Back to the Local
By: Maurice Gorham
3.84
Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition
The title needs explaining. Why back? We haven't been there yet! In 1939 the same team of Maurice G…
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1. Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
By: George MacDonald Fraser
4.05
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780006511250 Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, … read more
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"It's a great thing, prayer. Nobody answers, but at least it stops you from thinking."-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
"We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down."-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
"Now, look you here, Sekundar," says I, but he came up straight like a little bantam and cut me off. "Sir Alexander. if you please," says he icily, as though I’d never seen him with his breeches down,…"-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
"If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth …"-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
2. Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
By: Bill Hayes
4.41
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he … read more
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"O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in the world at this time"-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
"Wouldn't it be nice if there weree a planet where the sound of rain falling is like Bach?" he says. "Yes, Planet Bach," I respond. He smiles -"Yes", he murmurs- picturing it, hearing it."-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
"I have come to believe that kindness is repaid in unexpected ways and that if you are lonely or bone-tired or blue, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New York—which is to say,…"-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
"Sad, shocking, horrible, yes," underlining each word, "but..." (Oliver often said that but was his favorite word, a kind of etymological flip of the coin, for it allowed consideration of both sides o…"-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
3. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
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4. A Philosophy of Walking
By: John Howe , Clifford Harper , Frédéric Gros
3.74
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
In A Philosophy of Walking, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get fro… read more
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"Thus the man who walks all day has become certain by nightfall."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
"Just as there are several solitudes, so there are several silences."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
"Discipline is the impossible conquered by the obstinate repetition of the possible."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
"You don't walk to kill time but to welcome it, to pick off its leaves and petals one by one, second by second."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
5. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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6. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- history
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
7. 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
8. A Bookshop In Algiers
By: Kaouther Adimi
3.70
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
'If you're in a bookshop browsing, then A Bookshop In Algiers is for you, by definition. A beautifu… read more
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9. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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- history
10. A Stroke of the Pen
By: Terry Pratchett
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more
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"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen
11. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- history
12. 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
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13. The Wolves of Eternity (Morgenstjernen, #2)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.03
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel… read more
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14. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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15. In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life
By: Juliet Annan
4.05
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’ Food ca… read more
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16. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
17. 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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18. Small Bomb at Dimperley
By: Lissa Evans
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But ‘home’ is Dimperl… read more
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19. My Family and Other Rock Stars
By: Tiffany Murray
4.23
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
>In a small corner of a field in Wales, Tiffany Murray is hiding with Boggle the dog, dreaming of h… read more
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20. Brandy Sour
By: Constantina Soteriou
4.37
Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition
When it was built in the 1950s, nothing symbolised Cyprus entering the modern world like the Ledra … read more
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21. Back to the Local
By: Maurice Gorham
3.84
Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition
The title needs explaining. Why back? We haven't been there yet! In 1939 the same team of Maurice G… read more
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