Sir Matt Busby: The Definitive Biography
By: Patrick Barclay
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Sir Matt Busby, the legendary Manchester United manager who saw the team through unprecedented glor…
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1. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
By: Bill Bryson
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, a… read more
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"It’s a bit burned,"-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to."-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
"Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had."-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
"They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally."-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
2. The Origin of Species
By: Charles Darwin
4.01
Format: 703 pages, Hardcover
Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no… read more
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"Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"...Showing that they descend from common parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"On peut démontrer ainsi ni la stérilité ni la fécondité ne fournissent aucune distinction certaines entre les espèces et les variétés."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
3. Birdsong
By: Sebastian Faulks
4.32
Format: 632 pages,
Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be r… read more
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4. The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
By: Anthony Everitt
3.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadr… read more
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5. Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches
By: Carlo Ancelotti
0.00
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Ancelotti is Europe's greatest manager -- Paul Hayward Telegraph He's a great coach and an amazing … read more
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6. Red: My Autobiography
By: Gary Neville
4.06
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
The sensational, brutally honest autobiography of the legendary Manchester United captain. No playe… read more
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7. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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8. The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup
By: Heidi Blake , Jonathan Calvert
4.27
Format: 412 pages, ebook
When the tiny desert state of Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 World Cup, the news was greeted… read more
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9. Cloughie: Walking on Water. Brian Clough with John Sadler
By: Brian Howard Clough
3.89
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Brian Clough, arguably Britains greatest ever football manager, died in September 2004 at the age o… read more
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10. One Summer: America, 1927
By: Bill Bryson
4.09
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports read… read more
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"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
"He [Henry Ford] seldom let facts or logic challenge the certainty of his instincts"-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
"The romance of travel wasn't always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it."-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
"Even with the benefit of steroids most modern players still couldn't hit as many home runs as Babe Ruth hit on hotdogs."-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
11. The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.27
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more
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12. Sharpe's Company (Sharpe, #13)
By: Bernard Cornwell , None
4.25
Format: 286 pages, Mass Market Paperback
To stem the Napoleonic tide, Sharpe must capture a fortress—where his wife and infant daughter are … read more
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13. Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United
By: Alex Ferguson , Michael Moritz
3.33
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
After an astonishing career-first in Scotland, and then over 27 years with Manchester United Footba… read more
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14. Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
By: Wade Davis
3.33
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent work of history, biography and adventure. If the quest for Mount Everest began as a g… read more
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15. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
By: Bill Bryson
3.99
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family… read more
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"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
16. Sharpe's Battle (Sharpe, #12)
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From New York Timesbestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the twelth installment in the world-renowne… read more
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17. The Sound of Laughter
By: Peter Kay
3.00
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
Peter Kay's unerring gift for observing the absurdities and eccentricities of family life has earne… read more
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18. Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
By: Richard K. Morgan
4.04
Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition
Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited f… read more
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"You smoke?"-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
"Catholics get on well with tyranny. It's in the culture."-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
"Kültür, kirli hava gibidir. Farkında olmasanız dahi etkilenirsiniz."-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
"What we thought of as personality was no more than the passing shape of one of the waves in front of me."-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
19. 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
20. Romney: A Reckoning
By: McKay Coppins
4.36
Format: 416 pages, ebook
A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more
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21. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
By: Henry Winkler
4.14
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more
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"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
22. The People's Game: How Football Lost Its Way
By: Gary Neville
3.51
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
*OUT NOW* THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ' Neville at his authentic best. [He] is the closest thing … read more
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23. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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24. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more
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"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
25. Berserker!
By: Adrian Edmondson
4.32
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more
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26. One: My Autobiography
By: Peter Schmeichel
3.86
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Peter Schmeichel is an undisputed giant of the global game. He was a serial winner with Manchester… read more
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"I would say to any adult who stands on the sides yelling at players in a kids' game: grab hold of yourself. Remember the obvious. THESE ARE KIDS. These are little, vulnerable human beings with underd…"-Peter Schmeichel, One: My Autobiography
27. Get It On: How the ’70s Rocked Football
By: Jon Spurling
4.31
Format: 444 pages, Kindle Edition
A decade after the abolition of the maximum wage, a new generation of footballers and managers beca… read more
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28. 1999: Manchester United, the Treble and All That
By: Matt Dickinson
4.47
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HIL… read more
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29. Bobby Moore: The Man in Full
By: Matt Dickinson
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
"Immaculate footballer -- Imperial defender -- Immortal hero of 1966... National treasure -- Mast… read more
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30. Sir Matt Busby: The Definitive Biography
By: Patrick Barclay
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Sir Matt Busby, the legendary Manchester United manager who saw the team through unprecedented glor… read more
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31. Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of the Second World War - A Secret History
By: Peter Padfield
3.76
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
When Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess set off for Britain on a peace mission in May 1941, he launched on… read more
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