Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing
By: Horatio Clare
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
'An extraordinary deeply moving, darkly funny and hugely powerful' Robert Macfarlane Heavy Light …
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1. Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
By: Tim Butcher
3.98
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
A compulsively readable account of a journey to the Congo — a country virtually inaccessible to the… read more
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"In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken."-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
"Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark."-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
"the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers who have been more exposed to modernity than their grandchi…"-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
"My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure travel, and it certainly wasn't pleasure travel. My Congo journey deserved its own categor…"-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
2. Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
By: Kapka Kassabova
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
"Remarkable: a book about borders that makes the reader feel sumptuously free." --Peter Pomerantsev… read more
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3. The Loney
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
"If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere be… read more
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4. The Wild Places
By: Robert Macfarlane
3.73
Format: None pages,
"An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature… read more
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5. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
6. Starter for Ten
By: David Nicholls
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a working-class kid on full scholarship, has started his first ter… read more
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7. The Hearing Trumpet
By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more
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8. On The Black Hill
By: Bruce Chatwin
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
On the Black Hillis an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in r… read more
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9. Mad Girl
By: Bryony Gordon
2.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Bryony Gordon has OCD. It's the snake in her brain that has told her ever since she was a teenager … read more
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10. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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11. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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12. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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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
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"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
13. Kala
By: Colin Walsh
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more
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"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."-Colin Walsh, Kala
14. A Passage North
By: Anuk Arudpragasam
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and th… read more
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"Between the forgetting that takes place as a result of our consent, which is a forgetting we need in order to reconcile our pasts and presents, and the forgetting that is imposed on us against our ow…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was something about twilight that heightened his anxiety, which brought it to the surface of his consciousness and made it palpable, as though with the gradual disappearance of the horizon the …"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"It was the fact, above all, that sudden or violent deaths could occur not merely in a war zone or during race riots but during the slow, unremarkable course of everyday life that made them so disturb…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was a difference between the pleasure that soothed and lulled one to sleep and pleasure that drew the self more widely and vividly into the world, and thinking of his return to Colombo now it s…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
15. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
By: Katherine Rundell
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more
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"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
16. Rebel
By: Rahaf Mohammed
4.21
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
A gripping memoir of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from her abusive family an… read more
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17. All Among the Barley
By: Melissa Harrison
3.83
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Costa-shortlisted and Baileys-longlisted At Hawthorn Time comes a major new nove… read more
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18. Two Sisters
By: Blake Morrison
3.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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19. Toy Fights: A Boyhood
By: Don Paterson
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Douglas Stuart and Nick Hornby comes an uproarious, tenderhearted memoir of growing … read more
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20. Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing
By: Horatio Clare
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
'An extraordinary deeply moving, darkly funny and hugely powerful' Robert Macfarlane Heavy Light … read more
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21. You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol
By: Louisa Young
4.03
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This brutal, beautiful memoir from award-winning novelist Louisa Young is a heartbreaking portrayal… read more
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