Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth
By: Selina Todd
4.16
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Politicians claim social mobility is real a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book prove…
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3.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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4.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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3. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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4. Anna Karenina
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude
4.09
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5. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
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"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
6. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
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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
7. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
8. 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
9. The Trial
By: Rob Rinder
4.24
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
An unputdownable murder mystery by Britain's best-loved criminal barrister Rob Rinder. ONE MURDE… read more
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"Luckily,Mum,there aren't any nice young ladies in my life so that's not really a problem."-Rob Rinder, The Trial
10. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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3.95
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"To wielka tajemnica, że każde wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie żywotne siły"-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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11. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)
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3.32
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more
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12. Young Mungo
By: Douglas Stuart
4.38
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more
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"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
13. Black Butterflies
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4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
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14. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
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4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more
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"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
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4.49
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"Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones."-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
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4.32
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17. The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
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19. Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
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"So instead of seeing anything outside of Islam as darkness, we Muslims should accept that there are objective values of “good"-Mustafa Akyol, Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
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20. Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power
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3.47
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21. Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth
By: Selina Todd
4.16
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Politicians claim social mobility is real a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book prove… read more
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