben have three weeks to cycle 1000 miles from the bottom of England … read more
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5. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
By: Paul Theroux
3.89
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
"There's always a way if you're not in a hurry."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to se…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"I have a hatred of the taming of animals, especially large ones that are so contented in the wild. I abominate circus acts that involve big befooled beasts--cowed tigers or helplessly roaring lions p…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
6. The Firemaker (China Thrillers, #1)
By: Peter May
3.88
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Margaret Campbell, a Chicago forensic pathologist, has been invited by the Chinese government to te… read more
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7. Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide, #3)
By: Douglas Adams
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads-so… read more
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8. Murder on the Brighton Express (Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck, #5)
By: Edward Marston
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When the engines finally met, there was a deafening clash and the Brighton Express twisted and buck… read more
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9. On the Slow Train Again: Twelve Great British Railway Journeys
By: Michael Williams
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Michael Williams has spent the past year traveling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for… read more
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10. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
By: Ben Macintyre
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling… read more
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11. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more
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12. Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain
By: Christian Wolmar
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Now in paperback, Fire and Steamtells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the w… read more
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13. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more
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14. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
15. Still Life (Inspector Karen Pirie, #6)
By: Val McDermid
4.21
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
From internationally bestselling author Val McDermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller th… read more
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"A cold case was a story, constructed piece by piece. Sometimes the pieces arrived in the wrong order so it made no sense at first...at the end, if you found all the pieces, you had a coherent tale. S…"-Val McDermid, Still Life (Inspector Karen Pirie, #6)
16. Belles and Whistles: Five Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
By: Andrew Martin
3.90
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Bell… read more
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17. Beyond the Sea: A Wren at War
By: Christian Lamb
4.03
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Love, duty and true-life adventure in the shadow of the Second World War. Christian Lamb is one … read more
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18. Travels with Rachel: In Search of South America
By: George Mahood
4.29
Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition
Knee-deep in a swamp in the depths of the Bolivian jungle, hunting for anacondas in a pair of sanda… read more
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19. The Lightning Boys: True Tales from Pilots of the English Electric Lightning (The Jet Age Series)
By: Richard Pike
4.28
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
According to a recent international study, the Lightning is the fifth most popular military aircraf… read more
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20. Cathedrals of Steam: How London’s Great Stations Were Built – And How They Transformed the City
By: Christian Wolmar
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The eminent transport historian Christian Wolmar describes how London's great railway terminuses we… read more
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21. Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
By: Andrew Smith
4.05
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing comes this edition of journalist And… read more
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"Santa Claus is a lie but if you think that's bad, check out what 'fuck' really means."-Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
"Had (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, "What can we beat the Russians at?" and if someone had cried "Backgammon!" at that point, Apollo would never have happened."-Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
"Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human traged…"-Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
"Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it was about the Earth. The answer is yes. The only thing I can't see in all this is…"-Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
