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8 best books like The Tribes of Britain (David Miles): The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Restless, The Following Story, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes, All That Remains: A Life in Death, The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain, A Wrinkle in the Skin, Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
AuthorDavid Mitchell
ISBN1400065453
In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times Book Review called him simply “a genius.” Now David Mitchell lends fresh credence to The Guardian’s claim that “each of his books seems...
Restless
AuthorWilliam Boyd
ISBN0747589372
“I am Eva Delectorskaya,” Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her daughter, Ruth, learns that everything she ever knew about her mother was a carefully constructed lie. Sally Gilmartin is a respectable English widow living in picturesque Cotswold village; Eva...
The Following Story
AuthorCees Nooteboom


Anybody reading these words probably knows the Dutch poet and novelist Cees Nooteboom is one of the finest literary writers living in the world today. In the spirit of freshness, I would like to make several observations about this very short novel and the author in light of what nineteenth...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
AuthorAdam Rutherford
ISBN0297609378
This is a story about you.

It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - births,...
All That Remains: A Life in Death
AuthorSue Black
ISBN0857524925
Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster. In All that...
The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain
AuthorChristopher Somerville
ISBN0857523635
“In January 2006, a month or two after my father died, I thought I saw him again – a momentary impression of an old man, a little stooped, setting off for a walk in his characteristic fawn corduroys and shabby quilted jacket. It was walking that first caused rifts between us in my sulky teenage years,...
A Wrinkle in the Skin
AuthorJohn Christopher
ISBN1587152355
A Wrinkle in the Skin (aka The Ragged Edge) is a 1965 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel written by the British author Samuel Youd under the pen name of John Christopher.

A massive series of earthquakes on a worldwide scale reduce cities to rubble, plunging survivors into barbarism. Most...
Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain
AuthorChris Stringer
ISBN0141018135
Chris Stringer's Homo Britannicus is the epic history of life in Britain, from man's very first footsteps through to the present day.

When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals?

Chris Stringer takes us back to when...
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