18 best-selling nonfiction books like When The Dust Settles: Searching For Hope After Disaster by Lucy Easthope

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When The Dust Settles: Searching For Hope After Disaster

By: Lucy Easthope

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES  BESTSELLER A RADIO 4  BOOK OF THE WEEK CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TELE…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in When The Dust Settles: Searching For Hope After Disaster by Lucy Easthope , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Places in Between

By: Rory Stewart

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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2. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"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

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3. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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4. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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5. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

By: Wendy Joseph

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more

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  • nonfiction
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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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  • nonfiction
"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

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7. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold

By: Sam Knight

3.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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8. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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9. Kala

By: Colin Walsh

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more

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"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

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10. What's That Lady Doing?

By: Lou Sanders

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'A deftness that catches your breath' - Fern Brady 'An incredible piece of writing' - Brett Goldst… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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11. The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion

By: Gwen Adshead

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure ho… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. 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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13. Nothing But The Truth

By: The Secret Barrister

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Decade in Tory: An Inventory of Idiocy from the Coalition to COVID by Russell    Jones

14. The Decade in Tory: An Inventory of Idiocy from the Coalition to COVID

By: Russell Jones

4.64

Format: 680 pages, Hardcover

In 2020 the United Kingdom reached a bewildering milestone: ten successive years of Conservative ru… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth by Rebecca Humphries

15. Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth

By: Rebecca Humphries

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Actor, writer and hopeless romantic Rebecca Humphries had often been called crazy by her boyfriend.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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16. No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris

By: Tim Shipman

4.03

Format: 711 pages, Kindle Edition

The unmissable next instalment of Tim Shipman’s #1 bestselling Brexit quartet. To follow his bestse… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir by Martha Wainwright

17. Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir

By: Martha Wainwright

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A singer-songwriter's heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"If you're an artist, your kids are bound to end up artists, too. To put it another way, once you're in the circus, it's hard to get out."

-Martha Wainwright, Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir

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18. Afropean: Notes from Black Europe

By: Johny Pitts

4.32

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A cont… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It's not terrorism when white people plot organised murders in the name of an extreme ideology."

-Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe

"Those unemployed black men I saw loitering all over Europe weren’t inherently lazy, but lost and low on confidence and opportunities, and their crime was that they were visible, unlike the black staf…"

-Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe

"For most black people in Europe, the battle against prejudice is for life, which is why you have to pace yourself to run a marathon instead of exerting all your energy in a spring if you want to surv…"

-Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe

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19. Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

By: Mishal Husain

4.30

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

'Unforgettable' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Spell-binding' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Fascinating' WILLIAM DALRYM… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell by Lucia Osborne-Crowley

20. The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell

By: Lucia Osborne-Crowley

4.49

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The explosive, behind-the-scenes account of the criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell.'Lucia Osborne-… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. When The Dust Settles: Searching For Hope After Disaster

By: Lucy Easthope

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES  BESTSELLER A RADIO 4  BOOK OF THE WEEK CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TELE… read more

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  • biography

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Rory Stewart

3.89

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James O'Brien

4.29

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Dawn French

3.87

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Alan Partridge

4.27

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Fern Brady

4.48

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Paloma Faith

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