13 Best nonfiction books like Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite by Sam McBride

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Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite

By: Sam McBride

4.27

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

One of the most shocking scandals in Northern Irish political history: originally a green-energy in…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite by Sam McBride , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By: Michael Lewis

4.30

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Time is a variable continuum."

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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2. An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor

By: Michael Smith

4.51

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The story of the remarkable Tom Crean who ran away to sea aged 15 and played a memorable role in An… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • irish literature
  • ireland

3. Borstal Boy

By: Brendan Behan , Benedict Kiely

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Brendan Behan was an Irish playwright and novelist, as well as a youthful revolutionary. In 1939, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
  • ireland
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4. Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland

By: David McKittrick , David McVea

3.77

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Compellingly written and even-handed in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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5. Once (Once, #1)

By: Morris Gleitzman

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Onceby Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanag… read more

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6. The Leopard

By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun

4.01

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more

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"While there’s death there’s hope"

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

7. Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)

By: Pat Barker

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

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8. House of Cards (Francis Urquhart, #1)

By: Michael Dobbs

3.00

Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An alternate cover for this isbn can be found . The bestselling political thriller that introduced… read more

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9. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

By: Margaret MacMillan , Richard Holbrooke

4.28

Format: 120 pages,

'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever wri… read more

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10. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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11. Small Things Like These

By: Claire Keegan

4.18

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

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12. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.39

Format: 759 pages, Paperback

With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more

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  • audiobook
"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

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13. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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14. The Sandman: Act I

By: Dirk Maggs

4.39

Format: 11 pages, Audible Audio

Hailed by the Los Angeles Times Magazine as “the greatest epic in the history of comic books”, The … read more

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  • audiobook
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15. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

By: The Secret Barrister

3.90

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. T… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

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  • ireland
  • audiobook
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17. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By: Edward Chisholm

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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19. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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20. The Wall

By: John Lanchester

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous … read more

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  • audiobook
"There would be a new life, and we would be living a new life. It felt like too much to hope for, but not in a bad way, more the kind of thing you stop yourself thinking about for superstitious reason…"

-John Lanchester, The Wall

"Home: it didn’t just seem as if home was a long way away, it actually felt as if the whole concept of home was strange, a thing you used to believe in, an ideology you’d once been passionate about bu…"

-John Lanchester, The Wall

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21. The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast

By: Tom Holland

3.85

Format: 522 pages, Kindle Edition

Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys... there's a new history book in town. Fro… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Leonard and Hungry Paul

By: Ronan Hession

4.15

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

In this startling debut, Ronan Hession tells the story of two thirty-something men who take care of… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"You may wish to note the above"

-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul

"It was strange that after all the years of getting the kids to be independent, she would feel so daunted at having her life back. But it was the nature of being a parent. The kids' lives are their ow…"

-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul

"Leonard wore a new feeling of peace. He had always associated peace with the idea of happiness, as if it were some sort of steady state that happiness turned into when it was for real. But now he rea…"

-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul

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23. From a Low and Quiet Sea

By: Donal Ryan

3.78

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"he waited for the water to carry him down, and fill him and slough his flesh and salt his guilty bones. But the water wouldn't take him."

-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

"Trees live, like you and me, long lives, and they know things. They know the rule, the only one that's real and must be kept. What's the rule? You know. I've told you lots of times before. Be kind."

-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

"I took to numbers, their definiteness, their unyielding natures: even when you chop a number down to a half or a tenth or a millionth or a billionth part of its former self it still exists, it’s stil…"

-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

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24. Snowflake

By: Louise Nealon

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely talented young Irish writer makes her literary debut with this powerful and haunting… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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25. The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin

By: Aoife Moore

3.82

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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26. Strange Flowers

By: Donal Ryan

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parent… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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27. The Raptures

By: Jan Carson

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland by Martin Ingram

28. Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

By: Martin Ingram

3.82

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

An explosive exposé of how British military intelligence really works, from the inside. The stories… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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29. Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite

By: Sam McBride

4.27

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

One of the most shocking scandals in Northern Irish political history: originally a green-energy in… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 21st century
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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30. A Force Like No Other : The real stories of the RUC men and women who policed the Troubles, Book 1

By: Colin Breen

4.33

Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1983, Interpol named Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the world to be a police offic… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
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31. A Force Like No Other: The Next Shift

By: Colin Breen

4.71

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

In this follow-up to his bestselling "A Force Like No Other", Colin Breen brings together more comp… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • ireland

17 Best audiobook books like Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite by Sam McBride

Transform Your Habits

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

Hilary Mantel

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

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Transform Your Habits

Killing Rage

Eamon Collins , Mick McGovern

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Voices From The Grave

Ed Moloney

3.44

Transform Your Habits

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

Transform Your Habits

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Rory Carroll

4.38

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