12 Top memoir books like The Tent, the Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy

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The Tent, the Bucket and Me

By: Emma Kennedy

3.77

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Growing up in the Seventies, we were on the brink of the modern age. But despite a brave new world …

If you liked the memoir plot in The Tent, the Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Cider With Roadies

By: Stuart Maconie

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Cider with Roadies is the story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through mu… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Maconie's Cider With Roadies book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
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2. Spectacles

By: Sue Perkins

4.02

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

8h 44m When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. W… read more

Similar categories in Sue Perkins's Spectacles book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Sometimes we don't want to be tethered to yesterday. It's nicer to forget. Maybe the gaps in our memory are there for a reason, evolutionary perhaps, to give us the space to grow, to get away from ch…"

-Sue Perkins, Spectacles

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3. Onion John

By: Joseph Krumgold , Symeon Shimin

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The story of a friendship between a 12-year-old boy and an immigrant handyman, almost wrecked by th… read more

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4. The Tent, the Bucket and Me

By: Emma Kennedy

3.77

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Growing up in the Seventies, we were on the brink of the modern age. But despite a brave new world … read more

Similar categories in Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook

5. Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

By: Nina Stibbe

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the 1980s Nina Stibbe wrote letters home to her sister in Leicester describing her trials and tr… read more

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6. Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

By: Nigel Slater

3.69

Format: 496 pages,

'My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window, a crease of annoyance acr… read more

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7. The Echo Chamber

By: John Boyne

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

'His relish is infectious' Times'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Ra… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's The Echo Chamber book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • humor
  • audiobook
"They wouldn’t understand anyway. The cheese fell off their crackers a long time ago."

-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

"I’m sorry, but there is nothing – nothing – that squeezes my lemons more than people saying that."

-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

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8. 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

Similar categories in Bob Mortimer's And Away... book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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9. No One Saw a Thing

By: Andrea Mara

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two children get on the train. Only one gets off...No one saw it happen.You stand on a crowded tube… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Mara's No One Saw a Thing book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • audiobook
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10. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

Similar categories in Bob Mortimer's The Satsuma Complex book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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11. Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being

By: Romesh Ranganathan

3.87

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's holiday cam… read more

Similar categories in Romesh Ranganathan's Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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12. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Edmondson's Berserker! book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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13. The Day I Fell Into a Fairytale

By: Ben Miller

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Following the breakout successes of The Night I Met Father Christmas and The Boy Who Made the World… read more

Similar categories in Ben Miller's The Day I Fell Into a Fairytale book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • audiobook
Cover of T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen by Peter Kay

14. T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen

By: Peter Kay

4.23

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure*Blockbusters, Baywatch … Mastermind, Moonl… read more

Similar categories in Peter Kay's T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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15. These Days

By: Lucy Caldwell

3.71

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war -- so … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Caldwell's These Days book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • audiobook
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16. The Gran Tour: Travels with my Elders

By: Ben Aitken

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

When Ben Aitken- a millennial Bill Bryson- learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday in… read more

Similar categories in Ben Aitken's The Gran Tour: Travels with my Elders book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

By: Lucy Mangan

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Mangan's Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Each book is a world entire. You're going to have to take more than one pass at it."

-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

"The intensity of childhod reading, the instant and complete absorption in a book - a good book, a bad book, in any kind of book - is something I would give much to recapture"

-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

"The philosopher and psychologist Riccardo Manzotti describes the process of reading and rereading as creating both locks and keys with which to open them; it shows you an area of life you didn't even…"

-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

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18. Walk Yourself Happy: Find your path to health and healing in nature

By: Julia Bradbury

4.02

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'It's hard not to be persuaded by Bradbury's enthusiasm and positivity' … read more

Similar categories in Julia Bradbury's Walk Yourself Happy: Find your path to health and healing in nature book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • nonfiction
Cover of Jojo: Finally Home by Johannes Radebe

19. Jojo: Finally Home

By: Johannes Radebe

4.45

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!* Champion dancer and Strictly Come Dancing professional Jo… read more

Similar categories in Johannes Radebe's Jojo: Finally Home book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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20. Just Ignore Him

By: Alan Davies

4.36

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Al… read more

Similar categories in Alan Davies's Just Ignore Him book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"This is the true inheritance tax of life. Behaviours and habits, ingrained, your own but not your own, a duty on your existence, a tariff to be levied on those who try to love you."

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

"Later, I imagined that the past is not behind us at all, but unseen beneath our feet. We are supported by it as we walk, sometimes balanced, sometimes not, and if we tried we could reach below to gra…"

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

"I don't see the point of leukaemia. Some diseases are using you as the host for a time and then they transfer to someone else, they survive that way, those pathogens, airborne or waterborne, jumping …"

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

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21. Hungry

By: Grace Dent

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yea… read more

Similar categories in Grace Dent's Hungry book and Emma Kennedy's The Tent, the Bucket and Me

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Are you hungry?' I say, slightly mischievously. 'Very, he says, unfurling his napkin. This is a shame, because we're sitting down for a tasting menu that will not be a meal, but more a random collect…"

-Grace Dent, Hungry

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Sue Perkins

4.02

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3.77

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John Boyne

3.87

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And Away...

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Jennifer Saunders

3.85

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James O'Brien

4.29

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David Mitchell

4.16

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4.16

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