16 must-read politics books like Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power by Tom Bower

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Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power

By: Tom Bower

3.61

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

‘THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ’ Mail on Sunday ‘Meticulous and highly readable … Funny and devast…

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1. Scoop

By: Evelyn Waugh

3.80

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on hi… read more

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"Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich."

-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop

"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read."

-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop

"Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'--William Boot"

-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop

"As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic."

-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop

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2. Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

By: James Hilton , Edward Weeks , Henry Matthew Brock , Santiago Munevar

3.97

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Mr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster. Mr. Chipping, the classics master at Broo… read more

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"All things are forgotten in the end"

-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

"He was forty-eight — an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable."

-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

"For Chips, like some old sea captain, still measured time by the signals of the past. . . ."

-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

"His guests found it fun to watch him make tea -- mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies."

-James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

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3. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: From Grantham to the Falklands

By: Charles Moore

4.18

Format: 859 pages, Hardcover

With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore’s authorized biogra… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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4. Poirot and Me

By: Geoffrey Wansell , David Suchet

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Hercule Poirot, with his distinctive moustache and fastidious ways, is one of Agatha Christie's fin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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5. From the Earth to the Moon

By: Jules Verne

3.76

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Een in de 19e eeuw geschreven verhaal over een reis naar de maan, waaruit blijkt dat de schrijver i… read more

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"Time has no business to keep a whole country in suspense."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"No sé si los mundos están habitados, y como no lo sé, voy a verlo."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure"

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"In fact they did to others that which they would not they should do to them— that grand principle of immortality upon which rests the whole art of war."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

6. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

By: Reni Eddo-Lodge

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more

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7. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

By: John Buchan

3.60

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more

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"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

8. The Nazi Hunters

By: Damien Lewis

3.82

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The Nazi Huntersis the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS's hi… read more

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9. 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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"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

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10. Men Who Hate Women

By: Laura Bates

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

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11. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"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

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12. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

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13. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

By: William Dalrymple

4.20

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. 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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15. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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16. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.37

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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19. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.41

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a history of white… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"It's the expectations that many white men have that they shouldn't have to climb, shouldn't have to struggle, as others do. It's the idea not only that they think they have less than others, but that…"

-Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

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20. The Perfect Wife

By: J.P. Delaney

3.67

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

The perfect life. The perfect love. Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how … read more

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21. The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion

By: Gwen Adshead

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure ho… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Love Marriage

By: Monica Ali

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In present-day London, Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-bo… read more

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23. Keir Starmer: The Biography

By: Tom Baldwin

4.06

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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24. Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror

By: John Sweeney

4.24

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, e… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn

By: Gabriel Pogrund

4.01

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The 2017 parliament began with Labour on the precipice of power, and its left-most fringe - for so … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment

By: John Preston

4.09

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

A behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion man… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
Cover of Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children by Hannah Barnes

27. Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

By: Hannah Barnes

4.40

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS’s flagship gender service… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"GIDS’s own limited data, which found ‘no evidence of change in psychological function’ with puberty-blocker treatment."

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

"The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has undoubtedly helped some people. It has unquestionably harmed others."

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

"NHS England. Why did they allow the early blocking of puberty to be rolled out as routine practice without demanding to see some data supporting this radical shift? Why didn’t it insist on seeing any…"

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

"It is mad,’ was the reply. Hutchinson paused. When one of the leaders of a service that helps children to access powerful, life-changing drugs comments that what they’re doing is ‘mad’, there is clea…"

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

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28. Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

By: Dean Kirby

4.23

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

“A record of how a city of great wealth ignored the desperate poverty at its very heart . . . It is… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain

By: Quentin Letts

3.09

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling authorWhich fifty people made Britain the wreck she is? From ludi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage

By: Michael Crick

4.11

Format: 400 pages, ebook

'Enormously readable...excellent' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'A superb piece of thorough journa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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31. Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power

By: Tom Bower

3.61

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

‘THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ’ Mail on Sunday ‘Meticulous and highly readable … Funny and devast… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history

16 Best history books like Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power by Tom Bower

Transform Your Habits

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: From Grantham to the Falklands

Charles Moore

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

Lea Ypi

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple

4.20

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16 Best audiobook books like Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

Ian Dunt

4.45

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