House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
By: Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
4.06
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD 2022 FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY STORYT…
Want to Read $ 12.99If you liked the biography plot in House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason , here is a list of 8 books like this:
1. A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—five … read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Sebastian Faulks's A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
"Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of…"-Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories
2. Diary of an Ordinary Woman
By: Margaret Forster
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentie… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Margaret Forster's Diary of an Ordinary Woman book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
3. A Half Forgotten Song
By: Katherine Webb
3.88
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
A spellbinding tale about the power of love, the danger of obsession, and the unfaithful nature of … read more
Want to Read $ 1.99Similar categories in Katherine Webb's A Half Forgotten Song book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
4. Los enamoramientos
By: Javier Marías
4.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
<> Asi comienza Los enamoramientos, la nueva novela de Javier Marias, consagrado como uno de los me… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Javier Marías's Los enamoramientos book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
5. Monkey: The Journey to the West
By: Wu Cheng'en , Arthur Waley , Hu Shih
1.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic combination of picaresq… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Wu Cheng'en's Monkey: The Journey to the West book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
6. Any Human Heart
By: William Boyd
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991,… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in William Boyd's Any Human Heart book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
7. The Good People
By: Hannah Kent
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of Burial Rites, "a literary novel with the pace and tension of a thriller [that] t… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Hannah Kent's The Good People book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
8. 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
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Claire Keegan's Antarctica book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
"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
9. Mrs Harris Goes to Paris & Mrs Harris Goes to New York
By: Paul Gallico
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London chatlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Paul Gallico's Mrs Harris Goes to Paris & Mrs Harris Goes to New York book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
10. The Excursion Train (Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck, #2)
By: Edward Marston
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in 19th century England, a bustling crowd boards the Great Western Railway Excursion train on t… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Edward Marston's The Excursion Train (Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck, #2) book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
11. Divisadero
By: Michael Ondaatje
4.04
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
From the celebrated author of The English Patientand Anil's Ghostcomes a remarkable, intimate novel… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
12. 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
Want to Read $ 4.61Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
13. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"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
14. Devotion
By: Hannah Kent
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Hannah Kent's Devotion book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."-Hannah Kent, Devotion
"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"-Hannah Kent, Devotion
15. The Romantic
By: William Boyd
4.15
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in William Boyd's The Romantic book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
16. Limberlost
By: Robbie Arnott
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Robbie Arnott's Limberlost book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
17. A Clear Blue Sky
By: Jonny Bairstow
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
As a young boy of eight, Jonny Bairstow was dealt a cruel blow. His father David ‘Bluey’ Bairstow, … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jonny Bairstow's A Clear Blue Sky book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
18. Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
By: Alba Donati
3.50
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Under the Tuscan Sun meets Diary of a Bookseller in this charming memoir by an Italian poet recount… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Alba Donati's Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"A Lucignana non abbiamo regine ma fate si, molte."-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
"How did I get the idea? Ideas don't just spring out of nothing - they smoulder, ferment, crowd our mind while we sleep. Ideas walk on their own two legs, follow their own parallel path in part of us …"-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
"Cit. p.81 "I fiori come noi pensano, intuiscono la via più semplice, evitano percorsi difficili. e lottano, hanno spiriti rivoluzionari. ... Penso alla povera erba medica che ripone dentro leggere sp…"-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
19. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Rose Tremain's Absolutely and Forever book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
20. Is Mother Dead
By: Vigdis Hjorth
3.80
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle-aged artis… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Vigdis Hjorth's Is Mother Dead book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
"Den första sång jag höra fick, var mor som grät vid vaggan"-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
"Det händer att det som inte sker är det viktigaste som händer en dag"-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
"We all carry our mothers like a hole in our souls, small or big, living or dead."-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
"A mother can never be an ordinary human being to her children, and I am one of her children."-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead
21. When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
By: Ariana Neumann
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czecho… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Ariana Neumann's When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"If you want to be truly just in this life, when you see people who are weak, you must stand with them. Because you are strong, and it is the weak who need you more, not the strong."-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
"Memories, like misfiled documents, are not always where you expect to find them...I learned that detailed questions often did little to trigger specific memories. People returned to distant facts in …"-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
"Perhaps all remembrance is a process of compilation and creation. Every day we absorb what is around us and assemble observations of a specific time: sounds, smells, textures, words, images, and feel…"-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
"…it was during a period he had so much time on his hands that he felt that time had stopped. How could time have stopped? ‘Because,’ he said, ‘and you will understand this when you are older, sometim…"-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
22. Wavewalker: Breaking Free
By: Suzanne Heywood
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Suzanne Heywood's Wavewalker: Breaking Free book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would lau…"-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free
23. A Song of Me and You
By: Mike Gayle
3.95
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
Helen and Ben parted as heartbroken 18-year-olds and went their very separate ways.Twenty years lat… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Mike Gayle's A Song of Me and You book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
24. The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club
By: Faith Hogan
4.17
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
Three women. Three different stages of life. United by one thing: the chance to start again. 'Up… read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Faith Hogan's The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
25. The Talented Mrs Greenway
By: Tea Cooper
3.93
Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition
From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of … read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Tea Cooper's The Talented Mrs Greenway book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
26. Did I Ever Tell You This?
By: Sam Neill
4.06
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more
Want to Read $ 15.39Similar categories in Sam Neill's Did I Ever Tell You This? book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
27. This Family
By: Kate Sawyer
3.83
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kate Sawyer's This Family book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
28. A Taste of Home
By: Heidi Swain
4.22
Format: 400 pages, ebook
Fliss Brown has grown up living with her mother on the Rossi family’s Italian fruit farm. But when … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Heidi Swain's A Taste of Home book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
29. brother. do. you. love. me.
By: Manni Coe
4.39
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
brother. do. you. love. me. is the story of two brothers and their extraordinary journey of resilie… read more
Want to Read $ 21.55Similar categories in Manni Coe's brother. do. you. love. me. book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
30. Vaxxers
By: Sarah Gilbert
4.36
Format: None pages, None
A gripping, inspirational account of the race to create a functioning vaccine to combat the spread … read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Sarah Gilbert's Vaxxers book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
- nonfiction
- memoir
31. House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
By: Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
4.06
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD 2022 FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY STORYT… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons book and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
- music
- biography
- memoir
- classical music
- nonfiction
