14 best-selling nonfiction books like Our Uninvited Guests by Julie Summers

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Our Uninvited Guests

By: Julie Summers

4.01

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable narrative set against the dark days of World War Two, from one of the country’s foremo…

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1. The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

By: Natalie Livingstone

3.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Sunday Times bestseller, The Mistresses of Cliveden is the extraordinary story of how five women … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Black Tudors: African Lives in Renaissance England

By: Miranda Kaufmann

2.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A black porter publicly whips a white English gentleman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A heavily… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. The Thread

By: Victoria Hislop

4.01

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and epic novel that spans nearly a hundred years, The Threadis a magnificent story of a… read more

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  • war

4. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

By: Helen Simonson

4.11

Format: 288 pages,

You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled wi… read more

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5. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

By: Ben Macintyre

4.22

Format: None pages,

The incredible untold story of WWII s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern m… read more

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6. Murder on the Mauretania (George Porter Dillman & Genevieve Masefield, #2)

By: Conrad Allen

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

November 1907. George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield sail from Liverpool on the maiden voya… read more

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7. The Last Days of John Lennon

By: James Patterson

3.88

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Discover one of the greatest true crime stories in music history, as only James Patterson can tell … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Found in a Bookshop

By: Stephanie Butland

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Dear Lost for Words, We are trying to stay at home . . . I am enclosing a cheque and I hope that… read more

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9. Welcome to Beach Town

By: Susan Wiggs

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Beloved  New York Times  bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns with a compulsively readable tale o… read more

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10. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

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11. Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7)

By: Val McDermid

4.26

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Val McDermid returns with DCI Karen Pirie in a new thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against th… read more

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12. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

By: Cat Jarman

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. The Library Girls of the East End

By: Patricia McBride

4.40

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

The first instalment in a BRAND NEW series from bestselling author Patricia McBride 1940, London … read more

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  • world war ii
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14. Reporting For Duty (The Army Girls #1)

By: Fenella J. Miller

4.45

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

A BRAND NEW series by bestselling author Fenella J. Miller - Meet the Army Girls! Army Girls - repo… read more

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15. The Midwives' War

By: Chrissie Walsh

4.62

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

Against the chaotic backdrop of World War II, Grace Murphy is working as a midwife in Doncaster Roy… read more

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  • world war ii
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16. 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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  • nonfiction
"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

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17. Canary Girls

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiav… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
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18. The Wild Silence

By: Raynor Winn

3.98

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more

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  • nonfiction
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

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19. A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • war
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20. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World

By: Malcolm Gaskill

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Sisters Under the Rising Sun

By: Heather Morris

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
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22. Beyond the Point (DI Nick Dixon, #9)

By: Damien Boyd

4.50

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

DI Nick Dixon is on the hunt for a vicious serial killer, following a trail of fingerprints and DNA… read more

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23. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

By: Marion Gibson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

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24. The Wartime Bookshop

By: Lesley Eames

4.47

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

The first in a brand-new nostalgic and heart-warming WWII series, perfect for fans of Donna Douglas… read more

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  • world war ii
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25. Garden of Secrets

By: Suzanne Kelman

4.43

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

1940, England: ‘I promise we will find each other again. I will leave you a message,’ she said, ‘he… read more

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"Even the weeping willow grows upward."

-Suzanne Kelman, Garden of Secrets

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26. The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

By: Christopher Hadley

3.66

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? The Romans built thousands of mi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Inside Bridgerton

By: Shonda Rhimes

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The stunning, full-color, behind-the-scenes look at Shondaland’s hit series on Netflix. Inside B… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Down Among the Dead (DI Nick Dixon #10)

By: Damien Boyd

4.48

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Somerset’s bloody past meets a dangerous present in this thriller from the bestselling DI Nick Dixo… read more

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29. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

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30. Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II

By: Adrian Tinniswood

3.81

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided wit… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Our Uninvited Guests

By: Julie Summers

4.01

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable narrative set against the dark days of World War Two, from one of the country’s foremo… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • war

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