Barging Round Britain: Exploring the History of our Nation's Canals and Waterways
By: John Sergeant
3.52
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Ghost
By: Robert Harris
3.79
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The stunning new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Fatherland; Enigma; Archangel; Pompeii … read more
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"Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty."-Robert Harris, The Ghost
"The line between accident and suicide isn't always clearly defined. You could kill yourself without really making up your mind."-Robert Harris, The Ghost
"What fascinates people isn't policy- who cares about policy? What fascinates people is always people- the detail of another person's life."-Robert Harris, The Ghost
"A ghost who has only a lay knowledge of the subject will be able to keep asking the same questions as the lay reader, and will therefore open up the potential readership of the book to a much wider a…"-Robert Harris, The Ghost
2. Entry Island
By: Peter May
4.03
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Only two kilometers wide and three long, Entry Island is home to a population of just more than 100… read more
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"Vítr začal vát od severozápadu a vypudil poslední pozůstatky léta. Ranní oblohu tížila nízká mračna připravená vyplakat na zemi svůj žal."-Peter May, Entry Island
3. Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
By: Simon Armitage
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile rout… read more
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"Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge."-Simon Armitage, Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
"The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of…"-Simon Armitage, Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
4. Runaway
By: Peter May
4.10
Format: 668 pages, Hardcover
In 1965, five teenage friends fled Glasgow for London to pursue their dream of musical stardom. Yet… read more
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5. De Profundis
By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann
4.03
Format: 246 pages,
De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… read more
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6. The Secret Life of Cows
By: Rosamund Young
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cows can love, play games, bond and form strong, life-long friendships. They can sulk, hold grudges… read more
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7. Back Story
By: David Mitchell
5.00
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mi… read more
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8. The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List
By: Hallie Rubenhold
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
The Covent Garden Ladiestells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose … read more
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9. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
By: Ben Macintyre
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling… read more
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10. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
11. The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
By: Maja Lunde
3.81
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut fol… read more
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"We are nothing without passion."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
"You do know he loves to write. He always has."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
"Without knowledge we are nothing.without knowledge we are animals."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
"لم تستطع أن تبقي أصابعها بعيدة عنه؛ بعد أن تراكمت أشهرٌ من الحنين -إليه- في يديها."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
12. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- nonfiction
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
13. When McKinsey Comes to Town
By: Walt Bogdanich
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more
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- nonfiction
"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town
14. A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)
By: Ian Rankin
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The brand-new John Rebus thriller from the #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin. John Rebus st… read more
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15. A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)
By: Richard Coles
3.90
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Cl… read more
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16. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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17. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
18. The Wild Silence
By: Raynor Winn
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more
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- nonfiction
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
19. A Short History of the World According to Sheep
By: Sally Coulthard
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An addictively free-ranging survey of the huge impact that sheep have had on human history. From… read more
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20. Odd Boy Out
By: Gyles Brandreth
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In Odd Boy Out Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of growing up and comi… read more
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21. Barging Round Britain: Exploring the History of our Nation's Canals and Waterways
By: John Sergeant
3.52
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
Barging Round Britain by David Bartley is a beautifully-illustrated guide to a unique and fascinati… read more
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