11 best-selling nonfiction books like Food of the Cods: How Fish and Chips Made Britain by Daniel Gray

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Food of the Cods: How Fish and Chips Made Britain

By: Daniel Gray

3.63

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for Debut Food Book of the Year at the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards 2024Guil…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Food of the Cods: How Fish and Chips Made Britain by Daniel Gray , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain

By: John Grindrod

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

TOWER BLOCKS. FLYOVERS. STREETS IN THE SKY. ONCE, THIS WAS THE FUTURE. Was Britain's postwar rebuil… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell

2. The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

By: Helen Russell

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Denmark is officially the happiest nation on Earth. When Helen Russell is forced to move to rural J… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong

By: Paul A. Offit

3.21

Format: 192 pages,

What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more

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4. A Curious History of Sex

By: Kate Lister

4.17

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throug… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Vulvas aren’t dainty. They can eat a penis and push out a baby."

-Kate Lister, A Curious History of Sex

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5. 1979

By: Val McDermid

3.78

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

Hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime, Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novel… read more

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6. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

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7. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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8. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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9. Breadsong: How Baking Changed Our Lives

By: Kitty Tait

4.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A cookbook full of heart that explores the redemptive power of baking. Kitty Tait grew up a funny, … read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
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10. 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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  • nonfiction
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11. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

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12. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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  • nonfiction
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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13. A Spy Alone

By: Charles Beaumont

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is first class' The Times 'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘A marvellously con… read more

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14. The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies su… read more

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15. A Stroke of the Pen

By: Terry Pratchett

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more

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"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."

-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen

Cover of Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4) by Ambrose Parry

16. Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4)

By: Ambrose Parry

4.28

Format: 416 pages, ebook

1854 marks the dawn of a scientific age. Queen Victoria delivers a healthy heir after receiving chl… read more

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17. Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

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  • nonfiction
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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19. T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen

By: Peter Kay

4.23

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure*Blockbusters, Baywatch … Mastermind, Moonl… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde

20. The Constant Rabbit

By: Jasper Fforde

4.07

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Peter Knox lives quietly in one of those small country villages that's up for the Village Garden of… read more

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"She was named Jocaminca fforkes, with two small 'f's - as if having two 'f's wasn't pretentious enough"

-Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit

"Rabbits never drove fast. They like to enjoy the view, didn't much care for speed and besides, it was wasteful of fuel. If you want to get somewhere a long way away, just leave early. Days, if that's…"

-Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit

Cover of The Opposite of Lonely (Skelfs #5) by Doug Johnstone

21. The Opposite of Lonely (Skelfs #5)

By: Doug Johnstone

4.14

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Even death needs company… The Skelf women are recovering from the cataclysmic events that nearly… read more

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22. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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23. Through the Snow Globe

By: Annie Rains

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

It’s a Wonderful Life meets Groundhog Day, as a woman dangerously close to losing it all receives a… read more

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24. The Spendthrift and the Swallow (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #3.5)

By: Ambrose Parry

3.78

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

Edinburgh, 1853. In a city where reputation is everything, it doesn’t take much to destroy a man. … read more

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25. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

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"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

Cover of We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1) by Richard Osman

26. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)

By: Richard Osman

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more

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Cover of Food of the Cods: How Fish and Chips Made Britain by Daniel Gray

27. Food of the Cods: How Fish and Chips Made Britain

By: Daniel Gray

3.63

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for Debut Food Book of the Year at the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards 2024Guil… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
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28. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

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29. Inside the Hermit Kingdom: Football Stories from Stalinist Albania

By: Phil Harrison

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Inside the Hermit Kingdom charts the history of Albanian football from 1945 to 1991, when the count… read more

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20 Best fiction books like 1979 by Val McDermid

Transform Your Habits

Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

Peter Robinson

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2)

Ann Cleeves

4.05

Transform Your Habits

1979

Val McDermid

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Dead of Winter

Stuart MacBride

3.81

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