A Fan for All Seasons
By: Jon Harvey
4.05
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A funny, heartfelt, nostalgia-infused story of grief, sport and the journey of a lifetime.What do y…
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1. Cry of the Kalahari
By: Mark Owens , Delia Owens
4.33
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the Owens' travel and life in the Kalahari Desert. Here they met and studied u… read more
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"For a scavenger, patience is the key to the pantry."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
"I've about had it with flying," he grumbled, switching off the plane's systems, "It's ninety-nine percent boring and one percent sheer terror."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
"The entire Blue Pride, nine in all, surrounded us, nearly all of them asleep. We were quite literally in bed with a pride of wild Kalahari lions."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
"Especially after our Makgadikgadi experiences, we were very aware that the two absolute essentials for survival in the Kalahari were water and the truck."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
2. The End of the Affair
By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more
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"As long as one suffers one lives."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
3. Farewell But Not Goodbye
By: Bobby Robson
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The autobiography of Sir Bobby Robson, a former international footballer for England who has become… read more
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4. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
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5. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
6. 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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"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
7. The Trial
By: Rob Rinder
4.24
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
An unputdownable murder mystery by Britain's best-loved criminal barrister Rob Rinder. ONE MURDE… read more
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"Luckily,Mum,there aren't any nice young ladies in my life so that's not really a problem."-Rob Rinder, The Trial
8. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
By: James Patterson
3.92
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more
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"Different books speak to us at different times."-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
9. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
10. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon
By: Alan Partridge
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more
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11. Football and How to Survive It
By: Pat Nevin
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
'The good news for those who loved THE ACCIDENTAL this new book is even better. There were times a… read more
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12. 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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13. Lioness: My Journey to Glory
By: Beth Mead
4.60
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
With foreword by Ian Wright & afterword by Jermain Defoe Beth Mead is one of the world's most ta… read more
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14. Scheisse! We're Going Up!
By: Kit Holden
4.42
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A CLUB ON THE RISE AND A CITY IN FLUX. THIS IS UNION BERLIN. No footb… read more
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15. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more
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16. All You Need Is Love: An Oral History of The Beatles
By: Peter Brown
3.53
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Beatles in their own words: unpublished, unvarnished, and told by The Beatles and their inner c… read more
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17. Nothing But The Truth
By: The Secret Barrister
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more
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18. My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
By: Hannah Pick-Goslar
4.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, auth… read more
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19. How to Be a Football Manager
By: Ian Holloway
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
*** SHORTLISTED FOR SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 20… read more
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20. An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals
By: Polly Toynbee
4.14
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
'Fascinating' Spectator'Entertaining' Sunday Times'Enthralling' Guardian'Beautiful, funny and movin… read more
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"Children know. They breathe it in early, for there's no unknowing the difference between nannies, cleaners, below stairs people and the family upstairs. Children are the go-betweens, one foot in each…"-Polly Toynbee, An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals
21. Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope
By: Clive Myrie
4.31
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
As a Bolton teenager with a paper round, Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered from cove… read more
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22. One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On
By: Wes Streeting
4.30
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
Wes Streeting might have ended up in prison rather than in parliament. His maternal grandfather Bil… read more
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23. Original Sins: An extraordinary memoir of faith, family, shame and addiction
By: Matt Rowland Hill
4.21
Format: 302 pages, ebook
An extraordinarily brave memoir about faith, family, shame and addiction - an Observer, New Statesm… read more
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24. On Days Like These: The Lost Memoir of a Goalkeeper
By: Tim Rich
4.56
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
'Emotional, insightful, beautifully written. A story of making saves and being saved. The best foot… read more
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25. Nowhere to Run: The Ridiculous Life of a Semi-Professional Football Club Chairman
By: Jonathan Sayer
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the second oldest football pitch in the world, Jonathan Sayer stands atop a beer crate to addres… read more
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26. The Good Drinker
By: Adrian Chiles
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'I've occasionally been asked why it is that I need to go for a drink before watching the Albion pl… read more
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27. Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Britain, Sport and the 1980s
By: Roger Domeneghetti
4.26
Format: 462 pages, Kindle Edition
A social history of 1980s Britain, told through the sport of the time.Travel back to the 1980s - to… read more
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28. A Fan for All Seasons
By: Jon Harvey
4.05
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A funny, heartfelt, nostalgia-infused story of grief, sport and the journey of a lifetime.What do y… read more
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29. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more
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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
30. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
By: Juliet Nicolson
3.44
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more
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31. Bill Edrich: The Many Lives of England's Cricket Great
By: Leo McKinstry
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Record-breaking England cricketer, wartime RAF hero, Tottenham Hotspur footballer, and husband to f… read more
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