17 must-read biography books like Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News by Emily Maitlis

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Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News

By: Emily Maitlis

4.10

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

The things that are said on camera are only part of the story. Behind every interview there is a…

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1. If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America

By: Jon Sopel

4.16

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

'You see, if only they didn’t speak English in America, then we’d treat it as a foreign country – a… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
"In America you can't do politics without also doing God."

-Jon Sopel, If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America

"The post-war British Labour prime minister Clement Atlee described referrendums as the last resort of demagooues and dictators."

-Jon Sopel, If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America

"Benjamin Franklin declared, "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy" while Thomas Jefferson said, "Wine is necessary for life" and George Washington said, "My manner of livi…"

-Jon Sopel, If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America

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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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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

3. A Journey: My Political Life

By: Tony Blair

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

In 1997, the biggest Labour victory in history swept England, ending eighteen years of Conservative… read more

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4. To Play the King (Francis Urquhart #2)

By: Michael Dobbs

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Mass Market Paperback

After scheming his way to power, newly elected Prime Minister Francis Urquhart faces a crisis that … read more

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5. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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  • audiobook
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6. 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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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • 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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7. 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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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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8. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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9. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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10. Just Sayin': My Life In Words

By: Malorie Blackman

4.53

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes, when love has flown or is absent, when life knocks us to the ground and won't let us get back up, hope may be all we have left to cling to."

-Malorie Blackman, Just Sayin': My Life In Words

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11. 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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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It

By: Chris Bryant

4.01

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

THE INSTANT TOP TWO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDSCronyism, n… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life

By: Theresa May

3.47

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

As Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years, Theresa May confronted a series… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. A Year at the Circus: Inside Trump's White House

By: Jon Sopel

4.13

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the White House. At the heart of Washington, there is a circus. It's raucous, noisy and … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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
  • audiobook
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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

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News

By: Emily Maitlis

4.10

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

The things that are said on camera are only part of the story. Behind every interview there is a… read more

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  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • journalism
  • 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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20. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. This is Europe: The Way We Live Now

By: Ben Judah

4.26

Format: 643 pages, Kindle Edition

A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023'Illuminates some of the great trends o… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. UnPresidented: Politics, Pandemics and the Race that Trumped all Others

By: Jon Sopel

4.29

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

'26 February, White House Briefing Room The coronavirus feels like it is changing everything. Sudd… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Four Chancellors and a Funeral: How to Lose a Country in Ten Days by Russell    Jones

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
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC's Most Shocking Interviews

By: Sam McAlister

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The secrets of a former Newsnight producer who found her way to Buckingham Palace 'A cracking re… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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25. Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope

By: Clive Myrie

4.31

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

As a Bolton teenager with a paper round, Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered from cove… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On

By: Wes Streeting

4.30

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Wes Streeting might have ended up in prison rather than in parliament. His maternal grandfather Bil… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Life of an MP: Everything You Really Need to Know about Politics by Jess Phillips

28. The Life of an MP: Everything You Really Need to Know about Politics

By: Jess Phillips

4.15

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

From agonising decisions on foreign air strikes to making headlines about orgasms, from sitting in… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel

29. My Family: The Memoir

By: David Baddiel

4.41

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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30. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction

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If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America

Jon Sopel

4.16

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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David Nicholls

4.08

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Anne Enright

3.55

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