Borrowed Time: The Story of Britain Between the Wars
By: Roy Hattersley
3.50
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
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1. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
By: Max Hastings
4.06
Format: 628 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic s… read more
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- history
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"Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)"-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
"Bethmann-Hollweg era davvero irremovibile non tanto sulle sue richieste territoriali – cercò, a un certo punto, di dissuadere il Kaiser dall’insistere sull’annessione del Belgio – quanto sull’intenzi…"-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
2. Ramses: The Son of Light (Ramses, #1)
By: Christian Jacq , Mary Feeney
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
Historical fiction meets mythology as ancient Egypt comes alive in this monumental epic with over 2… read more
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3. Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
By: Dominic Sandbrook
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandb… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- british literature
4. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
5. Inversions (Culture, #6)
By: Iain M. Banks
3.30
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On a backwards world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has … read more
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6. Excession (Culture, #5)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.20
Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The international sensation Iain M. Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical ta… read more
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"[A]ll her hardships had been self-inflicted and recreational in the past."-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)
"the ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces."-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)
"But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be."-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)
"Somehow, later, exhausted and dismayed by these sapping, abrasive, attriting episodes, they came to a sort of truce; but it was at the expense of any closeness."-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)
7. A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s
By: Alwyn Turner
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Margaret Thatcher was ousted from Downing Street in November 1990 it appeared that Britain had… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- british literature
8. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
By: Shashi Tharoor
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more
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- nonfiction
9. The Korean War
By: Max Hastings
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met… read more
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- nonfiction
10. A Short History of Nearly Everything
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages,
In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand--and, if possible, ans… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Atonement
By: Ian McEwan
4.06
Format: 663 pages,
Ian McEwan's symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides a… read more
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12. An Instance of the Fingerpost
By: Iain Pears
5.00
Format: 224 pages,
An ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery with a plot that twists and tu… read more
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13. Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
By: C.J. Sansom
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII h… read more
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14. Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration
By: Antonia Fraser
3.37
Format: None pages,
The acclaimed biographer details the life, reign, and impact of King Charles II of England, reveali… read more
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15. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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- british literature
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
16. George V: Never a Dull Moment
By: Jane Ridley
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively… read more
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- nonfiction
- british literature
17. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"True development does not respect comfort."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
18. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
19. 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
- british literature
"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
20. Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
By: Donna Leon
4.09
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly in… read more
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"He slowed his pace to hers, and they walked automatically, neither of them having to hesitate about where to turn or which bridge to take: the unconscious navigation of the average Venetian is surpas…"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
"In Campo Manin, the bodies of dead shops lined the way to the canal. There was a dead Middle Eastern fast-food place, a dead sporting goods shop, a dead clothes shop with two dead mannequins in the w…"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
"While del Balzo spoke, Brunetti turned off his ears and observed the speaking man, a habit he had developed during years of interrogating suspects, listening to witnesses, or sometimes hearing his ch…"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
"Have you been reading the letters of Rosa Luxemburg again, Donatella?’ Brunetti asked in a normal voice. She laughed her bright laugh, a sound he delighted in hearing because to be thought clever or …"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
21. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
22. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
By: Max Hastings
4.30
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more
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- nonfiction
"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
23. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
By: Max Hastings
4.40
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Transient Desires (Commissario Brunetti, #30)
By: Donna Leon
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
* 9 hours, 46 minutes * In 'TRANSIENT DESIRES', the 30th novel in Donna Leon's masterful series,… read more
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"There had been no noise from any other part of the apartment, but that didn’t exclude the possibility of Paolo’s presence, especially if she had given her soul over to reading. He sometimes told her …"-Donna Leon, Transient Desires (Commissario Brunetti, #30)
"The area confirmed his feelings about Giudecca: bleak cement buildings, crudely rectangular, devoid of any attempt at embellishment or adornment: cubes for living in, worsened – at least in his eyes …"-Donna Leon, Transient Desires (Commissario Brunetti, #30)
25. The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
By: Michael Wood
4.16
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A single volume history of China, offering a look into the past of the global superpower and its si… read more
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- nonfiction
26. May at 10: The Verdict
By: Anthony Seldon
4.14
Format: 887 pages, Kindle Edition
Theresa May has presided over the most dramatic and historic peacetime premiership for a century. M… read more
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27. Borrowed Time: The Story of Britain Between the Wars
By: Roy Hattersley
3.50
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Borrowed Time: Story of Britain Between the Wars * As with Hattersley's THE EDWARDIANS, this is a b… read more
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28. Trace Elements (Commissario Brunetti 29)
By: Donna Leon
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
‘They killed him. It was bad money.’ A dying hospice patient gasps these cryptic words about her re… read more
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