5 best-selling memoir books like Time Song: Searching for Doggerland by Julia Blackburn

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Time Song: Searching for Doggerland

By: Julia Blackburn

3.84

Format: None pages, ebook

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A journey told through stories …

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Cover of Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope, #6) by Ann Cleeves

1. Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope, #6)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Harbour Street is the sixth book in Ann Cleeves' crime novel series VERA - which is a major TV dete… read more

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  • british literature
"He was never very good at talking about feelings. He'd been on his own for so long that it was as if he'd had to learn a new language"

-Ann Cleeves, Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope, #6)

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2. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By: Caroline Fraser

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Lit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. Love and Summer

By: William Trevor

3.87

Format: 260 pages,

In his characteristically masterly way, Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations of the people o… read more

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4. The World's Wife

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more

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  • poetry
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5. Walk the Blue Fields: Stories

By: Claire Keegan

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

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6. Cold Comfort Farm

By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more

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7. The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

By: Eric Weiner

3.37

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent reporting from such discontented locales as Iraq, … read more

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8. H is for Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more

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9. Antarctica

By: Claire Keegan

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more

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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

10. A Dangerous Place (Maisie Dobbs, #11)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.23

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Maisie Dobbs returns in a powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy: a brutal murde… read more

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11. The Grave Tattoo

By: Val McDermid

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Val McDermid comes a modern thriller about an ancient murder set on the hig… read more

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12. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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  • british literature
Cover of Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley

13. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

By: Lucy Worsley

4.20

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
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14. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • science
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15. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

Cover of River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road by Cat Jarman

16. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

By: Cat Jarman

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • archaeology
  • science
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17. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
  • science
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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18. Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

By: Andrea Wulf

4.18

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarka… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages by Matthew       Green

19. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages

By: Matthew Green

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
  • nature
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20. The Night Ship

By: Jess Kidd

3.66

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars tha… read more

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21. Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life

By: Michael Mosley

4.03

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

Based on the popular BBC podcast, Just One Thing, this book brings to life Dr Mosley's mission to u… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane

22. The Sun Walks Down

By: Fiona McFarlane

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-ye… read more

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Cover of Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot

23. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

By: George Monbiot

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"Charity is what happens when government fails."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

Cover of Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs

24. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • british literature
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25. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

By: Katherine Rundell

4.42

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
  • science
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

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26. Motherwell: A Girlhood

By: Deborah Orr

3.85

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Just shy of 18, Deborah Orr left Motherwell - the town she both loved and hated - to go to universi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Is memoir therapy? Or is it vengeance?"

-Deborah Orr, Motherwell: A Girlhood

"When the letters came, offering me places at university, that was when it all blew up - for ever."

-Deborah Orr, Motherwell: A Girlhood

"Narcissism is not self-love. It's the opposite of that. It's a nagging horror that you are, deep down, unloveable. A narcissist needs the love, attention and admiration of others to survive because h…"

-Deborah Orr, Motherwell: A Girlhood

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27. All Among the Barley

By: Melissa Harrison

3.83

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Costa-shortlisted and Baileys-longlisted At Hawthorn Time comes a major new nove… read more

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  • nature
  • british literature
Cover of Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee

28. Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

By: Jessica J. Lee

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human wor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • science
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29. Hot Water

By: Christopher Fowler

3.49

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

At a beautiful villa in the south of France, Hannah Carreras works as a maid. Under strict instruct… read more

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Cover of Time Song: Searching for Doggerland by Julia Blackburn

30. Time Song: Searching for Doggerland

By: Julia Blackburn

3.84

Format: None pages, ebook

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A journey told through stories … read more

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  • science
  • history
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
  • nature
  • anthropology

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