Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
By: Jean Sprackland
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This is the ultimate beachcomber's book. A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild es…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Standing looking out to sea can be like standing at an altar. You wait in silence for some kind of benediction. If prayer could have a physical destination, this would be it"-Jean Sprackland, Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
"Standing looking out to sea can be like standing at an altar. You wait in silence for some kind of benediction. If prayer could have a physical destination, this would be it"-Jean Sprackland, Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
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1. How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
By: Tristan Gooley
3.97
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
A must-have book for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural wor… read more
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- environment
- nonfiction
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- nature
"This is what the great artists manage. They flatter us, by observing better than others and then speaking to each of us as individuals and in a language that we worry we may be the only ones left car…"-Tristan Gooley, How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
2. The Little Red Chairs
By: Edna O'Brien
3.24
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
The much-anticipated new novel from the literary world's master of storytelling, Edna O'Brien. A… read more
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"My friends I tell you this, we are a jolly group but put us in uniform and all that change. In war I don’t know who my brother. In war I don’t know who my friend. War make everybody savage. Who can s…"-Edna O'Brien, The Little Red Chairs
3. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more
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"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
4. Crampton Hodnet
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Here, Barbara Mary Crampton Pym sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing on the unsuitable… read more
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5. The May Bride
By: Suzannah Dunn
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Jane Seymour is a shy, dutiful fifteen-year-old when her eldest brother, Edward, brings his bride h… read more
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6. The Cater Street Hangman (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #1)
By: Anne Perry
4.14
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Careless of both murder and manners, Charlotte Ellison and her sister, two determinedly unconventio… read more
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7. The Bastard of Istanbul
By: Elif Shafak
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Hardcover
From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of t… read more
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8. Sightlines
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered--what is it that we're just not seeing? In th… read more
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9. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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10. None So Blind
By: Alis Hawkins
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
A brilliant new historical mystery series set in the 1850s. West Wales, 1850. When an old tree root… read more
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11. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more
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12. 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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- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
"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
13. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
By: Adam Nicolson
3.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more
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"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
14. Into the Uncanny
By: Danny Robins
4.27
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
'A contemporary Van Helsing...' Sunday Times'King of true-life scary tales' Observer'A wonderfully … read more
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- history
"the older I'd got, the more ghost had become an abstract concept, something impossibly fictional on a par with Hobbits, Jedi or getting a GP appointment"-Danny Robins, Into the Uncanny
"Science itself can be quite negative because you essentially can never really prove a theory is correct, you can only prove it's wrong, so scientists are by definition sceptical because they spend a …"-Danny Robins, Into the Uncanny
15. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more
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16. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
17. The Mercies
By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
4.01
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village s… read more
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"Handsome man, as these Scots often seem to be…"-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
"It is written, and once written, things aren’t easily forgotten."-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
"…she isn’t sure a life spent here is worthy of the label of living."-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
"This is your land?' 'No.' The girl's tone was firm as her gaze. 'We only lived here."-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies
18. 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
19. Grave Expectations (Grave Expectations, #1)
By: Alice Bell
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A fast-paced and hilarious debut crime novel, in which a burnt-out Millennial medium must utilize h… read more
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"Figgy Wellington-Forge opened the driver’s door and unfolded from the car like a sexy deck chair."-Alice Bell, Grave Expectations (Grave Expectations, #1)
20. 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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21. Blossomise
By: Simon Armitage
4.22
Format: 63 pages, Hardcover
Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its mela… read more
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22. Surfacing
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this remarkable blend of memoir, cultural history, and travelogue, poet and author Kathleen Jami… read more
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- memoir
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"But every day brought enlivening moments and laughter. One day a BBC crew appeared, driving down to the beach in a big black Range Rover. Everyone kept their heads down and pretended to be very busy …"-Kathleen Jamie, Surfacing
23. Stone Mothers
By: Erin Kelly
3.50
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Erin Kelly, the masterful author of He Said/She Said, delivers another irresistible, unputdownable … read more
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24. The Man in Black: Stories
By: Elly Griffiths
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This bumper collection of short stories by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved … read more
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25. The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There
By: Jack Cornish
4.10
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Pre-order now to discover the rich history of Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, and it w… read more
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26. Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
By: Jean Sprackland
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This is the ultimate beachcomber's book. A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild es… read more
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- natural history
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
- nature
"Standing looking out to sea can be like standing at an altar. You wait in silence for some kind of benediction. If prayer could have a physical destination, this would be it"-Jean Sprackland, Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
27. This Thing of Darkness
By: Nicola Edwards
4.56
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The storm that dismantles a dynasty… 1780. Wild and windswept Yorkshire. Sixteen-year-old Heathc… read more
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28. Blood Among the Threads: A Wrexham Victorian Mystery (Wrexham & Chester Victorian Mysteries Book 1)
By: David Ebsworth
4.26
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
He only sought the truth. But some truths are best left buried.Wrexham, 1876. Meet Alfred Neobard P… read more
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29. Run to the Western Shore
By: Tim Pears
3.59
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about destiny, home and surviving in a world in flux Set in Britain in AD 72, R… read more
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