7 Top nonfiction books like King Arthur in the East Riding by Simon Armitage

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King Arthur in the East Riding

By: Simon Armitage

3.93

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A brilliant selection of five essays from Simon Armitage's acclaimed book All Points North, publish…

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1. Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s

By: Ali Smith

3.71

Format: 56 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s collects together some of Ali Smith's best writing of the last ten years… read more

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2. The Dressmaker's Child

By: William Trevor

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

William Trevor has won just about every literary award possible and he is frequently described by c… read more

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3. Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Holy wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most impo… read more

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4. Death in the Bunker

By: Ian Kershaw

4.09

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

Translated widely across the world, Ian Kershaw's award-winning two-volume Penguin biography of Hit… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. God's Dice

By: Martin Amis

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Two sombre stories from "Einstein's Monsters". One is about a middle-aged Pole living in Ladbroke G… read more

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6. Fantastic Mr. Fox

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Fantastic Mr. Fox is on the run! The three meanest farmers around are out to get him. Fat Boggis, s… read more

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"I dare not do that, said Mr. Fox, because this place I am hoping to get is so marvelous that if I described it to you now you would go crazy with excitement"

-Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox

7. Something for the Weekend

By: Jamie Oliver

3.65

Format: None pages,

Jamie Oliver was a relative unknown when he became a Penguin author in 1999. Six TV series and worl… read more

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8. Protobiography

By: William Boyd

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

William Boyd has been writing well-loved, prize-winning fiction since Penguin published A Good Man … read more

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9. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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10. Girlfriend in a Coma

By: Douglas Coupland

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

'What did Karen see that December night? What pictures of tomorrow could so disturb her that she wo… read more

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11. Lessons

By: Ian McEwan

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more

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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

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12. Novelist as a Vocation

By: Haruki Murakami

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more

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"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

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13. House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

By: Alan Bennett

3.81

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution aga… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. The God Desire

By: David Baddiel

3.69

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count ‘ A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, hum… read more

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  • nonfiction
"But also, the cynic may have to accept something else. That he, as a human, is not exceptional. He might have to accept that perhaps, when you look at how animals, certainly mammals, behave – how the…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

"Martin Amis once said, of death, that ‘after forty, it’s a full-time job looking the other way’. I sometimes wonder if, at any adult age, it’s also a full-time job – although a less conscious one – l…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

"Some religious ideas may be on the decline, but not, I would say, human exceptionalism. Fewer people might believe in God than they used to, yet, although veganism is on the rise, most of us are stil…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

"Because another thing we look away from, in the killing of animals, is just how much they are like us. One of the things the internet has done is circulate, on a vast scale, short films of animals be…"

-David Baddiel, The God Desire

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15. Broken Greek: A Story of Chip Shops and Pop Songs

By: Pete Paphides

4.10

Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition

'Do you sometimes feel like the music you're hearing is explaining your life to you?'When Pete's pa… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars

By: Nick Duerden

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For fans of music books from David Hepworth, Pete Paphides, Bob Stanley and Craig Brown, as well as… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Snobs

By: Muriel Spark

3.64

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

These five stories amply display Muriel Spark's extraordinary talent; her cool, biting humour and u… read more

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18. The Scales of Justice

By: John Mortimer

3.45

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

John Mortimer has not only successfully juggled the roles of barrister and author in his life, but … read more

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19. King Arthur in the East Riding

By: Simon Armitage

3.93

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A brilliant selection of five essays from Simon Armitage's acclaimed book All Points North, publish… read more

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