Broken Greek: A Story of Chip Shops and Pop Songs
By: Pete Paphides
4.10
Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition
'Do you sometimes feel like the music you're hearing is explaining your life to you?'When Pete's pa…
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1. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
By: Spike Milligan
4.03
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, lege… read more
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"They're all the rage, Cab Calloway wears one."-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
"After Puckoon I swore I'd never write another book. This is it"-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
"Some people live a nothing life: the most important thing they ever do is die. Thank God for eccentrics! Take Gunner Octavian Neat. He would suddenly appear naked in a barrack room and say, “Does any…"-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
"...Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Robert…"-Spike Milligan, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
2. The Rotters' Club
By: Jonathan Coe
3.96
Format: 415 pages, Paperback
Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescen… read more
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"...he was the proud owner of a quite colossal member, which on the many awestruck occasions it had been exposed to public view had been compared variously to a giant frankfurter, an overfed python, a…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
"ja niin elämässäni kaikki tuntuu tänään muuttuneen, jopa kaupunki muuttaa muotoaan ympärilläni, minä istun Paradise Placella ja katson Muistojen saliin päin ja yhtäkkiä kaikki viittaa minuun ja Cicel…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
"They sat and drank their pints. The tables in which their faces were dimly reflected were dark brown, the darkest brown, the colour of Bournville chocolate. The walls were a lighter brown, the colour…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
"Hey - Duggie! Duggie! Duggie!" He came running up to me, sparkler in hand. I felt like sticking one on him, the cheeky bastard. Nobody called me Duggie. He held the sparkler up in front of my face an…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
3. Frenchman's Creek
By: Daphne du Maurier , Julie Myerson
3.98
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Bored and restless in London's Restoration Court, Lady Dona escapes into the British countryside wi… read more
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"You have no hobby then?" "Moths interest me, my lady."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"I am notorious," said Dona, "for making unfortunate remarks."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"—in reality it was escape she wanted, escape from her own self—"-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
"I had become like a prisoner in chains, and the dungeon was deep."-Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
4. Puckoon
By: Spike Milligan
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Puckoon is Spike Milligan's classic slapstick novel, reissued for the first time since it was publi… read more
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5. The Butterfly Box
By: Santa Montefiore
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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6. Vendetta (Aurelio Zen, #2)
By: Michael Dibdin
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen, Michael Dibdin has given the mystery one of its most compl… read more
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7. White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
By: None
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
"This is the best book about music I've read in years, and a gripping piece of social history."--Br… read more
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8. Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star
By: Tracey Thorn
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A frank and funny pop culture memoir in the vein of Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman,this is "how … read more
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9. Ratking (Aurelio Zen, #1)
By: Michael Dibdin
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In this masterpiece of psychological suspense, Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatche… read more
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10. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
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11. 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
12. The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)
By: Mark Billingham
4.11
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingh… read more
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13. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
14. Tackle!
By: Jilly Cooper
3.74
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Jilly Cooper's legendary hero returns! Rupert Campbell-Black, undefeated race-horse owner and ha… read more
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15. Ramble Book
By: Adam Buxton
4.14
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
Ramble /ˈramb(ə)l/ Verb 1. walk for pleasure in the countryside. ‘Dr Buckles and Rosie the do… read more
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16. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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17. The Perfect Golden Circle
By: Benjamin Myers
3.92
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more
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18. House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
By: Hadley Freeman
4.41
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A writer investigates her family’s secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two Wor… read more
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19. Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success
By: Miki Berenyi
4.46
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary and searingly honest personal story of musician Miki Berenyi, revealing the highs… read more
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20. Broken Greek: A Story of Chip Shops and Pop Songs
By: Pete Paphides
4.10
Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition
'Do you sometimes feel like the music you're hearing is explaining your life to you?'When Pete's pa… read more
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21. Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars
By: Nick Duerden
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For fans of music books from David Hepworth, Pete Paphides, Bob Stanley and Craig Brown, as well as… read more
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