The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
By: Tim Hannigan
4.27
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, lyrical account of an east-west walk across Britain's westernmost and most mysteriou…
Want to Read $ 12.99If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey by Tim Hannigan , here is a list of 14 books like this:
1. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
By: Hisham Matar
4.15
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Hisham Matar, a memoir of his… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Hisham Matar's The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
- nonfiction
- history
"What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?"-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
"The past, like a severed limb, tried to fix itself onto the body of the present."-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
"Those who would later lament Seif and his father's (Qaddafi) regime are like a man who looks at the ashes and says, "I much prefer the fire"-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
"And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest."-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
2. The Rotters' Club
By: Jonathan Coe
3.96
Format: 415 pages, Paperback
Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescen… read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
"...he was the proud owner of a quite colossal member, which on the many awestruck occasions it had been exposed to public view had been compared variously to a giant frankfurter, an overfed python, a…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
"ja niin elämässäni kaikki tuntuu tänään muuttuneen, jopa kaupunki muuttaa muotoaan ympärilläni, minä istun Paradise Placella ja katson Muistojen saliin päin ja yhtäkkiä kaikki viittaa minuun ja Cicel…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
"They sat and drank their pints. The tables in which their faces were dimly reflected were dark brown, the darkest brown, the colour of Bournville chocolate. The walls were a lighter brown, the colour…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
"Hey - Duggie! Duggie! Duggie!" He came running up to me, sparkler in hand. I felt like sticking one on him, the cheeky bastard. Nobody called me Duggie. He held the sparkler up in front of my face an…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
3. The Club Dumas
By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte , Sonia Soto
0.00
Format: 798 pages, Paperback
A provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventu… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Arturo Pérez-Reverte's The Club Dumas book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
4. Ross Poldark (Poldark, #1)
By: Winston Graham
4.08
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
Ross Poldark is a heartwarming, gripping, and utterly entertaining saga that brings to life an unfo… read more
Want to Read $ 9.49Similar categories in Winston Graham's Ross Poldark (Poldark, #1) book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
"Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious."-Winston Graham, Ross Poldark (Poldark, #1)
"Essere gentili è il dovere di ogni inglese che si rispetti."-Winston Graham, Ross Poldark (Poldark, #1)
"Tedn't law. Tedn't right. Tedn't just. Tedn't sense. Tedn't friendly."-Winston Graham, Ross Poldark (Poldark, #1)
"The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and—and to love in return."-Winston Graham, Ross Poldark (Poldark, #1)
5. The Wild Places
By: Robert Macfarlane
3.73
Format: None pages,
"An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Robert Macfarlane's The Wild Places book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
6. Daphne du Maurier
By: Margaret Forster
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Rebecca, published in 1938, brought its author instant international acclaim, capturing the popular… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Margaret Forster's Daphne du Maurier book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
7. The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
By: Bill Bryson
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and loving sequel to a hilarious and loving classic of travel writing: Notes from a S… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Bill Bryson's The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
8. Demelza (Poldark, #2)
By: Winston Graham
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In the enchanting second novel in Winston Graham’s beloved Poldark series, Demelza Carne, an impove… read more
Want to Read $ 9.97Similar categories in Winston Graham's Demelza (Poldark, #2) book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
"A nice frame doesn’t make a nice picture."-Winston Graham, Demelza (Poldark, #2)
"...Here, beast, you shall be the chairman, and mind you call us to order." He leaned forward and dropped the cat on the empty seat."-Winston Graham, Demelza (Poldark, #2)
"Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand."-Winston Graham, Demelza (Poldark, #2)
"... however steady a man is, if he has an unstable wife to whom he is devoted, then there is a corrosion at work on his own foundations."-Winston Graham, Demelza (Poldark, #2)
9. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
Want to Read $ 9.10Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
10. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
By: Simon Winchester
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Simon Winchester's Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
- nonfiction
- history
11. The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
By: Tim Hannigan
4.27
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, lyrical account of an east-west walk across Britain's westernmost and most mysteriou… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- walking
- nature
12. Pity
By: Andrew McMillan
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Andrew McMillan's Pity book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
13. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- nature
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
14. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
Want to Read $ 9.00Similar categories in Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
15. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more
Want to Read $ 11.49Similar categories in Joseph O'Connor's My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
16. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Raynor Winn's Landlines book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
- walking
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
17. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Kate Grenville's Restless Dolly Maunder book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
18. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
By: Victoria Mackenzie
3.85
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Victoria Mackenzie's For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
19. I Am an Island
By: Tamsin Calidas
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on an island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home.… read more
Want to Read $ 12.25Similar categories in Tamsin Calidas's I Am an Island book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
- nonfiction
- nature
"It was a time of hope and dreaming of your beautiful life, and Brit Pop singing the world real again."-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"On dementia: It is like you are living in a world with no connection to anyone or anything. It is lonely. It is like nobody is there."-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"Cancer bleeds the life out of you until there is nothing left. Once the body is not able to eat, it starts to sleep and its muscles and strength begin to waste away. But even then, the mind can still…"-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
"When someone dies, their spirit is free. But no one is free that is left behind. (...) Grief is like soil. It is heavy and clings to your skin, even when you come up for air. And sometimes, even afte…"-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island
20. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
By: Peter Ross
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
*Featuring a brand new chapter!* Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in … read more
Want to Read $ 5.99Similar categories in Peter Ross's Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
21. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- nature
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
22. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Cecile Pin's Wandering Souls book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
23. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Caleb Azumah Nelson's Small Worlds book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
24. The Painter's Daughters
By: Emily Howes
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
25. Lobster: and other things I’m learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe
By: Hollie McNish
4.43
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestsel… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Hollie McNish's Lobster: and other things I’m learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
- nonfiction
26. Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town
By: Lamorna Ash
4.03
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A captivating, lyrical and deeply discerning portrait of life in the Cornish town of Newlyn, the la… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- nature
27. A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
By: Peter Ross
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the … read more
Want to Read $ 5.99Similar categories in Peter Ross's A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
"Exposure to a particle of darkness means one does not sicken with it."-Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
28. All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between
By: Mike Parker
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Mike Parker's All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
29. Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
By: Catrina Davies
4.23
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Catrina Davies's Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
- nonfiction
- nature
"The house in Bristol belonged to a family who were traveling the world on our combined rent."-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
"People I know with houses squeeze every drop of capital out of them, because, even when it's hard, squeezing capital out of a house is a hell of a lot easier than squeezing it out of work."-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
30. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
By: Juliet Nicolson
3.44
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Juliet Nicolson's Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country book and Tim Hannigan's The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
- nonfiction
- history
