9 Best nonfiction books like The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History by Kate Morgan

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The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History

By: Kate Morgan

4.18

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

A devastating work of non-fiction that reveals a hidden history of women, violence and the law. ’ …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History by Kate Morgan , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. 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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2. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

By: Laura Cumming

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more

Similar categories in Laura Cumming's Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death book and Kate Morgan's The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

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3. Fix the System, Not the Women

By: Laura Bates

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more

Similar categories in Laura Bates's Fix the System, Not the Women book and Kate Morgan's The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"

-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women

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4. 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

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  • audiobook
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5. 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
  • history
  • audiobook
"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

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6. Murder on Lake Garda

By: Tom Hindle

3.55

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more

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7. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud

By: Becky Holmes

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter romance … read more

Similar categories in Becky Holmes's Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud book and Kate Morgan's The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Maiden

By: Kate Foster

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more

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  • audiobook
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10. Queen Macbeth

By: Val McDermid

3.77

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Kate Morgan's The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History

  • feminism
  • audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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12. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

Similar categories in Rory Carroll's There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History book and Kate Morgan's The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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13. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

By: Natalie Haynes

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Haynes's Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth book and Kate Morgan's The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

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14. The Escape Room

By: L.D. Smithson

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Everything is a clue. Eight strangers arrive at a remote sea fort off the coast of England. They a… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein

By: Anne Eekhout

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A novel of innocence, young love, and gothic mystery that is a sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley’… read more

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16. The Silence Factory

By: Bridget Collins

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more

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  • audiobook
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17. How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker

By: Eve Smith

3.66

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker. Let’s call her ‘Eve’. Eve is someone’s partner. … read more

Similar categories in Eve Smith's How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker book and Kate Morgan's The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past

By: Neil Oliver

3.97

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

THE PERFECT READ FOR TROUBLED TIMESFrom the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"It is all around us now, in one God-forsaken territory after another. Blood sacrifice in the name of a better future. Only the dead like Tollund Man have seen the end of it. All we seem to have learn…"

-Neil Oliver, Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past

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19. The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History

By: Kate Morgan

4.18

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

A devastating work of non-fiction that reveals a hidden history of women, violence and the law. ’ … read more

Similar categories in Kate Morgan's The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History book and Kate Morgan's The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History

  • history
  • true crime
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. 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

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  • audiobook

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4.19

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4.52

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Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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4.16

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3.55

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4.05

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4.09

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