Who Are Ya?: 92 Football Clubs – and Why You Shouldn’t Support Them (Globalizing Sport Studies)
By: Kevin Day
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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By: Terry Pratchett
4.18
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
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2. Fear and Loathing in La Liga
By: Sid Lowe
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
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3. The Impossible Dead
By: Ian Rankin
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
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4. Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography
By: Alex Ferguson
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The celebratory, revealing, inspiring, and entertaining autobiography of the greatest manager in th… read more
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5. The Looking Glass War
By: John Le Carré
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
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6. The Damned Utd
By: David Peace
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
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7. The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines
By: Michael Cox
3.88
Format: 496 pages,
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8. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
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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
9. 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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10. 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
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"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
11. 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
12. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
13. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon
By: Alan Partridge
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
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14. The Narrator
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3.88
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the chance of a perfect life… put your daughter in grave danger? Being a single mother i… read more
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15. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
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4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
16. Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather
By: Mark Seal
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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17. MOX
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4.30
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18. When Footballers Were Skint: A Journey in Search of the Soul of Football
By: Jon Henderson
3.80
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
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19. Next in Line (D.I. Clare Mackay, #5)
By: Marion Todd
4.23
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20. The Football Weekly Book
By: Jonathan Wilson
3.93
Format: 99 pages, Hardcover
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21. The Accidental Footballer
By: Pat Nevin
4.10
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
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22. Old Bones Lie (D.I. Clare Mackay, #6)
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4.15
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23. What They Knew (D.I. Clare Mackay, #4)
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4.34
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24. Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
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4.12
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In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himse… read more
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25. Nowhere to Run: The Ridiculous Life of a Semi-Professional Football Club Chairman
By: Jonathan Sayer
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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26. Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
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3.96
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27. Who Are Ya?: 92 Football Clubs – and Why You Shouldn’t Support Them (Globalizing Sport Studies)
By: Kevin Day
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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28. Great Britain?: The must-read Sunday Times bestseller on How We Get Our Future Back
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4.37
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29. Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth
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3.79
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30. Smart Money: The Fall & Rise of Brentford FC
By: Alex Duff
4.05
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31. We Are Sunday League
By: Ewan Flynn
4.22
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