9 best-selling nature books like La Vie: A Year In Rural France by John Lewis-Stempel

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La Vie: A Year In Rural France

By: John Lewis-Stempel

3.98

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

The roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun.…

If you liked the nature plot in La Vie: A Year In Rural France by John Lewis-Stempel , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. Against the Odds: An Autobiography

By: James Dyson

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

The maverick inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner recounts how he succeeded against the odds to b… read more

Similar categories in James Dyson's Against the Odds: An Autobiography book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • nonfiction

2. My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream

By: Janine Marsh

3.79

Format: 223 pages,

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3. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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4. 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

Similar categories in Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. Darling

By: India Knight

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for grea… read more

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6. 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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7. Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home

By: Jeremy Clarkson

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Welcome back to Clarkson's farm. At the end of Jeremy's first year, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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8. Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly

By: Jeremy Clarkson

4.14

Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition

Get tucked in to a third bestselling helping of Clarkson's Farm from our favourite wellie-wearing w… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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9. 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

Similar categories in Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. 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

Similar categories in Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. 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

Similar categories in Christian Lewis's Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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12. Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life

By: Michael Mosley

4.03

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

Based on the popular BBC podcast, Just One Thing, this book brings to life Dr Mosley's mission to u… read more

Similar categories in Michael Mosley's Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3) by Kate Mosse

13. The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3)

By: Kate Mosse

4.05

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Next in the #1 Sunday Times bestselling series, New York Times bestselling author Kate Mosse return… read more

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14. The Wedding Dress Repair Shop

By: Trisha Ashley

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Can her heart be mended too? Garland Fairford has her dream job as a historical Costumier in London… read more

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15. The Lost Rainforests of Britain

By: Guy Shrubsole

4.30

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more

Similar categories in Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"

-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain

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16. 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

Similar categories in Charles Spencer's A Very Private School: A Memoir book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days

By: Helen Rebanks

3.89

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more

Similar categories in Helen Rebanks's The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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18. The Escape Room

By: L.D. Smithson

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Everything is a clue. Eight strangers arrive at a remote sea fort off the coast of England. They a… read more

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19. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

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"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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20. The Three Graces

By: Amanda Craig

3.75

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

Ruth, Diana and Marta are three very different friends having a last 'adventure before dementia' af… read more

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21. French Dreams, Dogs and a Dodgy Motor: Discovering our little home in Haute Provence and all that came next. (Our French Odyssey Book 1)

By: Jane Smyth

4.25

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

This light-hearted tale describes how two ex-council house kids fulfilled their dream of owning a h… read more

Similar categories in Jane Smyth's French Dreams, Dogs and a Dodgy Motor: Discovering our little home in Haute Provence and all that came next. (Our French Odyssey Book 1) book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • travel
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22. Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm

By: Lee Schofield

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In 2015, England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote easter… read more

Similar categories in Lee Schofield's Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves by Tristan Gooley

23. How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves

By: Tristan Gooley

4.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times–bestselling author Tristan Gooley opens our eyes to the secret language of trees—and… read more

Similar categories in Tristan Gooley's How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • nonfiction
  • nature
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24. La Vie: A Year In Rural France

By: John Lewis-Stempel

3.98

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

The roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun.… read more

Similar categories in John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • nature
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25. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

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26. French Tales, Travels and Two Fox Terriers: Mountains, Marmots and Much, Much More (Our French Odyssey Book 2)

By: Jane Smyth

4.26

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

“Summer in the mountains is usually hot, the mornings presenting blue, cloudless skies which may at… read more

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27. Under the Same Stars

By: Alexandra Heminsley

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Clara Seymour is trying to find her feet in London, living away from home for the first time. Broug… read more

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28. Yr Dead

By: Sam Sax

4.28

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this… read more

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29. Let's Be Honest

By: Jess Phillips

4.27

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

Can you imagine a world where politics functioned, every politician told the truth, and the governm… read more

Similar categories in Jess Phillips's Let's Be Honest book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • nonfiction
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30. One Place de l’Eglise: A Year or Two In A French Village

By: Trevor Dolby

3.72

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Escape to Languedoc in this poignant and transportative true account of life in a beautifully resto… read more

Similar categories in Trevor Dolby's One Place de l’Eglise: A Year or Two In A French Village book and John Lewis-Stempel's La Vie: A Year In Rural France

  • travel
  • france
  • memoir
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31. Gabriel's Moon

By: William Boyd

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant … read more

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James Dyson

3.32

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Olivia Laing

4.07

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Nina Stibbe

3.66

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Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home

Jeremy Clarkson

4.15

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

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Anne Enright

3.55

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Nina Stibbe

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