Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches
By: Malcolm Gaskill
3.53
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The 1735 Witchcraft Act, charging that spirits of the dead had been raised by conjuration, was used…
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1. The Grey King (The Dark Is Rising, #4)
By: Susan Cooper
4.14
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
"Fire on the Mountain Shall Find the Harp of Gold Played to Wake the Sleepers, Oldest of the Old...… read more
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2. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
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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- history
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"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. 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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5. 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
6. The Prophet and the Idiot
By: Jonas Jonasson
3.65
Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition
The brand-new, hilarious, feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hu… read more
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7. 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
8. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
By: Anna Keay
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more
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- nonfiction
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"This book was born of ignorance."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
9. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
10. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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11. Christ on a Bike
By: Orla Owen
3.89
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Cerys receives an unexpected inheritance but there are rules attached. Three simple rules that must… read more
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12. In the Blink of An Eye (Kat and Lock, #1)
By: Jo Callaghan
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an ey… read more
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13. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
14. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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15. The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case
By: Philippa Langley
3.67
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1483, Edward V (age twelve) and his brother Richard, Duke of York (age nine), disappeared from t… read more
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- biography
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16. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
By: Emma Southon
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more
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17. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
18. Travellers in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.05
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The e… read more
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- history
"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"In Dresden, Sylvia Morris witnessed the ransacking of the Jewish department store - Etam's [on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938]. 'Dresden had been peaceful and not pro-Nazi so this was a major event,'…"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"[William Edward Burghardt] Du Bois saw things rather differently. He argued that it was entirely because of Hitler that Germany had in fact already ‘lapsed into Bolshevism’. In his view, the Nazi gov…"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
19. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more
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- history
20. The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring
By: Patti McCracken
3.45
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other--a 1920s midwife who may have been the century… read more
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- history
21. Cecily
By: Annie Garthwaite
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"Rebellion?" The word is a spark. They can start a fire with it, or smother it in their fingertips… read more
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22. Learning to Think: A Memoir of Faith, Superstition, and the Courage to Ask Questions
By: Tracy King
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in 1980s Birmingham, England, a piercing memoir about the liberating power of a scientific view… read more
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23. Sheep's Clothing
By: Celia Dale
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Grace meets Janice in Holloway Prison. Once both women are released, Janice quickly becomes accompl… read more
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"Janice watched him go with astonishing regret"-Celia Dale, Sheep's Clothing
"But while pleased to surrender to Grace's authority, Janice enjoyed resenting it."-Celia Dale, Sheep's Clothing
24. The Trials of Marjorie Crowe
By: C.S. Robertson
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
How do you solve a murder when everyone thinks you're guilty? Marjorie Crowe lives in Kilgoyne, … read more
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25. The King’s Mother
By: Annie Garthwaite
4.49
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
1461. Through blood and battle Edward has gained England’s throne – king by right and conquest – ei… read more
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26. The Examiner
By: Janice Hallett
4.06
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more
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27. Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches
By: Malcolm Gaskill
3.53
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The 1735 Witchcraft Act, charging that spirits of the dead had been raised by conjuration, was used… read more
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- witches
- paranormal
