6 Top biography books like All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil by Stephen Alford

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All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

By: Stephen Alford

3.82

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

From the acclaimed author of The Watchers, the untold story of Robert Cecil - the ultimate Tudor sp…

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1. Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I

By: Tracy Borman

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Around the year 1049, William, Duke of Normandy and future conqueror of England, raced to the palac… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. 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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3. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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4. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

By: Daniel Finkelstein

4.63

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

By: Julian T. Jackson

4.17

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. Autumn Chills: Tales of Intrigue from the Queen of Crime

By: Agatha Christie

3.90

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

An all-new collection of autumn-themed mysteries from the master of the genre.Autumn is the season … read more

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7. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

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"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

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8. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

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9. The Instrumentalist

By: Harriet Constable

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away.… read more

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10. Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'Dr Greeby was found lying dead there, with his lecture-notes scattered all round him and brickbat … read more

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11. Graveyard Shift

By: M.L. Rio

3.49

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night sh… read more

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12. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

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13. Costanza

By: Rachel Blackmore

4.29

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Rome, 1636. History calls her a Muse. Temptress. Fallen woman. This is her story. In the scorche… read more

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14. Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory

By: Patrick Bishop

4.20

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

Celebrating the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Paris, a heart-stopping countdown narrat… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

By: Stephen Alford

3.82

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

From the acclaimed author of The Watchers, the untold story of Robert Cecil - the ultimate Tudor sp… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Alford's All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil book and Stephen Alford's All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King

By: Dan Jones

4.61

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unpa… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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17. Catherine de' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen

By: Mary Hollingsworth

3.77

Format: 580 pages, Kindle Edition

A new biography of Catherine de' Medici, the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe, whose… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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18. Barrowbeck

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

For centuries, the inhabitants of Barrowbeck, a remote valley on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border, h… read more

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19. Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)

By: Stephen Fry

4.42

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. A History of Britain in Ten Enemies

By: Terry Deary

4.14

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Ah, Britain. So special. The greatest nation on earth, some say. And we did it all on our own. Didn… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

9 Best history books like All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil by Stephen Alford

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Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I

Tracy Borman

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

Daniel Finkelstein

4.63

Transform Your Habits

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

Julian T. Jackson

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory

Patrick Bishop

4.20

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Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

Nicholas Shakespeare

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

Jeremy Bowen

4.38

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Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

Michael Palin

4.17

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