13 Best nonfiction books like Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC by Rory Cellan-Jones

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Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

By: Rory Cellan-Jones

4.32

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

'Ruskin Park is so much more than a memoir. It is tribute to an individual woman and a whole genera…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC by Rory Cellan-Jones , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

1. 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

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • audiobook
Cover of Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary by Nina Stibbe

2. 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 Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

3. 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

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain

4. 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

Similar categories in Rose Tremain's Absolutely and Forever book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • audiobook
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5. 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 Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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6. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's Restless Dolly Maunder book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • audiobook
Cover of Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain by Robin Ince

7. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain

By: Robin Ince

3.84

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more

Similar categories in Robin Ince's Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."

-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain

Cover of Berserker! by Adrian Edmondson

8. 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

Similar categories in Adrian Edmondson's Berserker! book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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9. Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3)

By: Richard Coles

3.87

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover, takes respite at the monastery whe… read more

Similar categories in Richard Coles's Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3) book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • audiobook
Cover of A Very Private School: A Memoir by Charles     Spencer

10. 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 Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Hope – How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life: Featuring Rodney, McMuffin and King Whacker by Niall Harbison

11. Hope – How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life: Featuring Rodney, McMuffin and King Whacker

By: Niall Harbison

4.67

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me. Niall Harbison is a dog hero based in Thai… read more

Similar categories in Niall Harbison's Hope – How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life: Featuring Rodney, McMuffin and King Whacker book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Walk Yourself Happy: Find your path to health and healing in nature by Julia Bradbury

12. Walk Yourself Happy: Find your path to health and healing in nature

By: Julia Bradbury

4.02

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'It's hard not to be persuaded by Bradbury's enthusiasm and positivity' … read more

Similar categories in Julia Bradbury's Walk Yourself Happy: Find your path to health and healing in nature book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • nonfiction
Cover of Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope by Clive Myrie

13. Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope

By: Clive Myrie

4.31

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

As a Bolton teenager with a paper round, Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered from cove… read more

Similar categories in Clive Myrie's Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On by Wes Streeting

14. 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

Similar categories in Wes Streeting's One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC by Rory Cellan-Jones

15. Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

By: Rory Cellan-Jones

4.32

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

'Ruskin Park is so much more than a memoir. It is tribute to an individual woman and a whole genera… read more

Similar categories in Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Man in Black: Stories by Elly Griffiths

16. The Man in Black: Stories

By: Elly Griffiths

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This bumper collection of short stories by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved … read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Man in Black: Stories book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

Cover of The Trials of Marjorie Crowe by C.S. Robertson

17. The Trials of Marjorie Crowe

By: C.S. Robertson

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you solve a murder when everyone thinks you're guilty? Marjorie Crowe lives in Kilgoyne, … read more

Similar categories in C.S. Robertson's The Trials of Marjorie Crowe book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

Cover of My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel

18. 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

Similar categories in David Baddiel's My Family: The Memoir book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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19. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

Similar categories in Robert Harris's Precipice book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • audiobook
"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

Cover of Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country by Juliet Nicolson

20. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country

By: Juliet Nicolson

3.44

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more

Similar categories in Juliet Nicolson's Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer

21. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

Similar categories in Bob Mortimer's The Hotel Avocado book and Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

  • audiobook

16 Best audiobook books like Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC by Rory Cellan-Jones

Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

Nina Stibbe

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Absolutely and Forever

Rose Tremain

3.90

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18 best-selling audiobook books like Berserker! by Adrian Edmondson

Transform Your Habits

Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

Jennifer Saunders

3.85

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Rambling Man: My Life on the Road

Billy Connolly

4.16

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