15 must-read memoir books like Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice by Parm Sandhu

Cover of Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice by Parm Sandhu

Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

By: Parm Sandhu

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

At the point of her retirement from the Metropolitan Police Service in 2019, Parm Sandhu was the mo…

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1. Blacklands (Exmoor Trilogy, #1)

By: Belinda Bauer

3.75

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a body. Every day after school, wh… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje

2. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

By: Michael Ondaatje

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel, a virtuoso syn… read more

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3. Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today

By: Hibo Wardere

3.48

Format: 93 pages,

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Similar categories in Hibo Wardere's Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

4. Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces

By: John Sutherland

3.79

Format: 368 pages,

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5. Fix the System, Not the Women

By: Laura Bates

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more

Similar categories in Laura Bates's Fix the System, Not the Women book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"

-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women

Cover of Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

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

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • 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

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7. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

Similar categories in Michael Magee's Close to Home book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • audiobook
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8. 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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  • audiobook
"Luckily,Mum,there aren't any nice young ladies in my life so that's not really a problem."

-Rob Rinder, The Trial

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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

Similar categories in Richard Coles's Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1) book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • audiobook
Cover of Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey by Wendy    Joseph

10. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

By: Wendy Joseph

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Joseph's Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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11. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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12. The Audacity

By: Katherine Ryan

4.16

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

From the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Ryan's The Audacity book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

Similar categories in Safiya Sinclair's How to Say Babylon book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

Cover of No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective by Jess McDonald

14. No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective

By: Jess McDonald

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'Probably the most important book on the state of British policing you'll ever read' Graham Bartlet… read more

Similar categories in Jess McDonald's No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. The Seven Ages of Death

By: Richard Shepherd

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more

Similar categories in Richard Shepherd's The Seven Ages of Death book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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16. The Trees

By: Percival Everett

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's The Trees book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • audiobook
"Unknown Male is a name,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

-Percival Everett, The Trees

Cover of Blackout (Berlin Wartime Thriller #1) by Simon Scarrow

17. Blackout (Berlin Wartime Thriller #1)

By: Simon Scarrow

4.20

Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition

Berlin, December 1939 As Germany goes to war, the Nazis tighten their terrifying grip. Paranoia … read more

Similar categories in Simon Scarrow's Blackout (Berlin Wartime Thriller #1) book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • audiobook
Cover of Cat And Mouse (Helen Grace, #11) by M.J. Arlidge

18. Cat And Mouse (Helen Grace, #11)

By: M.J. Arlidge

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

When you think you're safe, When you think you're all alone, That's when he'll come for you... … read more

Similar categories in M.J. Arlidge's Cat And Mouse (Helen Grace, #11) book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • audiobook
Cover of The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails by Vanessa Frake

19. The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

By: Vanessa Frake

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on This Morning Back in the day, I was Governor of Se… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story by Neil Samworth

20. Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story

By: Neil Samworth

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Neil ‘Sam’ Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangewa… read more

Similar categories in Neil Samworth's Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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21. The Rise

By: Ian Rankin

3.65

Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition

In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive … read more

Similar categories in Ian Rankin's The Rise book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • audiobook
Cover of Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love by Huma Qureshi

22. Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

By: Huma Qureshi

3.89

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

A collection about mothers and daughters, children lost, unborn, grown up, grown apart, and the dis… read more

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"Every day I looked up at the sky and I longed for the day that I might escape."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"I look back now and I want to shake myself. I want to say, do not think so long about what you cannot plan for. Do not take so long. Do it. Do it anyway."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"Our star-crossed moments may have lasted only milliseconds, but they filled the whole of my small schoolgirl world and kept it turning, like shafts of dust dancing gold in a splinter of sunlight."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"I accept time has passed and we have changed and there is an emptiness now in which we have nothing left to say because it has all been said already, because there are no words left between us any mo…"

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

Cover of This Is Not A Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan

23. This Is Not A Pity Memoir

By: Abi Morgan

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What happens when your partner of twenty years suddenly believes you’re nothing but a stranger?  Wh… read more

Similar categories in Abi Morgan's This Is Not A Pity Memoir book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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24. A Search for Belonging

By: Michael Fuller

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Michael Fuller had an idyllic childhood growing up in care in Surrey, looked after by Margaret who … read more

Similar categories in Michael Fuller's A Search for Belonging book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Crisis: The thrilling memoir telling the true story of a hostage and crisis negotiator's time in the Metropolitan Police by Nicky Perfect

25. Crisis: The thrilling memoir telling the true story of a hostage and crisis negotiator's time in the Metropolitan Police

By: Nicky Perfect

4.06

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch dir… read more

Similar categories in Nicky Perfect's Crisis: The thrilling memoir telling the true story of a hostage and crisis negotiator's time in the Metropolitan Police book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1) by Richard Osman

26. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)

By: Richard Osman

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1) book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • audiobook
Cover of Forced Out: A Detective's Story of Prejudice and Resilience by Kevin Maxwell

27. Forced Out: A Detective's Story of Prejudice and Resilience

By: Kevin Maxwell

4.13

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Kevin Maxwell was a dream candidate for the police force - he had a long-held desire to serve his c… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Maxwell's Forced Out: A Detective's Story of Prejudice and Resilience book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice by Parm Sandhu

28. Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

By: Parm Sandhu

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

At the point of her retirement from the Metropolitan Police Service in 2019, Parm Sandhu was the mo… read more

Similar categories in Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich by Matthew Hammett Knott

29. A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich

By: Matthew Hammett Knott

3.65

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A naked Russian oligarch is spanking me in his basement. His weapon is a birch branch, the setting … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Hammett Knott's A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich book and Parm Sandhu's Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Bodyguard: The Real Story: Inside the secretive world of armed police and close protection by Jonathan Levi

30. Bodyguard: The Real Story: Inside the secretive world of armed police and close protection

By: Jonathan Levi

3.25

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling authors Jonathan Levi and Emma French use their unrivalled access to the secret world o… read more

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