The Gift of a Radio
By: Justin Webb
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Justin Webb's childhood was far from ordinary. Between his mother's un-diagnosed psychological pro…
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1. The Road Home
By: Rose Tremain
3.88
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
In the story of Lev, newly arrived in London from Eastern Europe, Rose Tremain has written a wise a… read more
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"Lev,' said Ruby, 'when I was younger, I always told people the things I thought they wanted to hear. But I don't do that anymore. It's a cruel thing to do. So I can't say now that you will be free of…"-Rose Tremain, The Road Home
2. Daughters-in-Law
By: Joanna Trollope
4.08
Format: 348 pages,
As Anthony and Rachel Brinkley welcome their third daughter-in-law to the family, they don't quite … read more
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3. The Best of Friends
By: Joanna Trollope
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
Whittingbourne is one of those charming English towns where families live happily ever after. Gina … 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. 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
6. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
7. 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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8. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
9. On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
By: Laura Cumming
3.58
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riv… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
"To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forg…"-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
10. 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
11. A Pocketful of Happiness
By: Richard E. Grant
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has be… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
12. 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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13. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou
By: Eleni Kyriacou
4.18
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. … read more
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14. O Brother
By: John Niven
4.64
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
John Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
"My mother can hold her own where foreign words are involved. The simple duo-syllable 'croissant' comes out variously as 'craw-sank', 'crass-ant', or 'crah-sint', the word seeming to have no business …"-John Niven, O Brother
15. Berserker!
By: Adrian Edmondson
4.32
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more
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- autobiography
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16. After the Funeral and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more
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17. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
18. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By: Daniel Finkelstein
4.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
19. The Last Days: A Memoir of Faith, Desire and Freedom
By: Ali Millar
4.16
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
It is 1982 and in the Kingdom Hall we are Jehovah's Witnesses. The state of the world shows us the … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
20. A Very Private School: A Memoir
By: Charles Spencer
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
21. Odd Boy Out
By: Gyles Brandreth
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In Odd Boy Out Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of growing up and comi… read more
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- nonfiction
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22. Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it
By: Michael Rosen
4.00
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
23. brother. do. you. love. me.
By: Manni Coe
4.39
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
brother. do. you. love. me. is the story of two brothers and their extraordinary journey of resilie… read more
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24. Old Rage
By: Sheila Hancock
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sheila Hancock looked like she was managing old age. She had weathered and even thrived in widowhoo… read more
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25. An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals
By: Polly Toynbee
4.14
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
'Fascinating' Spectator'Entertaining' Sunday Times'Enthralling' Guardian'Beautiful, funny and movin… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Children know. They breathe it in early, for there's no unknowing the difference between nannies, cleaners, below stairs people and the family upstairs. Children are the go-betweens, one foot in each…"-Polly Toynbee, An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals
26. Just Ignore Him
By: Alan Davies
4.36
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Al… read more
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"This is the true inheritance tax of life. Behaviours and habits, ingrained, your own but not your own, a duty on your existence, a tariff to be levied on those who try to love you."-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him
"Later, I imagined that the past is not behind us at all, but unseen beneath our feet. We are supported by it as we walk, sometimes balanced, sometimes not, and if we tried we could reach below to gra…"-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him
"I don't see the point of leukaemia. Some diseases are using you as the host for a time and then they transfer to someone else, they survive that way, those pathogens, airborne or waterborne, jumping …"-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him
27. Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru
By: Hugh Bonneville
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A The Times (UK) and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one o… read more
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28. One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On
By: Wes Streeting
4.30
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
Wes Streeting might have ended up in prison rather than in parliament. His maternal grandfather Bil… read more
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29. The Gift of a Radio
By: Justin Webb
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Justin Webb's childhood was far from ordinary. Between his mother's un-diagnosed psychological pro… read more
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30. Original Sins: An extraordinary memoir of faith, family, shame and addiction
By: Matt Rowland Hill
4.21
Format: 302 pages, ebook
An extraordinarily brave memoir about faith, family, shame and addiction - an Observer, New Statesm… read more
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- biography
31. My Family: The Memoir
By: David Baddiel
4.41
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more
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