Burn: A Story of Fire, Woods and Healing
By: Ben Short
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
I came to the woods over a decade ago. I came to the woods because there was a fire in my head. …
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1. The Scapegoat
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.16
Format: 315 pages, ebook
By chance, John and Jean--one English, the other French--meet in a provincial railway station. Thei… read more
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2. I'm the King of the Castle
By: Susan Hill
3.72
Format: 272 pages,
'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kin… read more
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3. The Golden Ass
By: Apuleius , Jack Lindsay , None
4.30
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
The Golden Assby Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only… read more
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4. The End of the Affair
By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more
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"As long as one suffers one lives."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
5. Rivals (Rutshire Chronicles #2)
By: Jilly Cooper
3.94
Format: 450 pages, Paperback
Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O'Hara, a mega-star of great glamour … read more
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6. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
By: Dan Jones
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more
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7. Lost Illusions
By: Honoré de Balzac , Ellen Marriage , George Saintsbury
4.16
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his … read more
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"For avarice begins where poverty ends."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
"ci sono uomini-quercia, io sono forse solo un arbusto elegante, e ho la pretesa di essere un cedro."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
"Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
"căci excesele de orice soi împing trupul pe calea spre care e predispus din naştere: ca şi învăţătura multă, beţia îl îngraşă pe cel gras şi îl slăbeşte pe cel slab."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
8. Death on Cromer Beach (DS Ashley Knight #1)
By: Ross Greenwood
4.10
Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition
The first in a new series from bestselling author, Ross Greenwood! A brutal double murder on a N… read more
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9. 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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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
10. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
By: Kate Atkinson
3.71
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more
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"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
11. London Rules (Slough House, #5)
By: Mick Herron
4.34
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
The fifth entry in CWA Gold dagger-winning Slough House series.London Rules might not be written do… read more
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"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once." "I look happy to you?" "No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
12. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
13. Wolves of Winter (Essex Dogs Trilogy)
By: Dan Jones
4.16
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The epic sequel to Essex Dogs, continuing the New York Times bestselling historian's trilogy of nov… read more
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14. The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more
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"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
15. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness
By: Christian Lewis
4.40
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more
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16. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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- nature
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
17. How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older
By: Michael Greger
4.29
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Uncover the evidence-based science to slowing the effects of aging, from the New York Times bestsel… read more
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18. Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well
By: Tim Spector
4.27
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth , a comprehensive guide to the new scien… read more
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19. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
By: James Rebanks
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more
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- memoir
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"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
20. The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology
By: Mark Boyle
3.94
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
It was 11:00 pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped … read more
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21. Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story
By: Neil Samworth
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Neil ‘Sam’ Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangewa… read more
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22. Slug
By: Hollie McNish
4.51
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From Finnish saunas and soppy otters to grief, grandparents and Kellogg's anti-masturbation pants, … read more
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23. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
24. Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline
By: Christian Lewis
4.41
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
The No. 1 Sunday Times BestsellerWalking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the… read more
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25. Goshawk Summer: A New Forest Season Unlike Any Other
By: James Aldred
4.33
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
In early 2020, wildlife cameraman James Aldred was commissioned to film the lives of a family of Go… read more
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26. Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future
By: Philip Lymbery
4.21
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
'The warnings are coming thick and fast now and Lymbery's are clear, concise and truly frightening … read more
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27. Be a Birder: Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2024
By: Hamza Yassin
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
'Birds have been with me my entire life - from the colourful weaver birds on the banks of the Nile … read more
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28. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more
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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
29. Burn: A Story of Fire, Woods and Healing
By: Ben Short
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
I came to the woods over a decade ago. I came to the woods because there was a fire in my head. … read more
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30. Get Well, Stay Well: The six healing health habits you need to know
By: Gemma Newman
4.15
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
‘A hopeful, essential read’ Dr Rangan Chatterjee‘A true game changer of a book.’ Dr Rupy Aujla‘For … read more
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