Boot Sale: Inside the Strange and Secret World of Football's Transfer Window
By: Nige Tassell
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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1. Shakespeare: The World as Stage
By: Bill Bryson
3.81
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
At first glance, Bill Bryson seems an odd choice to write this addition to the Eminent Lives series… read more
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"Even Scientific American entered the fray with an article proposing that the person portrayed in the famous Martin Droeshout engraving might actually be--I weep to say it--Elizabeth I."-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"So it needs to be said that nearly all of the anti-Shakespeare sentiment—actually all of it, every bit—involves manipulative scholarship or sweeping misstatements of fact. Shakespeare “never owned a …"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"(...)we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don’t really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at …"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample l…"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
2. Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power
By: Simon Kuper
4.50
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It is a matter of life and death … read more
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3. Kill Your Friends
By: John Niven
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
It's not dog-eat-dog around here...it's dog-gang-rapes-dog-then-tortures-him-for-five-days-before-b… read more
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4. Bright Lights, Big City
By: Jay McInerney
3.80
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation,… read more
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"Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
"It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
"The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
"You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
5. The Smell Of Hay
By: Giorgio Bassani
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Unknown Binding
Raccolta di 12 racconti che riprendono la dolce e incatata atmosfera ferrarrese. "Di carattere quas… read more
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6. 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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7. The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines
By: Michael Cox
3.88
Format: 496 pages,
An absolutely essential book for every modern football fan, about the development of Premier League… read more
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8. Tokyo Express
By: Seichō Matsumoto
3.68
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more
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9. Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.33
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Now in hardcover, the ninth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns t… read more
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"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
10. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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11. Revolution: The Rise of Arteta’s Arsenal
By: Charles Watts
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of Mikel Arteta’s astonishing transformation of Arsenal November 2019. Unai Eme… read more
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12. It's Always Summer Somewhere: A Matter of Life and Cricket
By: Felix White
4.56
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Felix White, for reasons often beyond him, has always been deeply in love with cricket. His passion… read more
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13. London Rules (Slough House, #5)
By: Mick Herron
4.34
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
The fifth entry in CWA Gold dagger-winning Slough House series.London Rules might not be written do… read more
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"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once." "I look happy to you?" "No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
14. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.56
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more
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15. Slough House (Slough House, #7)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more
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"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
16. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
By: Sam Knight
3.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more
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17. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
By: Max Marshall
3.50
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more
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18. Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)
By: Mick Herron
4.37
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A governmental think-tank, whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service, has… read more
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"Time, date, place, courtesy of social media. The old days, when you just rocked up to a car park near the stadium a few hours before kick-off, all of that was buried in history books and Channel 5 do…"-Mick Herron, Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)
19. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
20. Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football
By: Michael Cox
4.37
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Continental football has always cast a spell over the imagination. From the attacking flair of Real… read more
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21. Expected Goals: The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever
By: Rory Smith
3.84
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs … read more
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22. The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
By: Simon Kuper
4.24
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times j… read more
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23. Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution
By: Christoph Biermann
4.25
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
Well written and thoughtful. Takes us on a tour of some of Europe's most innovative football thinke… read more
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24. How To Watch Football: 52 Rules for Understanding the Beautiful Game, On and Off the Pitch
By: Tifo - The Athletic
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
'I love Tifo' Ian Wright 'Tifo are great' Alan Shearer 'Tifo have changed the game when it comes to… read more
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25. Life to the Limit: My Autobiography
By: Jenson Button
4.22
Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition
Jenson Button is one of the greatest racing drivers of his generation. His seventeen years in Formu… read more
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"Formula One drivers were like gods to me, growing up."-Jenson Button, Life to the Limit: My Autobiography
"The sound of that V10, a rich growl that reached right into my soul."-Jenson Button, Life to the Limit: My Autobiography
"All you need to know about racing you can learn from Super Mario Kart."-Jenson Button, Life to the Limit: My Autobiography
"A wing on a Formula One car operates like the wing on an aero-plane except in reverse. So whereas the aircraft wing generates life, the wing on a car does the opposite, pushing the car down to the su…"-Jenson Button, Life to the Limit: My Autobiography
26. Boot Sale: Inside the Strange and Secret World of Football's Transfer Window
By: Nige Tassell
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
For football fans who hungrily feed on gossip and rumour, Christmas comes twice a year – once in Au… read more
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27. How Not to Run a Football Club: Protests, Boycotts, Court Cases and the Story of How Blackpool Fans Fought to Save Their Club
By: Nathan Fogg
4.57
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
On a sweltering day in May 2010, Blackpool achieved the impossible dream. The Seasiders booked thei… read more
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28. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
By: Mick Herron
4.30
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the … read more
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"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
29. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more
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"...What did you say?"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
30. The Silence of the Stands: Finding the Joy in Football's Lost Season: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023
By: Daniel Gray
3.84
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
'Powerful and poignant' Henry Winter 'Empathetic and poignant … the game's answer to A Journal of … read more
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31. Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup
By: Rhys Richards
4.15
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Blood on the The Dictatorship's World Cup is the story of the most controversial football World Cu… read more
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