13 Top history books like Fighting for Life by Isabel Hardman

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Fighting for Life

By: Isabel Hardman

4.12

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, provocative exploration of the NHS, told through the most critical moments in its histo…

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1. Poverty Safari

By: Darren McGarvey

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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2. The Pumpkin Eater

By: Penelope Mortimer

4.02

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The unnamed narrator of this story is married to her fourth and excessively well-paid husband. This… read more

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3. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

HILARY MANTEL is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly t… read more

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4. Power Trip: A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin

By: None

4.31

Format: 1056 pages, Hardcover

From 1999 to 2009, Damian McBride worked at the heart of the Treasury and No10, becoming one of the… read more

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5. An Experiment in Love

By: Hilary Mantel

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

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6. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

By: Anita Loos

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

If any American fictional character of the twentieth century seems likely to be immortal, it is Lor… read more

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7. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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8. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

By: Lucy Jones

4.54

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • health
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13. You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here

By: Benji Waterhouse

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Humane, hilarious, and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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14. Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

By: Leah Hazard

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

________________No sleep for twenty hours. No food for ten. And a ward full of soon-to-be mothers… … read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • health
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15. Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3)

By: Richard Coles

3.87

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover, takes respite at the monastery whe… read more

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16. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. But What Can I Do?

By: Alastair Campbell

3.87

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders wh… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

By: Daniel Finkelstein

4.63

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Follow The Money: How much does Britain cost?

By: Paul Johnson

4.29

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

What is the truth about Britain's finances? Paul Johnson and the enormously respected Institute … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Step by Step: The Life In My Journeys

By: Simon Reeve

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

TV documentary maker Simon Reeve has dodged bullets on frontlines, hunted with the Bushmen of the K… read more

Similar categories in Simon Reeve's Step by Step: The Life In My Journeys book and Isabel Hardman's Fighting for Life

  • nonfiction
Cover of Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope by Clive Myrie

22. Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope

By: Clive Myrie

4.31

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

As a Bolton teenager with a paper round, Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered from cove… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On

By: Wes Streeting

4.30

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Wes Streeting might have ended up in prison rather than in parliament. His maternal grandfather Bil… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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24. Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

By: Guy Shrubsole

4.23

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane Who owns England? Behind this simple q… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

By: Hannah Barnes

4.40

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS’s flagship gender service… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • health
"GIDS’s own limited data, which found ‘no evidence of change in psychological function’ with puberty-blocker treatment."

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

"The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has undoubtedly helped some people. It has unquestionably harmed others."

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

"NHS England. Why did they allow the early blocking of puberty to be rolled out as routine practice without demanding to see some data supporting this radical shift? Why didn’t it insist on seeing any…"

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

"It is mad,’ was the reply. Hutchinson paused. When one of the leaders of a service that helps children to access powerful, life-changing drugs comments that what they’re doing is ‘mad’, there is clea…"

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

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26. The Life of an MP: Everything You Really Need to Know about Politics

By: Jess Phillips

4.15

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

From agonising decisions on foreign air strikes to making headlines about orgasms, from sitting in… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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27. Fighting for Life

By: Isabel Hardman

4.12

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, provocative exploration of the NHS, told through the most critical moments in its histo… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Hardman's Fighting for Life book and Isabel Hardman's Fighting for Life

  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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28. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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29. All In: How We Build a Country That Works

By: Lisa Nandy

3.61

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.’ Observer Book of the DayBritain is in crisis. This t… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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30. Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister

By: Anthony Seldon

4.36

Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition

Liz Truss's disastrous premiership was the shortest and most chaotic in British history. In the spa… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Unleashed

By: Boris Johnson

3.00

Format: 761 pages, Kindle Edition

Shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir and written in his inimitable style, Bo… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

21 best-selling politics books like Fighting for Life by Isabel Hardman

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Poverty Safari

Darren McGarvey

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

Tim Marshall

3.94

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Everyday Sexism

Laura Bates

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

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Ian Dunt

4.45

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