The King Who Had To Go: Edward VIII, Mrs Simpson and the Hidden Politics of the Abdication Crisis
By: Adrian Phillips
3.63
Format: 518 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Brighton Rock
By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more
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2. The Norman Conquest
By: Marc Morris
4.62
Format: None pages,
An epic tale, with violence at its heart, and a triumph of narrative history. The Norman Conquestst… read more
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3. Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case
By: Miriam Schneir , Walter Schneir
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A new narrative of the famed case that finally solves its remaining mysteries, by the author of the… read more
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4. George V's Children
By: John van der Kiste
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The six children of King George V and Queen Mary all lived to maturity except the youngest, Prince … read more
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5. The Brethren
By: John Grisham
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a "camp," home to the usual assortment of relatively … read more
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7. A Game of Sorrows (Alexander Seaton, #2)
By: Shona MacLean
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton's happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shat… read more
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8. What Happened
By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
4.50
Format: 191 pages,
"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I w… read more
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9. The Constant Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #6)
By: Philippa Gregory
4.20
Format: 251 pages,
"I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known..… read more
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10. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
By: Dan Jones
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more
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11. Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers
By: Deborah Cadbury
3.86
Format: 144 pages,
With a cast of characters that wouldn't be out of place in a Victorian novel, Chocolate Wars tells … read more
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12. King Edward VIII
By: Philip Ziegler
3.76
Format: 85 pages,
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1991. read more
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13. George V: Never a Dull Moment
By: Jane Ridley
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively… read more
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14. Next in Line (William Warwick, #5)
By: Jeffrey Archer
4.18
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the ‘people’s princess’. … read more
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15. Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography
By: Billy Connolly
4.42
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals … read more
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"Blessed are those who yodel - for they shall never be troubled by offers of work."-Billy Connolly, Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography
16. The Engine House (DCI Evan Warlow, #1)
By: Rhys Dylan
4.39
Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition
You can bury the bodies, but you can’t hide the truth. When a landslip on Pembrokeshire’s stunni… read more
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17. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
By: Maggie Haberman
4.09
Format: 597 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more
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"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
18. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Stranger Times, #3)
By: C.K. McDonnell
4.39
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Love can be a truly terrible thing.Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one o… read more
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"It flicked through all the channels until it found a repeat of the 1990s show in which people in swimwear saved other people from drowning by running in slow motion towards them"-C.K. McDonnell, Love Will Tear Us Apart (Stranger Times, #3)
19. Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor
By: Valentine Low
3.64
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years study… read more
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20. Outside
By: Ragnar Jónasson
3.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With three million copies of his books sold worldwide, "world-class crime writer"( The Sunday Times… read more
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21. Silk Road
By: Colin Falconer
4.27
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Silk Road weaves a spellbinding tale of courage, danger and human frailty onto the vast tapestry of… read more
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"They found him in the cloister, lying on his back with ice in his beard. He was half conscious, muttering about a Templar knight, a secret commission from the Pope, and a beautiful woman on a white p…"-Colin Falconer, Silk Road
"His fellow monks carried him back to his cell and laid him on the hard cot that had been his bed for the last twenty years. He was an old man now and there was nothing to be done. His eyes had the co…"-Colin Falconer, Silk Road
22. 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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23. Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor
By: Andrew Lownie
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Traitor King, by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the ab… read more
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"The problem was that the Duke wanted status not a job, to be recognised rather than to contribute."-Andrew Lownie, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor
24. 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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25. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
By: Peter Robison
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cu… read more
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26. Prince Philip Revealed: A Man of His Century
By: Ingrid Seward
3.81
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
For more than 70 years until his death on 9 April 2021, Prince Philip was the Queen's constant comp… read more
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27. Six Minutes In May
By: Nicholas Shakespeare
4.03
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
London, early May 1940: Britain is at war and Neville Chamberlain’s government is about to fall. It… read more
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28. Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles
By: Tom Bower
3.64
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
Few heirs to the throne have suffered as much humiliation as Prince Charles. Despite his hard work … read more
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29. The King Who Had To Go: Edward VIII, Mrs Simpson and the Hidden Politics of the Abdication Crisis
By: Adrian Phillips
3.63
Format: 518 pages, Kindle Edition
that has fascinated the public for decades. Unwilling to accept the idea of the twice-married Ameri… read more
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30. Abdication
By: Brian Inglis
3.61
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
This book is concerned with that period of English history over eighty years ago in which a king fe… read more
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