The Farther Corner: A Sentimental Return to North-East Football
By: Harry Pearson
4.14
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Widely regarded as one of the best football books ever written, The Far Corner was a vivid portrait…
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1. My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes
By: Gary Imlach
4.17
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA poignant and moving account of the author… read more
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2. Medieval Europe
By: Chris Wickham
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and h… read more
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- nonfiction
3. How Soccer Explains the World
By: Franklin Foer
3.81
Format: 4 pages,
Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. In fact, it's a perfect window into the cro… read more
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4. The Wayward Bus
By: John Steinbeck , Gary Scharnhorst
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbec… read more
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5. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
By: Bill Bryson
3.24
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funnie… read more
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- nonfiction
6. Notes from a Small Island
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to … read more
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- nonfiction
7. Her Fearful Symmetry
By: Audrey Niffenegger
3.47
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned… read more
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8. The City and the Stars
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.08
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel. Men had… read more
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"When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myth."-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
"He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral."-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
"Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget."-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
"Does it not seem strange to you, began Yarlan Zey, that though the skies are open to us, we have tried to bury ourselves in the Earth? It is the beginning of the sickness whose ending you have seen i…"-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
9. The Kingdom by the Sea
By: Paul Theroux
3.36
Format: None pages,
It was 1982, the summer of the Falkland Islands War, and the birth of the royal heir, Prince Willia… read more
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10. Murder In My Backyard (Inspector Ramsay, #2)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition
No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry . . . . . . But here she is, murdered … read more
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11. Cragside (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #6)
By: L.J. Ross
4.20
Format: None pages,
FROM THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOLY ISLAND Are you afraid of the dark..? After his… read more
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12. A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character . . . and Goals!
By: Tim Parks
4.34
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
After 20 years of living in Italy, Tim parks, whom Joseph Brodsky has called the best British autho… read more
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13. Fever Pitch
By: Nick Hornby
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more
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14. Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Kingdoms wobble, crowns topple and knives flash on the magical Discworld as the statutory three wit… read more
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15. 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
16. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
17. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.09
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit followin… read more
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"It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions."-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)
"Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own..."-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)
18. L'Ordre du jour
By: Éric Vuillard
3.90
Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition
L’Allemagne nazie a sa légende. On y voit une armée rapide, moderne, dont le triomphe parait inexor… read more
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"The sun is a cold star."-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour
"Political maneuvering tramples facts."-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour
"Si l'on soulève les haillons hideux de l'Histoire, on trouve cela: la hiérarchie contre légalité et l'ordre contre la liberté. (p127)"-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour
"They might not give in to the demands of justice, they might not yield to an insurgent populace, but they'll always fold before a bluff."-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour
19. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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20. T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen
By: Peter Kay
4.23
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure*Blockbusters, Baywatch … Mastermind, Moonl… read more
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21. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK
By: Simon Kuper
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more
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22. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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23. The Hard Yards: A Season in the Championship, England's Toughest League
By: Nige Tassell
3.84
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Gus Poyet declared it to be the toughest league in England. Neil Warnock went further, believing i… read more
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24. The Accidental Footballer
By: Pat Nevin
4.10
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
Pat Nevin never wanted to be a professional footballer. His future was clear, he'd become a teac… read more
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25. The Roaring Red Front: The World’s Top Left-Wing Clubs
By: Stewart McGill
4.22
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
With the world turning rightwards and democracy looking at its most precarious since the 1930s, the… read more
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- football
26. Tears at La Bombonera: Stories from a Six-Year Sojourn in South America
By: Christopher Hylland
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Tears at La Bombonera is author Christopher Hylland's six-year journey living, working, and traveli… read more
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27. 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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28. The Farther Corner: A Sentimental Return to North-East Football
By: Harry Pearson
4.14
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Widely regarded as one of the best football books ever written, The Far Corner was a vivid portrait… read more
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29. Gary Speed: Unspoken: The Family's Untold Story
By: John Richardson
4.02
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
GARY SPEED’S tragic death on November 27th, 2011, rocked the football world. Aged just 42, he was f… read more
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30. Twenty Football Towns
By: Steve Leach
3.35
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
In our world of global superstar footballers, it’s easy to forget the grassroots of a sport where l… read more
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31. When the Circus Leaves Town: What Happens When Football Leaves Home
By: David Proudlove
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
What happens when a football club ups sticks and leaves its traditional home for pastures new? What… read more
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