All in the Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song
By: Shirley Collins
4.47
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
A memoir from one of Britain's legendary singers, folklorists, and music historians. A legendary…
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1. The Book of Night Women
By: Marlon James
3.87
Format: 252 pages,
The Book of Night Womenis a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and story… read more
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2. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
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"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
3. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
4. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
5. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
6. The Lamplighters
By: Emma Stonex
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappeara… read more
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"Helen thinks I haven't noticed that she's stopped wearing it. But I notice everything about her, all that's changed when I go ashore."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
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"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
7. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.95
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
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"To wielka tajemnica, że każde wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie żywotne siły"-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
8. Mayflies
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
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"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
9. A Town Called Solace
By: Mary Lawson
4.02
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize A Town Called Solace--the brilliant and emotionally radian… read more
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"Here's a truth about marriage, he thought, staring at the ceiling at three in the morning. People should be warned: think twice before you take those vows, because there is nothing, absolutely nothin…"-Mary Lawson, A Town Called Solace
10. The Appeal (The Appeal, #1)
By: Janice Hallett
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The Fairway Players, a local theatre group, is in the midst of rehearsals when tragedy strikes the … read more
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11. Open Water
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.04
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more
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12. Reasons to Be Cheerful
By: Nina Stibbe
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city they tried to unsettle m… read more
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13. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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14. The Story of The Bee Gees: Children of the World
By: Bob Stanley
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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15. The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives
By: Jude Rogers
4.13
Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition
'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers sho… read more
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16. Nick Drake: The Life
By: Richard Morton Jack
4.54
Format: 546 pages, Kindle Edition
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17. Wayward: Just Another Life to Live
By: Vashti Bunyan
4.27
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In 1968, Vashti Bunyan gave up everything and everybody she knew in London to take to the road with… read more
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18. The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast
By: Jennifer Lucy Allan
4.18
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
What does the foghorn sound like? It sounds huge. It rattles. It rattles you. It is a booming, l… read more
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19. All in the Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song
By: Shirley Collins
4.47
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
A memoir from one of Britain's legendary singers, folklorists, and music historians. A legendary… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
