5 Best biography books like Narrow Escape - A Year of Highs and Lows on Narrowboat Minerva (Narrow Boat Book 3) by Marie Browne

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Narrow Escape - A Year of Highs and Lows on Narrowboat Minerva (Narrow Boat Book 3)

By: Marie Browne

4.26

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

With its month by month and tongue in cheek look at the liveaboard year, Narrow Escape sets out to …

If you liked the biography plot in Narrow Escape - A Year of Highs and Lows on Narrowboat Minerva (Narrow Boat Book 3) by Marie Browne , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. More Ketchup Than Salsa

By: Joe Cawley

4.04

Format: 156 pages,

British author and his girlfriend chuck their jobs in the freezing north of England, going into hoc… read more

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2. Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1)

By: David Hunt

3.14

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2014 Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Nonfiction Girt. No word… read more

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3. Maggie Smith

By: Michael Coveney

3.60

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smit… read more

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4. Settling in Spain: Our New Life Between the Mountains and the Sea (The Tonks in Spain Series Book 1)

By: None

3.84

Format: 32 pages,

Doreen B. Tonks, thoroughly steeped in the rich tradition of books on the subject of living in Spai… read more

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5. Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)

By: Jeremy Clarkson

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Jeremy's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bu… read more

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  • biography
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6. The Storyteller of Casablanca

By: Fiona Valpy

4.40

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

In this evocative tale from the bestselling author of The Dressmaker’s Gift, a strange new city off… read more

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7. The Dressmaker's Gift

By: Fiona Valpy

4.23

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

A Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts bestseller. From the bestselling autho… read more

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8. My Lifey

By: Paddy McGuinness

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

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  • biography
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9. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

By: Lisa See

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seve… read more

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"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"It took me me many years to realize that my perceptions at this time was completely wrong."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman."

-Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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10. The Lost Daughters of Ukraine

By: Erin Litteken

4.51

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

A story of the strength of the human spirit, the personal cost of conflict and how love can be foun… read more

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11. Mad Cows and Englishmen: at large in Galicia

By: Liza Grantham

4.31

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine living on an island in where the sun shines down almost every day of the year and a cool br… read more

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12. The Beekeeper's Promise

By: Fiona Valpy

4.29

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Heartbroken and hoping for a new start, Abi Howes takes a summer job in rural France at the Château… read more

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"Then one by one they raised their faces to the sky. 'Like a field of sunflowers'."

-Fiona Valpy, The Beekeeper's Promise

"her fingertips brushed his hand for a fleeting moment, a touch as gentle as the brush of a butterfly's wing"

-Fiona Valpy, The Beekeeper's Promise

"You smell of honey and sunshine. Even after all that. The darkness of this world can't dim the light that shines from you, Eliane."

-Fiona Valpy, The Beekeeper's Promise

"...It's an affirmation of life and hope, of courage and quiet strength, of the defiant joy that exists alongside the sadness and the fear."

-Fiona Valpy, The Beekeeper's Promise

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13. The World According to Kaleb: Worldly wisdom from the breakout star of Clarkson’s Farm

By: Kaleb Cooper

3.53

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The star of Clarkson's Farm shares his worldly wisdom on life's big issues, from the difference bet… read more

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  • biography
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14. The Golden Girls' Getaway

By: Judy Leigh

4.27

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

It has been a long and lonely year for neighbours Vivienne, Mary and Gwen. All ladies of a ‘certain… read more

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15. A Year at the French Farmhouse

By: Gillian Harvey

3.88

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

Escape to France with this warm, witty romantic read. After ten years of loyal service Lily Butt… read more

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16. The Golden Oldies' Book Club

By: Judy Leigh

4.06

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Ruth the librarian fears she’s too old to find love, but a discussion about Lady Chatterley’s Lover… read more

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17. The Age of Misadventure

By: Judy Leigh

3.91

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

55-year-old Georgie Turner doesn’t need a new man. Her daughter, aunt and sister are the most impor… read more

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18. The Highland Hens

By: Judy Leigh

4.29

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

In the imposing Glen Carrick House overlooking Scotland’s famous Loch Ness, lives eighty-eight-year… read more

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19. Heading Over the Hill

By: Judy Leigh

4.07

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Billy and Dawnie may be in their seventies, but that won’t stop them taking chances or starting aga… read more

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20. FUNNY GOINGS ON IN SANDLEBURY BAY

By: Lynne Gumbleton

4.47

Format: 537 pages, ebook

Good luck comes in threes, so they say. Only in the case of Jenny Allerton and her family - it was … read more

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21. Lil's Bus Trip

By: Judy Leigh

4.27

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

From the USA Today bestselling author of Five French Hens and The Old Girls' Network comes a story … read more

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  • travel
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22. Midnight

By: Josephine Cox

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

All Jack's life, the nightmares had haunted him, dragging him back to a place where it was always m… read more

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23. Journeys to the Other Side of the World: Further Adventures of a Young Naturalist

By: David Attenborough

4.31

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

'With charm, erudition, humour and passion, the world's favourite natural history broadcaster docum… read more

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  • travel
  • biography
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24. The French Adventure

By: Lucy Coleman

4.11

Format: 470 pages, Kindle Edition

Packed full of French flavour and idyllic settings this is a romantic, heart-warming and unputdowna… read more

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  • travel
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25. Narrow Escape - A Year of Highs and Lows on Narrowboat Minerva (Narrow Boat Book 3)

By: Marie Browne

4.26

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

With its month by month and tongue in cheek look at the liveaboard year, Narrow Escape sets out to … read more

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  • travel
  • biography
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26. Gongoozlers at the Gate

By: Kathleen Balchin

4.45

Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition

Gongoozlers - the common canal name for inquisitive folk who while away their time watching the act… read more

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Gillian Harvey

4.19

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Julia Jarman

3.92

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Maddie Please

4.40

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