One Long and Beautiful Summer: A Short Elegy For Red-Ball Cricket
By: Duncan Hamilton
4.18
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
*A MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING SPORTS WRITER*'Hamilton's book is a marvel . . . I'm not sure he could wr…
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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. 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
3. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
4. The Scarlet Papers
By: Matthew Richardson
4.33
Format: 567 pages, Kindle Edition
VIENNA, 1946: A brilliant German scientist snatched from the ruins of Nazi Europe. MOSCOW, 1964:… read more
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5. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By: Charles Spencer
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more
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6. Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket
By: Stefan Szymanski
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
One of the bestselling authors of Soccernomics, Stefan Szymanski, teams up with the award-winning c… read more
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7. It's Always Summer Somewhere: A Matter of Life and Cricket
By: Felix White
4.56
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Felix White, for reasons often beyond him, has always been deeply in love with cricket. His passion… read more
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8. Spaceships Over Glasgow
By: Stuart Braithwaite
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for… read more
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9. A Spy Alone
By: Charles Beaumont
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
'This is first class' The Times 'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘A marvellously con… read more
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10. Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news – the son of one of the i… read more
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"Poverty is the mother of crime. If people are poor, they lose all sense of shame, and behave appallingly."-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)
"Mảnh trăng lưỡi liềm mùng mười còn treo trên sườn núi Suribachi, bầu trời lấp lánh muôn ánh sao. Sông Ngân kéo chiếc đuôi dài thượt ngang qua, có thể thấy thấp thoáng quầng sáng trắng sữa. Đảo Ngục M…"-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)
11. 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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12. 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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13. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
By: Robin Ince
3.84
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more
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"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
14. Taxtopia: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game
By: The Rebel Accountant
4.37
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
In TAXTOPIA a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naïf to skilled tax … read more
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15. Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
By: Dan McCrum
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters the canon of great financi… read more
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16. The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
3.83
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
The third title in Japan’s most popular murder mystery series — after The Honjin Murders and The In… read more
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"The only person who had not touched the pickles was me! I never did like pickles..."-Seishi Yokomizo, The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)
17. Sultan: A Memoir
By: Wasim Akram
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Sultan is the official biography of Wasim Akram, the "sultan of swing", one of the greatest fast bo… read more
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"In fact, I was shortly to be chosen for my first tour to New Zealand. Again, I had Javed, now restored to captaincy, to thank. I was immediately anxious. I could not drive. I had neither money of my …"-Wasim Akram, Sultan: A Memoir
18. One Long and Beautiful Summer: A Short Elegy For Red-Ball Cricket
By: Duncan Hamilton
4.18
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
*A MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING SPORTS WRITER*'Hamilton's book is a marvel . . . I'm not sure he could wr… read more
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19. Late Cuts: Musings on Cricket
By: Vic Marks
3.91
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
What follows, which explores some of the charms, the quirks and the peculiar allure of cricket from… read more
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20. Bazball: The Inside Story of a Test Cricket Revolution
By: Lawrence Booth
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
The inside story of how England transformed the way Test cricket is played. After one win in 17 … read more
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21. Batting for Time: The Fight to Keep English Cricket Alive
By: ben bloom
4.08
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
Batting for The Fight to Keep English Cricket Alive is the exploration of a sport in existential c… read more
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