Beryl: In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete, Beryl Burton
By: Jeremy Wilson
4.43
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022. Winner of The Times Sports Books of …
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1. I Am Pilgrim (Pilgrim, #1)
By: Terry Hayes
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run… read more
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2. The Cutting Room
By: Louise Welsh
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Rilke, a dissolute and promiscuous auctioneer, comes across a collection of highly disturbing … read more
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3. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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- nonfiction
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
4. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
5. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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- nonfiction
"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
6. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
7. Water
By: John Boyne
4.33
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more
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8. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
By: Oliver Bullough
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more
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9. Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life
By: Miriam Margolyes
4.08
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farc… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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
- biography
11. Mayflies
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more
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"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
12. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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- biography
14. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape
By: Henry Dimbleby
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more
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15. 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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- biography
16. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
17. Mania
By: Lionel Shriver
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more
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18. Sea State: A Memoir
By: Tabitha Lasley
3.22
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire confli… read more
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19. 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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- cycling
20. All About Evie
By: Matson Taylor
4.08
Format: 320 pages, ebook
EVIE EPWORTH IS TEN YEARS OLDER. BUT IS SHE ANY WISER?! 1972. Ten years on from the events of The M… read more
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21. Beryl: In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete, Beryl Burton
By: Jeremy Wilson
4.43
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022. Winner of The Times Sports Books of … read more
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- biography
- cycling
