5 must-read history books like On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place by Mike Parker

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On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place

By: Mike Parker

3.95

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In early 2006, Mike Parker and his partner Peredur were witnesses at the first civil partnership ce…

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1. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.80

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded sea… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? book and Mike Parker's On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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2. Mortal Causes (Inspector Rebus, #6)

By: Ian Rankin

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

Underneath the cobbled streets of Edinburgh's old Town are medieval stone cellars where a man could… read more

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3. The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List

By: Hallie Rubenhold

2.00

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

The Covent Garden Ladiestells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose … read more

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4. How to Be a Victorian

By: Ruth Goodman

3.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Step into the skin of your ancestors . . . We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert, but … read more

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5. Mr Loverman

By: Bernardine Evaristo

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Barrington Jedidiah Walker. Barry to his friends. Trouble to his wife. Seventy-four years old, Anti… read more

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6. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

By: Laura Cumming

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more

Similar categories in Laura Cumming's Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death book and Mike Parker's On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

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7. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

By: Travis Alabanza

4.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more

Similar categories in Travis Alabanza's None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary book and Mike Parker's On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
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8. 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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  • british literature
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9. The New Life

By: Tom Crewe

3.77

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more

Similar categories in Tom Crewe's The New Life book and Mike Parker's On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place

  • gay
  • lgbt
"Science requires a rational audience."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"True development does not respect comfort."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"

-Tom Crewe, The New Life

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10. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World book and Mike Parker's On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place

  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

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12. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

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"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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13. Rosewater

By: Liv Little

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more

Similar categories in Liv Little's Rosewater book and Mike Parker's On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place

  • lgbt
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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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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15. The Whispering Muse

By: Laura Purcell

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more

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16. The Lost Rainforests of Britain

By: Guy Shrubsole

4.30

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more

Similar categories in Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain book and Mike Parker's On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
  • british literature
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"

-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain

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17. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

By: Jason Hickel

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more

Similar categories in Jason Hickel's Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World book and Mike Parker's On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place

  • nonfiction
  • history
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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18. The Stranding

By: Kate Sawyer

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid an… read more

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19. Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

By: Ali Smith

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred yea… read more

Similar categories in Ali Smith's Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3) book and Mike Parker's On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place

  • british literature
"We move from one invisibility to another."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

"..cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

"You can’t just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we’ve never been more dangerous."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

"Then the three minutes of black and white are over and what's left is the story of human beings and air, something we hardly ever notice or think about, something we couldn't live without."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

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20. From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want

By: Rob Hopkins

4.31

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinkin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place by Mike Parker

21. On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place

By: Mike Parker

3.95

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In early 2006, Mike Parker and his partner Peredur were witnesses at the first civil partnership ce… read more

Similar categories in Mike Parker's On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place book and Mike Parker's On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • gay
  • british literature
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature

9 best-selling nonfiction books like On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell into Place by Mike Parker

Transform Your Habits

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Laura Cumming

4.19

Transform Your Habits

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

Tim Marshall

3.94

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18 best-selling fiction books like Bournville by Jonathan Coe

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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