Now Then: A Biography of Yorkshire
By: Rick Broadbent
4.11
Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition
'An enlightening, enjoyable and frequently very funny journey into what makes Yorkshire stand out f…
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1. Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.20
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zo… read more
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"But . . ."-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
"Fuck me,' I said out loud, 'I'm in fairyland."-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
"The night may be dark and full of terrors, I thought, but I've got a big stick."-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
"There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along."-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
2. The Furthest Station (Rivers of London, #5.5)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.10
Format: 144 pages, ebook
There have been ghosts on the London Underground, sad, harmless spectres whose presence does little… read more
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"I didn't ask why anybody would want to risk the electric two-step on the tracks because, as police, all three of us knew that there wasn't anything so stupid that somebody wouldn't try it sooner or l…"-Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station (Rivers of London, #5.5)
3. Trustee from the Toolroom
By: Nevil Shute
4.30
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
When his sister’s boat is wrecked in the Pacific, Keith Steward becomes the trustee for his little … read more
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- travel
- british literature
4. All the Beautiful Lies
By: Peter Swanson
3.62
Format: 10 pages, Audiobook
From the acclaimed author of Her Every Fear and The Kind Worth Killing comes a diabolically clever … read more
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5. Hide and Seek (Helen Grace, #6)
By: M.J. Arlidge
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Prison is no place for a detective Helen Grace was one of the country's best police investigators.… read more
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- british literature
6. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
7. Jamaica Inn
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.89
Format: 320 pages, ebook
The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more
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- british literature
"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
8. Not Dead Enough (Roy Grace, #3)
By: Peter James
4.33
Format: 240 pages,
V noci, ko naj bi Brian Bishop, lastnik uspesnega hitro rastocega podjetja, ubil svojo zeno, je bil… read more
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9. 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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- travel
- history
- british literature
"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
10. The Offing
By: Benjamin Myers
4.25
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that i… read more
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- british literature
"I was neither old enough to have made myself a heron young enough to have escaped the newsreel images or the long dark shadows that the returning soldiers dragged behind them like empty coffins. For …"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
"At times like this, or when hoeing soil or sanding wood, or just sitting on a bench with my face turned to the sun, I appeared to slip out of the moment so entirely - or, conversely, perhaps was so d…"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
11. The List of Suspicious Things
By: Jennie Godfrey
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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12. Post After Post-Mortem
By: E.C.R. Lorac
4.00
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, revi… read more
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- british literature
13. Stop Them Dead (Roy Grace #19)
By: Peter James
4.35
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A ruthless crime. A race against time. When a young farmer confronts intruders in the middle of … read more
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14. 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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- travel
"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
15. A Stroke of the Pen
By: Terry Pratchett
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more
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"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen
16. 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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17. Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles
By: Martin Edwards
3.91
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
‘If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a… read more
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- british literature
18. The Wild Silence
By: Raynor Winn
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more
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- travel
- british literature
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
19. Murder at Holly House (Frank Grasby Mystery, #1)
By: Denzil Meyrick
3.64
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
A village of secrets It's December 1952, and a dead stranger has been found lodged up the chimney … read more
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20. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
By: Helen Rebanks
3.89
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more
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21. The Gran Tour: Travels with my Elders
By: Ben Aitken
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
When Ben Aitken- a millennial Bill Bryson- learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday in… read more
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- travel
- british literature
22. The Jealousy Man and Other Stories
By: Jo Nesbø
3.65
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A veritable crime lover’s delight from a true master of mystery and suspense. Experience the #1 New… read more
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23. The Spy (Kamil Rahman, #4)
By: Ajay Chowdhury
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is Detective Kamil Rahman's toughest assignment yet...Kamil Rahman is working for the Metropol… read more
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24. The Railway Detective’s Christmas Case (The Railway Detective #20)
By: Edward Marston
4.08
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
An excursion train comes through a tunnel in the Malvern Hills to be confronted by a blockage on th… read more
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25. Murder in Transit (Railway Detective #22)
By: Edward Marston
4.34
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
On a dark, brooding evening on the Isle of Wight, Agnes Raybould and her companion find themselves … read more
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26. Death at the Terminus (Railway Detective #21)
By: Edward Marston
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
1865. A passenger train stands in York station. Jack Follis, the guard, patrols the platform to mak… read more
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27. Orders to Kill (Home Front Detective #9)
By: Edward Marston
4.21
Format: 262 pages, ebook
December, 1917. Ada Hobbs has cleaned for Dr Tindall for many years and begins this frosty morning … read more
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28. 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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29. Isle of Dogs
By: Clare Balding
4.24
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
Every dog must have his day. Dogs are never just pets. Not for the British. We love them as member… read more
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30. Now Then: A Biography of Yorkshire
By: Rick Broadbent
4.11
Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition
'An enlightening, enjoyable and frequently very funny journey into what makes Yorkshire stand out f… read more
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- history
- society
- british literature
31. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
By: Mick Herron
4.00
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more
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- british literature
"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
