10 Top nonfiction books like The Half Hour Allotment by Lia Leendertz

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The Half Hour Allotment

By: Lia Leendertz

4.06

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

This practical and inspirational handbook is aimed at the new generation of gardeners who want to e…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Half Hour Allotment by Lia Leendertz , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

By: Joe Simpson

4.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"

-Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

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2. Fingersmith

By: Sarah Waters

4.02

Format: 592 pages, ebook

Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raise… read more

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"You pearl!"

-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"PIGEON MY ARSE!"

-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"It's a curious, wanting thing."

-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

"She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you."

-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

3. Allotment Month by Month

By: None

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

For tasty, delicious fruit and veg that hasn't travelled halfway around the world, you can't beat h… read more

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4. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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5. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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6. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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7. 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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8. Queenie

By: Candice Carty-Williams

3.86

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures a… read more

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"Never trust a gemini man"

-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

"Being brave isn’t the same as being okay."

-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

"Actually, no man is as funny as me or any woman I’ve ever met."

-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

"It's a family thing. It is an annoying and time-wasting thing."

-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

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9. Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life (The Dr. Mark Hyman Library, 11)

By: Mark Hyman

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  Dr. Mark Hyman presents the definitive guide to reversin… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

By: Johann Hari

4.24

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

"If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

"In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

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11. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

By: Hannah Ritchie

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Manifest

By: Roxie Nafousi

4.25

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

MANIFEST is the essential guide for anyone and everyone wanting to feel more empowered in their liv… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By: Edward Chisholm

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more

Similar categories in Edward Chisholm's A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City book and Lia Leendertz's The Half Hour Allotment

  • nonfiction
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15. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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16. The Fetishist

By: Katherine Min

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s… read more

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17. The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

By: Richard Osman

4.37

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with w… read more

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"Does it hurt?" asks Ibrahim. "Only when I breathe," says Donna."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

"Why did people always get so angry? We'll all be dead soon enough."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

"La gente que nunca se pierde no ha viajado nunca a ningún sitio interesante."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

"He buys three other books too, because he wants the bookshop still to be there when he comes back next week."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

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18. The Perfect Golden Circle

By: Benjamin Myers

3.92

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more

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19. Parenting Hell

By: Rob Beckett

4.25

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE MADNESS, ABSURDITY, AND UTTER CHAOS OF BEING A PARENT FROM THE… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. The Half Hour Allotment

By: Lia Leendertz

4.06

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

This practical and inspirational handbook is aimed at the new generation of gardeners who want to e… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction

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Paul Lynch

4.10

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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