9 Top nonfiction books like The Barn: The Extraordinary Life of an Unremarkable Building by Sally Coulthard

Cover of The Barn: The Extraordinary Life of an Unremarkable Building by Sally Coulthard

The Barn: The Extraordinary Life of an Unremarkable Building

By: Sally Coulthard

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing, socio-historic uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by best-selling n…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Barn: The Extraordinary Life of an Unremarkable Building by Sally Coulthard , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland by Rory Stewart

1. The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland

By: Rory Stewart

4.08

Format: 348 pages, ebook

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Places in Between, an exploration of the landsca… read more

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2. Autumn: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons

By: Melissa Harrison

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Autumn is a time of transformation. Crisp, clear days mark summer's close and usher in a new season… read more

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3. The Pursuit of Love

By: Nancy Mitford

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the i… read more

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4. Landmarks

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Landmarksis Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between … read more

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5. When God Was a Rabbit

By: Sarah Winman

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When God was a Rabbitis an incredibly exciting debut from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Sp… read more

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6. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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7. Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By: Anne Glenconner

4.06

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Anne Glenconner--a close member of … read more

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"According to Princess Margaret, "You can't possibly have a picnic without your butler."

-Anne Glenconner, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

"One of the protocols of being in the company of a member of the Royal Family is that if they are standing, you have to stand - you can't sit down until they do. They seem to do an awful lot of standi…"

-Anne Glenconner, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

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8. 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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"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

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9. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

By: Kate Atkinson

3.71

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more

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"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."

-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories

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10. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

By: Javier Blas

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more

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"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"

-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"

-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

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11. A Single Thread

By: Tracy Chevalier

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become… read more

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"It is perhaps difficult to understand if you have not had children yourself. The biological imperative of the parent is to protect the child, and when that is impossible it feels like a failure, what…"

-Tracy Chevalier, A Single Thread

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12. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

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13. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

By: Joanna Cannon

3.65

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more

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"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

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14. The Second Chance Store

By: Lauren Bravo

3.61

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

If clothes can get a second chance, why can’t we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound u… read more

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15. 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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Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

16. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

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17. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

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"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

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18. Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky

By: Sarah Gibson

3.98

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Swifts live almost entirely in the air. They eat, drink, sleep, mate and gather their nesting mater… read more

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Cover of The Barn: The Extraordinary Life of an Unremarkable Building by Sally Coulthard

19. The Barn: The Extraordinary Life of an Unremarkable Building

By: Sally Coulthard

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing, socio-historic uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by best-selling n… read more

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Cover of Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country by Juliet Nicolson

20. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country

By: Juliet Nicolson

3.44

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more

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Cover of The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness and the Space In Between by Richard Mabey

21. The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness and the Space In Between

By: Richard Mabey

3.74

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

We regard gardens as our personal dominions, where we can create whatever worlds we desire. But the… read more

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Paul Lynch

4.10

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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3.85

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