Tiny Histories: Trivial Events and Trifling Decisions that Changed British History
By: Dixe Wills
3.64
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
Tiny Histories is a fond, fun and informative look at the seemingly insignificant coincidences, dec…
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1. After the Crash
By: Michel Bussi
3.77
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in fla… read more
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2. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- british literature
3. The Book of Lost Things
By: John Connolly
3.49
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the book… read more
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4. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
By: Philip Gourevitch
3.36
Format: None pages,
In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone… read more
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5. The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles (Warlock Holmes #2)
By: G.S. Denning
3.66
Format: 256 pages,
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6. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
By: Marina Lewycka
3.93
Format: None pages,
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainianwas bestselling author Marina Lewycka's bestselling debut n… read more
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7. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
By: Tom Hanks
3.70
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-st… read more
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- historical
"Are you a clairvoyant?"-Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
8. Found in a Bookshop
By: Stephanie Butland
4.24
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
Dear Lost for Words, We are trying to stay at home . . . I am enclosing a cheque and I hope that… read more
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- british literature
9. Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.33
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Now in hardcover, the ninth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns t… read more
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"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
10. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
11. Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
3.99
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an ‘X-Ray Sierra India’ incident, the operator do… read more
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"My decision to apply to be a special agent crept up on me some time between the case of the spontaneously exploding tractor and the cows that ate Paris, Arkansas."-Ben Aaronovitch, Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)
12. Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
By: Cathy Rentzenbrink
4.20
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love. 'Reading has saved my life, ag… read more
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- nonfiction
"It is both simple and profound to consider the vastness of human experience that sits on one small shelf of books"-Cathy Rentzenbrink, Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
"Don’t allow anything to dent your reading pleasure. Don’t let anyone tell you that what you like isn’t proper, that what brings comfort and ease to your soul isn’t good enough."-Cathy Rentzenbrink, Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
"The very way that fiction works – the process of conflict and resolution at the heart of every story – means that novels are full of people encountering challenging situations and, usually, surviving…"-Cathy Rentzenbrink, Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
13. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
By: Hallie Rubenhold
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more
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- historical
- history
- nonfiction
"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
14. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
By: Adam Kay
3.91
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Interior Chinatown
By: Charles Yu
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles … read more
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"LOVE STORY FOR A GENERIC ASIAN MAN???"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"As everyone knows, water hates poor people."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
16. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
By: Hwang Bo-Reum
4.02
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, sh… read more
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"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
17. A Tidy Ending
By: Joanna Cannon
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A delightfully sinister novel about a married woman living a nice, quiet suburban life—but things a… read more
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18. The Librarian
By: Salley Vickers
3.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Clea… read more
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- historical
- british literature
19. What Abigail Did That Summer (Rivers of London, #5.3)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.24
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ghost hunter, fox whisperer, troublemaker. It is the summer of 2013 and Abigail Kamara has been … read more
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20. This Much is True
By: Miriam Margolyes
4.09
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more
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- nonfiction
"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
21. Half a World Away
By: Mike Gayle
4.13
Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition
Strangers living worlds apart. Strangers with nothing in common. But it wasn’t always that way…… read more
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22. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
By: Michiko Aoyama
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel show… read more
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23. The Dinner Guest
By: B.P. Walter
3.63
Format: 400 pages, ebook
Four people walked into the dining room that night. One would never leave. Matthew: the perfect … read more
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24. 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
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- history
- nonfiction
25. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
By: Devon Price
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more
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- nonfiction
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
26. Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her
By: Daisy May Cooper
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Life hasn't always been straightforward for Daisy May Cooper: growing up in rural poverty in Glouce… read more
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- nonfiction
- british literature
27. Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
By: Greg Jenner
3.80
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamo… read more
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- historical
- history
- nonfiction
28. Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
By: Kate Harris
3.88
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
"Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps y… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"I’m not sure where I go when I spin wheels for hours on end like that, except into the rapture of doing nothing deeply—although ‘nothing,’ in this case, involves a tantrum of pedal strokes on a burde…"-Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
29. What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary
By: Juno Dawson
4.34
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Discover what it means to be a young transgender and/or non-binary person in the twenty-first centu… read more
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- nonfiction
"That's the thing with kids, isn't it? You're never quite sure what you're going to get. If you don't want an LGBTQ+ child, use a condom!"-Juno Dawson, What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary
"Imagine feeling like—on top of being a quirk of nature—you also have to battle your parents. Well, that just makes a tough situation tougher."-Juno Dawson, What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary
30. Money: A Users Guide
By: Laura Whateley
4.14
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
'I was reaping social and valuable financial advice before I'd even finished the first chapter.her… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Tiny Histories: Trivial Events and Trifling Decisions that Changed British History
By: Dixe Wills
3.64
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
Tiny Histories is a fond, fun and informative look at the seemingly insignificant coincidences, dec… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- british literature
