Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
By: Otto English
3.96
Format: 495 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the gr…
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1. The Nazis: A Warning from History
By: Ian Kershaw , Laurence Rees
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Published in conjunction with the History Channel and the BBC, this prizewinning volume, now back i… read more
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2. Stephen Fry in America
By: Stephen Fry
4.23
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
Britain's best-loved comic genius Stephen Fry turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing th… read more
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3. A Realm Divided: England in 1215
By: Dan Jones
3.93
Format: 300 pages,
1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history … read more
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4. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- audiobook
5. 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
6. Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud
By: Becky Holmes
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter romance … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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8. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
By: Wendy Joseph
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more
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9. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon
By: Alan Partridge
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more
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10. 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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- european history
- audiobook
11. 52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught At School
By: James Felton
3.96
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
JAMES FELTON'S NEW BOOK "ASSHOLES" IS OUT NOW 'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I… read more
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12. Berserker!
By: Adrian Edmondson
4.32
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more
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13. Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It
By: Chris Bryant
4.01
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
THE INSTANT TOP TWO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDSCronyism, n… read more
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14. 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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- audiobook
15. 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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- audiobook
16. Lawrence of Arabia
By: Ranulph Fiennes
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pre-order the authoritative, illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the man who inspired the ic… read more
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- audiobook
17. Depraved New World: Please Hold, the Government Will Be With You Shortly
By: John Crace
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
O brave new world, that has such people in't. Or not. William Shakespeare clearly had never imagine… read more
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- audiobook
18. What About Men?
By: Caitlin Moran
3.70
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you w… read more
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- audiobook
"Finally I read 12 Rules for Life and there is some good stuff in it. Peterson’s step by step advice on how to properly argue with loved ones and come to an agreement that is satisfying to both is und…"-Caitlin Moran, What About Men?
19. 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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20. The Decade in Tory: An Inventory of Idiocy from the Coalition to COVID
By: Russell Jones
4.64
Format: 680 pages, Hardcover
In 2020 the United Kingdom reached a bewildering milestone: ten successive years of Conservative ru… read more
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- history
21. Four Chancellors and a Funeral: How to Lose a Country in Ten Days
By: Russell Jones
4.61
Format: 655 pages, Kindle Edition
The sequel nobody wants. After a decade of the Tories, could it get any worse? Spoiler – it does. … read more
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22. Fake History: From Mozart's Murder to Cleopatra's Asp
By: Graeme Donald
3.44
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Fake History is an entertaining romp through the centuries, uncovering the fundamental inaccuracies… read more
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23. The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership from Wilson to May
By: Steve Richards
4.05
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
A landmark history of the men and women who have defined the UK's role in the modern world - and wh… read more
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24. A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
By: Natasha Tidd
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Taking readers on a global journey through human history, historian Natasha Tidd examines how lies … read more
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25. Somebody Told Me: One Man’s Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies
By: Danny Wallace
4.22
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
Have you been keeping your eye on your grandma lately? Have you been calling her enough? You sure s… read more
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26. Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
By: Otto English
3.96
Format: 495 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the gr… read more
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27. The Man on the Street (Jimmy Mullen #1)
By: Trevor Wood
4.17
Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition
'I can safely say it will be huge ... an excellent read' PATRICIA GIBNEY, author of the DI Lottie P… read more
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28. 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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29. Target and Destroy (Matt Logan #3)
By: Tom Marcus
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The third novel in the Matt Logan series, following on Capture or Kill and Defend or Die . Blindey… read more
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30. Bound in Blood: Cursed Books, Damned Libraries and Unearthly Authors
By: Johnny Mains
3.79
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
A terrifying and chilling anthology of over 20 original stories exploring cursed and haunted books … read more
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