11 best-selling biography books like Bob Willis: A Cricketer and a Gentleman by Bob Willis

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Bob Willis: A Cricketer and a Gentleman

By: Bob Willis

4.00

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'Verdict on Willis a …

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1. Dead Man's Time (Roy Grace, #9)

By: Peter James

4.17

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In Dead Man's Time, the latest from international bestselling author Peter James, Roy Grace finds h… read more

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2. The Power and the Glory

By: John Updike , Graham Greene

3.13

Format: 192 pages,

How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more

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3. You Are Dead (Roy Grace, #11)

By: Peter James

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

THEY WERE MARKED FOR DEATH. The last words Nick Walton hears from his fiancee, Logan Somervile, are… read more

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4. Want You Dead (Roy Grace, #10)

By: Peter James

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The 10th book in Peter James' multi-million-copy selling crime series, featuring the definitive Bri… read more

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5. Billy

By: Pamela Stephenson

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Whatever your opinion of Billy Connolly, his life has been an epic tale of controversy and hilarity… read more

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6. Goodbye to Berlin

By: Christopher Isherwood

3.95

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not… read more

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7. Remembering Richie

By: Richie Benaud

4.07

Format: 640 pages, ebook

A tribute to Richie Benaud and a celebration of his life A compilation of the very best writing fro… read more

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8. Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

By: Peter Robinson

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The 28th twisting installment in the DCI Alan Banks mystery series that Stephen King calls "the bes… read more

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9. The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.05

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthe… read more

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10. 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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11. Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks – AKA the Marlow Murder Clu… read more

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"... Feynman's technique was simple. And he claimed that it was always successful. But it' not currently working for me. Not yet. What was it? Well, when he was building the first atomic bomb, he obse…"

-Robert Thorogood, Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

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12. Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth cen… read more

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13. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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14. A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)

By: Ian Rankin

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The brand-new John Rebus thriller from the #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin. John Rebus st… read more

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15. 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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16. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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17. Nights of Plague

By: Orhan Pamuk

3.58

Format: 683 pages, Hardcover

From the the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic--a… read more

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18. The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer

By: Christopher Clarey

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

This  New York Times  bestselling biography tells the life story of the most iconic men's tennis pl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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19. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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20. The Passenger

By: Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

3.95

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing a… read more

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21. The Square of Sevens

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

4.14

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more

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"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."

-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

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22. All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business

By: Mel Brooks

4.24

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I didn’t realize it but I might have created the first cell phone. Had I patented it, I probably would have made so much money that I wouldn’t have had to write this book."

-Mel Brooks, All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business

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23. Broadly Speaking

By: Stuart Broad

3.84

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Stuart Broad is the ultimate competitor - someone addicted to the pressures of Test cricket, the bi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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24. The Secret of Villa Alba

By: Louise Douglas

4.26

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

1968, Sicily.  Just months after a terrible earthquake has destroyed the mountain town of Gibellina… read more

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25. The Extra Mile

By: Kevin Sinfield

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary memoir from Rugby League's greatest and most inspirational player The Extra Mi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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26. Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story: A Non-Memoir

By: James Blunt

4.16

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

This book is inspired by true events but is not a biography.The truth is My Truth is not The Truth,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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27. How to Survive Family Holidays

By: Jack Whitehall

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

One part 'Lonely Planet', one part tell-all family memoir, this is the definitive and hilarious gui… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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28. Unforgettable: Winner of the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year Award

By: Steve Thompson

4.19

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

'I'm in my early forties. There are days when I don't remember the names of my wife and four kids .… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Another Fine Mess: Across the USA in a Ford Model T by Tim Moore

29. Another Fine Mess: Across the USA in a Ford Model T

By: Tim Moore

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman – switches two wheels for four as he journeys across … read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Bob Willis: A Cricketer and a Gentleman

By: Bob Willis

4.00

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'Verdict on Willis a … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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31. Leadership: Lessons From My Life in Rugby

By: Eddie Jones

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

What does it take to lead a team to world-class success over a sustained period of time? Eddie Jone… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

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Bob Mortimer

4.33

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Michael Palin

4.17

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Christopher Clarey

4.19

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Mel Brooks

4.24

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Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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Rory Stewart

4.36

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David Mitchell

4.16

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Billy Connolly

4.16

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