9 Best biography books like Riding Out: A Journey of Love, Loss and New Beginnings by Simon Parker

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Riding Out: A Journey of Love, Loss and New Beginnings

By: Simon Parker

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable and inspirational true story of how one man battled grief and anxiety, one pedal str…

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Cover of A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham, #1) by Abir  Mukherjee

1. A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham, #1)

By: Abir Mukherjee

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B019CGXRZM The winner of the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crim… read more

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2. The Pants Of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 kilometre running adventure through the wilds of New Zealand

By: Anna McNuff

3.69

Format: 216 pages,

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography

3. The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat

By: Tim Spector

2.00

Format: 161 pages,

We are all increasingly bewildered by the simple question of what to eat. Despite advice from exper… read more

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4. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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5. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

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"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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6. 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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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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Moscow X (Damascus Station #2) by David McCloskey

8. Moscow X (Damascus Station #2)

By: David McCloskey

4.30

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its cen… read more

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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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"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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10. 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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective by Jess McDonald

11. No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective

By: Jess McDonald

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'Probably the most important book on the state of British policing you'll ever read' Graham Bartlet… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans by Elise Downing

12. Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

By: Elise Downing

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Running away from your problems doesn’t solve anything – but sometimes it’s more fun than dealing w… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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13. 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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  • travel
  • 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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14. Broadly Speaking

By: Stuart Broad

3.84

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Stuart Broad is the ultimate competitor - someone addicted to the pressures of Test cricket, the bi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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15. The Perfect Golden Circle

By: Benjamin Myers

3.92

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more

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16. Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness

By: Alastair Humphreys

4.44

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

‘Agile, wryly funny and wise’ Robert Macfarlane A search for nearby nature and wildness After years… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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17. The Exhibitionist

By: Charlotte Mendelson

3.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The longer the marriage, the harder truth becomes . . . Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for … read more

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18. Llama Drama: A two-woman, 5,500-mile cycling adventure through South America (Anna's Adventures Book 3)

By: Anna McNuff

4.46

Format: 574 pages, Kindle Edition

Why take the shortest, most direct route through life, when you could choose the wiggliest, most mo… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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19. Weirdo

By: Sara Pascoe

3.28

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more

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Cover of Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis

20. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

By: Tom Burgis

3.80

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

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21. The Chamber

By: Will Dean

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

And Then There Were None meets The Last Breath in this tense and suspenseful locked-room thriller t… read more

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Cover of Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet by Jenny Graham

22. Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet

By: Jenny Graham

4.56

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman's solo lap of the planet by… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle by Jody Rosen

23. Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

By: Jody Rosen

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twent… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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24. Three Rooms

By: Jo Hamya

3.08

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A piercing howl of a novel about one young woman’s endless quest for an apartment of her own and th… read more

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"Now, even to me, it seemed ridiculous to concede that I had accumulated substantial debt and a few degrees so that I might contractually labor for the sake of having two free days a week in which to …"

-Jo Hamya, Three Rooms

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25. The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

By: Jude Rogers

4.13

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers sho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession by Ned Boulting

26. 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

By: Ned Boulting

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The story of an obsession. When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Sticky Bottle: The Cycling Year According to Carlton Kirby by Carlton Kirby

27. Sticky Bottle: The Cycling Year According to Carlton Kirby

By: Carlton Kirby

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'Entertaining, quirky and an enjoyable read' – Phil Liggett MBE 'A genuine one-off with a ready wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Retirement Rebel: One woman, one motorhome, one great big adventure by Siobhan Daniels

28. Retirement Rebel: One woman, one motorhome, one great big adventure

By: Siobhan Daniels

3.72

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

Approaching retirement and frustrated with her job, Siobhan Daniels made a BIG to start living lif… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Riding Out: A Journey of Love, Loss and New Beginnings by Simon Parker

29. Riding Out: A Journey of Love, Loss and New Beginnings

By: Simon Parker

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable and inspirational true story of how one man battled grief and anxiety, one pedal str… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Life Done Differently: One Woman's Journey on the Road Less Travelled by Lisa    Jansen

30. Life Done Differently: One Woman's Journey on the Road Less Travelled

By: Lisa Jansen

4.06

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

What do you do when everyone around you is embracing parenthood or focused on their careers, and yo… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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31. Our Evenings

By: Alan Hollinghurst

4.28

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions mode… read more

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Transform Your Habits

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Anna McNuff

3.69

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Chris Broad

4.18

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Raynor Winn

4.33

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Christian Lewis

4.40

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Sebastian Barry

3.85

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Jennie Godfrey

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