5 best-selling history books like Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage

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Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic

By: Simon Armitage

4.11

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects…

If you liked the history plot in Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Little Friend

By: Donna Tartt

3.47

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of child… read more

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"But how can you stand to stay asleep so much?"

-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

"Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this."

-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

"For the truth of the situation was that he would do whatever she asked of him, whatever it was, and they both knew it."

-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

"He was talking in a voice which didn't sound at all like James Bond, but which Harriet recognized as his James Bond voice."

-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

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2. Black Swan Green

By: David Mitchell

3.97

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of… read more

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"Trees're always a relief, after people."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

"His skin was blotched as a dying banana."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

"Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

"The song instantly insisted it'd never existed."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

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3. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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4. The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

By: Stephen Fry

4.17

Format: None pages,

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  • poetry
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5. The Gargoyle

By: Andrew Davidson

3.38

Format: None pages,

An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries … read more

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6. Nightblind (Dark Iceland #2)

By: Ragnar Jónasson

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Siglufjordur: an idyllically quiet fishing village on the northernmost tip of Iceland, accessible o… read more

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7. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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  • poetry
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8. A Manual for Heartache

By: Cathy Rentzenbrink

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

The wise and inspiring new book from the bestselling author of The Last Act of Love. When Cathy Ren… read more

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9. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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  • poetry

10. Metroland

By: Julian Barnes

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Only the author of Flaubert's Parrotcould give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition … read more

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11. A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Sco… read more

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12. Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)

By: Pat Barker

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

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13. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

By: Tom Stoppard , None

3.48

Format: None pages,

Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more

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14. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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15. The Silent Companions

By: Laura Purcell

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country e… read more

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16. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

By: Reni Eddo-Lodge

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more

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17. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more

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  • poetry
  • history
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."

-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

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18. 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-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se 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

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19. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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  • poetry
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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20. 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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  • history
"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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21. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

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  • history
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22. The Romantic

By: William Boyd

4.15

Format: 451 pages, Paperback

Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more

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23. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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24. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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25. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

By: Shaun Bythell

3.48

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A cantankerously funny view of books and the people who love them. It does take all kinds and throu… read more

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"It should go without saying that anyone who introduces themselves as 'a bit weird' is almost certainly not."

-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

"This group derives an alternate sort of gratification from the fact that their niche obsession somehow differentiates them from other people, mistakenly assuming that it makes them more interesting."

-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

"It's not as though there is anything wrong with being American, although perhaps in a land of immigrants the only way to differentiate yourself is to cling onto a piece of the land you left, even if …"

-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

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26. Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

By: Sebastian Payne

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Broken Heartlands is a political road trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour… read more

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  • history
Cover of Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it by Michael Rosen

27. Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

By: Michael Rosen

4.00

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with… read more

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28. Wessex Poems and Other Verses (Penguin Clothbound Poetry)

By: Thomas Hardy

3.71

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, wh… read more

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  • poetry
"The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing Alive enough to have strength to die;"

-Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems and Other Verses (Penguin Clothbound Poetry)

" Hap If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy, That thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!"

-Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems and Other Verses (Penguin Clothbound Poetry)

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29. Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page

By: Cathy Rentzenbrink

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Why do we write and what stops us? How does the urge to express ourselves fight with the worry tha… read more

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30. The Arctic

By: Don Paterson

3.96

Format: 64 pages, None

In this new collection from Don Paterson, 'The Arctic' is the bar frequented in the backstreet of a… read more

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  • poetry
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31. Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic

By: Simon Armitage

4.11

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects… read more

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The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

Stephen Fry

4.17

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Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

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Richard Siken

3.67

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Katherine Rundell

4.18

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4.36

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James O'Brien

4.29

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David Mitchell

4.16

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