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Isabel Losada's Recommended Narrative Non-Fiction List
A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World: For Tibet, with LoveA Beginner's Guide to Changing the World: For Tibet, with Love by Isabel Losada
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.80
Well, I'm proud of this book. Even now, I can't quite believe that I did all that. The whole venture felt blessed somehow...
Men!Men! by Isabel Losada
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01
Yes, I'm recommending my own books! There's important stuff here that both women and men need to know!
The Battersea Park Road to EnlightenmentThe Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment by Isabel Losada
Buy new: £4.43 / Used from: £0.01
You've got to laugh - the narrator is obviously barking mad but the subject material is endlessly fascinating...
The Islamist: Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I leftThe Islamist: Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left by Ed Husain
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £1.98
On a more serious note, this wonderful and brave book by Ed Husain should be read by everyone. It's what we all need to know, very readable and profoundly touching too.
As IfAs If by Blake Morrison
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £2.19
This is the wisest and most compassionate book that I've ever read
As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela: Underground Adventures in the Arms and Torture TradeAs Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela: Underground Adventures in the Arms and Torture Trade by Mark Thomas
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £0.01
An amazing investigative journalist and activist in clever and convincing disguise as a comedian. Mark can educate us and make us laugh too.
Will Storr Vs. the Supernatural: One Man's Search for the Truth About GhostsWill Storr Vs. the Supernatural: One Man's Search for the Truth About Ghosts by Will Storr
Buy new: £5.69 / Used from: £0.01
You don't believe in ghosts? Ha ha - neither did Will Storr. If you live alone and are nervous I serioiusly recommend not buying this book. If you think that the world is easy to understand...
The Spiritual Tourist: A Personal Odyssey Through the Outer Reaches of BeliefThe Spiritual Tourist: A Personal Odyssey Through the Outer Reaches of Belief by Mick Brown
Buy new: £12.34 / Used from: £0.01
Mick was the original Spiritual Tourist and I love the stories in this book - especially the Sai Baba stories...
The Hotel on the Roof of the World: Five Years in Tibet (Summersdale travel)The Hotel on the Roof of the World: Five Years in Tibet (Summersdale travel) by Alec Le Sueur
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £2.22
A book about Tibet that will make you laugh. A piece of history now sadly but a must for all Tibet supporters...
Them: Adventures with ExtremistsThem: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.30
Despite the fact that Jon has the best placed column in the Guardian Sat Magazine - I'm still recommending him... his books are so funny and so clever...
Utopian DreamsUtopian Dreams by Tobias Jones
Buy new: £12.71 / Used from: £0.01
A brave and fascinating book about living in communities...
True NotebooksTrue Notebooks by Mark Salzman
Buy used from: £7.34
Both a book about writing and about the prison service... Mark is one of those remarkable men..
The Film Club: No School. No Work... Just Three Films a WeekThe Film Club: No School. No Work... Just Three Films a Week by David Gilmour
Buy new: £6.61 / Used from: £4.62
Very clever book about fatherhood and film... should be compulsory reading for all Dads.