Who Are We Now? Stories of Modern England
By: Jason Cowley
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this compelling and essential book, Jason Cowley, editor-in-chief of the New Statesman, examines…
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1. Happy All the Time
By: Laurie Colwin
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Guido and Vincent are childhood best friends—third cousins, really—living in Cambridge and dreaming… read more
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2. The Night Manager
By: John Le Carré
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington an unholy alliance operates between the intelli… read more
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3. Any Human Heart
By: William Boyd
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991,… read more
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4. Fever Pitch
By: Nick Hornby
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more
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5. Capitalism and Freedom
By: Milton Friedman
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Times Literary Supplementas one of the "hundred most influential books since the wa… read more
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6. 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
7. 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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"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
8. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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9. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
By: Mick Herron
4.13
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more
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"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
10. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
By: Ian Dunt
4.45
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more
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11. 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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"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
12. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
By: Sam Knight
3.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more
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13. 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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14. The Trading Game: A Confession
By: Gary Stevenson
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more
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15. Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.13
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance min… read more
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"The Matrix is a reflection of our times, or at least our anxieties. It reveals our fear of a mechanization so complete, of a commodification of our bodies and enslavement of our minds so successful, …"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"...a cynical person is someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. Our societies tend to make us all cynics. And no one is more cynical than the economist who sees exchange va…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"Bürokrasi, Ordu ve Ruhban Sınıfı Borç, para, inanç ve devlet el ele yürür. Borç olmadan tarımsal fazlalığı yönetmenin kolay yolu yoktur. Borcun ortaya çıkışıyla paranın yıldızı parlamaya başladı. Anc…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"Like any ecosystem, a modern economy cannot survive without recycling. Just as animals and plants are continually recycling the oxygen and carbon dioxide that the other provides, so too must workers …"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
16. There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
By: Fiona Hill
4.13
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity ha… read more
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17. Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live
By: John Sellars
4.20
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A deeply comforting and enlightening book on how Stoicism can inspire us to lead more thoughtful li… read more
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"Queremos creer que la humanidad ha evolucionado —y, con suerte, mejorado— en los últimos dos mil años, pero Séneca nos demuestra que muchos de los asuntos con los que la gente se debate hoy en día no…"-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live
"Marco Aurelio podría muy bien haberse mostrado como un emperador romano en busca de una reputación como sabio filósofo estoico, pero lo que uno se encuentra en las Meditaciones no es más que un hombr…"-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live
"El proceso pasa por tres fases, señala Séneca: la primera, un primer impulso involuntario, es decir, una reacción fisiológica natural que escapa a nuestro control; la segunda, un juicio —que sí está …"-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live
"Crisipo comparaba el hecho de estar bajo los efectos de una emoción con correr demasiado deprisa. Una vez que se ha cogido cierta cantidad de impulso, no es fácil detenerse. El movimiento está fuera …"-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live
18. Rule, Nostalgia
By: Hannah Rose Woods
3.99
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
Britain is an island ruled by nostalgia, but nostalgia today isn't what it used to be... Longing to… read more
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19. Behind These Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival in Prison
By: Alex South
4.52
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
'The men I have worked with and the staff I've worked alongside over the last ten years in prison h… read more
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20. Who Are We Now? Stories of Modern England
By: Jason Cowley
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this compelling and essential book, Jason Cowley, editor-in-chief of the New Statesman, examines… read more
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21. Taken As Red
By: Anushka Asthana
4.09
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
How Labour took power, how the Tories lost it, and what to expect'Taken As Red stands out for its b… read more
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