Boy in the Water
By: Tom Gregory
4.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The poignant, life-affirming story of a determined boy, a visionary coach, and how the dream of a r…
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1. The Girl of Ink and Stars
By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
3.68
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017, and the British Book Awards' Children's Book… read more
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"India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in."-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars
2. The Great Swim
By: Gavin Mortimer
3.91
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic story of the four courageous female swimmers who captivated the world in the summer of… read more
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3. 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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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
4. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets
By: Dawn French
3.87
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Why We Kneel, How We Rise
By: Michael Holding
4.47
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Through the prism of sport and conversations with its legends, including Usain Bolt, Adam Goodes, T… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- sports
- biography
6. The Art of Resilience
By: Ross Edgley
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author and award-winning adventurer Ross Edgley has been studying the art of resilience… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- sports
- audiobook
"Esteem needs. Maslow classified these into two categories: Esteem for oneself (dignity, achievement, mastery, independence). The desire for reputation or respect from others (e.g., status, prestige).…"-Ross Edgley, The Art of Resilience
7. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
8. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
9. We Tell No One
By: Daniel Hurst
3.94
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
It was supposed to be a fun weekend away. But it all went wrong… When three women head to Portug… read more
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- audiobook
10. Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
By: Louisa Lim
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths: to Britain, a ‘barren rock’ with … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
11. Skandar and the Chaos Trials (Skandar, #3)
By: A.F. Steadman
4.55
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
The Island always wins… Skandar and his sister Kenna are finally both at the Eyrie, but tensions… read more
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- audiobook
12. Shackleton: A Biography
By: Ranulph Fiennes
4.32
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Discover the story Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition through the words of the worl… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
13. Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin
By: Katja Oskamp
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Katja Oskamp ist Mitte vierzig, als ihr das Leben fad wird. Das Kind ist aus dem Haus, der Mann ist… read more
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- audiobook
"One of the women was a blonde from Eastern Europe who wore sweaters interwoven with gold. She had the loveliest uniform out of all of us, a tunic with a cinched waist and diagonally arranged buttons.…"-Katja Oskamp, Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin
14. Utopia Avenue
By: David Mitchell
4.00
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone C… read more
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- audiobook
"I is an Empire of I's."-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue
"Self-pity can lift one's mood."-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue
"America loves exclamation marks."-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue
"Crows tumble like socks in a drier."-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue
15. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
16. Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World
By: Glenn Stout
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, and inspi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- sports
- audiobook
17. The Amusements
By: Aingeala Flannery
3.52
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season,… read more
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- audiobook
18. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
By: Joseph Cox
4.12
Format: None pages, None
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Boy in the Water
By: Tom Gregory
4.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The poignant, life-affirming story of a determined boy, a visionary coach, and how the dream of a r… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- school
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- sports
- audiobook
20. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more
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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
21. The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Russia’s Secret Doping Empire
By: Grigory Rodchenkov
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The full story behind Oscar award-winning Icarus One of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who sha… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- sports
- audiobook
