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Non fiction book recommendations for DH who rarely reads?

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Mimx · 06/07/2020 22:05

We’ve got a couple of weeks booked away this summer, a rural retreat in the UK. Well try and get out and about as much as we can, but inevitably may be spending more time inside than our normal holidays abroad. The DCs and I have got fairly chunky reading lists planned, but DH isn’t much of a reader - he will do so happily if he finds something he likes, but struggles to find his kind of book. And he will nag the rest of us to be up and doing something if he hasn’t got his own book on the go!

He prefers non-fiction. Books he’s liked in the last year or so are the Simon Reeve autobiography/travel book, Peter Crouches books, John Simpson autobiography (old book!), F1 book Driven, The Mixer (history of football tactics), and Moondust (about the moon landing astronauts). He loves sport, but mainstream biographies of sports people are not his thing.

Anyone got suggestions? TIA!

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SatsukiKusakabe · 12/07/2020 21:14

Inverting the Pyramid is a good football one.

ThomasHardyPerennial · 20/07/2020 14:19

Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane was thoroughly enjoyable.

IsMiseMorag · 20/07/2020 14:33

Bit late but if you're staying somewhere rural, I really, really recommend James Rebanks' A Shepherd's Life - about the working life of a fell farmer in Cumbria. He writes about the realities of the countryside so honestly and beautifully, it'll make you see your surroundings in a whole new way.

AbbieLexie · 20/07/2020 15:36

Marley & Me - easy reading.

Ellmau · 28/07/2020 21:20

If you're still looking, one of today's kindle daily deals is an autobiography b a F1 designer which your dh might like.

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