Inside Story: Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit
By: Philip Webster
3.81
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Murder Most Holy (The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, #3)
By: Paul Doherty , Paul Harding
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It is the early summer of 1379 and Sir John Cranston—Coroner of the city of London—has trapped hims… read more
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2. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill… read more
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3. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
By: Charles Seife
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Church used it… read more
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4. By Murder's Bright Light (The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, #5)
By: Paul Harding
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Scandal, murder and treason… Athelstan and Cranston are back with a bang. Winter, 1379. French pri… read more
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5. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
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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"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. 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
8. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
By: Catherine Belton
4.18
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more
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9. A Terrible Kindness
By: Jo Browning Wroe
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more
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10. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
11. Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
By: Jeremy Clarkson
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Welcome back to Clarkson's farm. At the end of Jeremy's first year, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him … read more
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12. Death of a Bookseller
By: Alice Slater
3.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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15. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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16. The House of Kennedy
By: James Patterson
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised … read more
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17. Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors
By: Tom Bower
3.86
Format: 541 pages, Kindle Edition
The British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex wedding, watched and celebra… read more
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"Meghan, said Oprah, had been the target of ‘constant criticism [and] blatant sexist and racist remarks by British tabloids’. As she spoke, the screen was covered by a spread of apparently racist head…"-Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors
18. Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
By: Michael Cohen
4.09
Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition
11 hours, 50 minutes This book almost didn’t see the light of day as government officials tried… read more
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19. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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20. The Gatekeeper
By: Kate Fall
3.97
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
‘A brilliant vivid and intimate new memoir’ The Daily Mail’For over a decade Kate Fall was the most… read more
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21. Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV
By: Rob Burley
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition
A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider account of 25 years working at the very top of Britis… read more
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22. Johnson at 10: The Inside Story
By: Anthony Seldon
4.22
Format: 662 pages, Hardcover
***Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times and the Observer *** After his dramatic … read more
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23. Out of the Blue: The Inside Story of Liz Truss and Her Astonishing Rise to Power
By: Harry Cole
3.74
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
Liz Truss’s journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain’s new prime minister. She is the lo… read more
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24. 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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25. The Whistleblower
By: Robert Peston
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition
1997. A desperate government clings to power; a hungry opposition will do anything to win. And jour… read more
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26. 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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27. The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn
By: Steve Richards
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and ProspectWas Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Heal… read more
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28. Keep Talking: A Broadcasting Life
By: David Dimbleby
4.07
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
'Thoughtful, very readable ... We have been lucky, lucky, lucky to have him' - The Times'Pithy and … read more
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29. Blue Murder: The Rise and Fall of the Conservative Government, 2010–2024
By: Ben Riley-Smith
4.01
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The explosive full story of the past dozen years of Tory rule, from coalition to self-destruction. … read more
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30. Inside Story: Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit
By: Philip Webster
3.81
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of the greatest political journalists of recent times, an insider’s account of four decade… read more
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31. Turning Points: Crisis and Change in Modern Britain, from 1945 to Truss
By: Steve Richards
4.10
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of the most consequential events in post-war British politics from Steve R… read more
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