5 Top biography memoir books like In Black and White by Alexandra Wilson

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In Black and White

By: Alexandra Wilson

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'I glanced around the courtroom, quickly at first and then repeated it. Slower this time, taking in…

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1. Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University

By: Nicholas J. McBride

4.13

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Letters to a Law Student relays all that a prospective law student needs to know before embarking o… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas J. McBride's Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • law
  • nonfiction

2. Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police

By: Paul Lewis , Rob Evans

3.97

Format: None pages, ebook

'Undercoverlays bare the deceit, betrayal and cold-blooded violation practised again and again by u… read more

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3. The Rule of Law

By: Tom Bingham

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

The Rule of Law' is a phrase much used but little examined. The idea of the rule of law as the foun… read more

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4. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

By: Reni Eddo-Lodge

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more

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5. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

By: The Secret Barrister

3.90

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. T… read more

Similar categories in The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

By: Wendy Joseph

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Joseph's Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • memoir
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. A Bit of a Stretch

By: Chris Atkins

4.21

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A shocking and darkly funny account of the reality of Britain's prisons. Where can a tin of tun… read more

Similar categories in Chris Atkins's A Bit of a Stretch book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective

By: Jess McDonald

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'Probably the most important book on the state of British policing you'll ever read' Graham Bartlet… read more

Similar categories in Jess McDonald's No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

By: Kerry Hudson

4.15

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhoo… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Hudson's Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I was a private investigator, digging my way through my own deeply buried secrets, both desperate for answers and fighting to keep them hidden."

-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

"Here I was chasing my past, trying to piece things together but perhaps the real courage was in simply accepting the things that happen and learning to live with them."

-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

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10. What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry

By: Ben Cave

4.26

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AWARD --- 'Poignant, funny, engross… read more

Similar categories in Ben Cave's What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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11. The Prison Doctor

By: Amanda Brown

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ i… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. That Moment When...: Life Stories From Way Back Then

By: Mo Gilligan

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

There's Mo to life... In 2016 a totally broke Mo Gilligan recorded and posted a funny video online … read more

Similar categories in Mo Gilligan's That Moment When...: Life Stories From Way Back Then book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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14. Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

By: The Secret Barrister

4.20

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who c… read more

Similar categories in The Secret Barrister's Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We deceive ourselves, our cognitive dissonance only resolved by our brains reassuring us that, in spite of what anyone else might think, we know we're in the right."

-The Secret Barrister, Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

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15. In Black and White

By: Alexandra Wilson

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'I glanced around the courtroom, quickly at first and then repeated it. Slower this time, taking in… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • law
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
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16. In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

By: Sarah Langford

4.08

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarah Langford is a barrister. Her job is to stand in court representing the mad and the bad, the v… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Nothing But The Truth

By: The Secret Barrister

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more

Similar categories in The Secret Barrister's Nothing But The Truth book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. What Lies Buried: A forensic psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood

By: Kerry Daynes

4.35

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Kerry Daynes, leading forensic psychologist, opens up the case files of some of her most perplexing… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Daynes's What Lies Buried: A forensic psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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19. Sunny

By: Sukh Ojla

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This actually is a love story, just not the one Sunny was looking for... Sunny is the queen of l… read more

Similar categories in Sukh Ojla's Sunny book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • race
  • audiobook
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20. That Peckham Boy

By: Kenny Imafidon

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of  Poverty Safari  and  Skint Estate ,  That Peckham Boy  is a reallife manifesto calling… read more

Similar categories in Kenny Imafidon's That Peckham Boy book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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21. A Life of Crime: The Memoirs of a High Court Judge

By: Harry Ognall

3.72

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

A frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon.… read more

Similar categories in Harry Ognall's A Life of Crime: The Memoirs of a High Court Judge book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • biography
  • memoir
  • law
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

By: William Clegg

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How do you chat to someone accused of a savage murder? Or prepare a court case? Or sway a jury? … read more

Similar categories in William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. Hungry

By: Grace Dent

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yea… read more

Similar categories in Grace Dent's Hungry book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Are you hungry?' I say, slightly mischievously. 'Very, he says, unfurling his napkin. This is a shame, because we're sitting down for a tasting menu that will not be a meal, but more a random collect…"

-Grace Dent, Hungry

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24. The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment

By: Amelia Gentleman

4.52

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Amelia Gentleman's exposé of the Windrush scandal shocked the nation, and led to the resignation of… read more

Similar categories in Amelia Gentleman's The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

By: David Harewood

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S BEST MEMOIRS OF 2021 AND THE TIMES' BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOKS OF THE YEAR.'… read more

Similar categories in David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Misjustice: How British Law is Failing Women by Helena Kennedy

26. Misjustice: How British Law is Failing Women

By: Helena Kennedy

4.41

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still being discrimin… read more

Similar categories in Helena Kennedy's Misjustice: How British Law is Failing Women book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • feminism
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Suspect

By: Rob Rinder

3.96

Format: 400 pages, ebook

**THE GRIPPING SECOND NOVEL FROM ROB RINDER AND FOLLOW-UP TO NO. 1 BESTSELLER THE TRIAL**When Hanna… read more

Similar categories in Rob Rinder's The Suspect book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • audiobook
Cover of A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance by Stella Dadzie

28. A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance

By: Stella Dadzie

4.34

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

The story of how enslaved women struggled for freedom in the West Indies Aside from Mary Prince,… read more

Similar categories in Stella Dadzie's A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • race
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. Spider Woman: A Life

By: Brenda Hale

4.05

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she h… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Hale's Spider Woman: A Life book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Overruled: Confronting Our Vanishing Democracy in 8 Cases by Sam Fowles

30. Overruled: Confronting Our Vanishing Democracy in 8 Cases

By: Sam Fowles

4.10

Format: 240 pages, ebook

British democracy is on trial. We can no longer hold our leaders to account; the state has too much… read more

Similar categories in Sam Fowles's Overruled: Confronting Our Vanishing Democracy in 8 Cases book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • law
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31. Cuts Both Ways

By: Candice Brathwaite

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A sharp and funny YA love story that explores themes of race, class and the complexities of growing… read more

Similar categories in Candice Brathwaite's Cuts Both Ways book and Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White

  • race

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4.43

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Chris Atkins

4.21

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4.15

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4.47

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