The Crossway
By: Guy Stagg
3.71
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' in 2018. In 2013 Guy Stagg made a pilgrimage from Canterbury to…
Want to Read"Pilgrimage had shown me what was radical about the wandering life, as on the road all tokens of status were left behind."-Guy Stagg, The Crossway
"Pilgrimage had shown me what was radical about the wandering life, as on the road all tokens of status were left behind."-Guy Stagg, The Crossway
"The pilgrimage provided a sense of purpose. As well as the long march towards Jerusalem, it also knitted my life into the landscape. The months were replaced by the shifting seasons, while he weeks were measured out in rounds of worship. Staying in monasteries and convents, presbyteries and churches calmed what was restless within me, and during the regular services I noticed how the minutes slowed and the silence assembled, until the days were worth more than they had been before."-Guy Stagg, The Crossway
"The pilgrimage provided a sense of purpose. As well as the long march towards Jerusalem, it also knitted my life into the landscape. The months were replaced by the shifting seasons, while he weeks were measured out in rounds of worship. Staying in monasteries and convents, presbyteries and churches calmed what was restless within me, and during the regular services I noticed how the minutes slowed and the silence assembled, until the days were worth more than they had been before."-Guy Stagg, The Crossway
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1. Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
By: Dominic Sandbrook
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandb… read more
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- nonfiction
- british literature
2. The Places in Between
By: Rory Stewart
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more
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- travel
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3. 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
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- british literature
4. Geisha, a Life
By: Mineko Iwasaki , Rande Brown
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
"No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell… read more
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5. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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6. 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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- british literature
"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
7. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more
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"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
8. 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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"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
9. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
10. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
11. Kick the Latch
By: Kathryn Scanlan
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more
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12. Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #2)
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.07
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic hu… read more
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"The place is of no concern to them. They've left it to fester. An informational dead zone. The abstraction doesn't penetrate here, by design. The dome rebuffs it. The family craved their privacy, the…"-Alastair Reynolds, Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #2)
13. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
By: Sam Knight
3.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more
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14. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
15. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
16. 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
17. The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more
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"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
18. Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Emotions Are Made , a captivating collection of short essays about your bra… read more
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"The triune brain idea is one of the most successful and widespread errors in all of science."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"Sometimes we're responsible for things not because they're our fault, but because we're the only ones who can change them."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"The best thing for your nervous system is another human. The worst thing for your nervous system is also another human. This situation leads us to a fundamental dilemma of the human condition."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
19. The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness
By: Ken Smith
4.23
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The … read more
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20. The Crossway
By: Guy Stagg
3.71
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' in 2018. In 2013 Guy Stagg made a pilgrimage from Canterbury to… read more
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- memoir
- british literature
- travel
- autobiography
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
"Pilgrimage had shown me what was radical about the wandering life, as on the road all tokens of status were left behind."-Guy Stagg, The Crossway
"The pilgrimage provided a sense of purpose. As well as the long march towards Jerusalem, it also knitted my life into the landscape. The months were replaced by the shifting seasons, while he weeks w…"-Guy Stagg, The Crossway
"At the start of the journey, I thought I was walking into the wreckage of Christianity. My impression now was of how much remained, holding tight to its decayed inheritance. Despite the decline of re…"-Guy Stagg, The Crossway
