Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience
By: Natasha Carthew
3.79
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
There's a Cornish saying that nothing is left behind in an autumnal tide, the powerful tug between …
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1. Poverty Safari
By: Darren McGarvey
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more
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2. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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3. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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4. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
By: Nina Stibbe
3.66
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more
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5. 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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6. 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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"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
7. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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8. Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
By: Victoria Smith
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
What is about about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone? In… read more
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9. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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10. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
By: Helen Rebanks
3.89
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more
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11. Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town
By: Lamorna Ash
4.03
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A captivating, lyrical and deeply discerning portrait of life in the Cornish town of Newlyn, the la… read more
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12. Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
By: Patrick Grant
4.37
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick’s book is fascinat… read more
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13. Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
By: Catrina Davies
4.23
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with… read more
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"The house in Bristol belonged to a family who were traveling the world on our combined rent."-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
"People I know with houses squeeze every drop of capital out of them, because, even when it's hard, squeezing capital out of a house is a hell of a lot easier than squeezing it out of work."-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
14. Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care
By: Jim Down
4.36
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
'A remarkably honest memoir of a life spent pulling people back from death' - Adam KayIn these stor… read more
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15. Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline
By: Christian Lewis
4.41
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
The No. 1 Sunday Times BestsellerWalking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the… read more
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16. Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
By: John Lewis-Stempel
4.02
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the… read more
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"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
17. Two Sisters
By: Blake Morrison
3.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
‘A book at once bold, magnanimous, heart-breaking and riveting’ HOWARD JACOBSON‘Beautiful. Affectin… read more
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18. My Family: The Memoir
By: David Baddiel
4.41
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more
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19. Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience
By: Natasha Carthew
3.79
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
There's a Cornish saying that nothing is left behind in an autumnal tide, the powerful tug between … read more
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- nonfiction
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20. Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power
By: Sasha Swire
3.47
Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition
What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the l… read more
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21. The Book of the Earthworm
By: Sally Coulthard
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
For Charles Darwin—who estimated every acre of land contained 53,000 earthworms—the humble earthwor… read more
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