5 Top nonfiction books like Backcloth by Dirk Bogarde, Dick Bogarde

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Backcloth

By: Dirk Bogarde , Dick Bogarde

4.26

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Based on personal letters, notebooks and diaries, 'Blackcloth' explores the patterns of happiness a…

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Cover of A Postillion Struck by Lightning by Dirk Bogarde

1. A Postillion Struck by Lightning

By: Dirk Bogarde

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Dirk Bogarde's own vivid and engaging account of his childhood and first steps as an actor - a best… read more

Similar categories in Dirk Bogarde's A Postillion Struck by Lightning book and Dirk Bogarde's Backcloth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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2. Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more

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  • british literature
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3. Backcloth

By: Dirk Bogarde , Dick Bogarde

4.26

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Based on personal letters, notebooks and diaries, 'Blackcloth' explores the patterns of happiness a… read more

Similar categories in Dirk Bogarde's Backcloth book and Dirk Bogarde's Backcloth

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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4. An Orderly Man

By: Dirk Bogarde

4.15

Format: None pages,

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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5. A Short Walk from Harrods

By: Dirk Bogarde

4.13

Format: 277 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bogarde, poet, autobiographer and novelist, began his acting career on the stage. Here he recounts … read more

Similar categories in Dirk Bogarde's A Short Walk from Harrods book and Dirk Bogarde's Backcloth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction

6. Snakes and Ladders

By: Dirk Bogarde

3.51

Format: 235 pages, Paperback

The sequel to Dirk Bogarde's bestselling memoir, Postillion Struck by Lightning In Snakes and Ladde… read more

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7. Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

By: Lucy Worsley

4.19

Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition

Who was Queen Victoria? A little old lady, potato-like in appearance, dressed in everlasting black?… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
"She no longer followed fashion; she had created a fashion all her own."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

"Surely Victoria's mental health suffered because all the men around her expected it to."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

"The daily contents even of her bin 'would be more interesting than a year's file of The Times'."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

"With Bertie's illness, Victoria's return to her best self, the self she had lost in Albert, had begun."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

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8. Mr Wilder & Me

By: Jonathan Coe

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England In the heady… read more

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  • british literature
"In circumstances this desperate there is only one thing that can console me. I always keep at least three different kinds of Brie in the kitchen for emergency situations."

-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me

"Mi hija tenía razón: la gente joven no se fija en los sentimientos de sus padres, ni siquiera es consciente de ellos la mayor parte del tiempo. Viven en un bendito estado de sociopatía en lo que resp…"

-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me

"The phallic symbolism of his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, is obvious. Lindbergh, in effect, is trapped inside an enormous penis which carries him onwards to an inevitable destination which cannot …"

-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me

"Here I sat down and closed my eyes, tilting my face towards the sun and listening to the gentle lap of the blue water against the rocks. Perhaps it was my destiny, after all, to be always alone: that…"

-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me

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5 Top adult books like Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow by Lucy Worsley

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Tracy Borman

4.26

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4.18

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4.19

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Alexander Larman

3.74

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