Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Geological Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary
By: Christopher Somerville
3.81
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville, author of The J…
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1. The Road to Oxiana
By: Robert Byron
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1933 the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Be… read more
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- history
2. The Fry Chronicles
By: Stephen Fry
3.84
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge on probation: a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fa… read more
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"Mow the fuckers down."-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
"Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books"-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
"Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it."-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
"Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it."-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
3. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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4. The List of Suspicious Things
By: Jennie Godfrey
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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5. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
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6. The Mars House
By: Natasha Pulley
4.02
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee a… read more
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7. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
8. Geneva
By: Richard Armitage
3.64
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has started to show the same tell-tale signs of the Alz… read more
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9. The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)
By: John Connolly
4.44
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, the beloved and… read more
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"You didn’t have to look very hard to be disappointed by human beings. We were not all bad, just enough of us, although the rest had to work very hard to make up for that minority."-John Connolly, The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)
10. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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- history
- science
11. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- history
- science
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
12. Slough House (Slough House, #7)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more
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"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
13. 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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- nonfiction
"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
14. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness
By: Christian Lewis
4.40
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more
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- nonfiction
- walking
15. Relight My Fire (Stranger Times, #4)
By: C.K. McDonnell
4.48
Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition
Some comebacks can be murder . . . Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she… read more
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16. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
By: Peter Ross
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
*Featuring a brand new chapter!* Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
17. The Painter's Daughters
By: Emily Howes
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more
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18. Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
By: Caroline Lucas
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Who are the English? Today, the dominant story told about our national history solely serves the i… read more
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- history
"Many resented how some expressions of Englishness were allowed, while others were not. It was acceptable to love the English countryside, English humour, English music and English Literature, and to …"-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
"With the 1980s came a new harshness in British politics, which included prioritising profit over public service. The Conservatives - the very party who might have been expected to support the traditi…"-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
"The economist J.K. Galbraith wrote in The Affluent Society (1958) about 'private affluence and public squalor', demonstrating the pernicious effects on the economy and society of excessive wealth ine…"-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
"Ultimately, the most powerful way to rebalance the interests of private owners and the common good is by shifting the focus towards taxes on wealth - that is, asking those who have accummulated subst…"-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
19. 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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- nonfiction
- history
20. The Whistleblower
By: Robert Peston
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition
1997. A desperate government clings to power; a hungry opposition will do anything to win. And jour… read more
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21. The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
By: Christopher Hadley
3.66
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? The Romans built thousands of mi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
22. 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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- walking
23. Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Geological Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary
By: Christopher Somerville
3.81
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville, author of The J… read more
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- history
- travel
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24. Sunset Swing (City Blues Quartet #4)
By: Ray Celestin
4.40
Format: 548 pages, Kindle Edition
Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A devil is loose in the City of Angels . . . A young nurse, Kerry … read more
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25. The Hiker
By: M.J. Ford
3.65
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
In the wilderness it’s kill or be killed… MISSING When Gemma Kline is reported missing after se… read more
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26. The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin
By: Patrick Barkham
4.13
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger DeakinRoger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterl… read more
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27. The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There
By: Jack Cornish
4.10
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Pre-order now to discover the rich history of Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, and it w… read more
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28. Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar
By: Max Hastings
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably… read more
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- history
29. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
By: Juliet Nicolson
3.44
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more
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- history
30. The Mountains are Calling: Running in the High Places of Scotland
By: Jonny Muir
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Jonny Muir was a nine-year-old boy when … read more
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