Pierke
Pierke

Authors Language Literature

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Details
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Readers Count
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#2
The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir
The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir
  • John Sutherland
41 read
#3
Daphne
Daphne
  • Justine Picardie
34 reads
#5
C. S. Lewis - A Life
C. S. Lewis - A Life
  • Alister McGrath
3.334 reads
#6
The End of Your Life Book Club
The End of Your Life Book Club
  • Will Schwalbe
3.7627 reads
#7
The Dangerous Edge of Things
The Dangerous Edge of Things
  • Candida Lycett Green
00 reads
#8
The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
  • Jan Loop
41 read
#9
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
  • Judith Flanders
2.837 reads
#10
A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing
A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing
  • Anna Thomasson
00 reads
#11
Fou Lei An Insistence on Truth
Fou Lei An Insistence on Truth
  • Mingyuan Hu
41 read
#12
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
  • Paula Byrne
41 read
#13
Design Principles for Teaching Effective Writing
Design Principles for Teaching Effective Writing
  • Raquel Fidalgo
  • Karen R. Harris
  • Martine Braaksma
41 read
#14
The king's jaunt: George IV in Scotland, August, 1822, "one and twenty daft days"
The king's jaunt: George IV in Scotland, August, 1822, "one and twenty daft days"
  • John Prebble
00 reads
#15
Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language
Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language
  • Daniel Tammet
3.67 reads
#17
Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar
Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar
  • David Crystal
00 reads
#18
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up
  • Antonia Fraser
00 reads
#19
Betjeman: A Life
Betjeman: A Life
  • A.N. Wilson
00 reads
#20
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Not The Whole Story

Not The Whole Story: A Memoir
  • Angela Huth
00 reads
#21
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
  • Laura Thompson
21 read
#22
Agnon's Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon
Agnon's Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon
  • Avner Falk
31 read
#23
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
  • David W. Anthony
4.1712 reads
#24
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
  • Thomas S. Mullaney
42 reads
#25
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The Man who Would be Sherlock

The Man who Would be Sherlock: The Real Life Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Christopher Sandford
00 reads
#26
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
  • Colm Tóibín
32 reads
#27
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
3.9748 reads
#28
Bandersnatch
Bandersnatch
  • Diana Pavlac Glyer
4.54 reads
#29
Kenneth Clark
Kenneth Clark
  • James Stourton
00 reads
#30
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The hobbit
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The hobbit
  • Corey Olsen
47 reads
#31
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Manderley Forever

Manderley Forever: The Life of Daphne du Maurier
  • Tatiana de Rosnay
41 read
#32
Jane Austen at Home
Jane Austen at Home
  • Lucy Worsley
4.1915 reads
#33
Myself When Young
Myself When Young
  • Daphne du Maurier
42 reads
#34
A Circle of Sisters
A Circle of Sisters
  • Judith Flanders
00 reads
#35
One Hot Summer
One Hot Summer
  • Rosemary Ashton
00 reads
#36
J. R. R. Tolkien : a biography
J. R. R. Tolkien : a biography
  • Humphrey Carpenter
412 reads
#37
The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
  • Lucy Worsley
3.56 reads
#38
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
  • John Lahr
00 reads
#39
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The Word I'm Thinking Of

The Word I'm Thinking Of: A Devilish Dictionary of Difficult Words
  • Michael Gates
00 reads
#40
The Rare and the Beautiful
The Rare and the Beautiful
  • Cressida Connolly
00 reads
#41
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
  • Aaron Lansky
4.25 reads
#42
Love from Boy
Love from Boy
  • Donald Sturrock
00 reads
#43
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
  • Thomas E. Ricks
3.869 reads
#44
The Enchanted Hour
The Enchanted Hour
  • Meghan Cox Gurdon
3.675 reads
#45
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Ostende

Ostende: 1936, Sommer der Freundschaft
  • Volker Weidermann
00 reads
#46
The Lost Words
The Lost Words
  • Robert Macfarlane
4.2510 reads
#47
Murder by the Book
Murder by the Book
  • Claire Harman
3.27 reads
#48
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J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Man Who Created The Lord of the Rings
  • Michael Coren
32 reads
#49
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
  • Simon Winchester
3.84125 reads
#50
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Summoned by Bells

Summoned by Bells
  • John Betjeman
51 read
#51
In Search of Conrad
In Search of Conrad
  • Gavin Young
4.52 reads
#52
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
  • Lynne Truss
3.81139 reads
#53
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
  • A.J. Jacobs
3.5758 reads
#54
Cover 4

Caught in the Web of Words

Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
  • K.M. Elisabeth Murray
41 read
#55
Cover 4

A Chainless Soul

A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Brontë
  • Katherine Frank
41 read
#56
Cover 8

Letters from Menabilly

Letters from Menabilly: Portrait of a Friendship
  • Daphne du Maurier
  • Oriel Malet
41 read
#57
Cover 4

Grandmother's Footsteps

Grandmother's Footsteps: A Journey in Search of Penelope Betjeman
  • Imogen Lycett Green
41 read
#58
Cover 8

