15 best-selling biography books like Old Too Soon, Smart Too Late: My Story by Oliver Holt

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Old Too Soon, Smart Too Late: My Story

By: Oliver Holt

3.76

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

'Searingly honest' - Paul Hayward, Daily Telegraph'illuminating' - Martin Samuel, Daily Mail'warts-…

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1. The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It

By: Owen Jones

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

In The EstablishmentOwen Jones, author of the international bestseller Chavs, offers a biting criti… read more

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2. Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography

By: Alex Ferguson

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The celebratory, revealing, inspiring, and entertaining autobiography of the greatest manager in th… read more

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3. How Not To Be a Boy

By: Robert Webb

2.76

Format: 320 pages,

RULES FOR BEING A MAN Don't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About Feelings But … read more

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4. Fatherland

By: Robert Harris

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country i… read more

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5. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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6. Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

By: Peter Robinson

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The 28th twisting installment in the DCI Alan Banks mystery series that Stephen King calls "the bes… read more

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7. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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8. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

By: David McCloskey

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more

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9. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • biography
"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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10. Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly

By: Jeremy Clarkson

4.14

Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition

Get tucked in to a third bestselling helping of Clarkson's Farm from our favourite wellie-wearing w… read more

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  • biography
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11. Surviving to Drive

By: Guenther Steiner

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is wat… read more

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  • biography
"Then again, could you imagine me walking on to the balcony in St Peter’s Square in Rome and delivering the Urbi et Orbi. ‘OK, I’m finished now. Get to foking work!’ Pope Guenther the first would be P…"

-Guenther Steiner, Surviving to Drive

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12. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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  • biography
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13. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • biography
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14. The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life

By: Steven Bartlett

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A galvanizing playbook for success from Steven Bartlett, one of the world’s most exciting entrepren… read more

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15. A Bird in Winter

By: Louise Doughty

3.68

Format: None pages, ebook

Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, … read more

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16. Unbreakable

By: Ronnie O'Sullivan

3.90

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2023 AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER… read more

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  • biography
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17. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

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  • biography
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18. Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more

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  • biography
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19. Theroux the Keyhole

By: Louis Theroux

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Come round to Louis Theroux’s house where the much-loved TV documentary-maker, podcaster and bestse… read more

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  • biography
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20. Tidelands (The Fairmile, #1)

By: Philippa Gregory

3.83

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and Engl… read more

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21. Broadly Speaking

By: Stuart Broad

3.84

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Stuart Broad is the ultimate competitor - someone addicted to the pressures of Test cricket, the bi… read more

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  • biography
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22. Wandering Souls

By: Cecile Pin

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more

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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

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23. Cherry

By: Nico Walker

3.49

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Cleveland, Ohio, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a pas… read more

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"He said, “You look mentally ill."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

"Sometimes I wonder if life was wasted on me."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

"He said, "You look mentally ill" I said "I am, Let's go"

-Nico Walker, Cherry

"Emily’s gone to take a shower. The room’s half-dark and I’m getting dressed, looking for a shirt with no blood on it, not having any luck."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

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24. 1312: Among the Ultras, A journey with the world's most extreme fans

By: James Montague

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

You can see us, but you don't know us. Ultras are football fans like no others. Fiercely loyal, … read more

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  • football
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25. How to be an Ex-Footballer

By: Peter Crouch

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The first truly insider guide to being a Premiership footballer, from Britain's funniest sporting i… read more

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  • biography
  • football
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26. Gloves Off: The Autobiography

By: Tyson Fury

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The No-Holds-Barred Autobiography Tyson pulls no punches in his most candid, comprehensive and ente… read more

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  • biography
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27. I, Robot: How to Be a Footballer 2

By: Peter Crouch

4.02

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

**A Daily Mail Book of the Year**What happens on the pitch is only half the story. Being a football… read more

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  • biography
  • football
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28. Relentless: Secrets of the Sporting Elite

By: Alistair Brownlee

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In his quest to define ‘sporting greatness’, double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee has spent ne… read more

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  • biography
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29. Mental Fitness

By: Ant Middleton

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The brilliant new book from the Chief Instructor of Australia that w… read more

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30. Old Too Soon, Smart Too Late: My Story

By: Oliver Holt

3.76

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

'Searingly honest' - Paul Hayward, Daily Telegraph'illuminating' - Martin Samuel, Daily Mail'warts-… read more

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  • biography
  • football
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31. Mind Games: The Ups and Downs of Life and Football

By: Southall

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this unique book, one of football’s greatest cult players reflects on the travails of the sport … read more

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4.17

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