36 Islands: In Search of the Hidden Wonders of the Lake District and a Few Other Things Too
By: Robert Twigger
3.65
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
Many of us are accustomed to walking in the majestic hills and peaks of the Lake District - but wha…
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1. 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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2. The Lake District Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #1)
By: John Bude
4.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a body is found at an isolated garage, Inspector Meredith is drawn into a complex investigatio… read more
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3. The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
By: James Rebanks
4.18
Format: 578 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James … read more
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4. Holy Island (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #1)
By: L.J. Ross
4.01
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
Detective Chief Inspector Ryan retreats to Holy Island seeking sanctuary when he is forced to take … read more
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5. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)
By: Richard Coles
3.32
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more
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6. A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)
By: Richard Coles
3.90
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Cl… read more
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7. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more
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8. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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9. The Last Word
By: Elly Griffiths
3.92
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more
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10. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
11. Sweet Sorrow
By: David Nicholls
3.78
Format: 405 pages, Paperback
One life-changing summer Charlie meets Fran... In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you do… read more
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"... and it occurred to me then, just as it does now, that the greatest lie that age tells about youth is that it’s somehow free of care, worry or fear."-David Nicholls, Sweet Sorrow
"...but first love, I think it’s like a song, a stupid pop song that you hear and you think, well that is all I will ever want to listen to, it’s got everything, it’s clearly the greatest piece of mus…"-David Nicholls, Sweet Sorrow
12. Lost in the Lakes: Notes from a 379-Mile Walk in the Lake District
By: Tom Chesshyre
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Join travel writer Tom Chesshyre for a lakeland adventure like no other. Explore towering mountains… read more
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13. 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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"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
14. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness
By: Christian Lewis
4.40
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more
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15. 12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature's Lessons in Happiness
By: Charlie Corbett
3.97
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
This book is about coping with being human. It's about how unexpected events smash and bash their w… read more
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16. Salt on Your Tongue: Women and the Sea
By: Charlotte Runcie
3.81
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
Charlotte Runcie has always felt pulled to the sea, lured by its soothing, calming qualities but al… read more
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17. Wanderers: A History of Women Walking
By: Kerri Andrews
3.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways… read more
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18. Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
By: Catrina Davies
4.23
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with… read more
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19. Moderate Becoming Good Later: Sea Kayaking the Shipping Forecast
By: Katie Carr
4.61
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating and deeply moving story of one man's attempt to sea kayak the areas of the Shipping… read more
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20. 36 Islands: In Search of the Hidden Wonders of the Lake District and a Few Other Things Too
By: Robert Twigger
3.65
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
Many of us are accustomed to walking in the majestic hills and peaks of the Lake District - but wha… read more
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21. The Hotel Avocado
By: Bob Mortimer
4.21
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more
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