Secrets of the Human Body
By: Chris van Tulleken
3.93
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
206 bones. One heart. Two eyes. Ten fingers. You may think you know what makes up a human. But it t…
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1. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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2. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
3. 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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"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
4. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets
By: Dawn French
3.87
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more
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5. 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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6. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
By: Richard Shepherd
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more
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"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
7. All That Remains: A Life in Death
By: Sue Black
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses… read more
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8. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
9. 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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"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
10. Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
By: Gad Saad
3.94
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threate… read more
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- audiobook
"We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
"Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
"To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
"There is no "black mind" or "white mind", no "white male of knowing", there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
11. Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
By: Helen Joyce
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Gender identity ideology is about more than twitter storms and using the right pronouns. In just te… read more
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- psychology
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"Most people are in the dark about what is being demanded by transactivists. They understand the call for ‘trans rights’ to mean compassionate concessions that enable a suffering minority to live full…"-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
"On the Right, the extremists are white ethno-nationalist majoritarians; on the Left, they are identitarians who see progress as a process of bringing one marginalized group after another in from the …"-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
"What same-sex marriage, women's franchise and the end of segregation all have in common is that they extend the rights of a privileged group to everyone. And when people hear the phrase 'trans rights…"-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
"In the spread of gender-identity ideology, developments in academia played a crucial role. This is not the place for an extended critique of the thinking that evolved on American campuses out of the …"-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
12. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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13. Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well
By: Tim Spector
4.27
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth , a comprehensive guide to the new scien… read more
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- audiobook
14. Skandar and the Unicorn Thief (Skandar #1)
By: A.F. Steadman
4.13
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Soar into a breathtaking world of heroes and unicorns as you’ve never seen them before in this fant… read more
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15. By Ollie Ollerton Break Point SAS Who Dares Wins Host's Incredible True Story Paperback - 9 Jan 2020
By: Ollie Ollerton
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
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16. How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong
By: James O'Brien
4.13
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Every day, James O’Brien listens to people blaming benefits scroungers, the EU, Muslims, feminists … read more
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"Theresa May took this aversion to thinking to its apotheosis when she declared that ‘Brexit means Brexit’ shortly after becoming prime minister in July 2016. Even by the standards of modern British p…"-James O'Brien, How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong
17. Surrounded by Narcissists: How to Effectively Recognize, Avoid, and Defend Yourself Against Toxic People (and Not Lose Your Mind)
By: Thomas Erikson
3.48
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Part of the bestselling Surrounded by Idiots series! Internationally bestselling author Thomas Eri… read more
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18. Tall Men and Strangers (An Abi Button Cozy Mystery Romance #1)
By: Lizzie Lewis
3.90
Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition
Abigail (Abi) Button is thirty-one, and in spite of kissing a few frogs she has yet to find her pri… read more
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19. Secrets of the Human Body
By: Chris van Tulleken
3.93
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
206 bones. One heart. Two eyes. Ten fingers. You may think you know what makes up a human. But it t… read more
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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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