12 Top history books like Wales: England's Colony? by Martin Johnes

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Wales: England's Colony?

By: Martin Johnes

3.86

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

From the very beginnings of Wales, its people have defined themselves against their large neighbour…

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1. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

By: Joe Simpson

4.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"

-Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

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2. God's Leader

By: Andy Mason

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Leader, come and sit at the feet of Jesus. Come and listen to him and be restored in hope and joy … read more

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3. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

By: Antony Beevor

4.32

Format: 494 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

4. Craig Bellamy: GoodFella

By: Craig Bellamy

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

CRAIG BELLAMY is one of those footballers you can't ignore. If he plays for your team, you love him… read more

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5. 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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6. Hornet Flight

By: Ken Follett

4.13

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdawsand Code to Zerowith an extraordinary novel of early da… read more

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7. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

By: Jon Ronson

4.19

Format: 45 pages,

They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed on on the street toda… read more

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8. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

By: Jung Chang

3.68

Format: 113 pages,

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and th… read more

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9. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

10. The Romanovs: 1613-1918

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

3.17

Format: None pages,

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surfac… read more

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11. The Road to Wigan Pier

By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart

3.92

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

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12. Men Who Hate Women

By: Laura Bates

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

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13. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.39

Format: 759 pages, Paperback

With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more

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"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

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14. 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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15. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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16. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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17. There Are More Things

By: Yara Rodrigues Fowler

4.03

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Born to a well-known political family in Olinda, Brazil, Catarina grows up in the shadow of her dea… read more

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18. 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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19. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
"As far as we know, our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life. Many would say that we humans have a moral duty to rein in our dominance of the Earth and give our millions of fel…"

-Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

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20. A Heart That Works

By: Rob Delaney

4.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New York Times  Bestseller *  The New Yorker   Best Books of 2022 *  Entertainment Weekly  Best Boo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

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21. The Woman in the Purple Skirt

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmar… read more

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22. 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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  • nonfiction
"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

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23. A Song for the Dark Times (Inspector Rebus, #23)

By: Ian Rankin

4.13

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

"He’s gone…"   When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not goo… read more

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24. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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25. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

By: Akala

4.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

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26. Revolusi. Indonesië en het ontstaan van de moderne wereld

By: David Van Reybrouck

4.54

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A true masterpiece of narrative history and the definitive story of the revolution that ignited the… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Intentional Interruptions: Learning to be Interrupted the Way God Intended

By: Jonathan Thomas

4.48

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

We are busy and constantly bombarded. Notifications, pings, we carry in our pockets devices that a… read more

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28. Northerners: A History

By: Brian Groom

3.62

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A Times Bestseller A Waterstones ‘Book You Need to Read in 2022’ The definitive history of t… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Right with God

By: Michael Reeves

4.52

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

How do we become right with God? Michael Reeves warmly and clearly introduces what the Bible teache… read more

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30. Wales: England's Colony?

By: Martin Johnes

3.86

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

From the very beginnings of Wales, its people have defined themselves against their large neighbour… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. The Fascist Party in Wales? Plaid Cymru, Welsh Nationalism and the Accusation of Fascism

By: Richard Wyn Jones

3.52

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

For decades, accusations have been made that senior figures among Welsh nationalists were sympathet… read more

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12 best-selling politics books like Wales: England's Colony? by Martin Johnes

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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Tim Marshall

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell , Richard Hoggart

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Men Who Hate Women

Laura Bates

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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16 best-selling history books like Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

Transform Your Habits

Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

Transform Your Habits

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

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1776

David McCullough

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

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