This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain’s Knitted History
By: Esther Rutter
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of a year, Esther Rutter—who grew up on a sheep farm in Suffolk, and learned to spi…
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1. Anarchy and Old Dogs (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #4)
By: Colin Cotterill
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A blind retired dentist has been run down by a logging truck on the street in Vientiane just opposi… read more
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- historical
"I’m left doing all the unskilled labor myself, which is exactly when you realize there’s nothing unskilled about labor."-Colin Cotterill, Anarchy and Old Dogs (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #4)
2. Dying In the Wool (Kate Shackleton, #1)
By: Frances Brody
4.16
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
Take one quiet Yorkshire village, Bridgestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook, rolling hills a… read more
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- historical
3. The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting
By: Clara Parkes
4.50
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
Stockinette, ribbing, cables, even the humble yarn over can instantly evoke places, times, people, … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- knitting
4. Respect the Spindle
By: Abby Franquemont
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Enjoying a resurgence in popularity thanks to the current trend of DIY crafts, the hand spindle rem… read more
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5. A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting go of Yarn
By: Clara Parkes
3.71
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From New York Timesbestselling knitting writer Clara Parkes, comes a new collection of essays and s… read more
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- memoir
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6. The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
By: Lucy Worsley
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Murder -- a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And… read more
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7. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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- british literature
8. A Time of Gifts
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor , Jan Morris
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from … read more
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9. The Lady Vanishes
By: Ethel Lina White
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE WORLD-FAMOUS SUSPENSE NOVEL FROM WHICH ALFRED HITCHCOCK CREATED HIS MOVIE MASTERPIECE, REDISCOV… read more
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10. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- history
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
11. The Bookseller of Inverness
By: S.G. MacLean
4.08
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more
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12. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
By: Kate Atkinson
3.71
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more
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"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
13. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
By: Virginia Postrel
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
14. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
By: Clare Hunter
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to… read more
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- historical
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- fashion
"Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving the indelible evidence of our presence …"-Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
15. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
By: Victoria Mackenzie
3.85
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more
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- historical
"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
16. The Sleeping and the Dead
By: Ann Cleeves
3.91
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
The Sleeping and the Dead is a tense psychological crime thriller from CWA Gold Dagger award-winnin… read more
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17. Music in the Dark
By: Sally Magnusson
4.18
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
1884. In a tenement room and kitchen in the town of Rutherglen, near Glasgow, a woman with stark in… read more
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18. Worn: A People's History of Clothing
By: Sofi Thanhauser
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it's made of--an unparalleled d… read more
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- historical
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- history
19. Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
By: Victoria Finlay
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth –how we make it, use it an… read more
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- memoir
- travel
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- fashion
20. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes … read more
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
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"Canopy, an environmental organisation, believes that 120 million trees are felled each year to produce rayon and other cellulose-based materials."-Kassia St. Clair, The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
21. A Short History of the World According to Sheep
By: Sally Coulthard
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An addictively free-ranging survey of the huge impact that sheep have had on human history. From… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
22. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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- british literature
23. Queen Hereafter
By: Isabelle Schuler
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
“Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that… read more
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24. The Secrets of Blythswood Square
By: Sara Sheridan
4.19
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
You wouldn't suspect it, but scandalous secrets are being kept on Blythswood Square... 1846. Glasg… read more
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25. Wanderers: A History of Women Walking
By: Kerri Andrews
3.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways… read more
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26. The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep
By: Jane Cooper
4.05
Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition
The Lost Flock is the story of the remarkable and rare little horned sheep, known as Orkney Boreray… read more
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27. This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain’s Knitted History
By: Esther Rutter
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of a year, Esther Rutter—who grew up on a sheep farm in Suffolk, and learned to spi… read more
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- knitting
- nonfiction
- fashion
- nature
28. Hagstone
By: Sinéad Gleeson
3.63
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more
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29. 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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30. Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better
By: Polly Atkin
4.18
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
'It raises the standard of nature writing. This is both radical manifesto and activism in book form… read more
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