5 Best nonfiction books like The Other Day by Dorothy Whipple

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The Other Day

By: Dorothy Whipple

4.00

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

This autobiography describes in a charming and insightful way DW’s first twelve years (she was born…

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1. Complete Short Stories

By: Elizabeth Taylor , Joanna Kingham

4.34

Format: 626 pages, Paperback

Elizabeth Taylor, highly acclaimed author of classic novels such as Angel, A Game of Hide and Seek … read more

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2. Sofia Petrovna

By: Lydia Chukovskaya , Aline Werth

4.04

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Every… read more

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3. Jane and Prudence

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reun… read more

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4. The Home-Maker

By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Although this novel first appeared in 1924, it deals in an amazingly contemporary manner with the p… read more

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5. A Well Full of Leaves

By: Elizabeth Myers

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

From Kirkus (so take their opinion with a pinch of salt) From the sordid to the ecstatic, this nove… read more

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6. Vera

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

3.00

Format: 285 pages,

First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… 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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8. The Camomile Lawn

By: Mary Wesley

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in t… read more

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9. Frederica

By: Georgette Heyer

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

LONDON IN "THE SEASON" Frederica Merriville and her three siblings have come to London for the glit… read more

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10. Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Gaudy Nightstands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class b… read more

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11. The Greengage Summer

By: Rumer Godden

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by … read more

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12. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

By: Lucy Worsley

4.20

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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13. Smallbone Deceased

By: Michael Gilbert

4.05

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderHorniman, Birley and Craine is a highly re… read more

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"It’s quite a good idea. Only for heaven’s sake don’t be like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapte…"

-Michael Gilbert, Smallbone Deceased

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14. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
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15. Post After Post-Mortem

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.00

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, revi… read more

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16. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

By: Armistead Maupin

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more

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17. The Fortnight in September

By: R.C. Sherriff

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more

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18. 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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19. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

By: Catherine Coldstream

3.71

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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20. Out of the Window

By: Madeline Linford

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The compelling, thought-provoking story of Ursula, the daughter of a wealthy Mancunian family, who … read more

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Cover of The Bodies at Westgrave Hall (DCI Craig Gillard #7) by Nick Louth

21. The Bodies at Westgrave Hall (DCI Craig Gillard #7)

By: Nick Louth

4.27

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

A large country mansion. A locked room. A gruesome murder. Russian oligarch Alexander Volkov has… read more

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22. Death in Captivity

By: Michael Gilbert

4.15

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

A suspected informer is found dead in a collapsed section of an escape tunnel being dug in a prison… read more

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23. One Afternoon

By: Siân James

4.10

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

The preface to One Afternoon is by Emma Schofield, the editor of the Welsh Arts Review. She writes … read more

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24. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

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25. The Other Day

By: Dorothy Whipple

4.00

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

This autobiography describes in a charming and insightful way DW’s first twelve years (she was born… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Whipple's The Other Day book and Dorothy Whipple's The Other Day

  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries by Martin Edwards

26. Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'Dr Greeby was found lying dead there, with his lecture-notes scattered all round him and brickbat … read more

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27. Slightly Foxed 78: 'A Familiar Country'

By: Gail Pirkis

4.05

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Flora Watkins relives a golden summer • Christian Tyler goes fly-fishing • Ursula Buchan meets a li… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Caliban Shrieks

By: Jack Hilton

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This is the autobiography of an unemployed Lancashire working-man now aged thirty-five. In portrayi… read more

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Elizabeth Taylor , Joanna Kingham

4.34

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3.70

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3.90

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Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

Christianna Brand

3.55

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Green for Danger

Christianna Brand

3.69

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Martin Edwards , John Bude

4.72

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Anthony Berkeley

3.77

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