21 Best nonfiction books like Oasis: What's The Story? by Iain Robertson

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Oasis: What's The Story?

By: Iain Robertson

3.12

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Oasis was a band like bands used to be. Hard-drinking and substance abusing. If they liked you, the…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Oasis: What's The Story? by Iain Robertson , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.31

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

The master of historical fiction presents the iconic story of King Alfred and the making of a natio… read more

Similar categories in Bernard Cornwell's Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6) book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

"We all suffer from dreams."

-Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6)

"Serpent-Breath was famous...Wasp-Sting, short and lethal."

-Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6)

"...victory does not come to men who listen to their fears."

-Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6)

"Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not choose them. So if fate is real, do we have a choice?"

-Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6)

Cover of Brothers: From Childhood To Oasis:  The Real Story by Paul Gallagher, Terry Christian

2. Brothers: From Childhood To Oasis: The Real Story

By: Paul Gallagher , Terry Christian

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

This is an account of the two Manchester scallies who grew up to be amongst the greatest rock stars… read more

Similar categories in Paul Gallagher's Brothers: From Childhood To Oasis: The Real Story book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus

3. Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

By: Sara Marcus

3.97

Format: 367 pages, Paperback

Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of Riot Grrrl, the radical feminist uprising tha… read more

Similar categories in Sara Marcus's Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"i want to scream because no matter how much I scream, no one will listen."

-Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

"The girls couldn't block out these things and they didn't want to; they wanted to stay acutely aware of the war against them so they could fight back."

-Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

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4. The Pagan Lord (The Saxon Stories, #7)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.36

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Bernard Cornwell-who "is at his enthralling best conveying . . . one of the defining periods of Eng… read more

Similar categories in Bernard Cornwell's The Pagan Lord (The Saxon Stories, #7) book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

"Some mothers soften their sons, but Osbert was motherless and I had raised him hard because a man must be hard. The world is filled with enemies."

-Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord (The Saxon Stories, #7)

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5. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

Cover of Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook

6. Substance: Inside New Order

By: Peter Hook

3.41

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Two acclaimed albums and an upcoming US tour - Joy Division had the world at their feet. Then, on t… read more

Similar categories in Peter Hook's Substance: Inside New Order book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Flame Bearer (The Saxon Stories, #10) by Bernard Cornwell

7. The Flame Bearer (The Saxon Stories, #10)

By: Bernard Cornwell

3.51

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Britain is at an uneasy peace. After their bloody defeat of Danish-held East Anglia, the West Saxon… read more

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8. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

By: Owen Jones

4.09

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain… read more

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  • nonfiction
"High Priestess of the Slagocracy"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society."

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear thi…"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

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9. Oasis: The Truth: My Life as Oasis's Drummer

By: Tony McCarroll

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The candid and hilarious tale of the first five years of Oasis, from their founding drummer Tony Mc… read more

Similar categories in Tony McCarroll's Oasis: The Truth: My Life as Oasis's Drummer book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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10. Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

By: Charles R. Cross

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure a… read more

Similar categories in Charles R. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

11. Warriors of the Storm (The Saxon Stories, #9)

By: Bernard Cornwell

3.73

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series The Saxon Tales, on the making of… read more

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12. Freak Out the Squares: Life in a Band Called Pulp

By: Russell Senior

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Russell Senior was Jarvis Cocker's partner-in-crime in Pulp, and the most stylish man in Britpop - … read more

Similar categories in Russell Senior's Freak Out the Squares: Life in a Band Called Pulp book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction

13. Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division

By: Peter Hook

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Joy Division changed the face of music. Godfathers of alternative rock, they reinvented music in th… read more

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14. The Empty Throne (The Saxon Stories, #8)

By: Bernard Cornwell

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

This eighth entry in New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell's epic Saxon Tales series b… read more

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15. The Story of The Streets

By: None

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

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16. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

Similar categories in Serhii Plokhy's The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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17. Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first bo… read more

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"I am nothing, and not even that."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"I don't want to die without any scars."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Maybe we should always assume the worst."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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18. 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

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • nonfiction
Cover of Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John  Preston

19. 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

Similar categories in John Preston's Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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20. Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans

By: Kenneth Womack

4.16

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved friend, confidant, and roadie.  … read more

Similar categories in Kenneth Womack's Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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21. Machines like Me

By: Ian McEwan

3.59

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing a… read more

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"Caen las hojas. Llega la primavera, y tu caída."

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

"could tell you similar stories of machine sadness."

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

"Nel suo sguardo, c'è un mondo d'amore. Amo il mondo!"

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

"But when you’ve lost a fortune, you don’t clean up the kitchen."

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

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22. Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more

Similar categories in Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Record Play Pause by Stephen  Morris

23. Record Play Pause

By: Stephen Morris

4.38

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A unique and thoughtful musical memoir' Observer 'Gritty coming-of-age… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Morris's Record Play Pause book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Don't Look Back In Anger: The Rise and Fall of Cool Britannia by Daniel Rachel

24. Don't Look Back In Anger: The Rise and Fall of Cool Britannia

By: Daniel Rachel

3.91

Format: 495 pages, Hardcover

The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of t… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Rachel's Don't Look Back In Anger: The Rise and Fall of Cool Britannia book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
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25. Verse, Chorus, Monster!

By: Graham Coxon

3.70

Format: None pages, ebook

Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a… read more

Similar categories in Graham Coxon's Verse, Chorus, Monster! book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography of Chris Cornell by Corbin Reiff

26. Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography of Chris Cornell

By: Corbin Reiff

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"The new Chris Cornell biography is the book his legacy deserves." — Kerrang! "Reiff unearths pl… read more

Similar categories in Corbin Reiff's Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography of Chris Cornell book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Supersonic: The Complete, Authorised and Unabridged Interviews by Simon Halfon

27. Supersonic: The Complete, Authorised and Unabridged Interviews

By: Simon Halfon

4.39

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

'We are the biggest band in Britain of all time, ever. The funny thing is, all that fucking mouthin… read more

Similar categories in Simon Halfon's Supersonic: The Complete, Authorised and Unabridged Interviews book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other by John  Preston

28. Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other

By: John Preston

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The unforgettable story, decades before Ted Lasso, of the real-life Watford Football Team, transfor… read more

Similar categories in John Preston's Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II by Stephen  Morris

29. Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II

By: Stephen Morris

4.40

Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition

Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Morris's Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars by Nick Duerden

30. Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars

By: Nick Duerden

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For fans of music books from David Hepworth, Pete Paphides, Bob Stanley and Craig Brown, as well as… read more

Similar categories in Nick Duerden's Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Oasis: What's The Story? by Iain Robertson

31. Oasis: What's The Story?

By: Iain Robertson

3.12

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Oasis was a band like bands used to be. Hard-drinking and substance abusing. If they liked you, the… read more

Similar categories in Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story? book and Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story?

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

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Transform Your Habits

Brothers: From Childhood To Oasis: The Real Story

Paul Gallagher , Terry Christian

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

Sara Marcus

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Substance: Inside New Order

Peter Hook

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Oasis: The Truth: My Life as Oasis's Drummer

Tony McCarroll

4.18

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One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

Craig Brown

4.26

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Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

Alan Partridge

4.27

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Berserker!

Adrian Edmondson

4.32

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Ted Kessler

4.14

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