18 must-read nonfiction books like Malice in Wonderland: My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton by Hugo Vickers

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Malice in Wonderland: My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton

By: Hugo Vickers

3.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The witty and perceptive diaries kept by Cecil Beaton's authorized biographer during his many fasci…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Malice in Wonderland: My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton by Hugo Vickers , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Chalk Garden

By: Enid Bagnold

3.68

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The Chalk Garden tells the story of Mrs. St Maugham and her granddaughter Laurel, a disturbed child… read more

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2. The Fall of Berlin 1945

By: Antony Beevor

4.29

Format: 490 pages, Paperback

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Sé practico: regala un ataúd"

-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945

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3. The Glitter and the Gold

By: Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A new edition of Consuela Vanderbilt Balsan's memoir—the story of the "real" Lady Grantham of Downt… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

By: William Dalrymple , Anita Anand

4.04

Format: 335 pages,

The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

By: Craig Brown , None

3.34

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humili… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. This Must Be the Place

By: Maggie O'Farrell

3.77

Format: None pages,

A dazzling novel from bestselling writer Maggie O'Farrell, winner of the Costa Novel Award--an irre… read more

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7. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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8. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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9. Out of the Corner

By: Jennifer Grey

3.81

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found from the star of the ic… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
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10. The Teacher (DS Cross Mysteries, #6)

By: Tim Sullivan

4.51

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

An eighty-year-old man is found murdered in his home. His age and standing in the community makes f… read more

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11. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

By: Tina Brown

4.03

Format: 571 pages, Hardcover

The gripping inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"What Diana’s younger son was thinking only he can tell us, and doubtless will."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Dacre's staff referred to his morning editorial meetings as the “Vagina Monologues,"

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Until he lost his hair, Prince William was probably the biggest heartthrob to be heir to the throne since the pre-obese Henry VIII."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Philip had to apologize in 1999 after a walkabout at an Edinburgh electronics factory when he commented that a fuse box bursting with wires looked “as if it was put in by an Indian."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

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12. Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7)

By: Val McDermid

4.26

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Val McDermid returns with DCI Karen Pirie in a new thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against th… read more

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13. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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14. The Monk (DS Cross Mysteries, #5)

By: Tim Sullivan

4.51

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

To find a murderer, you need a motive . . . THE DETECTIVE DS George Cross has always wondered w… read more

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15. The Politician (DS Cross Mysteries, #4)

By: Tim Sullivan

4.49

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

A ransacked room. A dead politician. A burglary gone wrong – or a staged murder? THE DETECTIVE … read more

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16. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

By: Paul Newman

3.89

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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17. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

By: Jon Meacham

4.46

Format: 676 pages, Hardcover

The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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18. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

By: Laurence Leamer

3.83

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scan… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

By: Roseanne Montillo

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Exploring the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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20. Bonjour, Sophie

By: Elizabeth Buchan

4.15

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1959 and eighteen-year-old Sophie is determined that now is the time for her real life to star… read more

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21. After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

By: Helen Rappaport

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"His wife, "who only demanded of life that it should amuse her"."

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

"(B)ut behind it all-- nothing: just vodka and the void. (Coco Chanel)"

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

"We lived side by side with life but were afraid of meeting it. (Maria Pavlovna)"

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

"(H)is action was merely "galvanizing the corpse" of an army that was already in retreat and heading for defeat."

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

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22. The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication

By: Alexander Larman

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The thrilling and definitive account of the Abdication Crisis of 1936 On December 10, 1936, King E… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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23. The Other Son

By: Nick Alexander

4.15

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

Alice has been lying to herself for years, holding fast to the belief that the needs of her family … read more

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24. Do Let's Have Another Drink!: The Dry Wit and Fizzy Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

By: Gareth Russell

4.09

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Crown and Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret , a deliciously entertaining co… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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25. Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs

By: Greg King

3.99

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunti… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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26. Princess Mary: The First Modern Princess

By: Elisabeth Basford

4.05

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

'At last a biography of Princess Mary, the Queen’s aunt – and a good one ... She has long deserved … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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27. Ena and Bee: Queen Victoria’s Spanish Granddaughters

By: Ana de Sagrera

3.46

Format: 539 pages, Kindle Edition

A close look at the intimate life of the Spanish royal family before, during and after the Civil Wa… read more

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  • history
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28. A Royal Life

By: HRH The Duke of Kent

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

HRH The Duke of Kent has been at the heart of the British Royal Family throughout his life. As a wo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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29. From Cottage to Palace

By: Margaret Bramford

3.70

Format: 120 pages, ebook

Escape to the past with this cheeky and endearing Royal Memoir. Florence Bramford was a Ladies' Mai… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Never Shaken, Never Stirred: The Story of Ann Fleming and Laura, Duchess of Marlborough by Christopher Reindorp

30. Never Shaken, Never Stirred: The Story of Ann Fleming and Laura, Duchess of Marlborough

By: Christopher Reindorp

3.96

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

Glamorous, fun and packed with scandalous anecdotes and exclusive interviews, Never Shaken, Never S… read more

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31. Malice in Wonderland: My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton

By: Hugo Vickers

3.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The witty and perceptive diaries kept by Cecil Beaton's authorized biographer during his many fasci… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

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The Fall of Berlin 1945

Antony Beevor

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Glitter and the Gold

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

William Dalrymple , Anita Anand

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Craig Brown , None

3.34

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Dead Embers (DCI Michael Lambert #3)

Matt Brolly

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Viaduct Killings (The Yorkshire Murders #1)

Wes Markin

4.36

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The Bonnie Dead (DCI Lomond #1)

Andrew Raymond

4.47

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The One That Got Away (DI Heather Filson, #1)

J.D. Kirk

4.43

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