The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics
By: Diarmaid Ferriter
3.76
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
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1. Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland
By: David McKittrick , David McVea
3.77
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Compellingly written and even-handed in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what … read more
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3. The Witches: Salem, 1692
By: Stacy Schiff
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying… read more
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4. The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
By: Robert Gerwarth
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War… read more
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5. The Damned Utd
By: David Peace
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the countr… read more
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6. Meeting the Other Crowd
By: Carolyn Eve Green , None
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The Other Crowd', 'The Good People', 'The Wee Folk' and 'Them' are a few of the names given to the … read more
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7. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
8. 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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"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
9. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
10. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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11. 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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"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
12. Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)
By: John Banville
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder.… read more
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"It's an actual fucking library, and there's a body in it!"-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)
"I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?"-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)
13. V2: A Novel of World War II
By: Robert Harris
3.91
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket e… read more
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14. 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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"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
15. 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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16. Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
By: Helena Merriman
4.51
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in… read more
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17. Under Occupation (Night Soldiers, #15)
By: Alan Furst
3.41
Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition
From the master of espionage and intrigue, this novel about heroic resistance fighters in 1942 occu… read more
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18. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
19. Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
By: Tim Marshall
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography We feel more divided… read more
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20. A Council of Dolls
By: Mona Susan Power
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more
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"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
21. The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics
By: Diarmaid Ferriter
3.76
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
'Anyone who wishes to understand why Brexit is so intractable should read this book. I can think of… read more
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22. The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
By: Benjamin Carter Hett
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic … read more
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"Alongside the viciousness of much of German politics in the Weimar years was an incongruous innocence: few people could imagine the worst possibilities. A civilized nation could not possibly vote for…"-Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
23. The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin
By: Aoife Moore
3.82
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking… read more
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24. Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
By: Roger Moorhouse
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
A "chilling" and "expertly" written history of the 1939 September Campaign and the onset of World W… read more
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25. November 1918: The German Revolution
By: Robert Gerwarth
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is general… read more
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26. Thatcher’s Spy: My Life as an MI5 Agent Inside Sinn Féin
By: Willie Carlin
4.02
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
Early one morning in March 1985, as he climbed the six steps of Margaret Thatcher’s prime-ministeri… read more
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27. On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath – By The People Who Were There
By: Julieann Campbell
4.54
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first ever complete oral history of one of the darkest episodes in modern Irish history *** I… read more
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28. The Coming Storm
By: Michael Lewis
3.83
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
Tornadoes, cyclones, tsunamis…Weather can be deadly—especially when it strikes without warning. Mil… read more
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29. Others Were Emeralds
By: Lang Leav
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This debut adult novel combines her poetical lyricism and emotional acumen to create an enthralling… read more
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30. Error of Judgement: The Birmingham Bombings and the Scandal That Shook Britain
By: Chris Mullin
4.66
Format: 522 pages, Kindle Edition
'Very occasionally a journalist starts an avalanche with a single gunshot... Chris Mullin and his T… read more
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