7 must-read history books like The Life and Death of St Kilda by Tom Steel

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The Life and Death of St Kilda

By: Tom Steel

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

On 29 August 1930 the remaining 36 inhabitants of this bleak but spectacular island off Scotland's …

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1. Grey Granite

By: Lewis Grassic Gibbon

3.78

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

Chris Guthrie and her son, Ewan, have come to the industrial town of Duncairn, where life is as har… read more

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  • scotland
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2. The Boys from Brazil

By: Ira Levin

4.06

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Alive and hiding in South America, Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for … read more

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"I say in my talks it takes two things to make it happen again, a new Hitler and social conditions like in the thirties. But that's not true. It takes three things: the Hitler, the conditions, and the…"

-Ira Levin, The Boys from Brazil

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3. Crippen

By: John Boyne

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

July 1910: A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden. Chief Inspector Walt… read more

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4. Reservoir 13

By: Jon McGregor

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join t… read more

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5. Any Human Heart

By: William Boyd

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991,… read more

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6. Five Quarters of the Orange

By: Joanne Harris

2.64

Format: 110 pages,

The novels of Joanne Harris are a literary feast for the senses. Five Quarters of the Orangereprese… read more

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7. St. Kilda: Island on the Edge of the World

By: Charles Maclean

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A part of Britain but a world apart, St Kilda society existed almost completely isolated from the m… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • scotland
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8. The Secret Life of Cows

By: Rosamund Young

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cows can love, play games, bond and form strong, life-long friendships. They can sulk, hold grudges… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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10. The Life and Death of St Kilda

By: Tom Steel

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

On 29 August 1930 the remaining 36 inhabitants of this bleak but spectacular island off Scotland's … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • travel
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • scotland
  • ornithology

11. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New

3.90

Format: 256 pages,

Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more

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12. Conclave

By: Robert Harris

4.00

Format: None pages,

The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals… read more

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13. Return to Fourwinds

By: Elisabeth Gifford

3.87

Format: 515 pages, Paperback

From the author of Secrets of the Sea House comes the mystery of a runaway bride. Can a century of … read more

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14. The Living Mountain

By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more

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15. Wish You Were Here

By: Mike Gayle

3.51

Format: 383 pages,

After ten years together, Charlie Mansell has been dumped by his live-in girlfriend Sarah. All he w… read more

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16. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

By: Lucy Worsley

4.20

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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17. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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18. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

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"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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19. Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1)

By: Vaseem Khan

4.02

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

Bombay, New Year's Eve, 1949As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Pe… read more

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"Just because a cow stands in a field all day doesn’t make it a philosopher"

-Vaseem Khan, Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1)

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20. A Winter Grave

By: Peter May

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

It is the year 2051. Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the plane… read more

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  • scotland
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21. The Twyford Code

By: Janice Hallett

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

It's time to solve the murder of the century... Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a … read more

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"A lot of talk inside about feelings. How feelings are like visitors with something to give you. If they knock on your door: answer. Let em in. Accept the gift. Say cheers, mate. Otherwise, they said,…"

-Janice Hallett, The Twyford Code

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22. The Burning Chambers (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #1)

By: Kate Mosse

3.97

Format: 605 pages, Kindle Edition

Carcassonne 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father’s book… read more

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23. The Seven Ages of Death

By: Richard Shepherd

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. The Amur River: Between Russia And China

By: Colin Thubron

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dramatic and ambitious new journey from our greatest travel writer. The Amur River is almost unk… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
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25. A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Whitby Murders (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries, #6) by J.R. Ellis

26. The Whitby Murders (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries, #6)

By: J.R. Ellis

4.15

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

A murder with three witnesses. But one of them doesn’t believe what she saw…Halloween, Whitby. DCI … read more

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27. Agent Running in the Field

By: John Le Carré

3.85

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent… read more

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"Beloof niets waar je niet op kunt terugkomen."

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"O cartaz seguinte anuncia as características curativas dos famosos banhos. Não há nenhum cartaz a anunciar que a cidade também é célebre como o local de encontro preferido da fina-flor do crime organ…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"Para quem tem acesso autorizado à Poeira de Estrelas, o espetáculo começa dentro de cinquenta e cinco minutos. Para quem não tem, há dois funcionários com olhos de águia à porta que terão todo o gost…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"It is my considered opinion, that for Britain and Europe, and for liberal democracy across the entire world as a whole, Britain’s departure from the European Union in the time of Donald Trump, and Br…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

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28. Contacts

By: Mark Watson

3.69

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

James Chiltern boards the 23:50 sleeper train from London to Edinburgh with two pork pies, six beer… read more

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"You defined yourself by participating in other people's lives."

-Mark Watson, Contacts

"But excuses didn't mean anything in the end. What actually happened in the end was what mattered."

-Mark Watson, Contacts

"But excuses didn't mean anything in the end. What _actually happened_ in the end was what mattered."

-Mark Watson, Contacts

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29. The Lost Lights of St Kilda

By: Elisabeth Gifford

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When Fred Lawson takes a summer job on St Kilda in 1927, little does he realise that he has joined … read more

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  • scotland
Cover of The Rockpool Murder (Shell House Detectives, #3) by Emylia Hall

30. The Rockpool Murder (Shell House Detectives, #3)

By: Emylia Hall

4.43

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

A stunning Cornish house, a shocking death—can The Shell House Detectives catch a killer hiding in … read more

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31. Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West

By: Katie Hickman

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

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4.00

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Rosamund Young

3.67

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3.80

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Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

Lucy Worsley

4.20

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State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974

Dominic Sandbrook

4.34

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Rory Stewart

4.36

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David Mitchell

4.16

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Anna Keay

4.39

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