Ernest Bevin: Labour's Churchill
By: Andrew Adonis
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
As a statesman, Ernest Bevin is second only to Churchill in impact and legacy. Born in abject pover…
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1. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
By: Max Hastings
4.06
Format: 628 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic s… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)"-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
"Bethmann-Hollweg era davvero irremovibile non tanto sulle sue richieste territoriali – cercò, a un certo punto, di dissuadere il Kaiser dall’insistere sull’annessione del Belgio – quanto sull’intenzi…"-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
2. Edmund Burke: The First Conservative
By: Jesse Norman
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundr… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
3. Dreaming the Eagle (Boudica, #1)
By: Manda Scott
3.72
Format: None pages,
Dreaming the Eagleis the first part of the gloriously imagined epic trilogy of the life of Boudica.… read more
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- british literature
4. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler
3.84
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more
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- nonfiction
"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
5. 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
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- nonfiction
6. Rule of Two (Star Wars: Darth Bane, #2)
By: Drew Karpyshyn
2.33
Format: None pages,
In the New York Times bestseller Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Drew Karpyshyn painted a gripping… read more
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7. If This Is a Man / The Truce
By: Primo Levi , Stuart J. Woolf , Paul Bailey
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, d… read more
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8. Dreaming the Bull (Boudica, #2)
By: Manda Scott
5.00
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
The second part of the stunning fictionalization of the life of Britain's warrior queen, Boudica, i… read more
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9. All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class
By: Tim Shipman
3.00
Format: 146 pages,
'Tim Shipman's dispatches from the political front line are a must read' NICK ROBINSON Politics was… read more
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10. Path of Destruction (Star Wars: Darth Bane, #1)
By: Drew Karpyshyn
5.00
Format: None pages,
Once the Sith order teemed with followers. But their rivalries divided them in endless battles for … read more
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11. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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- british literature
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- nonfiction
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
12. 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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- 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
13. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
14. The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)
By: John Banville
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel … read more
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15. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
By: Stephanie Kelton
4.04
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
16. 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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- politics
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
17. The Brewery Murders (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries #9)
By: J.R. Ellis
4.38
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
An award-winning beer worth killing for. Can DCI Oldroyd find the killer before last orders? Ste… read more
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18. This Time No Mistakes: How to Remake Britain
By: Will Hutton
4.11
Format: 491 pages, Kindle Edition
A book that could be a blueprint for a better future - if the Labour Party takes it seriously. W… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
19. Johnson at 10: The Inside Story
By: Anthony Seldon
4.22
Format: 662 pages, Hardcover
***Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times and the Observer *** After his dramatic … read more
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20. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK
By: Simon Kuper
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more
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- nonfiction
21. 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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- nonfiction
22. The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail
By: Nick Wallis
4.64
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
This “factual thriller” from the journalist Nick Wallis details a scandal which has been described … read more
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- history
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23. Ernest Bevin: Labour's Churchill
By: Andrew Adonis
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
As a statesman, Ernest Bevin is second only to Churchill in impact and legacy. Born in abject pover… read more
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- biography
- british literature
- politics
- nonfiction
24. May at 10: The Verdict
By: Anthony Seldon
4.14
Format: 887 pages, Kindle Edition
Theresa May has presided over the most dramatic and historic peacetime premiership for a century. M… read more
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- biography
- british literature
- politics
- nonfiction
25. A People's History of Soccer
By: Mickaël Correia
4.21
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
‘Correia takes us around the world to examine how soccer has produced the kind of political energy … read more
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- history
26. Britain Is Better Than This: Why a Great Country is Failing Us All
By: Gavin Esler
4.37
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
An urgent and timely exploration of a British political system in peril – and what we must do to sa… read more
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27. Good Chaps: How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It
By: Simon Kuper
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
The 'Good Chaps' theory holds that those who rise to power in the UK can be trusted to follow the r… read more
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- nonfiction
28. NYE: The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan
By: Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Aneurin - Nye - Bevan was one of the pivotal Labour figures of the post-war era. As Minister for He… read more
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29. Labour's Civil Wars: How Infighting Keeps the Left from Power (and What Can Be Done about It)
By: Patrick Diamond
3.44
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A compelling chronicle of the Labour Party’s perpetual internal divisions. The biblical adage tha… read more
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