Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend
By: Jackie Kay
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith. Scotland’s Nat…
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1. Public Library and Other Stories
By: Ali Smith
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of th… read more
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2. A Way of Life, Like Any Other
By: Seamus Heaney , Darcy O'Brien
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
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3. Lady Sings the Blues
By: Billie Holiday , William Dufty
3.32
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This work presents the Billie Holiday story - her rise to the top from the slums and the streets, t… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
4. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
5. Necessary as Blood (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James #13)
By: Deborah Crombie
3.75
Format: 320 pages,
Once the haunt of Jack the Ripper, London's East End is a vibrant mix of history and new ideas, but… read more
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6. Pétronille
By: Amélie Nothomb
4.06
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Employing wry humor and a deceptively simple style, Amelie Nothomb, the author of over twenty-three… read more
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7. Gilgi, eine von uns
By: Irmgard Keun
4.47
Format: None pages, Paperback
The stirring, never-before-translated story of a single, pregnant, and wickedly nervy young secreta… read more
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8. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
9. 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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10. Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud
By: Becky Holmes
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter romance … read more
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- nonfiction
11. Meantime
By: Frankie Boyle
3.54
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more
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12. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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- poetry
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
13. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
14. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
By: Hadley Freeman
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teena…"-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
15. 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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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"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
16. Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
By: Kerry Hudson
4.15
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhoo… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"I was a private investigator, digging my way through my own deeply buried secrets, both desperate for answers and fighting to keep them hidden."-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
"Here I was chasing my past, trying to piece things together but perhaps the real courage was in simply accepting the things that happen and learning to live with them."-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
17. Rental Person Who Does Nothing
By: Shoji Morimoto
3.34
Format: 160 pages, ebook
Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
18. Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase
By: Anna Pacheco
4.14
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Una brillante radiografía de las dinámicas laborales en el sector del turismo. El turismo ha cam… read more
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- nonfiction
19. The Confessions of Frannie Langton
By: Sara Collins
3.57
Format: 384 pages, ebook
A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing hi… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"What did Shakespeare know? Love must alter, or it can't survive."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"there were two things I loved: all those books I read, and all the people who wrote them."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"A man writes to separate himself from the common history. A woman writes to try to join it."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"Only two types of white people in this world, chile, the ones doing shit to you and the ones wanting you to tell them ’bout the shit them other ones did."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
20. Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s
By: Sarah Ditum
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, expl… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
21. The Horse
By: Willy Vlautin
4.26
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more
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- music
22. A Shock
By: Keith Ridgway
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new no… read more
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- lgbt
23. The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography
By: Benjamin Zephaniah
4.33
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the … read more
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- poetry
- history
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
24. Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
By: Gavin Francis
4.07
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
“An essential book for our times, full of wisdom, compassion and sound advice. Every patient needs … read more
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- nonfiction
25. Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
By: Lucasta Miller
4.11
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
*A BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2021 IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUAR… read more
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- poetry
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
26. 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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27. Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend
By: Jackie Kay
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith. Scotland’s Nat… read more
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- music
- poetry
- history
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- the united states of america
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
28. The Amusements
By: Aingeala Flannery
3.52
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season,… read more
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29. Phew, Eh Readers? The Life and Writing of Tom Hibbert
By: Tom Hibbert
3.83
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
Tom Hibbert died in 2011 at the age of fifty-nine, but he leaves behind a legacy unrivalled in musi… read more
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- music
30. Was It for This: Poems
By: Hannah Sullivan
3.80
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A hybrid new collection from the author of Three Poems ―about London, terror, new motherhood, the G… read more
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- poetry
31. The Amendments
By: Niamh Mulvey
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more
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- lgbt