Young Betjeman

Young Betjeman
  • Bevis Hillier
41 read
#59
Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier
  • Margaret Forster
51 read
#60
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
  • Eva Hoffman
3.54 reads
#61
Cover 1

Art of Kate Greenaway, The

Art of Kate Greenaway, The: A Nostalgic Portrait of Childhood
  • Ina Taylor
  • Kate Greenaway
41 read
#62
Isak Dinesen Her Life in Pictures
Isak Dinesen Her Life in Pictures
    31 read
    #63
    The Day Gone By: An Autobiography
    The Day Gone By: An Autobiography
    • Richard Adams
    3.52 reads
    #64
    The Invisible Woman
    The Invisible Woman
    • Claire Tomalin
    41 read
    #65
    Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein
    Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein
    • Janet Hobhouse
    41 read
    #66
    Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us
    Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us
    • Elizabeth Stone
    51 read
    #67
    A.A. Milne. His life
    A.A. Milne. His life
    • Ann Thwaite
    41 read
    #68
    Cover 0

    Rebecca West

    Rebecca West : A Life
    • Victoria Glendinning
    41 read
    #69
    Cover 2

    Quiller Couch

    Quiller Couch: A portrait of 'Q.'
    • A.L. Rowse
    41 read
    #70
    Cover 5

    John Betjeman

    John Betjeman: The Biography
    • Bevis Hillier
    51 read
    #71
    Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
    Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
    • Victoria Glendinning
    51 read
    #72
    Portrait of a Marriage
    Portrait of a Marriage
    • Nigel Nicolson
    • Victoria Sackville-West
    42 reads
    #73
    John Buchan and his World
    John Buchan and his World
    • Janet Adam Smith
    41 read
    #74
    Robert Stevenson in the South Seas: An Intimate Photographic Record
    Robert Stevenson in the South Seas: An Intimate Photographic Record
    • Alanna Knight
    41 read
    #75
    Tennyson Album
    Tennyson Album
    • Andrew Wheatcroft
    31 read
    #76
    Cover 2

    The Story of English

    The Story of English
    • Robert McCrum
    • Robert MacNeil
    4.333 reads
    #77
    The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography
    The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography
    • Margaret Lane
    3.52 reads
    #78
    Cover 8

    Landscapes of Memory

    Landscapes of Memory: Turner as Illustrator to Scott
    • Gerald Finley
    51 read
    #79
    Shelley and His World
    Shelley and His World
    • Claire Tomalin
    41 read
    #80
    Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
    Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
    • Helene Hanff
    45 reads
    #82
    The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
    The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
    • Mark Forsyth
    4.3329 reads
    #83
    Cover 1

    The Making of Poetry

    The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
    • Adam Nicolson
    00 reads
    #84
    The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
    The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
    • Simon Winchester
    49 reads
    #85
    Club
    Club
    • Leo Damrosch
    41 read
    #86
    The Man in the Red Coat
    The Man in the Red Coat
    • Julian Barnes
    47 reads
    #87
    Square Haunting
    Square Haunting
    • Francesca Wade
    00 reads
    #88
    Cover 4

    Parnell and His Times

    Parnell and His Times
      41 read
      #89
      Cover 7

      A Place For Everything

      A Place For Everything
      • Judith Flanders
      3.673 reads
      #90
      Persian Historiography across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
      Persian Historiography across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
      • Sholeh Quinn
      41 read
      #91
      The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë
      The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë
      • Daphne du Maurier
      41 read
      #92
      How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: Critical Thinking in the Age of Bias, Contested Truth, and Disinformation
      How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: Critical Thinking in the Age of Bias, Contested Truth, and Disinformation
      • Thomas C. Foster
      00 reads
      #93
      Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
      Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
      • Cecelia Watson
      3.6414 reads
      #94
      The Mystery of Charles Dickens
      The Mystery of Charles Dickens
      • A.N. Wilson
      41 read
      #95
      Cover 6

      Good Wives?

      Good Wives?
      • Margaret Forster
      41 read
      #96
      Memory Hold-the-Door: The Autobiography of John Buchan
      Memory Hold-the-Door: The Autobiography of John Buchan
      • John Buchan
      41 read
      #97
      The Rebecca Notebook: and Other Memories
      The Rebecca Notebook: and Other Memories
      • Daphne du Maurier
      41 read
      #98
      Cover 1

      The Brontës

      The Brontës
      • Juliet Barker
      41 read
      #99
      The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
      The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
      • Paula Byrne
      01 read
      #100
      Walking the Invisible
      Walking the Invisible
      • Michael Stewart
      00 reads
      #101
      The Golden Age of Murder
      The Golden Age of Murder
      • Martin Edwards
      3.838 reads
      #102
      The Turning Point: 1851. A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
      The Turning Point: 1851. A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
      • Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
      00 reads
      #103
      Kingdom of Characters
      Kingdom of Characters
      • Jing Tsu
      3.718 reads
      #104
      The History Behind Game of Thrones: The North Remembers
      The History Behind Game of Thrones: The North Remembers
      • David C. Weinczok
      00 reads