8 best-selling biography books like The Informer by Sean O'Callaghan

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The Informer

By: Sean O'Callaghan

3.49

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In 1988 IRA terrorist Sean O'Callaghan walked into a police station and gave himself up. Sentenced …

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1. The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

By: David E. Hoffman

4.16

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Handcomes the riveting story of a sp… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. Killing Rage

By: Eamon Collins , Mick McGovern

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

Since the 1970s, people have been murdering their neighbors in Northern Ireland. This book is the t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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3. Voices From The Grave

By: Ed Moloney

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Ed Moloney's 'Voices From The Grave' is the best-informed account yet written of the IRA's evolutio… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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4. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Aleida Guevara March

4.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New … read more

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  • autobiography
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. Shantaram

By: Gregory David Roberts

3.85

Format: None pages,

"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choi… read more

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6. Son of Hamas

By: Mosab Hassan Yousef , Ron Brackin , مصعب حسن يوسف

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

7. Days Without End

By: Sebastian Barry

2.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, "a master storyteller" (Wall Street Jo… read more

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8. Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA's Soul

By: Kevin Toolis

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

For ten years Kevin Toolis investigated the lives of the IRA soldiers who wage a secret battle agai… read more

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9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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10. Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

By: Ian Fleming

3.74

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to France to play in a high-stakes bac… read more

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"Mine’s Bond – James Bond."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

11. The Lord of the Rings: The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring

By: Gary Russell

3.75

Format: 288 pages,

With complete and unrestricted access to artowrk created over a five-year period, this authoritativ… read more

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12. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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13. 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
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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14. Slough House (Slough House, #7)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more

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"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

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15. Amnesty

By: Aravind Adiga

3.28

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

A riveting, suspenseful, and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize–winning author … read more

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16. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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17. Rememberings

By: Sinéad O'Connor

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more

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  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

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18. Sisters Under the Rising Sun

By: Heather Morris

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more

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19. The Informer

By: Sean O'Callaghan

3.49

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In 1988 IRA terrorist Sean O'Callaghan walked into a police station and gave himself up. Sentenced … read more

Similar categories in Sean O'Callaghan's The Informer book and Sean O'Callaghan's The Informer

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature

7 Top history books like The Informer by Sean O'Callaghan

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David E. Hoffman

4.16

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Eamon Collins , Mick McGovern

4.04

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Ed Moloney

3.44

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4.82

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17 Top fiction books like Casino Royale (James Bond, #1) by Ian Fleming

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Ian Fleming , Anthony Horowitz

3.78

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Raymond Chandler

3.95

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Len Deighton

3.93

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