5 must-read autobiography books like House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett

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House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

By: Alan Bennett

3.81

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution aga…

If you liked the autobiography plot in House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. The Pursuit of Love

By: Nancy Mitford

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the i… read more

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2. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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3. Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit

By: Richard Coles

4.25

Format: None pages,

The memoir of popular BBC Radio 4 SATURDAY LIVE presenter, the Reverend Richard Coles. The Reverend… read more

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4. 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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5. Man at the Helm

By: Nina Stibbe

3.64

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

My sister and I and our little brother were born (in that order) into a very good situation and apa… read more

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6. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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  • british literature
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7. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

By: Nina Stibbe

3.66

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • diary
  • humor
  • nonfiction
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8. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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9. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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  • british literature
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10. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)

By: Shaun Bythell

4.11

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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11. House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

By: Alan Bennett

3.81

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution aga… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • diary
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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12. A Pocketful of Happiness

By: Richard E. Grant

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has be… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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13. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain

By: Robin Ince

3.84

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."

-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain

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14. Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups

By: William Miller

3.98

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Ackerley PrizeGloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked b… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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15. One Day I Shall Astonish the World

By: Nina Stibbe

3.49

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of  Love, Nina , a frank, tender, and poignantly funny story about the ebb … read more

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  • humor
  • british literature
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16. Blossomise

By: Simon Armitage

4.22

Format: 63 pages, Hardcover

Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its mela… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Old Rage

By: Sheila Hancock

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sheila Hancock looked like she was managing old age. She had weathered and even thrived in widowhoo… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book

By: Pandora Sykes

4.08

Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition

In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. The Tap Dancer

By: Andrew Barrow

3.54

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

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20. An Almost Perfect Christmas

By: Nina Stibbe

3.53

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Love, Nina -- a hilarious ode to the joys and insanities of the most wonderful t… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • humor
  • nonfiction
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21. Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World

By: Leah Broad

4.46

Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition

The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a st… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

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