Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43
By: Henry Channon
4.32
Format: 1120 pages, Kindle Edition
This second volume of the bestselling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady afte…
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1. The Fight
By: Norman Mailer
4.04
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fi… read more
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"How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse."-Norman Mailer, The Fight
"It is not uncommon for fighters’ camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. Fighters are supposed to. The boredom creates an imp…"-Norman Mailer, The Fight
"(On choosing to write the book in third person, and using his name Norman as the nom de plume) NOW, OUR MAN of wisdom had a vice. He wrote about himself. Not only would he describe the events he saw,…"-Norman Mailer, The Fight
2. Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne, #1)
By: Mark Billingham
3.51
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Detective Inspector Tom Thorne now knows that three murdered young women were a killer's mistakes -… read more
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3. The Woodlanders
By: Thomas Hardy , Patricia Ingham
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in… read more
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4. Good Behaviour
By: Molly Keane , Marian Keyes
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state… read more
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5. Learning To Swim
By: Clare Chambers
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Abigail Jex never expected to see any of the Radley household again. In dramatic contrast to her ow… read more
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6. Standard Deviation
By: Katherine Heiny
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A rueful, funny examination of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami. Simultaneously hilarious an… read more
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7. The Mayor of Casterbridge
By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more
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8. Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
By: William L. Shirer , Gordon A. Craig
4.17
Format: 427 pages, Paperback
By the acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,this day… read more
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9. The Secret Hours
By: Mick Herron
4.29
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more
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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
10. George V: Never a Dull Moment
By: Jane Ridley
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively… read more
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11. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
By: John Guy
4.16
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more
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12. The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)
By: Mark Billingham
4.11
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingh… read more
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13. 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
14. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
15. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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16. The Teacher (DS Cross Mysteries, #6)
By: Tim Sullivan
4.51
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
An eighty-year-old man is found murdered in his home. His age and standing in the community makes f… read more
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17. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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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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19. Mother's Boy
By: Patrick Gale
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, d… read more
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20. Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.
By: Robert Hardman
3.92
Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition
The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller‘Fascinating . . . The book everyone is talking about’ – Daily Mai… read more
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"He's a very charming person - very warm and very friendly...I admire the way he interacts with people. That, to me, speaks to the measure of our King."-Robert Hardman, Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.
21. Murder Most Royal (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #3)
By: S.J. Bennett
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Christmas at Sandringham is going to be murder . . . December 2016 - A severed hand is found was… read more
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22. George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy
By: Sally Bedell Smith
4.28
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory account of how King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's loving marriage saved the monarchy… read more
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23. The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
By: Joanne Paul
4.17
Format: 506 pages, Hardcover
Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving an… read more
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24. Do Let's Have Another Drink!: The Dry Wit and Fizzy Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
By: Gareth Russell
4.09
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Crown and Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret , a deliciously entertaining co… read more
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25. Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43
By: Henry Channon
4.32
Format: 1120 pages, Kindle Edition
This second volume of the bestselling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady afte… read more
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26. The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain
By: Martin Williams
4.33
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Unforgettable as it was, the public response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 w… read more
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27. The House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power
By: Tom Bower
3.01
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
For fans and watchers of the Beckham Netflix documentary who want the rest of the story—an explosiv… read more
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28. Catherine, the Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen
By: Robert Jobson
3.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Through the author’s extensive connections within the royal household, this dynamic new biography t… read more
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29. Precipice
By: Robert Harris
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more
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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"-Robert Harris, Precipice
30. 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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31. A Voyage Around the Queen
By: Craig Brown
4.08
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
With equal measures of wit and wisdom, the author of 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret draws a deepl… read more
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