15 must-read nonfiction books like They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler by Tom Quinn

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They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler

By: Tom Quinn

4.21

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

During more than thirty years in a variety of houses, Bob Sharpe managed to rise from garden boy to…

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1. Sniper One: The Blistering True Story Of A British Battle Group Under Siege

By: Dan Mills

4.29

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Sniper One is the gritty, awe-inspiring true story that takes you right into the heart of the Iraq … read more

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  • autobiography
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. Polly's Story (Swallowcliffe Hall)

By: Jennie Walters

3.79

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

For 'Downton Abbey' fans! Scandal, romance and intrigue in a grand old English country Swallowclif… read more

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3. Cocoa At Midnight

By: Tom Quinn , Kathleen Clifford

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Kathleen Clifford was born in 1909. Her family lived in a tiny flat near Paddington Station and her… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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4. Working for the Royals

By: Brian Hoey

3.33

Format: 170 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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5. The Cook's Tale

By: Tom Quinn , Nancy Jackman

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Told in the first person by a woman who lived the hard life as a cook in a number of England's coun… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. The Housekeeper's Tale - The Women who really ran the English Country House

By: Tessa Boase

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The story of The Housekeeper's Tale follows the lives of five women to delve into the secret existe… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. A Redbird Christmas

By: Fannie Flagg

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe comes her latest New York … read more

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8. Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

By: Mollie Moran

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

Born in 1916 in Norfolk, Mollie Moran is one of the few people still alive today who can recall wor… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

9. Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor

By: Rosina Harrison

4.00

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

In 1928, Rosina Harrison arrived at the illustrious household of the Astor family to take up her ne… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. A Nurse In Time

By: Evelyn Prentis

3.79

Format: None pages,

Desperate circumstances were something Evelyn Prentis had to get very used to when she began her li… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

11. The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison

By: Warren Fellows

2.75

Format: None pages,

In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. He was c… read more

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12. Not in Front of the Corgis: Secrets of Life Behind the Royal Curtains

By: Brian Hoey

3.78

Format: 80 pages,

Interest in the British royal family is inexhaustible. Just take the amazing clamor over the recent… read more

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13. Fergie Confidential: The Real Story

By: Chris Hutchins , Peter Thompson

3.84

Format: 464 pages,

FERGIE CONFIDENTIAL The Real story IT SEEMS that almost every week Sarah Ferguson - the Duchess of … read more

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14. Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants

By: Alison Maloney

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Last year, the telly-watching public was gripped by Downton Abbey-- the most successful British per… read more

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15. The People of the Abyss

By: Jack London

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author's preface: "The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902… read more

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16. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. Finding Friends on Beamer Street

By: Sheila Riley

4.58

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

The start of a series from Sheila Riley, bestselling author of the Reckoner's Row saga series! Live… read more

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18. The Keeper of Stories

By: Sally Page

4.08

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard … read more

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"Perhaps guilt is like a disease. You can have it without knowing you do."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I think it's in people stories that you discover the best of what we can be."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I don't think guilt asks for permission to come in. I don't think it knocks and waits politely on the mat."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I figured out long ago that if I listen to the few people who shout at me, I'm making them more important than they are. What they say will stay with me, upset me, and those loud voices would go on a…"

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

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19. A Mother's Shame

By: Rosie Clarke

4.55

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

Maggie Bailey has not had an easy childhood. Her father, Michael, always too easy with his fists af… read more

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20. The Girl in Seat 2A

By: Diana Wilkinson

3.80

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

Funny how one lie can spiral… One thing about me: I HATE flying. It’s my worst nightmare. Tha… read more

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21. All Good Things

By: Amanda Prowse

3.88

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

In this captivating story from the bestselling author of Picking up the Pieces, Daisy has always en… read more

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22. The Secret Midwife

By: Soraya M. Lane

4.59

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1995: When on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz a news broadcast runs… read more

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23. The Cruise

By: Caroline James

4.20

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Girl power for the over sixties!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Three women. One widowed. One unmarried. One almost… read more

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24. Scraping the Toast

By: Anne Main

4.45

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2012 Sarah sorts through her late mother's effects and uncovers a shocking family secret that ha… read more

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25. Girl in the Tunnel: My Story of Love and Loss as a Survivor of the Magdalene Laundries

By: Maureen Sullivan

4.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When Maureen Sullivan was just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was being phy… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Meghan and Harry: The Real Story by Lady Colin Campbell

26. Meghan and Harry: The Real Story

By: Lady Colin Campbell

3.69

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

The fall from popular grace of Prince Harry, the previously adulated brother of the heir to the Bri… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler by Tom Quinn

27. They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler

By: Tom Quinn

4.21

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

During more than thirty years in a variety of houses, Bob Sharpe managed to rise from garden boy to… read more

Similar categories in Tom Quinn's They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler book and Tom Quinn's They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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28. Back in the Day: A Memoir

By: Melvyn Bragg

4.35

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir -- an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria,… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of I think I'll go to sea by Bob Jackson

29. I think I'll go to sea

By: Bob Jackson

4.24

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

Deck Apprentice at 17 in the prestigious Port Line, Bob Jackson’s life at sea began with a voyage t… read more

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30. The Queen's Marriage: The behind-the-scenes story of the marriage of HM Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

By: Lady Colin Campbell

3.78

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling royal biographer of The Real Diana and Meghan and The Real StoryThe inside st… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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31. Gentlemen's gentlemen: My friends in service

By: Rosina Harrison

4.29

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

You've read tales of lady's maids and cooks, housekeepers and nannies, but now it's time to hear fr… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

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