16 Top nonfiction books like The Heath: My Year on Hampstead Heath by Hunter Davies

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The Heath: My Year on Hampstead Heath

By: Hunter Davies

4.06

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

An engaging portrait of Hampstead Heath – a place rich not just in natural wonders but in history a…

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1. Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicles, #2)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.44

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

The wonderful sequel to The Light Years returns readers to Britain in September, 1939, as war break… read more

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2. The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles, #1)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In 1937, the coming war is only a distant cloud on Britain's horizon. As the Cazalet households pre… read more

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3. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

By: Helene Hanff

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

A zesty memoir of the celebrated writer's travels to England where she meets the cherished friends … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction

4. The Shooting Party

By: Isabel Colegate

4.20

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Ox… read more

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5. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

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  • travel
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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6. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

By: Nina Stibbe

3.66

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Murder on Lake Garda

By: Tom Hindle

3.55

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more

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8. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

By: Erika Fatland

4.28

Format: 477 pages, Hardcover

Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

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9. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World book and Hunter Davies's The Heath: My Year on Hampstead Heath

  • nonfiction
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10. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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11. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

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12. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

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"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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13. The Gentleman From Peru

By: André Aciman

3.56

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would re… read more

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14. 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

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15. 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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16. The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

By: Richard Coles

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Whether it is pastoral care for the bereaved, discussions about the afterlife with parishioners or … read more

Similar categories in Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss book and Hunter Davies's The Heath: My Year on Hampstead Heath

  • nonfiction
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17. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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18. Three Single Wives

By: Gina LaManna

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An addictive second mystery novel about book clubs, murder, and the domestic secrets inside every h… read more

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19. The Children's Bach

By: Helen Garner

3.53

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels … read more

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20. Høyt: En reise i Himalaya

By: Erika Fatland

4.34

Format: 634 pages, Hardcover

Bestselgende forfatter Erika Fatland med ny, storslått reiseskildring: fra Himalaya. Erika Fatl… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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21. Light Over Liskeard

By: Louis de Bernières

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future.Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work… read more

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22. 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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  • nonfiction
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23. The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers

By: Adam Nicolson

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In The Seabird's Cry, Adam Nicolson travels ocean paths, fusing traditional knowledge with astonish… read more

Similar categories in Adam Nicolson's The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers book and Hunter Davies's The Heath: My Year on Hampstead Heath

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
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24. 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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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
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25. 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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  • nonfiction
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26. 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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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
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27. The Heath: My Year on Hampstead Heath

By: Hunter Davies

4.06

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

An engaging portrait of Hampstead Heath – a place rich not just in natural wonders but in history a… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
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28. 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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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29. 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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30. 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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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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31. The Figurine

By: Victoria Hislop

4.14

Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition

In her irresistible new novel, Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author Victoria Hislop shines a light … read more

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4.36

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4.02

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4.23

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4.06

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3.81

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