20 must-read nonfiction books like Depraved New World: Please Hold, the Government Will Be With You Shortly by John Crace

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Depraved New World: Please Hold, the Government Will Be With You Shortly

By: John Crace

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

O brave new world, that has such people in't. Or not. William Shakespeare clearly had never imagine…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Depraved New World: Please Hold, the Government Will Be With You Shortly by John Crace , here is a list of 20 books like this:

1. All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

By: Christopher Brookmyre

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

As a teenager Jane Bell had dreamt of playing in the casinos of Monte Carlo in the company of James… read more

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2. All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class

By: Tim Shipman

3.00

Format: 146 pages,

'Tim Shipman's dispatches from the political front line are a must read' NICK ROBINSON Politics was… read more

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3. Our Enemies Will Vanish

By: Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

By: Armistead Maupin

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more

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  • humor
  • audiobook
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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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. 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
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Munich Wolf

By: Rory Clements

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Führer. In t… read more

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  • audiobook
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10. A Death in Diamonds (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates, #4)

By: S.J. Bennett

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The royally brilliant fourth book in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates mystery series! 1957… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. Topographia Hibernica

By: Blindboy Boatclub

4.33

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The … read more

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  • audiobook
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12. The Mercy Chair (Washington Poe #6)

By: M.W. Craven

4.63

Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin . . . Washington Poe has a story to tell. And he… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. Hunted

By: Abir Mukherjee

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A breakout thriller from an “enthralling” and award-winning writer: can two parents find their lost… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. 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
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. 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

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Depraved New World: Please Hold, the Government Will Be With You Shortly

By: John Crace

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

O brave new world, that has such people in't. Or not. William Shakespeare clearly had never imagine… read more

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  • politics
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. 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
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times

By: Marina Hyde

4.10

Format: 516 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNow includes ELEVEN new columns and a whole THREE new prime ministers.Re… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

By: Andrew Doyle

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

'A sober but devastating skewering of cancel culture and the moral certainties it shares with relig… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Where the New Left promoted the politics of unity, today’s intersectional reactionaries promote the politics of division."

-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

"Theres no harm un recognizing the more vindictive side of human nature, so long as we do not allow our reason to be dominated by our passion."

-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

"The belief of the apparatchiks of Critical Social Justice - that all our problems will magically disappear once we outlaw certain points of view or words that cause 'harm' - is a utopian delusion."

-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

"Just as the symbol of Christ's crucifix encapsulates the triumph of the victim and has been exploited historically as a means to exert power over others, the rainbow Pride flag now serves a similar f…"

-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

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21. 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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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. The Cracked Mirror

By: Chris Brookmyre

4.07

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVEL You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAP… read more

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23. Four Chancellors and a Funeral: How to Lose a Country in Ten Days

By: Russell Jones

4.61

Format: 655 pages, Kindle Edition

The sequel nobody wants. After a decade of the Tories, could it get any worse? Spoiler – it does. … read more

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  • politics
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail

By: Nick Wallis

4.64

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

This “factual thriller” from the journalist Nick Wallis details a scandal which has been described … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris

By: Tim Shipman

4.03

Format: 711 pages, Kindle Edition

The unmissable next instalment of Tim Shipman’s #1 bestselling Brexit quartet. To follow his bestse… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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26. The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and … read more

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  • audiobook
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27. Blue Murder: The Rise and Fall of the Conservative Government, 2010–2024

By: Ben Riley-Smith

4.01

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The explosive full story of the past dozen years of Tory rule, from coalition to self-destruction. … read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Northerners: A History

By: Brian Groom

3.62

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A Times Bestseller A Waterstones ‘Book You Need to Read in 2022’ The definitive history of t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. Good Chaps: How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It

By: Simon Kuper

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The 'Good Chaps' theory holds that those who rise to power in the UK can be trusted to follow the r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

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31. Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power

By: Sasha Swire

3.47

Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition

What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the l… read more

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  • nonfiction

24 must-read audiobook books like Depraved New World: Please Hold, the Government Will Be With You Shortly by John Crace

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

Armistead Maupin

4.11

Transform Your Habits

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

Ian Dunt

4.45

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14 Top audiobook books like Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

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

Ian Dunt

4.45

Transform Your Habits

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

Rory Carroll

4.38

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