17 Top biography books like Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography by Liam Brady

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Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography

By: Liam Brady

4.19

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

"Being a footballer was my destiny." After being expelled from school for playing football for his …

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1. 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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  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"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

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2. LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

By: Alan Shipnuck

4.14

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Alan Shipnuck, the New York Times bestselling author of Phil, returns with a major new work of insi… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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4. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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5. My Life in Red and White

By: Arsène Wenger

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For the very first time, world-renowned and revolutionary football manager Arsène Wenger tells his … read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • audiobook
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6. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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7. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

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  • audiobook
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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8. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"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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9. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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10. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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11. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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12. 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
Cover of We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole

13. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"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

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14. Camino Royale

By: Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

4.41

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

The Number 1 Bestseller!'The name's O'Carroll-Kelly. Ross O'Carroll-Kelly.'As the great James Bond … read more

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  • irish literature
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15. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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16. Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography

By: Liam Brady

4.19

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

"Being a footballer was my destiny." After being expelled from school for playing football for his … read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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17. The Rodfather: Inside the Beautiful (Ugly, Ridiculous, Hilarious) Game

By: Roddy Collins

4.28

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious memoir from the funniest man in football!Roddy Collins is a football man - now in the… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of Kammy: The Funny and Moving Autobiography by the Broadcasting Legend by Chris Kamara

18. Kammy: The Funny and Moving Autobiography by the Broadcasting Legend

By: Chris Kamara

4.30

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Foreword by Ben Shephard‘Everyone loves Kammy . . . Full of humour and endless blunders’ – The Time… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • audiobook
Cover of On Days Like These: The Incredible Autobiography of a Football Legend by Martin    O'Neill

19. On Days Like These: The Incredible Autobiography of a Football Legend

By: Martin O'Neill

4.12

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

Martin O’Neill has had one of the most incredible careers in football – winning European Cups, capt… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • football
  • audiobook
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20. Two Brothers

By: Jonathan Wilson

4.27

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of Jack and Bobby Charlton, and a family that characterised English football for decades … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • football
Cover of Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other by John  Preston

21. Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other

By: John Preston

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The unforgettable story, decades before Ted Lasso, of the real-life Watford Football Team, transfor… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War by Richard O'Rawe

22. Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War

By: Richard O'Rawe

4.02

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

In this sensational exposé of British Intelligence’s top informer in the upper ranks of the IRA, Ri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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23. Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale

By: Sean Driscoll

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate. She was presented to the Queen at Bucking… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of Cocaine Cowboys: The Deadly Rise of Ireland's Drug Lords by Nicola Tallant

24. Cocaine Cowboys: The Deadly Rise of Ireland's Drug Lords

By: Nicola Tallant

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

COCAINE COWBOYS tells the story of Ireland’s love affair with cocaine since it first washed ashore … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money by Jennifer O'Leary

25. The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money

By: Jennifer O'Leary

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

For almost two decades, Father Patrick Ryan evaded intelligence agencies across Europe and was, for… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of This is the Life: Days and Nights in the GAA by Ciarán Murphy

26. This is the Life: Days and Nights in the GAA

By: Ciarán Murphy

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The GAA is Ireland's largest civil society organisation, woven into the fabric of families and comm… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
Cover of Be Careful What You Wish For by Simon Jordan

27. Be Careful What You Wish For

By: Simon Jordan

4.19

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

Ever dreamed of owning your boyhood football club? Be careful what you wish for...Simon Jordan grew… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Racket: A darkly funny memoir about the strange and fascinating world of professional tennis by Conor Niland

28. The Racket: A darkly funny memoir about the strange and fascinating world of professional tennis

By: Conor Niland

4.38

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ... It’s Kitchen Confidential for tennis.' Ed Caesar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of The World's Biggest Cash Machine: Manchester United, the Glazers, and the Struggle for Football's Soul by Chris Blackhurst

29. The World's Biggest Cash Machine: Manchester United, the Glazers, and the Struggle for Football's Soul

By: Chris Blackhurst

4.19

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

From Chris Blackhurst, the former Editor of the Independent , comes a gripping and tightly reported… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • audiobook
Cover of Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island by Ian Cobain

30. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island

By: Ian Cobain

4.21

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
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31. Don’t Look Back in Ongar

By: Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

4.63

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

'Ross is a national institution' Irish Times 'One of the funniest writers in the land' Irish Indepe… read more

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  • irish literature

11 must-read sports books like Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography by Liam Brady

Transform Your Habits

LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

Alan Shipnuck

4.14

Transform Your Habits

My Life in Red and White

Arsène Wenger

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography

Liam Brady

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Rodfather: Inside the Beautiful (Ugly, Ridiculous, Hilarious) Game

Roddy Collins

4.28

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16 Top audiobook books like Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale by Sean Driscoll

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

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Wild Houses

Colin Barrett

3.78

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