Penguins Stopped Play
By: Harry Thompson
4.51
Format: 192 pages,
It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on e…
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1. Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
By: Irvine Welsh
4.05
Format: 548 pages, Paperback
Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at universit… read more
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"Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
"but ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
"Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
"Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
2. The Taliban Cricket Club
By: Timeri N. Murari
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Rukhsana is a spirited young journalist working for the Kabul Daily in Afghanistan. She takes care … read more
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"Like all who inhabit a police state, we live bland and obedient outer lives, while our inner ones seeth in rebellion."-Timeri N. Murari, The Taliban Cricket Club
3. The Fist of God
By: Frederick Forsyth
3.82
Format: 199 pages, Mass Market Paperback
From the bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal, international master of intrigue Frederick Fo… read more
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4. The House on Cold Hill
By: Peter James
4.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Moving from the heart of Brighton and Hove to the Sussex countryside is a big undertaking for Ollie… read more
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6. Penguins Stopped Play
By: Harry Thompson
4.51
Format: 192 pages,
It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on e… read more
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7. The Dogs of War
By: Frederick Forsyth
3.99
Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Knocking off a bank or an armored truck is merely crude. Knocking off an entire republic has, I fe… read more
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"Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire"-Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War
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"The natives who saw him walking alone, and later brought him back to the town for burial, said he was whistling when he went. Being simple peasants, growers of yams and cassava, they did not know wha…"-Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War
8. Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.22
Format: None pages,
The incredible untold story of WWII s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern m… read more
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9. Fatty Batter
By: Michael Simkins
4.53
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The hilarious story of one man's cricket obsession: from his earliest days as a fat boy growing up … read more
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10. Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, #5)
By: C.J. Sansom
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong. Meanwhile Ma… read more
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11. Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
By: Garry Kasparov , None
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Audio CD
Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in… read more
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12. Fever Pitch
By: Nick Hornby
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more
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13. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
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"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
14. It's Always Summer Somewhere: A Matter of Life and Cricket
By: Felix White
4.56
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Felix White, for reasons often beyond him, has always been deeply in love with cricket. His passion… read more
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15. 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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16. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
By: Robin Ince
3.84
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more
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"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
17. Frank and Red
By: Matt Coyne
4.57
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more
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18. 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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19. Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking
By: Matthew Syed
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Rebel Ideas examines the power of 'cognitive diversity' - the ability to think differently about th… read more
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20. A Mischief of Rats (Nell Ward, #3)
By: Sarah Yarwood-Lovett
3.87
Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition
When a driver dies during a glamourous classic car event at her family's estate, Dr Nell Ward is in… read more
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