30 Best nonfiction books like Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England by Sebastian Payne

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Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

By: Sebastian Payne

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Broken Heartlands is a political road trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour…

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1. Poverty Safari

By: Darren McGarvey

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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2. The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries

By: Alastair Campbell

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A revelatory account of Tony Blair's tumultuous leadership, The Blair Years gathers extracts from t… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

3. Beyond Black

By: Hilary Mantel

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab b… read more

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4. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • society
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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5. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

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  • society
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more

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  • society
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

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7. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

By: Ian Dunt

4.45

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more

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  • society
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By: Antony Beevor

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more

Similar categories in Antony Beevor's Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 book and Sebastian Payne's Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By: Edward Chisholm

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more

Similar categories in Edward Chisholm's A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City book and Sebastian Payne's Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

  • travel
  • nonfiction
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10. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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11. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Why We Get the Wrong Politicians

By: Isabel Hardman

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A newer edition of this book can be found here. Politicians are consistently voted the least trust… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Hardman's Why We Get the Wrong Politicians book and Sebastian Payne's Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

  • society
  • politics
  • education
  • nonfiction
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14. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World

By: Malcolm Gaskill

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

By: Sebastian Payne

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Broken Heartlands is a political road trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Payne's Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England book and Sebastian Payne's Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

  • cultural
  • history
  • travel
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • society
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16. Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV

By: Rob Burley

4.23

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider account of 25 years working at the very top of Britis… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. But What Can I Do?

By: Alastair Campbell

3.87

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders wh… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Campbell's But What Can I Do? book and Sebastian Payne's Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

  • society
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

By: Anthony Seldon

4.22

Format: 662 pages, Hardcover

***Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times and the Observer *** After his dramatic … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Out of the Blue: The Inside Story of Liz Truss and Her Astonishing Rise to Power

By: Harry Cole

3.74

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

Liz Truss’s journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain’s new prime minister. She is the lo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK

By: Simon Kuper

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more

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  • society
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

By: Alice Vincent

3.84

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

22. Keir Starmer: The Biography

By: Tom Baldwin

4.06

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. Chief of Staff: Notes from Downing Street 'Fascinating' The Times

By: Gavin Barwell

3.94

Format: 520 pages, Kindle Edition

BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and Prospect'Fascinating and instructive... his decency and p… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Haven’t You Heard?: Gossip, Power, and How Politics Really Works by Marie Le Conte

24. Haven’t You Heard?: Gossip, Power, and How Politics Really Works

By: Marie Le Conte

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In Haven't You Heard...? , Marie Le Conte looks at the role gossip plays in all areas of politics -… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn by Gabriel Pogrund

25. Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn

By: Gabriel Pogrund

4.01

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The 2017 parliament began with Labour on the precipice of power, and its left-most fringe - for so … read more

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  • society
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn

By: Steve Richards

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and ProspectWas Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Heal… read more

Similar categories in Steve Richards's The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn book and Sebastian Payne's Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Harold Wilson: The Winner

By: Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds

4.06

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Using previously restricted materials, Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds examines one of the most influential… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. All In: How We Build a Country That Works

By: Lisa Nandy

3.61

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.’ Observer Book of the DayBritain is in crisis. This t… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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29. Unmasking Our Leaders: Confessions of a Political Documentary-Maker

By: Michael Cockerell

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

A Daily Mail Political Book of the Year "Michael Cockerell is the master" – Laura Kuenssberg "A t… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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30. In the Thick of It

By: Alan Duncan

3.61

Format: 594 pages, Kindle Edition

As Minister of State at the Foreign Office, Alan Duncan was once described as Boris Johnson’s ‘poop… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister

By: Anthony Seldon

4.36

Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition

Liz Truss's disastrous premiership was the shortest and most chaotic in British history. In the spa… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

23 Best history books like Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England by Sebastian Payne

Transform Your Habits

The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries

Alastair Campbell

4.40

Transform Your Habits

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Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

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Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

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Rory Stewart

4.36

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James O'Brien

4.29

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How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

Ian Dunt

4.45

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