Shop Girl
By: Mary Portas
3.62
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
* THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * Young Mary Newton, born into a large Irish family in a small Watfor…
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1. Rapture
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Carol Ann Duffy's 'Rapture' is about the loss and rediscovery of love in all its aspects - erotic, … read more
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2. The Railway Man
By: Eric Lomax
3.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and w… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
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3. Parsnips: Buttered: How to baffle, bamboozle and boycott your way through modern life.
By: Joe Lycett
3.50
Format: None pages,
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4. The Female Eunuch
By: Jennifer Baumgardner , Germaine Greer
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
The clarion call to change that galvanized a generation. When Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuchwas… read more
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5. Shop Girl
By: Mary Portas
3.74
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
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6. With a Mind to Kill
By: Anthony Horowitz
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and wh… read more
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7. Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
By: Anne Glenconner
4.06
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Anne Glenconner--a close member of … read more
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- biography
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"According to Princess Margaret, "You can't possibly have a picnic without your butler."-Anne Glenconner, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
"One of the protocols of being in the company of a member of the Royal Family is that if they are standing, you have to stand - you can't sit down until they do. They seem to do an awful lot of standi…"-Anne Glenconner, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
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
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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
9. Forever Home
By: Graham Norton
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Where do secrets live? Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son … read more
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10. The Gentleman From Peru
By: André Aciman
3.56
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would re… read more
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11. 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
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"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
12. 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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13. Really Good, Actually
By: Monica Heisey
3.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more
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"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
14. The Swimmer
By: Graham Norton
3.86
Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition
Quick Reads 2022 Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and qu… read more
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15. A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’
By: Otto Rosenberg
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All a… read more
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16. The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up (A Memoir)
By: Evanna Lynch
4.54
Format: 463 pages, Paperback
A searing memoir from Harry Potter star and activist Evanna Lynch about the bravery it takes to emb… read more
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- nonfiction
"To protect the dream or the disorder this will become the most difficult of choices that I will routinely have to grapple with, a choice I will have to make over and over."-Evanna Lynch, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up (A Memoir)
"One day, not too far in the distant future, this body will be a pile of decaying flesh and dust in the ground. But for now, she's alive and vibrant, and I want to stop hurting her."-Evanna Lynch, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up (A Memoir)
"For me, recovery from recovery was probably the most confusing time – the most lonely, frustrating and psychologically challenging time. It did not feel heroic and it was also incredibly tedious."-Evanna Lynch, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up (A Memoir)
"I cut those things out completely, wiping entire shelves of the food pyramid from my life, and felt powerful for it. That feeling of power and superiority fuelled my determination to do better, to ke…"-Evanna Lynch, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up (A Memoir)
17. All the Lonely People
By: Mike Gayle
4.17
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
Hubert Bird is not alone in being alone. He just needs to realise it. In weekly phone calls to … read more
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"Smiler, this damn tea so weak it nearly a fortnight!"-Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People
"That's the funny thing about life. Extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people like you and me, but only if we open ourselves up enough to let them."-Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People
"I've got a question for you . . . What are you doing on Saturday night?' Hubert stared at her confused. 'Me . . . me . . . got no plans.' 'Good,' she replied. 'In that case you're taking me to the fi…"-Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People
"For the rest of the day Hubert couldn't stop grinning. He grinned in the lift on the way back down to the warehouse. He grinned as he passed Mr Coulthard yelling at the new lads. And he grinned all t…"-Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People
18. The Empire
By: Michael Ball
4.00
Format: None pages, None
Welcome to The Empire theatre 1922. When Jack Treadwell arrives at The Empire, in the middle of … read more
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19. Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC's Most Shocking Interviews
By: Sam McAlister
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The secrets of a former Newsnight producer who found her way to Buckingham Palace 'A cracking re… read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
20. A Visible Man: A Memoir
By: Edward Enninful
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From one of our culture's most important changemakers, a memoir of breaking barriers. When Edwar… read more
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- memoir
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21. There's Been a Little Incident
By: Alice Ryan
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
A witty and warm debut novel from a young Irish writer. A story of family, grief, and the ways we c… read more
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