6 Top biography books like On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child by Laura Cumming

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On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

By: Laura Cumming

3.58

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riv…

"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."

-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."

-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."

-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

"To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forgotten."

-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

If you liked the biography plot in On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child by Laura Cumming , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey

1. Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty

By: Catherine Bailey

3.50

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

House of privilege, riches and secrets... Wentworth is today a crumbling and forgotten palace in Yo… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Bailey's Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty book and Laura Cumming's On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. So Many Ways to Begin

By: Jon McGregor

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this potent examination of family and memory, Jon McGregor charts one man's voyage of self-disco… read more

Similar categories in Jon McGregor's So Many Ways to Begin book and Laura Cumming's On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

  • british literature

3. A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations

By: Juliet Nicolson

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable wome… read more

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4. On The Black Hill

By: Bruce Chatwin

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

On the Black Hillis an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in r… read more

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5. South Riding

By: Winifred Holtby , Marion Shaw , Shirley Williams

3.95

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Winifred Holtby's greatest novel was published posth… read more

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6. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne book and Laura Cumming's On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."

-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

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7. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time book and Laura Cumming's On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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8. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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  • audiobook
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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10. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • british literature
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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11. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

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  • audiobook
  • british literature
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12. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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  • audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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13. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • british literature
Cover of On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child by Laura Cumming

14. On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

By: Laura Cumming

3.58

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riv… read more

Similar categories in Laura Cumming's On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child book and Laura Cumming's On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • british literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."

-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

"To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forg…"

-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

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15. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

By: Noreen Masud

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more

Similar categories in Noreen Masud's A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma book and Laura Cumming's On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

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16. 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

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  • audiobook
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17. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • british literature
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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18. Milk: On Motherhood and Madness

By: Alice Kinsella

3.82

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A map of motherhood, Milk is at once a gentle and meditative story of one woman’s experience of new… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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19. The Kellerby Code

By: Jonny Sweet

3.51

Format: None pages, ebook

Edward is living in a world he can't afford and to which he doesn't belong. To camouflage himself, … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. My Family: The Memoir

By: David Baddiel

4.41

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more

Similar categories in David Baddiel's My Family: The Memoir book and Laura Cumming's On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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21. My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir

By: Sarah Moss

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching memoir about childhood, food, books, and our ability to see, become, and protect our… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook

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Catherine Bailey

3.50

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Katherine Rundell

4.18

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Sebastian Barry

3.85

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Jennie Godfrey

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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Laura Cumming

4.19

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Anne Enright

3.55

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Naomi Klein

4.22

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Lucy Jones

4.54

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