Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North
By: Horatio Clare
3.62
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a…
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1. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
By: Adam Rutherford
4.03
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to… read more
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- nonfiction
"We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared …"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
"(...) prawo Godwina (tendencja do pojawiania się wzmianki o Hitlerze w przedłużających się dyskusjach w sieci) lub prawo nagłówków Betteridge'a (jeśli nagłówek zawiera pytanie, odpowiedź prawdopodobn…"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
2. Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence
By: Nick Hunt
3.70
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
As a six-year-old child, Nick Hunt was almost carried away in a gust from the Great Storm of 1987. … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
3. Orient Express
By: Christopher Hitchens , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople,… read more
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4. The Savage Detectives
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more
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5. The Slaves of Solitude
By: David Lodge , Patrick Hamilton
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has beco… read more
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6. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Library Binding
Maurice and the rats have teamed up with a young lad named Keith to implement a clever moneymaking … read more
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"The second mouse gets the cheese!"-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)
"I am not so blind that I can't see darkness."-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)
"And I say take two, sir," said Maurice urgently. "Two and call it quits?"-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)
"A good motto in life, he'd reckoned, was: don't eat anything that glows."-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)
7. 84, Charing Cross Road
By: Helene Hanff
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more
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8. The Line of Beauty
By: Alan Hollinghurst
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home… read more
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9. Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
By: Ian Fleming
3.74
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to France to play in a high-stakes bac… read more
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"Mine’s Bond – James Bond."-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
"Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket."-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
"In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come."-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
"Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment."-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
10. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
By: Laurie Lee , Leonard Rosoman
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune… read more
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11. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
12. The Bookshop
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.28
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bo… read more
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"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba"-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una libreria -le dijo Florence-. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una librería —le dijo Florence—. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
13. All That Remains: A Life in Death
By: Sue Black
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses… read more
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- memoir
14. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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- nonfiction
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
15. 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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"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
16. 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
17. No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
By: Mark Hodkinson
3.77
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Mark Hodkinson grew up among dark satanic mills in a house with just one book: Folklore, Myths and … read more
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18. An Inventory of Losses
By: Judith Schalansky
3.36
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more
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19. The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness
By: Amy-Jane Beer
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer’s love … read more
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- memoir
"There's a reason we can't look away [from water]. Psycologists call it a 'soft fascination': the sight and sound of moving water is sufficiently stimulating to occupy the brain, but irregular enough …"-Amy-Jane Beer, The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness
20. The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds
By: Stephen Rutt
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The British Isles are remarkable for their extraordinary seabird life: spectacular gatherings of ch… read more
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21. Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North
By: Horatio Clare
3.62
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a… read more
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- travel
- maritime
- nonfiction
- memoir
