The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint
By: Ellie Harrison
3.40
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Ellie Harrison's The Glasgow Effect art project funded by Creative Scotland to the tune of £15k, ca…
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1. Poverty Safari
By: Darren McGarvey
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- scotland
2. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
3. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
By: Samuel Johnson , James Boswell , Peter Levi
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
Samuel Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotlandand James Boswell's The Journal of a T… read more
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- nonfiction
- scotland
4. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
By: Reni Eddo-Lodge
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more
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5. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
6. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
7. The Night House
By: Jo Nesbø
3.28
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror n… read more
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8. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
9. Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
By: Minnie Driver
4.09
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A MARIE CLAIRE BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR - A USA TODAY MUST READ BOOK - A W MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED… read more
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- nonfiction
"We all pretend until pretense becomes practiced and I suppose, looks like reality."-Minnie Driver, Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
"I think again of that thing no one tells you about birth, that as your body offers up your child to the outside world your very first job as a mother is to let go. I really never thought about the fa…"-Minnie Driver, Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
10. Children of Paradise
By: Camilla Grudova
3.49
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the … read more
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- scotland
11. Young Mungo
By: Douglas Stuart
4.38
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more
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"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
12. Mayflies
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more
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- scotland
"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
13. Scabby Queen
By: Kirstin Innes
3.72
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, lif… read more
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- scotland
"At what point did the policeman stop? When he put his cock in? Whose was the sperm that had fathered her child? Was that erection, that constant need to get her knickers off all part of the performan…"-Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen
14. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
By: Sam Knight
3.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more
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- nonfiction
15. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
17. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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- nonfiction
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
18. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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19. 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
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- politics
- nonfiction
20. Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
By: James Davies
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. Th… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"I have asked them to pay attention to what they have just said. In particular to their use of the phrase “mental illness"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
"If our basic needs were neglected: our need for safety, economic security, loving connection, autonomy, self-realization and meaningful work, our need to feel equal and respected, then poor emotional…"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
"What we need is a profound rethinking of the nature of suffering itself, and what it is trying to highlight and ask us to change. We need to repoliticise emotional discontent in the minds of teachers…"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
"Tim Kasser: ‘The heyday of humanistic psychology was in the 1960s and 1970s, when Keynes dominated. But since the rise of neo-liberalism from the 1980s, we’ve seen an influx of cognitive behavioural …"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
21. 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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- nonfiction
- scotland
22. The List
By: Yomi Adegoke
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more
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"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
23. The Young Team
By: Graeme Armstrong
4.49
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife cult… read more
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- scotland
24. A Glasgow Kiss
By: Sophie Gravia
3.86
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
Meet Zara, a young, single girl struggling her way through life in the bustling city. She has almos… read more
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- scotland
"It's funny how I searched my entire life for someone to complete me, and in the end, the only person I needed was myself."-Sophie Gravia, A Glasgow Kiss
25. Orpheus Builds a Girl
By: Heather Parry
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Based on a true story, Orpheus Builds a Girl is a novel of sisterly love, sinister obsession, and t… read more
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"Our ability to embrace science is hindered entirely by men who would deny the possibility of impossible things."-Heather Parry, Orpheus Builds a Girl
26. Maxwell's Demon
By: Steven Hall
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Fourteen years after the monumental publication of the international bestseller The Raw Shark Texts… read more
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27. One of the Good Guys
By: Araminta Hall
3.52
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
If most men claim to be good, why are most women still afraid to walk home alone at night? Despe… read more
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28. Duck Feet
By: Ely Percy
4.52
Format: 391 pages, Paperback
'Duck Feet' is a coming-of-age novel, set in the mid-noughties in Renfrew and Paisley, Scotland. D… read more
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29. Notes on Heartbreak
By: Annie Lord
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a b… read more
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- nonfiction
"Why suffer for something ordinary?"-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"That's the thing about pain: we forget it."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
30. Is This OK? One Woman's Search for Connection Online
By: Harriet Gibsone
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Music journalist, self-professed creep and former winner of the coveted ‘Fittest Girl in Year 11’ a… read more
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31. The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint
By: Ellie Harrison
3.40
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Ellie Harrison's The Glasgow Effect art project funded by Creative Scotland to the tune of £15k, ca… read more
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- politics
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