The Battle of the Beams
By: Tom Whipple
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thril…
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1. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
2. Archangel
By: Robert Harris
4.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fluke Kelso was once a scholar of promise, but like so many in the highly competitive world of acad… read more
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3. Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street #2)
By: Natasha Pulley
3.30
Format: 208 pages,
The author has said in an interview: The next book follows on from Watchmaker. Thaniel and Mori go … read more
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4. An Officer and a Spy
By: Robert Harris
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This … read more
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5. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
6. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- history
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
7. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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- history
- technology
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- science
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
8. 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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- history
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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
9. Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
By: Evan Thomas
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan--a cru… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
By: Ian Dunt
4.45
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
11. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- technology
12. Alien Clay
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more
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13. 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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- history
- nonfiction
14. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- history
- technology
- politics
- nonfiction
- science
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
15. The Man in the Bunker (Tom Wilde #6)
By: Rory Clements
4.15
Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition
WHAT IF HITLER HAD SURVIVED? In the gripping new spy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling … read more
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16. A Prince and a Spy (Tom Wilde #5)
By: Rory Clements
4.18
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
In the gripping new spy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hitler's Secret, a Cam… read more
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17. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
By: Andy Greenberg
4.50
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more
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- history
- science
- technology
18. In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law
By: Sarah Langford
4.08
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarah Langford is a barrister. Her job is to stand in court representing the mad and the bad, the v… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission
By: Rowland White
4.51
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynam… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- technology
20. A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering
By: Andrew Hunter Murray
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One perfect house. One dead body. One bad day. There are thousands and thousands of decent homes… read more
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21. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
By: Joseph Cox
4.12
Format: None pages, None
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more
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- history
- technology
22. 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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- history
23. The Battle of the Beams
By: Tom Whipple
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thril… read more
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- technology
24. The Pathfinders: The Elite RAF Force that Turned the Tide of WWII
By: Will Iredale
4.39
Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!Military History Matters Book of the Year Bronze Award Winner'Compellin… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
25. Alvesdon
By: James Holland
4.28
Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition
Wiltshire, 1939In the small village of Alvesdon, the Castell family and their farm have been staple… read more
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26. Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars
By: Helen Fry
4.06
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the twentieth century onwards, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, … read more
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27. Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It
By: Sam Freedman
4.50
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
NOTHING WORKS IN BRITAIN.It’s harder than ever to get a GP appointment. Burglaries go unpunished. W… read more
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"Having sharper, more thoughtful and emotionally intelligent people with integrity in high office will always make things better."-Sam Freedman, Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It
28. The Tasting Menu: A Short Story
By: Stuart MacBride
3.58
Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition
In this short tale from Stuart MacBride, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dead of Winter and … read more
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29. Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister
By: Anthony Seldon
4.36
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
Liz Truss's disastrous premiership was the shortest and most chaotic in British history. In the spa… read more
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30. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more
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