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The Fortune Men
Nadifa Mohamed

374 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

fiction historical literary thriller emotional reflective slow-paced

The Fortune Men

Nadifa Mohamed

374 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

fiction historical literary thriller emotional reflective slow-paced

The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce by Michael Newton

The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce
Michael Newton with Fitz-James O'Brien (Contributor), Ambrose Bierce (Contributor), Elizabeth Gaskell (Contributor), Edith Wharton (Contributor), Robert Louis Stevenson (Contributor), Harriet Beecher Stowe (Contributor), Amelia B. Edwards (Contributor), Lafcadio Hearn (Contributor), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Contributor), Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Contributor), Michael Newton (Contributor), Margaret Oliphant (Contributor), W.W. Jacobs (Contributor), Charles Dickens (Contributor), Henry James (Contributor), Rudyard Kipling (Contributor), M.R. James (Contributor), Mary Hunter Austin (Contributor)

464 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

fiction classics horror short stories challenging informative slow-paced

The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce

Michael Newton with Fitz-James O'Brien (Contributor), Ambrose Bierce (Contributor), Elizabeth Gaskell (Contributor), Edith Wharton (Contributor), Robert Louis Stevenson (Contributor), Harriet Beecher Stowe (Contributor), Amelia B. Edwards (Contributor), Lafcadio Hearn (Contributor), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Contributor), Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Contributor), Michael Newton (Contributor), Margaret Oliphant (Contributor), W.W. Jacobs (Contributor), Charles Dickens (Contributor), Henry James (Contributor), Rudyard Kipling (Contributor), M.R. James (Contributor), Mary Hunter Austin (Contributor)

464 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

fiction classics horror short stories challenging informative slow-paced

The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells

The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
David Wallace-Wells

336 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective medium-paced

The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future

David Wallace-Wells

336 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell

Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
Shaun Bythell

137 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced

Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

Shaun Bythell

137 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced

The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

The Diary of a Bookseller
The Diary of a Bookseller #1

Shaun Bythell

310 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted slow-paced

The Diary of a Bookseller

The Diary of a Bookseller #1

Shaun Bythell

310 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted slow-paced

The Last Day
Owain Owain

112 pages • missing pub info (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

fiction science fiction

The Last Day

Owain Owain

112 pages • missing pub info (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

fiction science fiction

The Secret World of Sleep: Journeys Through the Nocturnal Mind by Guy Leschziner

The Secret World of Sleep: Journeys Through the Nocturnal Mind
Guy Leschziner

353 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

nonfiction psychology science informative slow-paced

The Secret World of Sleep: Journeys Through the Nocturnal Mind

Guy Leschziner

353 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

nonfiction psychology science informative slow-paced

The Sky at Night: Book of the Moon – A Guide to Our Closest Neighbour by Maggie Aderin-Pocock

The Sky at Night: Book of the Moon – A Guide to Our Closest Neighbour
Maggie Aderin-Pocock

240 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

nonfiction science informative slow-paced

The Sky at Night: Book of the Moon – A Guide to Our Closest Neighbour

Maggie Aderin-Pocock

240 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

nonfiction science informative slow-paced

Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine by Hannah Fry

Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine
Hannah Fry

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

nonfiction psychology science technology challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine

Hannah Fry

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

nonfiction psychology science technology challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It by Alice Vernon

Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It
Alice Vernon

262 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

nonfiction dark informative reflective medium-paced

Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It

Alice Vernon

262 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

4.0jp_priestley's review

nonfiction dark informative reflective medium-paced

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