7 Best history books like Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story by Peter Marshall

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Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story

By: Peter Marshall

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Halloween 1636: sightings of the ghost of an old woman begin to be reported in the small English co…

If you liked the history plot in Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story by Peter Marshall , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Fraud by Zadie Smith

1. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's The Fraud book and Peter Marshall's Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story

"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

Cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

Similar categories in David Grann's The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder book and Peter Marshall's Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages by Matthew       Green

3. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages

By: Matthew Green

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Green's Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages book and Peter Marshall's Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Vanishing Triangle by Claire McGowan

4. The Vanishing Triangle

By: Claire McGowan

3.42

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of What You Did comes a true-crime investigation that cast a dark shado… read more

Similar categories in Claire McGowan's The Vanishing Triangle book and Peter Marshall's Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story

  • history
  • nonfiction
"Indifference can be fatal. Until we treat every case, every unsolved murder and every suspicious disappearance as equally important, we can’t hope to build up a true picture of what killers are doing…"

-Claire McGowan, The Vanishing Triangle

Cover of The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands by Jon Billman

5. The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands

By: Jon Billman

3.69

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

The critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman's fascinating, in-depth look at people w… read more

Similar categories in Jon Billman's The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands book and Peter Marshall's Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People by Stuart Maconie

6. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People

By: Stuart Maconie

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Maconie's The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People book and Peter Marshall's Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 by Jonathan Healey

7. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689

By: Jonathan Healey

4.20

Format: 492 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Healey's The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 book and Peter Marshall's Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story by Peter        Marshall

8. Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story

By: Peter Marshall

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Halloween 1636: sightings of the ghost of an old woman begin to be reported in the small English co… read more

Similar categories in Peter Marshall's Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story book and Peter Marshall's Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • paranormal

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David Grann

4.19

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Matthew Green

3.83

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Claire McGowan

3.42

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Jon Billman

3.69

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Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter

Ian Mortimer

4.00

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The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

Anna Keay

4.39

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Cal Flyn

4.20

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Cuddy

Benjamin Myers

4.33

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