10 best-selling nonfiction books like Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum by Dean Kirby

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Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

By: Dean Kirby

4.23

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

“A record of how a city of great wealth ignored the desperate poverty at its very heart . . . It is…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum by Dean Kirby , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

By: Anne Tyler

3.81

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimo… read more

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"I'm falling into disrepair"

-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

"Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth. 'What, cremation?' she asked. 'Death."

-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

"There ought to be a while separate language, she thought, for words that are truer than other words - for perfect, absolute truth. It was the purest fact of her life: she did not understand him, and …"

-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

"انت تصدقنى، أليس كذلك؟ فأنا لست عمياء. اعرف متى اكون غير معقولة. احيانا اقف خارج نفسى وأراقب كل شىء، منفصلة تماما. اقول لنفسى "توقفى الان" ، لكن الامر يبدو كما لو كنت... اتيه عجبا بنفسى، على ان اهاجم…"

-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

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2. The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds

By: None , Philippa Langley

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The first full-length book about the discover of Richard III's remains by the person who led the ar… read more

Similar categories in None's The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds book and Dean Kirby's Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. The Town Below the Ground: Edinburgh's Legendary Underground City

By: None

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of the Town Below the Ground is one of the most disturbing in the annals of Scottish hist… read more

Similar categories in None's The Town Below the Ground: Edinburgh's Legendary Underground City book and Dean Kirby's Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The End of the Affair

By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more

Similar categories in Graham Greene's The End of the Affair book and Dean Kirby's Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

"As long as one suffers one lives."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

5. The Fog

By: James Herbert

2.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

A peaceful village in Wiltshire is shattered by a disaster which strikes without reason or explanat… read more

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6. Standard Deviation

By: Katherine Heiny

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A rueful, funny examination of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami. Simultaneously hilarious an… read more

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7. Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

By: Tracy Borman

2.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his ques… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Borman's Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant book and Dean Kirby's Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

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8. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

Similar categories in Chris van Tulleken's Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food book and Dean Kirby's Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

  • nonfiction
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9. Once a Monster

By: Robert Dinsdale

3.78

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1861: Ten-year-old Nell belongs to a crew of mudlarks who work a stretch of the Thames alon… read more

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10. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Michael Hurley's Starve Acre book and Dean Kirby's Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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11. The Babysitter

By: Sheryl Browne

3.71

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

You trust her with your family. Would you trust her with your life? Mark and Melissa Cain are thri… read more

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12. House of Tudor: A Grisly History

By: Mickey Mayhew

4.07

Format: 187 pages, Hardcover

Gruesome but not gratuitous, this decidedly darker take on the Tudors, from 1485 to 1603, covers so… read more

Similar categories in Mickey Mayhew's House of Tudor: A Grisly History book and Dean Kirby's Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. The Islanders

By: Caroline Mitchell

4.05

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

She thinks the island will keep her safe—she is wrong. Traumatised by the death of a child in her … read more

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14. The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

By: Hana Videen

4.26

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from … read more

Similar categories in Hana Videen's The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English book and Dean Kirby's Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

  • history
  • nonfiction
"For some reason, the ball-biting beaver doesn't live on in modern fiction like Aslan the lion or Fawkes the phoenix."

-Hana Videen, The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

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15. Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages

By: Jack Hartnell

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell … read more

Similar categories in Jack Hartnell's Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages book and Dean Kirby's Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. London Curiosities: The Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird & Wonderful Places

By: John Wade

4.07

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies an undercroft resembl… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

By: Dean Kirby

4.23

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

“A record of how a city of great wealth ignored the desperate poverty at its very heart . . . It is… read more

Similar categories in Dean Kirby's Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum book and Dean Kirby's Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. The Real Doc Martin: The Humour, Sadness and Absurdity of a Life in General Practice

By: Martin Stagg

4.14

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

'Near the end would be good.' For over thirty years a GP called Martin sat at his desk on the outs… read more

Similar categories in Martin Stagg's The Real Doc Martin: The Humour, Sadness and Absurdity of a Life in General Practice book and Dean Kirby's Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

  • nonfiction
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19. Rare Singles

By: Benjamin Myers

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more

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20. Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power

By: Tom Bower

3.61

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

‘THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ’ Mail on Sunday ‘Meticulous and highly readable … Funny and devast… read more

Similar categories in Tom Bower's Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power book and Dean Kirby's Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

  • history
  • nonfiction

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4.36

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3.00

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Mickey Mayhew

4.07

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4.26

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3.82

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Russell Winnock

2.50

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Philip Allen Green

4.33

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