Swimming with Seals
By: Victoria Whitworth
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Victoria Whitworth began swimming in the cold waters of Orkney as a means of temporary escape from …
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1. Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney
By: Anonymous , Hermann Pálsson , Paul Edwards
4.15
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- scotland
2. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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- british literature
3. Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
By: Scarlett Curtis
4.01
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
An urgent and inspirational collection of essays by a diverse group of celebrities, activists, and … read more
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- nonfiction
"because Beyoncé"-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
"No one gains when a culture exploits itself."-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
"Feminism is layered and its power comes from its diversity."-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
"She has a voice. If you can't hear it, maybe it's because you're too busy talking."-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
4. 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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- travel
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
5. 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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- history
- travel
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
"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
6. 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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- memoir
- travel
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- scotland
- nature
"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
7. Loved and Missed
By: Susie Boyt
4.30
Format: None pages, None
Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, … read more
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- british literature
"I wanted it to be true so much it was true. Sometimes in life you have to let your heart and bones off the hook of yourself."-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"I thought of him as a long-lost relation. A sailor coming into port- agitated, sweat on his brow- who needed somewhere calm to lay his head. He was good company. And it was hard for me to feel I was …"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"You ever wish that you’d . . . ’ I waited for more, but her question politely disintegrated. But then, although no more words were forthcoming, she tilted her head slightly and suddenly what she’d as…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"Jean’s capacity to bounce back in life always impressed me. The way she held herself in high regard. It was a form of personal, almost bodily optimism, you could say. Integrity that went deep and was…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
8. Pearl
By: Siân Hughes
3.91
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
A haunting debut novel inspired by the medieval poem of the same name Marianne is eight years ol… read more
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- british literature
9. Merking
By: Fríða Ísberg
3.70
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Skáldsagan Merking er margradda verk sem fjallar um afstöðu og pólaríseringu, fordóma og samkennd. … read more
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10. A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story
By: Polly Morland
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and work of a country… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
11. The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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- british literature
12. The Fair Botanists
By: Sara Sheridan
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. I… read more
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- scotland
13. Bitter Orange
By: Claire Fuller
3.58
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them—Cara fi… read more
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- british literature
14. The Instant
By: Amy Liptrot
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Wishing to leave the quiet isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight … read more
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- memoir
- travel
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- scotland
- nature
"In the simplest terms, the internet is made from pulses of light."-Amy Liptrot, The Instant
"Hearts and futures can turn on a single afternoon or an accepted invitation - but more often lead to nothing but themselves."-Amy Liptrot, The Instant
15. Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
By: Ali Smith
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mothe… read more
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- scotland
- british literature
"I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen."-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
"... across the aeons and the global distances what all the peoples of the world really have in common is so many similar ways of doing humiliating and painful things to each other."-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
"But that's summer for you. Summer's like walking down a road just like this one, heading towards both light and dark. Because summer isn't just a merry tale. Because there's no merry tale without dar…"-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
"And summer's surely really all about an imagined end. We head for it instinctually like it must mean something. We're always looking for it, looking it, heading towards it all year, the way a horizon…"-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
16. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- memoir
- travel
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- scotland
- nature
"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
17. Luckenbooth
By: Jenni Fagan
3.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The devil's daughter rows to Edinburgh in a coffin, to work as maid for the Minister of Culture, a … read more
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- scotland
"Life is so much more than we can manage it to be, it is so much more sudden than we are able to understand."-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
"My ma said: only love a man who reads books and understands them properly. If they don't read books don't go their bed. Ever!"-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
"Such is the way. It’s like a disease. Love: 80 per cent proof. Risk of death if you drink it. Can send you mad, bad, blind and delirious."-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
"There is cheering out on the street. There is dancing. People meet and fall in love. Scuffles break out. They drink far too much. All of life is happening."-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
18. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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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
19. I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
By: Anita Sethi
3.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One woman's journey of reclamation through natural landscapes as she contemplates identity and woma… read more
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- memoir
- british literature
- travel
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
20. Swimming with Seals
By: Victoria Whitworth
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Victoria Whitworth began swimming in the cold waters of Orkney as a means of temporary escape from … read more
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- history
- memoir
- british literature
- travel
- natural history
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- scotland
- outdoors
- nature
21. Salt On My Skin
By: Sarah Kennedy Norquoy
4.36
Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition
In January 2019, Sarah’s world was shattered by the death of a close friend and her mother’s dement… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
