13 Best biography books like The Three Kings by Leo Moynihan

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The Three Kings

By: Leo Moynihan

4.15

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Three men born within a 20-mile radius of each other in the central lowlands of Scotland; forged in…

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1. Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

By: Georges Simenon , David Bellos

3.47

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The first novel in the famous Inspector Maigret series. What Maigret sought, and what he waited … read more

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"Sono cose di cui non ci si vanta, cose che a parlarne farebbero sorridere e che pure richiedono una certa dose di eroismo."

-Georges Simenon, Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

"Arrivava solido come il granito, e da quel momento pareva che tutto dovesse spezzarsi contro di lui, sia che avanzasse, sia che restasse piantato sulle gambe leggermente divaricate."

-Georges Simenon, Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

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2. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

By: Jonathan Wilson

4.15

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Soccer fans love to argue about the tactics a manager puts into play, and this fascinating study tr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
"Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right."

-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

"Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse."

-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

"كان مينوتي شخصية رومانسية بشكل يفوق الوصف. كان نحيلا كقلم رصاص، ومدخنا شرها يتدل شعره على ياقته، أشيب السوالف، وله نظرة محدقة كصقر، بدا كما لو كان تجسيدا للبوهيمية الأرجنتينية، كان جناحأ أيسر ومفكرا،…"

-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

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3. Nightblind (Dark Iceland #2)

By: Ragnar Jónasson

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Siglufjordur: an idyllically quiet fishing village on the northernmost tip of Iceland, accessible o… read more

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4. Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World

By: Raphael Honigstein

4.42

Format: 718 pages,

July 13th 2014, World Cup Final, the last ten minutes of extra time: Germany forward Mario Gotze, r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football

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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • football

6. Kill Your Friends

By: John Niven

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

It's not dog-eat-dog around here...it's dog-gang-rapes-dog-then-tortures-him-for-five-days-before-b… read more

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7. 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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8. 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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9. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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10. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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11. 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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12. My Life in Red and White

By: Arsène Wenger

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For the very first time, world-renowned and revolutionary football manager Arsène Wenger tells his … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • football
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13. The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

By: Joshua Robinson

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
"The rise of the English Premier League is a story about the sports world's wildest gold rush. In the span of twenty-five years, the league's twenty clubs have increased their combined value by 10,000…"

-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

"I'm not saying that we're Disney, but if you think about it, it's not that dissimilar, Berrada said. We have characters - which are players - that our fans relate to; we put on a show every three or …"

-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

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14. Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

By: John Banville

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder.… read more

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"It's an actual fucking library, and there's a body in it!"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

"I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

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15. Surviving to Drive

By: Guenther Steiner

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is wat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Then again, could you imagine me walking on to the balcony in St Peter’s Square in Rome and delivering the Urbi et Orbi. ‘OK, I’m finished now. Get to foking work!’ Pope Guenther the first would be P…"

-Guenther Steiner, Surviving to Drive

Cover of Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography by Billy Connolly

16. Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography

By: Billy Connolly

4.42

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Blessed are those who yodel - for they shall never be troubled by offers of work."

-Billy Connolly, Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography

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17. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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18. Taste: My Life Through Food

By: Stanley Tucci

4.21

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"And anyway one is never drinking alone. Someone else is always drinking somewhere."

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

"Cooking for her is at once a creative outlet and a way of feeding the family well."

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

"Losing a beloved family heirloom is a very real personal loss; they're things that cannot ever be replaced or re-created. But perhaps the most precious heirlooms are family recipes. Like a physical h…"

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

"It is the connection between customer and purveyor that makes our interactions stronger, to me eating well is not just about what tastes good but about the connections that are made through the food …"

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

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19. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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20. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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21. Scheisse! We're Going Up!

By: Kit Holden

4.42

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A CLUB ON THE RISE AND A CITY IN FLUX. THIS IS UNION BERLIN. No footb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
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22. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

By: Max Hastings

4.40

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more

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  • nonfiction
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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
  • biography
Cover of The Barcelona Legacy: Guardiola, Mourinho and the Fight For Football's Soul by Jonathan  Wilson

24. The Barcelona Legacy: Guardiola, Mourinho and the Fight For Football's Soul

By: Jonathan Wilson

4.07

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

Manchester, 2018: Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho lead their teams out to face each other in the 17… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of Bring the Noise: The Jürgen Klopp Story by Raphael Honigstein

25. Bring the Noise: The Jürgen Klopp Story

By: Raphael Honigstein

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

JüKlopp's coaching career began in the German second tier at the unfashionable club of FSV Mainz 0… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • football
Cover of Fifty-Fifty (Eddie Flynn, #5) by Steve Cavanagh

26. Fifty-Fifty (Eddie Flynn, #5)

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.30

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Alexandra Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body, and needs the police right away. She… read more

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27. The Cracked Mirror

By: Chris Brookmyre

4.07

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVEL You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAP… read more

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28. 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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  • nonfiction
  • football
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29. Tenement Kid

By: Bobby Gillespie

4.02

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Gillespie’s vivid and evocative mem… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I kind of became a feminist from an early age, even though I wasn’t aware of the feminist movement in any way. I admired my mum a lot. In her own quiet way she was a fighter."

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"When I was a teenager I started to think about how dedicated Dad was to the struggle for working-class rights. He had devoted his life to the Labour cause fighting inequality and that’s fucking great…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"Those painful childhood memories we bury, that some of us try and drown out with sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, all the usual crutches and distractions. These childhood experiences are going to be re…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"I began to question the world and other people from a young age. I suppose that gave me a sense of emotional distance, a lack of trust in future friendships and relationships; I would assume a friend…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

Cover of The Three Kings by Leo Moynihan

30. The Three Kings

By: Leo Moynihan

4.15

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Three men born within a 20-mile radius of each other in the central lowlands of Scotland; forged in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • football
Cover of Transformer: Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture by Neil Atkinson

31. Transformer: Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture

By: Neil Atkinson

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

'Does anyone in this room think that I can do wonders? I’m a normal guy from the Black Forest . . .… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football

22 best-selling nonfiction books like The Three Kings by Leo Moynihan

Transform Your Habits

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

Jonathan Wilson

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World

Raphael Honigstein

4.42

Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches

Carlo Ancelotti

0.00

Transform Your Habits

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

David Mitchell

4.16

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19 Top nonfiction books like Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie

Transform Your Habits

Telling Stories

Tim Burgess

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Macrofestivales: El agujero negro de la música

Nando Cruz

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Spaceships Over Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Sonic Life: A Memoir

Thurston Moore

3.81

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