10 must-read nonfiction books like The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers by Joseph Hone

Cover of The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers by Joseph Hone

The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers

By: Joseph Hone

3.65

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown'A remarkable achievement' SpectatorIn the summer of 1705, …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers by Joseph Hone , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. This House of Grief

By: Helen Garner

3.00

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

On the evening of 4 September 2005, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Unseen (Anders Knutas #1) by Mari Jungstedt, Tiina Nunnally

2. Unseen (Anders Knutas #1)

By: Mari Jungstedt , Tiina Nunnally

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Swedish crime at its best—dark, atmospheric, and chilling. The island of Gotland is in the middl… read more

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3. El lagarto negro

By: Edogawa Rampo , None

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Verdadero icono de la novela policiaca japonesa, la celebridad de Edogawa Rampo se extendio tambien… read more

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4. Harvey

By: Mary Chase

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

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5. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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6. The Mystery Writer

By: Sulari Gentill

3.42

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A literary thriller about an aspiring writer who meets and falls in love with her literary idol—onl… read more

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7. Gökungen (Patrik Hedström, #11)

By: Camilla Läckberg

3.98

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Två fruktansvärda händelser, utan synbart samband, skakar Fjällbacka. En känd fotograf hittas bruta… read more

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8. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

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"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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9. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong

10. Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties

By: David de Jong

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

By: Natalie Haynes

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

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12. Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

By: Eleanor Parker

4.17

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seaso… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"A man cannot grow wise before he has had his share of winters in the world."

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

"Whatever one thing we give to God's needy for the sake of his love, he will repay us for it a hundredfold in the life to come."

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

"In a time of ecological crisis, Anglo-Saxon poems which recognize how fundamentally we are connected to the rhythms of nature - how dependent we are on the well-being of the earth, how grateful we sh…"

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

"The cycle of the seasons, to which poets have so often turned as a reminder that nothing in this world is stable, is in fact one of the great constants in life. In some ways, the thousand years or mo…"

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

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13. The Tower

By: Flora Carr

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more

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14. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

By: Joanna Cannon

3.65

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more

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"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

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15. Fair Rosaline

By: Natasha Solomons

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Was the greatest ever love story a lie? The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capule… read more

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16. Scarlet Town (Laurence Jago, #3)

By: Leonora Nattrass

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

1796. A rigged election. A town at war. a murderer at large... Disgraced former Foreign Office c… read more

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17. The Burial Plot

By: Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more

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18. A Clock Stopped Dead (Liz, Pat and Thelma, #3)

By: J.M. Hall

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Retired schoolteachers and amateur sleuths Liz, Pat and Thelma are giving up their coffee morning f… read more

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19. The Spy (Kamil Rahman, #4)

By: Ajay Chowdhury

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is Detective Kamil Rahman's toughest assignment yet...Kamil Rahman is working for the Metropol… read more

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20. Uproar!: Satire, Scandal & Printmakers in Georgian London

By: Alice Loxton

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstree… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. After Me Comes the Flood

By: Sarah Perry

2.78

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Elegant, sinister, and psychologically complex, After Me Comes the Flood is the haunting debut nove… read more

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"Behind me Eve went on playing [the piano], breaking off sometimes to sweat quietly but viciously, and play a dozen times the phrase she’d mistaken, until the memory of it must have lodged in the bone…"

-Sarah Perry, After Me Comes the Flood

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22. Death on the Lusitania (Patrick Gallagher #1)

By: R.L. Graham

3.45

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome on board the Lusitania’s final voyage . . . New York, 1915. RMS Lusitania, one of the wo… read more

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23. Blood Roses (The Warsaw Quartet #1)

By: Douglas Jackson

4.35

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

As the Nazis roll into Warsaw, a serial killer is unleashed… September 1939. A city ruled by fear. … read more

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24. The King's Witches

By: Kate Foster

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The King’s Witches by Kate Foster is a gripping and beautiful historical novel, giving an unforgett… read more

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25. The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370

By: Florence de Changy

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The affair was weird when seen from afar, but seen in close-up, it was Kafkaesque: it was not poss… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country

By: Juliet Nicolson

3.44

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. A Woman of Opinion

By: Sean Lusk

4.10

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

'I shall be a thousand different Marys and, in such manner, shall find the one I wish to be...' La… read more

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28. The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers

By: Joseph Hone

3.65

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown'A remarkable achievement' SpectatorIn the summer of 1705, … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches by Malcolm Gaskill

29. Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches

By: Malcolm Gaskill

3.53

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The 1735 Witchcraft Act, charging that spirits of the dead had been raised by conjuration, was used… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

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4.21

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Natalie Haynes

4.05

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

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3.55

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