Unofficial Britain: Journeys Through Unexpected Places
By: Gareth E. Rees
4.07
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
There is a Britain that exists outside of the official histories and guidebooks - places that lie o…
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1. Islington Crocodiles
By: Vincent Chong , Paul Meloy
4.30
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
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2. If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America
By: Jon Sopel
4.16
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
'You see, if only they didn’t speak English in America, then we’d treat it as a foreign country – a… read more
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"In America you can't do politics without also doing God."-Jon Sopel, If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America
"The post-war British Labour prime minister Clement Atlee described referrendums as the last resort of demagooues and dictators."-Jon Sopel, If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America
"Benjamin Franklin declared, "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy" while Thomas Jefferson said, "Wine is necessary for life" and George Washington said, "My manner of livi…"-Jon Sopel, If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America
3. The Glass Pearls
By: Emeric Pressburger
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Karl Braun is a slight, grey-haired man who lodges in West London and works as a tuner for a firm o… read more
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4. The King in Yellow
By: Robert W. Chambers
3.55
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more
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"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
5. Pop. 1280
By: Jim Thompson
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest cri… read more
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6. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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7. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
8. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
By: Mick Herron
4.13
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more
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"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
9. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
10. Slade House
By: David Mitchell
3.81
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British p… read more
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"Coffee’s the elixir of life."-David Mitchell, Slade House
"In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows."-David Mitchell, Slade House
"It takes more than holding hands and singing ‘Ebony and Ivory’."-David Mitchell, Slade House
"Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don't you find?"-David Mitchell, Slade House
11. 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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12. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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13. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Sarah Ogilvie
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more
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"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
14. 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
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"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
15. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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16. They: A Sequence of Unease
By: Kay Dick
3.38
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
They is a dream, a surreal nightmare which sends a shock right to the heart of our cultural complac… read more
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"It was no good listening for footsteps; they wore no shoes."-Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease
17. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
By: David Gibbins
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more
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18. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
By: Catherine Coldstream
3.71
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more
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19. Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present
By: J.R. Moores
3.92
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From Black Sabbath to Big Black, a ride through the evolution, diversity, and influence of genre-de… read more
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20. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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21. Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
By: Michael A. Heller
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An Adam Grant Spring Book PickFinalist for the Next Big Idea Club A must-read this spring -- a … read more
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22. Burntcoat
By: Sarah Hall
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying novel of mortality, passion, and human connection, set against the backdrop of a de… read more
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"I have this feeling - of being unplugged and too far from the socket and what remains is a red warning bar."-Sarah Hall, Burntcoat
"I did not contact my father. He had another family; he was a stranger. I'd been raised, capably and neglectfully, by a borrowed woman and her shadow. I lay on Naomi's bed in the empty cottage, comfor…"-Sarah Hall, Burntcoat
"There's blindness to new lovers. They exist in the rare atmosphere of their own colony, trusting by sense and feel, creatures consuming each other, building shelters with their hopes. Other worlds ce…"-Sarah Hall, Burntcoat
23. The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives
By: Jude Rogers
4.13
Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition
'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers sho… read more
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24. Under the Stars: A Journey Into Light
By: Matt Gaw
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Moonlight, starlight, the ethereal glow of snow in winter ... When you flick off a switch, other fo… read more
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25. In The Middle of Middle America (The America Trilogy #1)
By: David B. Lyons
4.06
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
The smallest towns hold the biggest secrets... ★★★★★ "A modern masterpiece" - The Book Literati… read more
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26. Unofficial Britain: Journeys Through Unexpected Places
By: Gareth E. Rees
4.07
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
There is a Britain that exists outside of the official histories and guidebooks - places that lie o… read more
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27. The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World
By: Dom Joly
3.69
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On … read more
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28. The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain
By: Damian Le Bas
3.87
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmother would tell him stories of … read more
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29. Small Bomb at Dimperley
By: Lissa Evans
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But ‘home’ is Dimperl… read more
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30. Barrowbeck
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
For centuries, the inhabitants of Barrowbeck, a remote valley on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border, h… read more
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