Legacy: Gangsters, Corruption and the London Olympics
By: Michael Gillard
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
When billions poured into the neglected east London borough hosting the 2012 Olympics, a turf war b…
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1. Brighton Rock
By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more
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2. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980… read more
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3. Feet in the Clouds: A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession
By: Richard Askwith
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
Exploring the world of fell-running--to run the ancient, wild landscape and stay a hero within one'… read more
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4. Judas Pig
By: Horace Silver
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Billy Abrahams is a career criminal who makes a very good living from violence, armed robbery, sex … read more
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5. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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6. The List of Suspicious Things
By: Jennie Godfrey
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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7. Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many … read more
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"The “persecution"-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"If you do not take risks for your opinion, you're nothing."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"Freedom is always associated with risk taking, whether it leads to it or comes from it."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
8. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
9. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
10. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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11. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
By: Barbara Demick
4.45
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more
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"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
12. 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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13. Take Your Breath Away
By: Linwood Barclay
4.04
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Elevator Pitch comes a gripping ps… read more
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14. The Whistleblower
By: Robert Peston
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition
1997. A desperate government clings to power; a hungry opposition will do anything to win. And jour… read more
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15. One of the Good Guys
By: Araminta Hall
3.52
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
If most men claim to be good, why are most women still afraid to walk home alone at night? Despe… read more
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16. The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail
By: Nick Wallis
4.64
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
This “factual thriller” from the journalist Nick Wallis details a scandal which has been described … read more
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17. Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia
By: Mark Galeotti
4.04
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Absolutely gripping, deeply authoritative, hugely important and lethally lurid’Simon Sebag Montefi… read more
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18. A Million Ways To Stay On The Run: The Uncut Story of the international manhunt for public enemy No.1 Kenny Noye
By: Karl Howman
4.29
Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times bestseller.No criminal sparked as much fear and loathing among the public and law en… read more
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19. Goldfinger and Me: Bullets, Bullion and Betrayal: John Palmer's True Story (Now the Subject of a Major BBC Drama)
By: Marnie Palmer
3.94
Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition
The life, crimes and bloody end of John 'Goldfinger' Palmer were straight out of a Hollywood blockb… read more
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20. Legacy: Gangsters, Corruption and the London Olympics
By: Michael Gillard
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
When billions poured into the neglected east London borough hosting the 2012 Olympics, a turf war b… read more
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