Island on the Edge: A Life on Soay
By: Anne Cholawo
4.28
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency, when in 198…
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1. Island of Dreams: A Personal History of a Remarkable Place
By: Dan Boothby
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Dan Boothby had been drifting for more than twenty years, without the pontoons of family, friends o… read more
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2. Island Wife: Living on the Edge of the Wild
By: None
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
Island Wifetells the story of Judy, who, at 19, met her Wild Pioneer. He whisked her off into an ad… read more
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3. The Guilty One
By: Lisa Ballantyne
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An eight-year-old boy is found dead in a playground . . . and his eleven-year-old neighbor is accus… read more
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4. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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5. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more
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6. Way Back
By: Sara Cox
4.18
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
THE BIG-HEARTED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THROWN, RADIO 2 BROADCASTER A… read more
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7. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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8. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
9. 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
10. Very Very Lucky
By: Amanda Prowse
4.37
Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition
A life-affirming story from million-copy bestselling author Amanda Prowse about having it all, losi… read more
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11. Lost Horizon
By: James Hilton
3.95
Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition
James Hilton’s bestselling adventure novel about a military man who stumbles on the world’s greates… read more
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"Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue..."-James Hilton, Lost Horizon
"He was a wanderer between two worlds and must ever wander..."-James Hilton, Lost Horizon
"if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without"-James Hilton, Lost Horizon
"We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much."-James Hilton, Lost Horizon
12. The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more
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"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
13. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness
By: Christian Lewis
4.40
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more
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- scotland
14. Wavewalker: Breaking Free
By: Suzanne Heywood
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing… read more
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"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would lau…"-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free
15. In a Single Moment
By: Imogen Clark
4.09
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy bestselling author Imogen Clark comes a story of two families, two babies and one… read more
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16. I Am an Island
By: Tamsin Calidas
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on an island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home.… read more
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"It was a time of hope and dreaming of your beautiful life, and Brit Pop singing the world real again."-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"On dementia: It is like you are living in a world with no connection to anyone or anything. It is lonely. It is like nobody is there."-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"Cancer bleeds the life out of you until there is nothing left. Once the body is not able to eat, it starts to sleep and its muscles and strength begin to waste away. But even then, the mind can still…"-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"When someone dies, their spirit is free. But no one is free that is left behind. (...) Grief is like soil. It is heavy and clings to your skin, even when you come up for air. And sometimes, even afte…"-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
17. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
18. All Good Things
By: Amanda Prowse
3.88
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
In this captivating story from the bestselling author of Picking up the Pieces, Daisy has always en… read more
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19. Erebus: The Story of a Ship
By: Michael Palin
4.29
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval … read more
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20. Into the Dark
By: Fiona Cummins
3.67
Format: 400 pages, ebook
THE PLACE: Seawings, a beautiful Art Deco home overlooking the sweep of the bay in Midtown-on-Sea. … read more
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21. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
22. Close to Where the Heart Gives Out: A Year in the Life of an Orkney Doctor
By: Malcolm Alexander
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Close to Where the Heart Gives Out is the unflinchingly honest and moving memoir of rural life in O… read more
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23. The Lost Lights of St Kilda
By: Elisabeth Gifford
4.26
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When Fred Lawson takes a summer job on St Kilda in 1927, little does he realise that he has joined … read more
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24. Night Swimmers
By: Roisin Maguire
4.06
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
'Beautifully written, full of wisdom and wonderful secondary characters. I loved it' Daily Mail'A g… read more
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25. Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination
By: Jenny Tough
4.04
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
It s time we celebrated women in adventure What does "toughness" mean to you? Perhaps it's being… read more
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"I have always felt that adventures are about connection and daring, albeit my traditional view was that it was a solitary quest and one where fears were stuffed down to be tamed alone. I would say th…"-Jenny Tough, Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination
26. The Family Retreat
By: Bev Thomas
3.67
Format: None pages, ebook
When Rob decides the family needs to get away for the summer Jess is not convinced - won't all the … read more
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27. Bothy Tales: Footsteps in the Scottish hills
By: John D. Burns
3.96
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE GREAT OUTDOORS BOOK OF THE YEAR John D Burns is an award winning mount… read more
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28. A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
By: Peter Ross
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the … read more
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"Exposure to a particle of darkness means one does not sicken with it."-Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
29. The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness
By: Ken Smith
4.23
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The … read more
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30. Skeoch - Our new life on a Scottish hill farm
By: Jennie Phillips
4.06
Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition
"An amazing tale of 70's life on a remote Scottish farm" Southall Film Studios“I have to state righ… read more
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31. Island on the Edge: A Life on Soay
By: Anne Cholawo
4.28
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency, when in 198… read more
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