At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond
By: Ava Wong Davies
4.23
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
'There was something magical about the unplumbed depths, the moorhens, the dragonflies, the waterli…
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1. The Story of Little Black Sambo
By: Helen Bannerman
3.93
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
The jolly and exciting tale of the little boy who lost his red coat and his blue trousers and his p… read more
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2. Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
By: Lauren Elkin
3.00
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, … read more
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3. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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- feminism
- short stories
- contemporary
4. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- contemporary
- british literature
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
5. Blue Sisters
By: Coco Mellors
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more
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- contemporary
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters
6. The Orange and Other Poems
By: Wendy Cope
4.19
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more
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- contemporary
- short stories
- nonfiction
- british literature
7. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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- contemporary
8. 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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- contemporary
"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
9. Good Material
By: Dolly Alderton
3.91
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more
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- contemporary
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
10. Small Bodies of Water
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Nina Mingya Powles first l… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- environment
- nature
11. Fifteen Wild Decembers
By: Karen Powell
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A creative re-imagining of the short life of Emily Brontë, one of England’s greatest writers Pra… read more
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12. The Forester's Daughter
By: Claire Keegan
4.07
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more
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- short stories
- contemporary
13. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
By: Alice Vincent
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more
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- memoir
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- nature
14. Magnolia, 木蘭
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.08
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
"This is a book of the body and the senses, whether the million tiny nerve endings of young love; t… read more
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- nonfiction
- contemporary
"Drift,"-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"I want to know the names of the trees in all other languages too so that I find out what they taste like to other people. But my mouth can only hold so much."-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"When reading her stories in translation it’s like trying to see her from a great distance. Or through a thick pane of glass. I am standing outside, peering into rooms where her ghost has been."-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"My phone is vibrating, telling me: You have a new memory. Here is a stream of pictures collected into an album, all taken somewhere far away. Home is not a place but a string of colours threaded toge…"-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
15. How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
By: Florentyna Leow
3.89
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart is a collection about the ways in which heartbreak can fill a place and… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- contemporary
16. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- nature
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
17. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
18. Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.23
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between … read more
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- biography
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"Home sickness comes in waves, sometimes leaving me reeling."-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"It is June. I am in Shanghai and I am not tired. June in Shanghai is for cold bubble tea, for kissing, for three-yuan ice creams and misty rain mixing with sweat on skin."-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"I often end up biking home with a paper bag in my basket, a warm boluo bao inside. Whatever the time of year, they remind me of sun, tropical heat, being with family. Mooncakes, the little cakes eate…"-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"It is tiring to be a woman who loves to eat in a society where hunger is something not to be satisfied but controlled. Where a long history of female hunger is associated with shame and madness. The …"-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
19. In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing
By: Niellah Arboine
4.02
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
An essay collection about gardening and our relationship to nature, following on from the successfu… read more
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- nature
- short stories
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- essays
- environment
20. In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life
By: Juliet Annan
4.05
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’ Food ca… read more
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- short stories
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21. At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond
By: Ava Wong Davies
4.23
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
'There was something magical about the unplumbed depths, the moorhens, the dragonflies, the waterli… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- british literature
- feminism
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- environment
- nature
22. This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal
By: Octavia Bright
4.32
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
I kept putting myself in danger, and I couldn't make it stop. It rarely felt like a choice, though,… read more
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23. Turning
By: Jessica J. Lee
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Through the heat of summer to the frozen depths of winter, Lee traces her journey swimming through … read more
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- biography
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- nature
24. Spoilt Creatures
By: Amy Twigg
3.94
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. It was a place for women.… read more
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25. Dog Hearted: Essays on Our Fierce and Familiar Companions
By: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
3.95
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
From Carl Phillips asking how wildness is tamed, to Esmé Weijun Wang finding moments of stillness i… read more
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- essays
26. Think Again
By: Jacqueline Wilson
3.90
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
⭐ Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? ⭐They're all grown … read more
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- contemporary
27. By the River: Essays from the Water's Edge
By: Amy-Jane Beer
3.56
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
What is a river?, asks Amy-Jane Beer, in the opening essay of this collection, which blends nature … read more
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- nature
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28. Goodlord: An Email
By: Ella Frears
4.13
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
Taking the form of one long email addressed to an estate agent, Goodlord is a fictional memoir of h… read more
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29. 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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- contemporary
"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
30. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?
By: Sofie Hagen
4.05
Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio
Comedian Sofie Hagen has not had sex in 3,000 days (and counting). And it turns out, she's not the … read more
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31. In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing
By: Various
3.90
Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition
Gardening, then, is a practice of sustained noticing . . .’ Outdoor space is something everyone … read more
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- nature
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