An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of Caring, Ageing and Everyday Acts of Love
By: Kate Mosse
4.18
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
As our population ages, more and more of us find ourselves caring for parents and loved ones - some…
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1. A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations
By: Juliet Nicolson
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable wome… read more
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2. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
3. Mad Girl
By: Bryony Gordon
2.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Bryony Gordon has OCD. It's the snake in her brain that has told her ever since she was a teenager … read more
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4. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
By: Nina Stibbe
3.66
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
5. The Household
By: Stacey Halls
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more
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6. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
7. 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
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8. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- feminism
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
9. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
10. The Mercy Chair (Washington Poe #6)
By: M.W. Craven
4.63
Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin . . . Washington Poe has a story to tell. And he… read more
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11. The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss
By: Richard Coles
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Whether it is pastoral care for the bereaved, discussions about the afterlife with parishioners or … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
12. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
By: Joanna Cannon
3.65
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more
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"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
13. A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’
By: Otto Rosenberg
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
14. The Phoenix Ballroom
By: Ruth Hogan
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things: a heartfelt and inspiring … read more
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15. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
By: Alice Vincent
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
16. Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it
By: Michael Rosen
4.00
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
17. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- feminism
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
18. But the Girl
By: Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
3.74
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your f… read more
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19. Would I Lie to You?
By: Aliya Ali-Afzal
3.67
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
When money and lies come between Faiza and her husband, Faiza will do anything to fix it, even if i… read more
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20. An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of Caring, Ageing and Everyday Acts of Love
By: Kate Mosse
4.18
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
As our population ages, more and more of us find ourselves caring for parents and loved ones - some… read more
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- health
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
21. After the Storm: Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood
By: Emma Jane Unsworth
4.41
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
'Brave and important ... beautiful, hilarious, clever ... I loved this book' Clover Stroud 'Funny,… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
