Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away
By: Lisa Woollett
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged-out re…
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1. The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales
By: Kate Mosse
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
A wonderfully atmospheric collection of stories from one of our most captivating writers, inspired … read more
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2. Fairytale of New York
By: Miranda Dickinson
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
Are happy-ever-afters made in Manhattan? Find out in this gorgeous debut, perfect for cold winter n… read more
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3. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
4. 24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History)
By: Donald P. Ryan
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Ancient Egypt wasn’t all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life wa… read more
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5. Every Move You Make
By: C.L. Taylor
3.90
Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer… Alexandra, Lucy, Bridget, River and Natalie. Fi… read more
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6. Mayflies
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more
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"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
7. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
By: Greta Thunberg
3.86
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice … read more
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"The real power belongs to the people."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"Those of us who are still children can’t change what you do now once we’re old enough to do something about it."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
8. Winchelsea
By: Alex Preston
3.29
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
The year is 1742. Goody Brown, saved from drowning and adopted when just a babe, has grown up happi… read more
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9. Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing: Life, Death and the Thrill of the Catch
By: Bob Mortimer
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
TWO COMEDY GREATS TALK LIFE, FRIENDSHIP AND THE JOYS OF FISHING... Bob Mortimer and Paul Whiteho… read more
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10. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
11. The Electricity of Every Living Thing
By: Katherine May
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A life-affirming and perspective-shifting memoir of one woman's walk in the wilds as she comes to t… read more
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"Perhaps he has just never been at the wrong end of a dead-eyed bombardment of boy-band facts from a particularly obsessed teenage girl."-Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing
12. The Last Goodbye (David Raker, #12)
By: Tim Weaver
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
TWO DISAPPEARANCESAt the country's newest theme park, Tom Preacher and his son Leo are queuing for … read more
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13. The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
By: Eleanor Herman
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roilin… read more
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14. Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
By: Lara Maiklem
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert “mudlarker” Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in th… read more
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"The Thames is England's longest archaeological landscape and thousands of the objects that fill our museums have come from its foreshore. (p.47)"-Lara Maiklem, Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
15. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
By: Elinor Cleghorn
4.11
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more
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"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
16. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
By: George Monbiot
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more
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"Charity is what happens when government fails."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
17. The Sentence
By: Christina Dalcher
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
A law intended to end capital punishment. Prosecutors who seek the death penalty put their lives… read more
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18. The Space Between Us
By: Doug Johnstone
3.86
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
When several people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake complete… read more
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19. 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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"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
20. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
By: Katherine Rundell
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more
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"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
21. This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A Journey into the Heartland of Psychiatry
By: Nathan Filer
4.29
Format: None pages, ebook
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health, originally published as The Heartland: Finding… read more
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22. 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
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23. Thames Mudlarking: Searching for London's Lost Treasures
By: Jason Sandy
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Often seen combing the shoreline of the River Thames at low tide, groups of archaeology enthusiasts… read more
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24. Estuary: Out from London, to the sea
By: Rachel Lichtenstein
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Thames Estuary is one of the world's great deltas, providing passage in and out of London for m… read more
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25. The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari
By: Simon Barnes
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Rewild Yourself comes a brilliant new book that reveals the natural jo… read more
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26. Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away
By: Lisa Woollett
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged-out re… read more
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27. All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us
By: Kieran Yates
4.26
Format: None pages, Audiobook
‘I tore through the pages. A book I’ll read over and over again’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of… read more
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