Tribes
By: David Lammy
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
David was the first black Briton to study at Harvard Law School and practised as a barrister before…
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1. The Places in Between
By: Rory Stewart
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
2. A Coffin for Dimitrios
By: Eric Ambler
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery wr… read more
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3. A Quiet Place
By: Seichō Matsumoto , Louise Heal Kawai
3.43
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a he… read more
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4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
By: John Le Carré
4.06
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more
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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
5. The Break
By: Marian Keyes
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Amy's husband Hugh isn't really leaving her. At least, that's what he promises. He is just taking a… read more
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6. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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- politics
- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Tokyo Express
By: Seichō Matsumoto
3.68
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more
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8. 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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- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- society
- audiobook
"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
9. Cuthbert's Way (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #17)
By: L.J. Ross
4.44
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
A SECRET KEPT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS... After the dramatic theft of a priceless artefact from Durh… read more
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10. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
11. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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- nonfiction
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"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
12. The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
By: Pat Barker
3.90
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, which conti… read more
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- audiobook
"Achilles shook him. "Just come back."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
"Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
"Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
"Ik zal nooit vergeten dat zij voor me huilde toen ik dat zelf niet kon."-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
13. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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14. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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15. 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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- memoir
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"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
16. How (Not) To Be Strong
By: Alex Scott
4.43
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
From the football cages of East London to broadcasting to millions, the engine powering Alex Scott'… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
17. 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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- memoir
- politics
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- society
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"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
18. The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life
By: Theresa May
3.47
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
As Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years, Theresa May confronted a series… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
19. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
By: Maddie Mortimer
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and d… read more
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"the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"For we inherit the haunts of our mothers; we are left with the guests they let in."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"Sometimes it takes a lifetime to receive the world in a language different to your own; to let the shape and taste and sense of a thing eclipse its own translation."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
20. The Parisian
By: Isabella Hammad
3.59
Format: 710 pages, ebook
As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinia… read more
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"It occurred to Midhat that a tragic story told quickly might contract easily into a comedy, and without the measure of its depths make the audience laugh."-Isabella Hammad, The Parisian
"A few days afterwards, Marian announced that she was joining the volunteer nurses. She was posted at Divonne-Les-Bains on the Swiss border, and in her letters to Jeannette she described the disfigure…"-Isabella Hammad, The Parisian
"For the first time in his life, Midhat wished he were more religious. Of course he prayed, but though that was a private mechanism it sometimes felt like a public act, and the lessons of the Quran we…"-Isabella Hammad, The Parisian
21. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK
By: Simon Kuper
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more
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22. Utopia Avenue
By: David Mitchell
4.00
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone C… read more
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"I is an Empire of I's."-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue
"Self-pity can lift one's mood."-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue
"America loves exclamation marks."-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue
"Crows tumble like socks in a drier."-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue
23. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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24. The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail
By: Nick Wallis
4.64
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
This “factual thriller” from the journalist Nick Wallis details a scandal which has been described … read more
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25. What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book
By: Pandora Sykes
4.08
Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition
In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bes… read more
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26. How Not to Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind
By: James O'Brien
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
There’s no point having a mind if you never change it In his bestselling How To Be Right , James pr… read more
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- society
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27. This Is Not America
By: Tomiwa Owolade
3.94
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
***Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times, Guardian, Observer, Irish Times and New … read more
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28. Cyfres Amdani: Agor y Drws (Welsh Edition)
By: Meleri Wyn James
4.10
Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition
Dyma 6 stori newydd, ysgafn ar gyfer dysgwyr Lefel Mynediad (hyd at Uned 11). Mae'r straeon yn sôn … read more
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29. Tribes
By: David Lammy
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
David was the first black Briton to study at Harvard Law School and practised as a barrister before… read more
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30. The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism
By: John Barnes
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
John Barnes spent the first dozen years of his life in Jamaica before moving to the UK with his fam… read more
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31. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more
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