One of Them
By: Musa Okwonga
4.00
Format: 149 pages, Kindle Edition
Musa Okwonga – a young Black man who grew up in a predominantly working-class town – was not your t…
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1. Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
By: Rachel Cusk
3.66
Format: 153 pages, Hardcover
In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. In the months that follo… read more
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"[I]t has struck me that along with all other losses, I might lose friendship, too. I am not equal anymore to the people that I know, and what is friendship but a celebration of equality?"-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
"The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished, modernised, but essentially the same. A house in the landscape, both shelter and prison."-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
"In marriage you go away from other people, but at the end of marriage they come out to welcome you back. This is civilisation, she says. The worst thing that happened to you has brought out the best …"-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
"What I lived as feminism were in fact the male values my parents, among others, well-meaningly bequeathed me—the cross-dressing values of my father, and the anti-feminine values of my mother. So I am…"-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
2. Moral Disorder and Other Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Margaret Atwood is acknowledged as one of the foremost writers of our time. In Moral Disorder she h… read more
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"You can't lead if no one will follow."-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
"I could do a good imitation of a competent young woman."-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
"But all doors used regularly are doors to the afterlife."-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
"The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst."-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
3. Any Human Heart
By: William Boyd
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991,… read more
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- british literature
4. Them: Adventures with Extremists
By: Jon Ronson
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industryand So Yo… read more
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5. Us
By: David Nicholls
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against a… read more
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6. The Years
By: Virginia Woolf
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime, The Yearsis a savage indictment of… read more
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7. The Good Immigrant
By: Nikesh Shukla
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? … read more
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"You cannot have meaning without knowledge of the environment from which it stems."-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"If cultures were to survive in England it would be on the shoulders of bastardisation"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"Integrate well. Move upwards in society. Be praised – until people worry that you’re doing too well, and then they remember that you’re foreign." (from "The Good Immigrant" by Nikesh Shukla)"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"It is there in the white men and women who do not understand, to the point of frustration, why we still walk with the noose of our ancestors around our necks, as we cannot comprehend how they do not …"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
8. I Pitard
By: Georges Simenon , Eliana Vicari
2.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Finalmente, dopo tanti anni passati a comandare quelle degli altri, il capitano Lannec e riuscito a… read more
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9. Operation Shylock: A Confession
By: Philip Roth
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pret… read more
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10. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
By: Travis Alabanza
4.38
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more
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- audiobook
11. 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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- biography
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- british literature
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- audiobook
"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
12. 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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- biography
- british literature
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- audiobook
13. 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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- british literature
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
14. 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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- audiobook
- politics
- nonfiction
- british literature
15. Lean Fall Stand
By: Jon McGregor
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of Reservoir 13, this thrilling new novel of an Antarct… read more
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- audiobook
- british literature
16. The Trading Game: A Confession
By: Gary Stevenson
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more
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- audiobook
17. Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it
By: Pete Wharmby
4.35
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"By the time I entered education in the late 1980s, schools were about as well adapted for my neurotype as a set of stairs is adapted for the use by a Dalek."-Pete Wharmby, Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it
18. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
19. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
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- audiobook
20. Coventry: Essays
By: Rachel Cusk
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- british literature
"The rules of writing are mostly indistinguishable from the rules of living, but this tends to be the last place people look when searching for 'there'."-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"Indeed, we believe everyone has a book in them - a book, not a symphony, and not even a poem. What is it, this book everyone has in them? It is, perhaps, that haunting entity, the 'true' self. The tr…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"War is a narrative: it might almost be said to embody the narrative principle itself. It is the attempt to create a story of life, to create agreement. In war, there is no point of view; war is the e…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"In marriage, the woman compensates for her lack of external power by commandeering the story. Isn't that right? She fills the silence, the mystery of her own acts and aims, with a structured account …"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
21. A Village in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more
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22. When Footballers Were Skint: A Journey in Search of the Soul of Football
By: Jon Henderson
3.80
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
Shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2019 Long before perma-tanned football agents and… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?
By: Sofie Hagen
4.05
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
'I'm hungry to go on this journey. Sofie is smashing and remoulding her readers understanding of se… read more
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24. Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England
By: Richard Beard
3.58
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
In 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were Dav… read more
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- british literature
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- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
25. Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
By: Dana Thomas
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high… read more
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"Shoppers snap up five times more clothing now than they did in 1980."-Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
"In 1991, 56.2% of all clothes purchased in the United States were American-made. By 2012, it was down to 2.5%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 1990 and 2012, the U.S. textile and…"-Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
26. brother. do. you. love. me.
By: Manni Coe
4.39
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
brother. do. you. love. me. is the story of two brothers and their extraordinary journey of resilie… read more
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27. How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong
By: James O'Brien
4.13
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Every day, James O’Brien listens to people blaming benefits scroungers, the EU, Muslims, feminists … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- british literature
"Theresa May took this aversion to thinking to its apotheosis when she declared that ‘Brexit means Brexit’ shortly after becoming prime minister in July 2016. Even by the standards of modern British p…"-James O'Brien, How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong
28. All the Men I Never Married
By: Kim Moore
4.34
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
All The Men I Never Married is the highly anticipated second collection by Kim Moore. The author po… read more
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29. Asylum Road
By: Olivia Sudjic
3.60
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The taut, knife-sharp, compulsive second novel by the critically-acclaimed author Olivia Sudjic, fo… read more
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- british literature
"Las historias que nos contamos a nosotros mismos, añadió, en un tono monocorde, como si leyera un guion, son lo que nos hacen ser quien somos. Tienden a convertirse en profecías autocumplidas."-Olivia Sudjic, Asylum Road
"Recuerdo mi obcecación con el felices para siempre. Ahora me hace gracia pensar que me lo planteaba como un lugar físico al final de un largo camino. Un lugar donde deshacer el equipaje, tumbarme y n…"-Olivia Sudjic, Asylum Road
30. One of Them
By: Musa Okwonga
4.00
Format: 149 pages, Kindle Edition
Musa Okwonga – a young Black man who grew up in a predominantly working-class town – was not your t… read more
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31. Great Britain?: The must-read Sunday Times bestseller on How We Get Our Future Back
By: Torsten Bell
4.37
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
Thrilling and essential campaign reading from one of our most influential and profound economists'T… read more
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