The English Civil War : At First Hand
By: Tristram Hunt
3.76
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
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1. A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3.1)
By: George R.R. Martin
4.50
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
Winter approaches Westeros like an angry beast. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blo… read more
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"Light your flame among us, R’hllor,"-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3.1)
"The Others never come when the sun is up."-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3.1)
"Never believe anything you hear in a song."-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3.1)
"A good threat is often more telling than a blow."-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3.1)
2. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
3. The Age of Bowie
By: Paul Morley
3.43
Format: 344 pages, ebook
Respected arts commentator Paul Morley, one of the team who curated the highly successful retrospec… read more
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4. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
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5. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
6. America
By: Jean Baudrillard
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this, his most accessible and evocative book, France's leading philosopher of postmodernism take… read more
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7. Coriolanus
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.30
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Shakespeare's last tragedy explores the career and death of a brilliant and arrogant Roman general.… read more
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8. Mansfield Park
By: Jane Austen
3.87
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more
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"I was quiet, but I was not blind."-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
9. Henry V
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more
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10. Utopia
By: Paul Turner , Thomas More
3.55
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more
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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."-Paul Turner, Utopia
11. The Wars of the Roses
By: Alison Weir
4.20
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Lancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for… read more
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12. The Lonely Londoners
By: Sam Selvon
3.82
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
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13. One Hundred Years of Solitude
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa
4.12
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The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicl… read more
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"Cease, cows, life is short."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
"There is always something left to love."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
"Children inherit their parents' madness."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
"بدأ يدرك كم يحب فى الواقع الأشخاص الذين كرههم أكثر من سواهم ."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
14. The Guns of August
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4.18
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The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
15. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.39
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"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
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4.36
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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
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18. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
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19. The Shortest History of Germany
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"Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that …"-James Hawes, The Shortest History of Germany
20. The Salt Path
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"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
21. The Shortest History of England
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22. The English Civil War : At First Hand
By: Tristram Hunt
3.76
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
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