Secret Britain: Unearthing Our Mysterious Past
By: Mary-Ann Ochota
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An Ice Age cannibal’s skull cup, a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, a seventeenth century witch bottle… a…
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2. Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King
By: Mike Pitts
4.01
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 2012, archaeologists found the grave of Richard III. Its sight had been unknown for centuries. T… read more
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3. An Autobiography
By: Agatha Christie , None
3.00
Format: 1118 pages,
Back in print in an all-new edition, is the engaging and illuminating chronicle of the life of the … read more
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4. The Other Side of Mrs. Wood
By: Lucy Barker
3.55
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historical novel about the rivalry between two female mediums during Victorian London’s obsession… read more
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"I want your reputation... I want everything you have."-Lucy Barker, The Other Side of Mrs. Wood
5. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
6. Venomous Lumpsucker
By: Ned Beauman
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more
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"I can’t believe this!"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
7. 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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- historical
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"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
8. Hummingbird Salamander
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.25
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered sp… read more
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"But the trick of the world was to contain all things."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
"Were companies units or loose, ever-shifting alliances of individuals? Still didn't know."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
"I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
"There was a tear in the sleeve of her blouse. Her pink nail polish had chipped. Details were escaping her. I sympathized."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
9. The Crane Husband
By: Kelly Barnhill
3.88
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerf… read more
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"Your mother doesn't know these things,"-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
"But Michael was only six. He should be worrying about learning how to tie his shoes, not about our mother’s checking account."-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
"I was, as I said, only nine. But my mother often spoke to me as though I were a peer rather than a child and expected me to understand things for which I did not yet have context. I didn’t know then …"-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
"My dad told me stories of weavers who stitched the world and spun fortunes and pulled on strings to change someone's fate. Was there a string I could pull to stop my father from dying? Was there a pa…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
10. A Death in Diamonds (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates, #4)
By: S.J. Bennett
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The royally brilliant fourth book in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates mystery series! 1957… read more
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11. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
12. Our Hideous Progeny
By: C.E. McGill
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
It is not the monster you must fear, but the monster it makes of men. . . For readers of Circe o… read more
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"We had built here, in this half-ruined boat house on the edge of the Moray Firth, a temple to our own strange gods- to Chemistry and Anatomy and Electricity."-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny
"There is something romantic about feeding a predator from the palm of your hand, I think- a creature which might bite you if it chooses, but chooses not to. But how does one turn such awful beauty to…"-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny
"I will always hold dear to my heart that fact that I was the first to see those golden eyes open, to see its reptilian pupils narrow and focus on my own- for in those eyes I saw, for the first time, …"-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny
"I suppose that is why it often makes me sad to read about history, or even natural history, as you do; I cannot help but think of everyone whose tale cannot fit in one book, those poor creatures who …"-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny
13. The Perfect Golden Circle
By: Benjamin Myers
3.92
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more
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14. Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
By: Lara Maiklem
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert “mudlarker” Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in th… read more
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- travel
- historical
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"The Thames is England's longest archaeological landscape and thousands of the objects that fill our museums have come from its foreshore. (p.47)"-Lara Maiklem, Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
15. Voyage of the Damned
By: Frances White
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The TikTok sensation from the UK has come to North America! This special first edition hardcover w… read more
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"As if the restrictive shell of a body is more important than the infinite possibilities of a mind."-Frances White, Voyage of the Damned
16. The First Kingdom: Britain in the Age of Arthur
By: Max Adams
3.77
Format: 545 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British h… read more
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17. Jak przeżyć w starożytnym Egipcie
By: Charlotte Booth
3.61
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Starożytne Teby są wyraźnie przedzielone Nilem: żywi zajmują wschodni brzeg, a martwi – zachodni. W… read more
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18. Little Witness (DI Tessa Burns #1)
By: S.A. Dunphy
4.16
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
They came in the dark. They took her parents. And now she is the only one who can save them. Hid… read more
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19. Secret Britain: Unearthing Our Mysterious Past
By: Mary-Ann Ochota
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An Ice Age cannibal’s skull cup, a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, a seventeenth century witch bottle… a… read more
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- travel
- historical
- nonfiction
- prehistory
20. Island of Whispers
By: Frances Hardinge
4.35
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, bestselling Frances Hardinge and Emily Gravett unite for the first time to conju… read more
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"Kindness is not weakness. To be kind in this unkind world is walking through a battlefield without armour or sword. It takes courage and strength to be kind."-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers
"They do not touch you. But they will trick you into touching them. Falter-moths, grief-winged. Things of doubt and confusion that feed on loss. If you touch them, they will feed on you..."-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers
"There was a trick to seeing and hearing the Dead, like the trick to falling asleep. You had to not quite listen, not quite look, not quite think. You let the edges of your mind slip into the right so…"-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers
"Everywhere Milo saw traces of his father - his chair, his bowl, the roof he had planned to mend. The worst thing about losing somebody is that, even after you survive a difficult day, the next mornin…"-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers
21. Off the Tracks: A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel
By: Pamela Mulloy
3.70
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Train travel is having a renaissance. Grand old routes that had been canceled, or were moldering in… read more
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22. The Photographer
By: E.S. Blake
4.08
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
When tragedy strikes, photographer Charles Franklin turns his back on family portraiture and descen… read more
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23. The Moonlight Market
By: Joanne Harris
3.54
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From New York Times bestselling author Joanne Harris comes a richly imagined and captivating novel … read more
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" Love never ends--- but it changes. In some cases, it grows like a tree, stronger and more fruitful. In others, it changes nature, like chrysalis to butterfly. "-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market
"And, at that, picking up his parcel of books, Spider began to walk purposefully down the road, a river of light at his ragged heels, his spindly shadow beside him."-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market
"He was close to her now, close enough to smell her scent, which was like bluebells in the rain, and the aroma of a forest in spring, and the peppery sweetness of petrichor."-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market
"There's daylight names and midnight names. Daylight names are safe enough. A spider brings good luck before midnight, but bad luck after. And you look to me like the kind of young man who needs good …"-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market
24. The House Across the Street
By: Jill Childs
3.83
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
Two families. One terrible secret. What did she see? On Riverside Road, a pretty street lined wi… read more
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25. The Bone Hunters
By: Joanne Burn
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
When Ada Winters finds the fossilised remains of an unrecognisable creature up on the cliffs, she b… read more
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26. A Short History of Flowers: The Stories that Make Our Gardens
By: Advolly Richmond
4.40
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Garden and social historian Advolly Richmond (of Gardener’s World ) unravels the surprising histor… read more
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27. Britain's Secret Treasures
By: Production Company
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For hundreds of thousands of years our ancestors have walked these isles burying, dropping and thro… read more
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28. A Guide to the Medieval Castles of England
By: Malcolm Hislop
4.33
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Spread across the medieval kingdom of England in a network of often formidable strongholds, castles… read more
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