A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment
By: John Preston
4.09
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
A behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion man…
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1. Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee
By: John Bew
4.46
Format: 668 pages, Hardcover
Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government… read more
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- audiobook
2. The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
By: Tim Butcher
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired… read more
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3. A Natural
By: Ross Raisin
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others lo… read more
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4. State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974
By: Dominic Sandbrook
4.34
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1970s, Britain seemed to be tottering on the brink of the abyss. Under Edward Heath, t… read more
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5. Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
By: Craig Brown , None
3.34
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humili… read more
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6. Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
By: Dominic Sandbrook
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandb… read more
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7. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
By: Ben Macintyre
4.25
Format: 127 pages,
In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more
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- history
8. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more
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9. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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10. The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal
By: Duncan Mavin
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of one of the superstars of global FinTech, Lex Greensill, and his dramatic fall f… read more
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- crime
- audiobook
11. Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
By: James Wyllie
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of th… read more
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12. Erebus: The Story of a Ship
By: Michael Palin
4.29
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval … read more
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13. The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
By: Philippe Sands
4.18
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determ… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
"I appeared as counsel in the first case, in a barrister’s wig and gown at a hearing in a makeshift courtroom in Hamburg’s Town Hall; years later, Judge Mensah told me, with a big grin, that he wonder…"-Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
14. A Very Private School: A Memoir
By: Charles Spencer
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more
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- audiobook
15. 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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- history
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- audiobook
16. We All Go into the Dark
By: Francisco García
3.31
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A captivating, eloquent and deeply original book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read … read more
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17. A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment
By: John Preston
4.09
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
A behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion man… read more
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- lgbt
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- nonfiction
- crime
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18. Windswept
By: Annie Worsley
3.99
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's c… read more
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19. My Family: The Memoir
By: David Baddiel
4.41
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more
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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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21. The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family
By: Olivia Williams
3.61
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed bir… read more
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