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
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1. Confessions of an Irish Rebel
By: Brendan Behan
3.93
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
The immigration man read my deportation order, looked at it and handed it back to me. 'Are you Iris… read more
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2. Killing Rage
By: Eamon Collins , Mick McGovern
4.04
Format: 417 pages, Paperback
Since the 1970s, people have been murdering their neighbors in Northern Ireland. This book is the t… read more
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3. 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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4. Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh
By: Toby Harnden
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
South Armagh was described as "Bandit Country" by Merlyn Rees when he was Northern Ireland Secretar… read more
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5. 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
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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"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
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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
By: Tom Burgis
3.80
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more
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"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
12. 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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13. 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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14. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
By: Mark O'Connell
3.74
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more
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15. Double Agent: My Secret Life Undercover in the IRA
By: Kevin Fulton
4.08
Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition
'"I am a British soldier," I told my reflection. "I am a British soldier and I'm saving lives. I'm … read more
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16. Fishers of Men - The Gripping True Story of a British Undercover Agent in Northern Ireland
By: Rob Lewis
3.66
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
Fishers of Men is the true account of secret operations in Northern Ireland carried out by the Brit… read more
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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. Death in the Fields: The IRA and East Tyrone
By: Jonathan Trigg
4.13
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
‘In Belfast the Provos were trying to make the 6 o’clock news, in East Tyrone they were trying to k… read more
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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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24. Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place
By: Martin Doyle
4.31
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles … read more
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25. 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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26. Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin
By: Máiría Cahill
4.29
Format: 523 pages, Kindle Edition
NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER IN THE IRISH NON-FICTION CHARTS"Rough Beast is shocking, important and unputdow… read more
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27. Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland
By: Peter Taylor
4.40
Format: 487 pages, Kindle Edition
On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gri… read more
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28. Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
By: Henry Hemming
4.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four Shots in the Night is the story of the killing of Frank Hegarty, an IRA member turned British … read more
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29. Quinn
By: Trevor Birney
4.34
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This is the gripping inside story of Ireland’s bankrupt billionaire, Sean Quinn, who went from rags… read more
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30. Eyewitness to War & Peace: A Memoir
By: Eamonn Mallie
4.03
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this gripping memoir, Eamonn Mallie takes us on an extraordinary journey through his life as a j… read more
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31. 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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