6 must-read memoir books like Like Farmer, Like Son by Adam Henson

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Like Farmer, Like Son

By: Adam Henson

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

‘People say “Like father, like son”, and the story of my life has mirrored my father’s to a quite u…

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1. Testament of Youth

By: Vera Brittain , Mark Bostridge

4.10

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain's elegiac yet unspa… read more

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  • memoir
" The Lament of the Demobilised “Four Years,"

-Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

"I look wildly for facts and I can only find arguments."

-Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

"Als je eenmaal van de bergtop omlaag hebt gekeken, is het moeilijk om tevreden in de vallei te blijven..."

-Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

"I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time."

-Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

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2. Dead Man's Grip (Roy Grace, #7)

By: Peter James

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Carly Chase is still traumatized ten days after being in a fatal traffic accident that kills a teen… read more

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  • audiobook
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3. Hold Tight

By: Harlan Coben

3.85

Format: None pages,

Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their … read more

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4. The Penguin Lessons

By: Tom Michell

3.51

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

"I was hoping against hope that the penguin would survive because as of that instant he had a name,… read more

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5. The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

By: Slavomir Rawicz

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia th… read more

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6. About Grace

By: Anthony Doerr

3.63

Format: 56 pages,

Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr. Gr… read more

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7. Anatomy of a Scandal: A Novel

By: Sarah Vaughan

3.91

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

An astonishingly incisive and suspenseful novel about a scandal amongst Britain's privileged elite … read more

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8. Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII h… read more

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9. A Night to Remember

By: Walter Lord , Nathaniel Philbrick

3.67

Format: 208 pages,

The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition w… read more

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10. 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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  • audiobook
"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

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11. Still Life

By: Sarah Winman

4.17

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English so… read more

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  • audiobook
"But when have women not sacrificed to live as they feel?"

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"We were an unconventional family. Scandal was a rite of passage."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"No single act of generosity remains in isolation. The ripples are many."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"He needed to know everyone was safe because without them he was nothing."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

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12. The Dog of the North

By: Elizabeth Mckenzie

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award-longlisted author of The Portable Veblen Penny Rush has problems. H… read more

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  • audiobook
"How could she know? We discover things about our spouses no one else ever will. Marriage is one long striptease of the soul."

-Elizabeth Mckenzie, The Dog of the North

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13. The Beloved Girls

By: Harriet Evans

3.65

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

"It's a funny old house. They have this ceremony every summer . . . There's an old chapel, in the g… read more

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14. The Trial

By: Rob Rinder

4.24

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable murder mystery by Britain's best-loved criminal barrister Rob Rinder. ONE MURDE… read more

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  • audiobook
"Luckily,Mum,there aren't any nice young ladies in my life so that's not really a problem."

-Rob Rinder, The Trial

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15. Mrs England

By: Stacey Halls

3.91

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more

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  • audiobook
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

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16. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

By: Richard Osman

4.49

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been … read more

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  • audiobook
"His authentic indifference seems to delight them."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I love you,' he says. Because what else is there to say?"

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

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17. The Wrong Sister

By: Claire Douglas

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Tasha has always felt in the shadow of her older sister, Alice. Their lifestyles couldn't be more d… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. 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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  • audiobook
"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

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19. 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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  • audiobook
"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

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20. Old Baggage

By: Lissa Evans

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What do you do next, after you’ve changed the world? It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting throug… read more

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  • audiobook
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21. V for Victory

By: Lissa Evans

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this witty, charming follow-up to the acclaimed Crooked Heart, the life of lies a small time sca… read more

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  • audiobook
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22. The Foundling

By: Stacey Halls

3.99

Format: 400 pages, ebook

London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hosp… read more

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  • audiobook
"Waarom moesten we de kaarten die ons waren toebedeeld, klakkeloos accepteren?"

-Stacey Halls, The Foundling

"Mijn wereld was gekrompen tot de grootte van een walnoot. En toen was Daniel naar een van tante Cassandra's feestjes gekomen en had hij de noot gekraakt."

-Stacey Halls, The Foundling

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23. My Name Is Why

By: Lemn Sissay

4.29

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an adopted family followed by six years in care homes… read more

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  • memoir
  • audiobook
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24. Just Like You

By: Nick Hornby

3.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the… read more

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  • audiobook
"Als je hem voor de Nacht Zonder Jazz zou hebben gevraagd waar hij gelukkig van werd, dan zou hij niet goed hebben begrepen hoe relevant die vraag was. Nu wist hij het antwoord: naar bed gaan met Lucy…"

-Nick Hornby, Just Like You

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25. The Sentence

By: Christina Dalcher

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A law intended to end capital punishment. Prosecutors who seek the death penalty put their lives… read more

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  • audiobook
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26. A Year of Living Simply: The joys of a life less complicated

By: Kate Humble

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

If there is one thing that most of us aspire to, it is, simply, to be happy. And yet attaining hap… read more

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  • memoir
  • audiobook
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27. All Creatures: Heartwarming Tales from a Yorkshire Vet

By: Julian Norton

4.59

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

'A delightful read' RADIO TIMES'Heartwarming tales' DAILY MAILA celebration of the different creatu… read more

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28. Celebrating the Seasons with the Yorkshire Shepherdess: Farming, Family and Delicious Recipes to Share

By: Amanda Owen

4.26

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

A stunning book from Amanda Owen – shepherdess, wife, mother of nine children, bestselling author a… read more

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  • memoir
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29. A Year on our Farm. How the Countryside Made Me

By: Matt Baker

4.24

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

Matt Baker is at his happiest on the farm. Away from the bright lights of hosting our favourite … read more

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  • audiobook
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30. Island Song

By: Madeleine Bunting

4.19

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

It is 1940. Guernsey has been bombed, and is now occupied, by the Germans. A year earlier, young, n… read more

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31. Like Farmer, Like Son

By: Adam Henson

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

‘People say “Like father, like son”, and the story of my life has mirrored my father’s to a quite u… read more

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Peter James

3.77

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David Mitchell

4.16

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Still Life

Sarah Winman

4.17

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3.61

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Linwood Barclay

3.95

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James Hadley Chase

4.48

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3.85

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