The Lark Ascending: The Music of the British Landscape
By: Richard King
3.84
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
ROUGH TRADE AND CAUGHT BY THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTHThe Lark Ascending, Ralph Vaughan Williams' 'p…
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1. How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
By: Tristan Gooley
3.97
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
A must-have book for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural wor… read more
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"This is what the great artists manage. They flatter us, by observing better than others and then speaking to each of us as individuals and in a language that we worry we may be the only ones left car…"-Tristan Gooley, How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
2. Collected Ghost Stories
By: M.R. James
4.14
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
M. R. James is widely regarded as the father of the modern ghost story, and his tales have influenc… read more
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"The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its he…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
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"But it was in the life-saving competition that Stanley Judkins's conduct was most blameable and had the most far-reaching effects. The practice, as you know, was to throw a selected lower boy, of sui…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
3. Le Grand Meaulnes
By: Alain-Fournier , None
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
In a small village in the Sologne, Fifteen-year-old Francois Seurel narrates the story of his relat… read more
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4. The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals
By: Patrick Barkham
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Butterflies animate our summers but the 59 butterfly species of the British Isles can be surprising… read more
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5. A Very Long Engagement
By: Linda Coverdale , Sébastien Japrisot
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
In January 1917, five wounded French soldiers, their hands bound behind them, are brought to the fr… read more
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6. The Pale Blue Eye
By: Louis Bayard
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Timothycomes an ingenious tale of murder and revenge, f… read more
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7. Landmarks
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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8. The Closed Circle (Rotters' Club, #2)
By: Jonathan Coe
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
The characters of The Rotters' Club-Jonathan Coe's beloved novel of adolescent life in the 1970s-ha… read more
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9. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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10. The Return of the Native
By: Thomas Hardy , Alexander Theroux
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
The Return of the Nativeis a work by Thomas Hardy now brought to you in this new edition of the tim… read more
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11. The Red and the Black
By: Stendhal , None
3.86
Format: 577 pages, Paperback
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more
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"A good book is an event in my life."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
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3.94
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13. The Mayor of Casterbridge
By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson
4.71
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'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more
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14. Under the Greenwood Tree
By: Thomas Hardy
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
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15. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
16. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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17. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
By: Bridget Collins
4.06
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more
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18. A Shining
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3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
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19. It's Always Summer Somewhere: A Matter of Life and Cricket
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4.56
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Felix White, for reasons often beyond him, has always been deeply in love with cricket. His passion… read more
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20. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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4.22
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21. Wilding
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4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
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"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
22. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
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"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
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23. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
By: Bridget Collins
3.58
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24. Orbital
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3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
25. Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
By: Jonathan Coe
3.93
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Set in the Midlands and London over the last eight years, Jonathan Coe follows a brilliantly vivid … read more
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"Com’è il morale? In generale"-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
"Lei insegna all’università, vero? E quindi conosce William Blake."-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
"C' erano poche cose altrettanto intime per lei che curiosare insiemeba qualcuno tra i libri"-Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
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26. The Outrun: A Memoir
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4.01
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
27. Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars
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3.77
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28. Held
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3.66
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
29. On the Marsh: A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet
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3.99
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How the rewilding of eight acres of Norfolk marshland inspired a family and brought nature even clo… read more
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30. The Lark Ascending: The Music of the British Landscape
By: Richard King
3.84
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
ROUGH TRADE AND CAUGHT BY THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTHThe Lark Ascending, Ralph Vaughan Williams' 'p… read more
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31. Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? 200 birds, 12 months, 1 lapsed birdwatcher
By: Lev Parikian
4.52
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lapsed and hopeless birdwatcher’s attempt to see 200 birds in a year As a 12-year-old, I was an … read more
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