The Official History of Britain: Our Story in Numbers as Told by the Office For National Statistics
By: Boris Starling
3.53
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Entertaining and absorbing’ – The Sunday Times A wonderfully written and entertaining book which …
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1. The Children of Jocasta
By: Natalie Haynes
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents... Jocasta is just… read more
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2. Dominion
By: C.J. Sansom
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
C.J. Sansom rewrites history in a thrilling novel that dares to imagine Britain under the thumb of … read more
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3. The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts, #2)
By: M.R. Carey
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought … read more
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"She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored."-M.R. Carey, The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts, #2)
"Loyalty is just the wheels on the bus ... meaning that it keeps things moving but it's neutral when it comes to the direction they move in."-M.R. Carey, The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts, #2)
"Laura, this isn't love. Love lets you go on a trip without following you. Love can live without you for a week, knowing you'll come back.' 'No, it can't.' The afternoon shadows grew long and cold. In…"-M.R. Carey, The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts, #2)
4. The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins (Tom Hawkins, #2)
By: Antonia Hodgson
4.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a new Georgian-era mystery by Antonia Hodgson, the follow-up to The Devil in the Marshalsea, Tom… read more
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5. Alanatomy: the Inside Story
By: Alan Carr
3.81
Format: 320 pages,
If you loved Alan's first memoir - Look Who It Is! - then this follow-up, Alanatomy, will take you … read more
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6. The Fear Index
By: Robert Harris
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the secretive inner circles of the… read more
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7. 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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- nonfiction
- 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
8. The Household
By: Stacey Halls
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more
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- audiobook
9. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)
By: Richard Coles
3.32
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more
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10. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
11. 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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- audiobook
12. V2: A Novel of World War II
By: Robert Harris
3.91
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket e… read more
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13. Exit
By: Belinda Bauer
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE MURDER ...Pensioner Felix Pink is about to find out that it’s never too… read more
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14. Dawnlands (The Fairmile #3)
By: Philippa Gregory
4.07
Format: 526 pages, Paperback
It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many famili… read more
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15. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
17. Wavewalker: Breaking Free
By: Suzanne Heywood
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing… read more
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- audiobook
"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would lau…"-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free
18. A Fatal Crossing
By: Tom Hindle
3.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
November 1924. The Endeavour sets sail from Southampton carrying 2,000 passengers and crew on a wee… read more
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19. 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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20. Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
By: Tim Marshall
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography We feel more divided… read more
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21. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
By: Sue Black
4.31
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow.… read more
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"Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut"-Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
22. Travellers in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.05
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The e… read more
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"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"In Dresden, Sylvia Morris witnessed the ransacking of the Jewish department store - Etam's [on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938]. 'Dresden had been peaceful and not pro-Nazi so this was a major event,'…"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"[William Edward Burghardt] Du Bois saw things rather differently. He argued that it was entirely because of Hitler that Germany had in fact already ‘lapsed into Bolshevism’. In his view, the Nazi gov…"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
23. How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
By: Tom Mustill
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who wen… read more
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"What confounds this dilemma further is that individual animals within a species have varying cognitive abilities. To quote the Yosemite National Park ranger who, when asked why it was proving so hard…"-Tom Mustill, How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
24. The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
By: Mariana Mazzucato
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry and what to do ab… read more
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- audiobook
25. The Gran Tour: Travels with my Elders
By: Ben Aitken
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
When Ben Aitken- a millennial Bill Bryson- learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday in… read more
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- audiobook
26. Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
By: Greg Jenner
4.11
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino… read more
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27. Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: One Pilot’s Extraordinary Account of the Battle of France
By: Alastair Dyson Panton
4.51
Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition
'DESERVES TO JOIN REACH FOR THE SKY AND THE LAST ENEMY AS ONE OF THE GREAT RAF BOOKS OF THE SECOND … read more
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- nonfiction
28. Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
By: John Lewis-Stempel
4.02
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the… read more
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"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
29. The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple
By: Ben Aitken
4.03
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Charming, touching and very very funny" — Jenny Colgan, New York Times bestselling authorONE HOUSE… read more
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- audiobook
"I ask what inscription she'd have on her headstone. She gives it some thought, then says, 'Was meant to be enjoying herself but polished the doorknob instead."-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple
"She says there's been a few drops of snow in Yorkshire so the BBC are calling it a White Christmas. I say that's like calling me a vegetarian because I eat peas twice a week."-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple
"Over dinner, we mostly talk about Henry being gone a year. I tell her what someone told me in Italy: that grief is fruitful because it gives perspective and a sense of scale. Winnie says that's bollo…"-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple
"She takes a cautious approach to toasting bread. She does it by degrees, nervous of burning it. But the trouble is, by popping it up and down five times to check on its progress, she provides herself…"-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple
30. The Examiner
By: Janice Hallett
4.06
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more
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31. The Official History of Britain: Our Story in Numbers as Told by the Office For National Statistics
By: Boris Starling
3.53
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Entertaining and absorbing’ – The Sunday Times A wonderfully written and entertaining book which … read more
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