Spirit of Cricket: Reflections on Play and Life
By: Mike Brearley
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The laws of cricket, like the laws of the land, aim at a sort of justice or balancing between diffe…
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1. Liar's Poker
By: Michael Lewis
4.15
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael L… read more
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"Buy potatoes,"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
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"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"A commercial banker wasn’t any more a troublemaker than Dagwood Bumstead."-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
2. Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the Bad Old Days of Australian Cricket
By: Christian Ryan
4.05
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kim Hughes was one of the most majestic and daring batsmen to play for Australia in the last 40 yea… read more
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3. The Elephant Whisperer
By: None , Graham Spence , Lawrence Anthony
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants… read more
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4. Harold Larwood
By: Duncan Hamilton
4.67
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Harold Larwood is an England cricketing legend. During the MCC's notorious 19323 and its bitter aft… read more
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5. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
By: Bill Browder
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Hardcover
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder o… read more
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6. The Sicilian
By: Mario Puzo
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but … read more
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7. 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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"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
8. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
9. The Secret Hours
By: Mick Herron
4.29
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more
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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
10. 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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"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
11. 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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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
12. Hitting Against the Spin: How Cricket Really Works
By: Nathan Leamon
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Times Best Sports Books 2021 - 'the sporting nerd's book of the year' 'Fascinating and insig… read more
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13. 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)
14. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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15. The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
By: Graeme Simsion
4.04
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
I was standing on one leg shucking oysters when the problems began… Don and Rosie are back in Me… read more
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"Lack of coolness can be pretty cool."-Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
"Humans instinctively trust personal experience over research"-Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
"I had learned that people with irrational beliefs in one domain could be sensible and reliable in others."-Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
"I had learned, reluctantly and over many years, that rational argument seldom overcame irrational resistance."-Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
16. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
By: Nick Hornby
3.66
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and… read more
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"This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long."-Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
17. Broadly Speaking
By: Stuart Broad
3.84
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
Stuart Broad is the ultimate competitor - someone addicted to the pressures of Test cricket, the bi… read more
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18. The Rise
By: Ian Rankin
3.65
Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition
In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive … read more
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19. British Rail
By: Christian Wolmar
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail, from "the greatest expert on British trains" Chr… read more
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20. That Will Be England Gone: The Last Summer of Cricket
By: Michael Henderson
3.26
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
That Will Be England Gone is a tour d'horizon of cricket in England from April to September. 'Ph… read more
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21. The Test
By: Nathan Leamon
4.13
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
'If all you know is cricket, then cricket will break you . . .' It is the final Test match of Th… read more
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22. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)
By: Richard Osman
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more
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23. Late Cuts: Musings on Cricket
By: Vic Marks
3.91
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
What follows, which explores some of the charms, the quirks and the peculiar allure of cricket from… read more
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24. Belonging: The Autobiography
By: Alun Wyn Jones
4.01
Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition
'People think they know him but unless you read this book you will never know the REAL Alun Wyn Jon… read more
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25. Spirit of Cricket: Reflections on Play and Life
By: Mike Brearley
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The laws of cricket, like the laws of the land, aim at a sort of justice or balancing between diffe… read more
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26. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
By: Mick Herron
4.11
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more
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"It’s a phrase, black swan,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"We don’t like being out of the loop."-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
27. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
By: Mick Herron
4.00
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more
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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
28. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
By: Mick Herron
4.30
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the … read more
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"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
29. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more
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"...What did you say?"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
30. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
By: Mick Herron
4.28
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Listening Length 10 hours and 50 minutes Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for f… read more
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"Lowell fell backwards as the world span out of control"-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits."-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"belief was not actually about believing; belief was simply somewhere to shelve hope"-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"You either cleaned up other people's messes or you didn't--and that was the class system for you, right there."-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
31. Berkmann's Cricketing Miscellany
By: Marcus Berkmann
4.13
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Marcus Berkmann, author of the cricket classics Rain Men and Zimmer Men, returns to the great game … read more
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