The Time of My Life
By: Denis Healey
4.08
Format: 610 pages, Paperback
The Time of My Life [Paperback] Healey, Denis
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. Love in the Time of Cholera
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman
3.94
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventuall… read more
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"I’ve remained a virgin for you."-Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
"مايؤلمني في الموت هو ألا أموت حبا"-Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
"Be calm. God awaits you at the door."-Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
"He is ugly and sad... but he is all love."-Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
3. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
4. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
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5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
6. On Chesil Beach
By: Ian McEwan
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is… read more
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7. Azincourt
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Agincourt is one of the epic battles of history. It was fought by two badly matched armies that met… read more
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8. An Officer and a Spy
By: Robert Harris
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This … read more
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9. Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
By: Max Hastings
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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10. The Rule of Law
By: Tom Bingham
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
The Rule of Law' is a phrase much used but little examined. The idea of the rule of law as the foun… read more
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11. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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12. All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class
By: Tim Shipman
3.00
Format: 146 pages,
'Tim Shipman's dispatches from the political front line are a must read' NICK ROBINSON Politics was… read more
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13. Catch-22
By: Joseph Heller
3.99
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more
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"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
14. The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.82
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She… read more
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"Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Because when you’re in love, you think you’re invincible. It blinds you. And you don’t seem to care."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a…"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
15. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more
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16. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more
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- politics
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
17. 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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- history
- biography
- memoir
- politics
- autobiography
- 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
18. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
19. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
By: Deborah Levy
4.29
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
20. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
21. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
By: Anna Keay
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"This book was born of ignorance."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
22. 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
23. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
24. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
25. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
26. Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
By: James Holland
4.45
Format: 650 pages, Hardcover
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Alli… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe
By: James Holland
4.33
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Nor… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
28. Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982
By: Dominic Sandbrook
4.50
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed historian of modern Britain, Dominic Sandbrook, tells the story of the early 1980 the… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
29. Brian Clough: Nobody Ever Says Thank You
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.25
Format: 550 pages, Kindle Edition
The final word on Brian CloughIn this first full, critical biography, Jonathan Wilson draws an inti… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
30. The Time of My Life
By: Denis Healey
4.08
Format: 610 pages, Paperback
The Time of My Life [Paperback] Healey, Denis read more
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31. 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)
