7 best-selling irish literature books like Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island by Ian Cobain

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

By: Ian Cobain

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

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

If you liked the irish literature plot in Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island by Ian Cobain , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

By: Yasmin Cordery Khan

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom--through th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. 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
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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3. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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4. Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

By: John Preston

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell f… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • crime
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5. 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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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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6. Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography

By: Staci Robinson

4.44

Format: 691 pages, Hardcover

The first and only estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving expl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. 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
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8. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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  • politics
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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9. Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

By: George Packer

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America’s descent into a faile… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Love, Shipwreck and Survival

By: Sophie Elmhirst

4.12

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

**A Guardian, Observer & Waterstones Nonfiction Book of 2024**'One of those very special books that… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. Allow Me to Introduce Myself

By: Onyi Nwabineli

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ever since she was a child, Anuri’s life was chronicled and monetized by her influencer stepmother.… read more

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12. Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

By: Geezer Butler

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Being in Black Sabbath felt like being an actor in a soap opera. It’s a minor miracle all four of the original lineup survived beyond the 1970s, let alone that we’re all still here. Along the way, we…"

-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

"Writing was my godsend, my treatment, my way of digging myself out of a depressive hole. That’s not an outlet a lot of working-class kids had. But because I’d been exposed to books from an early age,…"

-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

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13. 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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  • politics
  • irish literature
  • history
  • nonfiction
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

14. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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15. The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob

By: T.J. English

4.05

Format: 538 pages, Kindle Edition

In the tradition of The Godfather, The Westies is a powerful tale spanning 60 years. A gang of Iris… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • irish literature
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16. 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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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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17. Witness 8 (Eddy Flynn, #8)

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.40

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This riveting psychological thriller from master of twists Steve Cavanagh, author of the “unguessab… read more

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  • crime
Cover of The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370 by Florence de Changy

18. The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370

By: Florence de Changy

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The affair was weird when seen from afar, but seen in close-up, it was Kafkaesque: it was not poss… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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19. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country

By: Juliet Nicolson

3.44

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. 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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  • politics
  • war
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  • 20th century
  • 21st century
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature

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4.36

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4.23

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