Farewell Mr Puffin: A small boat voyage to Iceland
By: Paul Heiney
3.47
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
'It would be hard to imagine a more thoughtful, intelligent and companionable person to go to sea w…
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1. The Photograph
By: Penelope Lively
3.38
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively's latest novel opens with a snapshot: Kath, before he… read more
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- british literature
"My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined."-Penelope Lively, The Photograph
"A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is…"-Penelope Lively, The Photograph
2. Angel (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #4)
By: L.J. Ross
4.39
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
After a turbulent time, DCI Ryan’s life is finally beginning to return to normal and he’s looking f… read more
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3. An African in Greenland
By: James Kirkup , Al Álvarez , Tété-Michel Kpomassie , A. Alvarez
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Tete-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland--and knew th… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
4. El baile
By: Irène Némirovsky , Gemma Moral Bartolomé
3.67
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Autora de la recién descubierta Suite francesa, publicada póstumamente y aclamada por la crítica y … read more
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5. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
By: David Mitchell
3.50
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
In 1799, Jacob de Zoet disembarks on the tiny island of Dejima, the Dutch East India Company's remo… read more
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6. The Kingdom by the Sea
By: Paul Theroux
3.36
Format: None pages,
It was 1982, the summer of the Falkland Islands War, and the birth of the royal heir, Prince Willia… read more
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7. Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
By: Ewan McGregor , Charley Boorman , None
3.53
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan… read more
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8. Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
By: Steven Callahan
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's dramatic tale of surviv… read more
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9. The Bookseller of Kabul
By: Åsne Seierstad , None
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In spring 2002, following the fall of the Taliban, Asne Seierstad spent four months living with a b… read more
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10. The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
By: Bill Bryson
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and loving sequel to a hilarious and loving classic of travel writing: Notes from a S… read more
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11. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
By: Yvon Chouinard
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and fo… read more
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12. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
13. Fourteen Days
By: Margaret Atwood
3.23
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more
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14. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
15. Murder on Lake Garda
By: Tom Hindle
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more
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16. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets
By: Dawn French
3.87
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
17. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
By: Erika Fatland
4.28
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
18. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
By: Jenny Odell
3.61
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more
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- nonfiction
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
19. Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
By: Scott H. Young
3.95
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and ad… read more
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- nonfiction
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."-Scott H. Young, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
"Learning, at its core, is a broadening of horizons, of seeing things that were previously invisible and of recognizing capabilities within yourself that you didn't know existed"-Scott H. Young, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
"In theory, consistency is about being disciplined, determined, and unwavering. In practice, consistency is about being adaptable. Don't have much time? Scale it down. Don't have much energy? Do the e…"-Scott H. Young, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
20. Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
By: Helen Lewis
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Well-behaved women don’t make history: difficult women do. Feminism’s success is down to compli… read more
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- nonfiction
"Women's history should not be a shallow hunt for heroines."-Helen Lewis, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
"If feminism doesn't frighten people with power, it is toothless."-Helen Lewis, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
"Women need time and space to play - particularly when we work so hard"-Helen Lewis, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
"Feminism has to fight 'the tyranny of niceness'. It is, and has always been, one of the most potent forces holding women back."-Helen Lewis, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
21. 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
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22. 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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- nonfiction
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- nature
"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
23. A Fatal Crossing
By: Tom Hindle
3.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
November 1924. The Endeavour sets sail from Southampton carrying 2,000 passengers and crew on a wee… read more
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24. The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
By: Samuel Burr
3.86
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary, gloriously uplifting novel about the power of friendship and the puzzling ties th… read more
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"As far as she was concerned, it was something people didn't do enough of: to take a few moments to yourself, when your mind was at its clearest. To reflect on the endless possibilities of the day str…"-Samuel Burr, The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
25. The Dead of Winter (Giordano Bruno, #0.5-0.7)
By: S.J. Parris
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
Three exhilarating novellas—The Secret Dead, The Academy of Secrets, and The Dead of Winter—followi… read more
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26. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
By: Buddy Levy
4.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Living in the Lap of the Gods
By: Lynn Roach
4.64
Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition
It was love at first sight when Lynn laid eyes on her. He was a Welsh toolmaker by trade dreaming o… read more
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28. Breaking the Dark (Marvel Crime, #1)
By: Lisa Jewell
3.73
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In her most imaginative novel yet, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell (None of This … read more
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29. A Walk from the Wild Edge
By: Jake Tyler
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
After coming terrifyingly close to suicide, Jake Tyler was determined to take back control of his l… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
- british literature
"I pointed to a main road that, unbeknownst to us, had been running parallel to the valley the entire time. We were now at a place called ‘Whiteway’s Lodge’, next to a big roundabout that connects the…"-Jake Tyler, A Walk from the Wild Edge
30. Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation
By: Leon McCarron
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The river Tigris is in danger. It has been the lifeblood of ancient Mesopotamia and modern Iraq, bu… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Farewell Mr Puffin: A small boat voyage to Iceland
By: Paul Heiney
3.47
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
'It would be hard to imagine a more thoughtful, intelligent and companionable person to go to sea w… read more
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- british literature
- travel
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
