11 best-selling history books like Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape by Jeremy Harte

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Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

By: Jeremy Harte

3.92

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Now in paperback, an exploration of the myths of England’s deceptively bucolic rolling hills and co…

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Cover of The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999 by Misha Glenny

1. The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999

By: Misha Glenny

4.09

Format: 752 pages, Paperback

This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives reade… read more

Similar categories in Misha Glenny's The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999 book and Jeremy Harte's Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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2. Witchfinders

By: Malcolm Gaskill

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history

3. In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)

By: Eugene Thacker

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

"Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly c… read more

Similar categories in Eugene Thacker's In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1) book and Jeremy Harte's Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

  • nonfiction

4. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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5. Lolly Willowes

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more

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6. Dark Matter

By: Michelle Paver

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poo… read more

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7. All the Fiends of Hell

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more

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  • adult
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8. The Maiden

By: Kate Foster

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more

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  • adult
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9. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

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  • adult
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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10. Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain

By: John Miller

3.61

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Folk horror meets classic ghost stories in this new Tales of the Weird anthology Woods play a cr… read more

Similar categories in John Miller's Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain book and Jeremy Harte's Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

  • folklore
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11. Cunning Folk

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Money's tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural South West England, with an ancien… read more

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  • adult
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12. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more

Similar categories in Amy Jeffs's Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain book and Jeremy Harte's Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

  • nonfiction
  • folklore
  • history
  • mythology
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13. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World

By: Malcolm Gaskill

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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14. Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories

By: Andrew Cull

3.95

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Between April and August 2021 eighteen horror writers disappeared. Gathered together for the first … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Cull's Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories book and Jeremy Harte's Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

  • adult
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15. The Glutton

By: A.K. Blakemore

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more

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  • adult
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16. Wyrd and Other Derelictions

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.81

Format: 106 pages, ebook

Derelictions are horror stories told in ways you may not have encountered before. Something is m… read more

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17. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

By: Marion Gibson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more

Similar categories in Marion Gibson's Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials book and Jeremy Harte's Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
  • adult
"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

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18. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days

By: Helen Rebanks

3.89

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more

Similar categories in Helen Rebanks's The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days book and Jeremy Harte's Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

  • nonfiction
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19. Mischief Acts

By: Zoe Gilbert

3.78

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Herne the hunter, mischief-maker, spirit of the forest, leader of the wild hunt, hurtles through th… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Gilbert's Mischief Acts book and Jeremy Harte's Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

  • folklore
  • adult
  • mythology
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20. Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country

By: Edward Parnell

3.95

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • folklore
  • history
Cover of Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of our Ancestors by James Canton

21. Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of our Ancestors

By: James Canton

3.49

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of The Oak Papers comes a beautiful meditation on how to foster a profound and heal… read more

Similar categories in James Canton's Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of our Ancestors book and Jeremy Harte's Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Kew: The Witch's Garden: Plants in Folklore, Magic and Traditional Medicine by Sandra Lawrence

22. Kew: The Witch's Garden: Plants in Folklore, Magic and Traditional Medicine

By: Sandra Lawrence

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Wise women, apothecaries, witches, herbalists, whatever you call them, those who cultivate plants f… read more

Similar categories in Sandra Lawrence's Kew: The Witch's Garden: Plants in Folklore, Magic and Traditional Medicine book and Jeremy Harte's Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

  • nonfiction
  • folklore
  • history
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23. The Ghost Cat

By: Alex Howard

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A charming novel for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and How to Stop Time , following a cat thr… read more

Similar categories in Alex Howard's The Ghost Cat book and Jeremy Harte's Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

  • adult
Cover of Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness by Allyson Shaw

24. Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness

By: Allyson Shaw

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Ashes & Stones is a moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages an… read more

Similar categories in Allyson Shaw's Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness book and Jeremy Harte's Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

  • nonfiction
  • history
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25. Dark Folklore

By: Mark Norman

3.56

Format: 174 pages, None

How did our ancestors use the concept of demons to explain sleep paralysis? Is that carving in the … read more

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  • history
  • folklore
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • mythology
Cover of Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks by Pam Lock

26. Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks

By: Pam Lock

3.62

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

With a stiff measure of the supernatural, a dram of melodrama and a chaser of the cautionary kind, … read more

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Cover of Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape by Jeremy Harte

27. Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

By: Jeremy Harte

3.92

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Now in paperback, an exploration of the myths of England’s deceptively bucolic rolling hills and co… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Harte's Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape book and Jeremy Harte's Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

  • history
  • british literature
  • christianity
  • occult
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • folklore
  • adult
  • mythology
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28. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

By: Mick Herron

4.30

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.   In Slough House, the … read more

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  • british literature
"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

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29. War in Heaven

By: Charles Williams

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more

Similar categories in Charles Williams's War in Heaven book and Jeremy Harte's Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

  • christianity
  • religion
"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

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30. Ill Will

By: Michael Stewart

3.27

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

I am William Lee: brute; liar, and graveside thief. But you will know me by another name. Hea… read more

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Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

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The Maiden

Kate Foster

4.05

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Starve Acre

Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

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Cunning Folk

Adam L.G. Nevill

3.83

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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

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Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

Natalie Haynes

4.05

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A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

Emma Southon

4.23

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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

Lisa Kaltenegger

4.08

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