A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece
By: Peter Fiennes
3.29
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
What do the Greek myths mean to us today? It’s now a golden age for these tales – they crop up in n…
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1. The Naked and the Dead
By: Norman Mailer
3.95
Format: 721 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead rece… read more
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"Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get."-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
"Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken."-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
"It was probably a damn sight easier than getting rid of a woman who had found something in him that he didn't have or he didn't care to give."-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
"No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because he is having problems of adjustment. It is because he is a Tex…"-Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
2. Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
By: Daniel Klein
4.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypustravels to Greece with a suitcase full of phi… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- greece
3. Archangel
By: Robert Harris
4.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fluke Kelso was once a scholar of promise, but like so many in the highly competitive world of acad… read more
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4. A Woman in the Polar Night
By: Christiane Ritter
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
For most of us, the Arctic conjures up images of freezing and forsaken solitude. Hence, Austrian pa… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
5. The Colossus of Maroussi
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Colossus of Maroussi is an impressionist travelogue by Henry Miller, written in 1939 and first … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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6. The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
By: Natalie Haynes
4.00
Format: 10 pages, Hardcover
This revelatory book explores modern society while journeying back to the Greeks and Romans -- "wil… read more
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- greek mythology
- history
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- mythology
7. The Plantagenet Chronicles 1154-1485: Richard the Lionheart, Richard II, Henry V, Richard III
By: Derek Wilson
4.10
Format: None pages,
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- nonfiction
- history
8. Hawksmoor
By: Peter Ackroyd
3.94
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer,… read more
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9. Cold People
By: Tom Rob Smith
3.52
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for… read more
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10. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
By: Mick Herron
4.13
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more
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"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
11. A Bookshop In Algiers
By: Kaouther Adimi
3.70
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
'If you're in a bookshop browsing, then A Bookshop In Algiers is for you, by definition. A beautifu… read more
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12. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)
By: M.R. Carey
4.17
Format: 499 pages, Paperback
From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more
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13. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
By: Geraldine DeRuiter
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
14. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
By: Edward Chisholm
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
15. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
By: Bianca Bosker
4.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more
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- history
- memoir
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
16. We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
By: Alice Waters
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"In the United States alone, about 30 to 40 percent of our entire food supply is wasted every year, according to estimates from the USDA. I find that particularly sad."-Alice Waters, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
"When all we care about is cheapness, we don't ask how long things will last or how well they are made--and in truth, we don't particularly care. Because when a product is cheap, it becomes disposable…"-Alice Waters, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
17. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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- history
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- mythology
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
18. Metronome
By: Tom Watson
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An eerie, striking debut by an award-winning author for fans of Emma Stonex, Francine Toon and Mega… read more
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19. One More Croissant for the Road
By: Felicity Cloake
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The nation’s ‘taster in chief’ cycles 2,300 km across France in search of the definitive versions o… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"God gave us the boulangerie for a reason and that reason is breakfast."-Felicity Cloake, One More Croissant for the Road
20. La Vie: A Year In Rural France
By: John Lewis-Stempel
3.98
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
The roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun.… read more
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- memoir
21. The Warlock Effect
By: Jeremy Dyson
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The Warlock Effect is a highly entertaining, fiendishly clever thriller. Set in 1950s Soho, where t… read more
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22. Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
By: Sara Wheeler
3.62
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
With the writers of the golden age as her guides--Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among othe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"Their lives were and are consumed with the generally dreadful business of being Russian."-Sara Wheeler, Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
"Russian's claim the banya as their first doctor, vodka being the second and raw garlic the third."-Sara Wheeler, Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
"According to a much quoted Russian saying 'the country has two eternal problems, roads and idiots'."-Sara Wheeler, Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
"Turgenev complained in a letter that Spring in Europe lacked the explosiveness of that season in Russia."-Sara Wheeler, Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
23. All the Violet Tiaras: Queering the Greek Myths
By: Jean Menzies
3.94
Format: 88 pages, None
For a period in time that gave us Sappho, and the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the Ancien… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- mythology
24. A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece
By: Peter Fiennes
3.29
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
What do the Greek myths mean to us today? It’s now a golden age for these tales – they crop up in n… read more
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- mythology
- greece
25. Pearce Oysters
By: Joselyn Takacs
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A family drama set along the Louisiana coastline during the 2010 BP Oil Spill, Pearce Oysters follo… read more
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26. Notes from an Island
By: Tove Jansson
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced … read more
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27. Ordinary Time
By: Cathy Rentzenbrink
4.18
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
'There are already three of us in this marriage. I'm not sure there is room for a fourth . . .'Ann … read more
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28. Emma Dreams of Stars: Inside the Gourmet Guide
By: Julia Pavlowitch
3.85
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF A FORMER MICHELIN GUIDE INSPECTOR Get a rare glimpse into the inner w… read more
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- memoir
29. English Magic
By: Uschi Gatward
3.54
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
English Magic moves through fields and parklands, urban estates and empty beaches, upmarket art gal… read more
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30. Auguries of a Minor God
By: Nidhi Zakaria Eipe
3.53
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
Nidhi ZakAria Eipe's spellbinding debut poetry collection explores love and the wounds it makes. … read more
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31. Big Fan
By: Alexandra Romanoff
4.09
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A political strategist, tainted by a scandalous ex, finds an unexpected career detour when her teen… read more
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