Hope & Glory: The Days That Made Britain
By: Stuart Maconie
4.47
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
'These were the days that made us, and these are the day trips to find them. Should we do a flask? …
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"Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge."-Simon Armitage, Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
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2. A Kestrel for a Knave
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3. Hope & Glory: The Days That Made Britain
By: Stuart Maconie
4.47
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
'These were the days that made us, and these are the day trips to find them. Should we do a flask? … read more
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4. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
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5. High Fidelity
By: Nick Hornby
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a l… read more
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6. Juliet, Naked
By: Nick Hornby
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Format: 202 pages,
Annie loves Duncan -- or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn't… read more
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7. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
By: Eimear McBride
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8. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
9. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
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10. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
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11. How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
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4.12
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When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whet… read more
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12. The Trial
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4.24
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"Luckily,Mum,there aren't any nice young ladies in my life so that's not really a problem."-Rob Rinder, The Trial
13. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
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14. The Seventh Son
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3.60
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more
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15. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
By: Noreen Masud
4.20
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A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more
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"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
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"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
16. Good Pop, Bad Pop
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4.30
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17. Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News
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4.10
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The things that are said on camera are only part of the story. Behind every interview there is a… read more
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18. The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
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3.90
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Zachary Cloudesley is gifted in a remarkable way. But not all gifts are a blessing... Leadenhall… read more
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19. How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong
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4.13
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Every day, James O’Brien listens to people blaming benefits scroungers, the EU, Muslims, feminists … read more
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20. Escape to the French Farmhouse
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4.14
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Can she find her recipe for happiness? Del and her husband Ollie moved to a beautiful village in Pr… read more
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21. Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life
By: Michael Caine
3.91
Format: 289 pages, Audiobook
Now in his 85th year, Hollywood legend Michael Caine shares wisdom and stories from his remarkable … read more
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