5 must-read memoir books like Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland by Jen Hadfield

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Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland

By: Jen Hadfield

4.53

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

From the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Highland Book Prize What if the answer to ‘Wher…

If you liked the memoir plot in Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland by Jen Hadfield , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing

1. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
"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

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2. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

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3. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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4. A Haunting in the Arctic

By: C.J. Cooke

3.78

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

1901-ben ​járunk. A fiatal nőt, Nickyt megtámadják, majd egy bálnavadász hajó, az Ormen fedélzetén … read more

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5. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

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6. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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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

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7. The Night in Question

By: Susan Fletcher

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, an… read more

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"So walk into your life. Do what you want to do, Florrie, always – because a timid, obedient woman is quite the tragedy… Life. What a shame we only get one shot at it."

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

".. they discussed what they wanted from this life- this brief, single dance in the sunlight of life. "Adventures," she told him... "I've always wanted them." from the moment that Bobs drew the world …"

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

"… how on earth had it come to this; how was she looking at care homes for the elderly when she still felt twenty years old inside, still believed she could do headstands, and when there was still so …"

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

"We think, for so long, that old age will never find us. We feel that we, as individuals, might somehow be exempt from it, that we might be given some sort of ticket that allows us to sidestep death, …"

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

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8. 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

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9. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

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"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

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10. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

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  • scotland
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11. The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

By: Sarah Brooks

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Piranesi and The Midnight Library, a stunning historical fantasy novel set on a grand e… read more

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12. Cairn

By: Kathleen Jamie

4.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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13. Rare Singles

By: Benjamin Myers

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more

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14. Guilty by Definition

By: Susie Dent

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The debut murder mystery from the resident genius of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent. … read more

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15. Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland

By: Jen Hadfield

4.53

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

From the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Highland Book Prize What if the answer to ‘Wher… read more

Similar categories in Jen Hadfield's Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland book and Jen Hadfield's Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • scotland
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16. Small Bomb at Dimperley

By: Lissa Evans

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

It's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But ‘home’ is Dimperl… read more

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17. Raising Hare: A Memoir

By: Chloe Dalton

4.59

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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18. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

By: Oliver Burkeman

4.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From Oliver Burkeman, author of the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a four-week jour… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir by Sarah Moss

19. My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir

By: Sarah Moss

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching memoir about childhood, food, books, and our ability to see, become, and protect our… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. The Place of Tides

By: James Rebanks

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

We are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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21. Time of the Child

By: Niall Williams

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of This Is Happiness, a compassionate, life-affirming novel about the Christmas sea… read more

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4.07

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4.53

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4.59

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3.92

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4.15

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4.46

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