The Madness : A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD Fergal Keane
By: Fergal Keane
4.42
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An Irish Times book of the year 2022A powerful, probing book about PTSD.As a journalist Keane has c…
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1. Poverty Safari
By: Darren McGarvey
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
2. 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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- war
"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
3. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
4. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
By: Nina Stibbe
3.66
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
5. 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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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- 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
6. 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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7. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
8. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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- nonfiction
- war
- biography
- memoir
9. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
10. 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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11. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more
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- war
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
12. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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- nonfiction
- war
"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
13. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
14. A Pocketful of Happiness
By: Richard E. Grant
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has be… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
15. In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
By: Lindsey Hilsum
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Marie Colvin was hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. Wi… read more
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- memoir
- war
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Palestinian youths used stones and marbles, often in slingshots, to taunt young Israeli soldiers, who shot back with tear gas and live fire. The Palestinians always came off worse. Funerals would tur…"-Lindsey Hilsum, In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
16. O Brother
By: John Niven
4.64
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
John Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes… read more
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- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
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- nonfiction
"My mother can hold her own where foreign words are involved. The simple duo-syllable 'croissant' comes out variously as 'craw-sank', 'crass-ant', or 'crah-sint', the word seeming to have no business …"-John Niven, O Brother
17. Brutally Honest
By: Melanie Brown
4.06
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl – and the truth behind the headlines … read more
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- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
18. Family Politics
By: John O'Farrell
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back i… read more
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19. Frank and Red
By: Matt Coyne
4.57
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more
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20. What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry
By: Ben Cave
4.26
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AWARD --- 'Poignant, funny, engross… read more
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- biography
- memoir
21. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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- biography
- memoir
22. Nothing But The Truth
By: The Secret Barrister
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more
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23. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By: Daniel Finkelstein
4.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more
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- memoir
- war
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
24. 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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- biography
25. 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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- biography
- memoir
26. Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it
By: Michael Rosen
4.00
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with… read more
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- mental health
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- nonfiction
27. A History of Women in 101 Objects
By: Annabelle Hirsch
4.21
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Discover the hidden history of women—and the world—through this visual exploration of intimate obje… read more
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- nonfiction
"Pans and other such objects are the very opposite of monuments. They don't commemorate revolutions or victories on the battlefield; don't allude to great contracts or those moments of upheaval that h…"-Annabelle Hirsch, A History of Women in 101 Objects
28. The Madness : A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD Fergal Keane
By: Fergal Keane
4.42
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An Irish Times book of the year 2022A powerful, probing book about PTSD.As a journalist Keane has c… read more
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- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
29. Behind These Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival in Prison
By: Alex South
4.52
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
'The men I have worked with and the staff I've worked alongside over the last ten years in prison h… read more
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- biography
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30. The Louder I Will Sing
By: Lee Lawrence
4.48
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What would you do if the people you trusted to uphold the law committed a crime against you? Who wo… read more
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- nonfiction
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31. Word Monkey
By: Christopher Fowler
4.62
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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