Hitting Against the Spin: How Cricket Really Works
By: Nathan Leamon
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Times Best Sports Books 2021 - 'the sporting nerd's book of the year' 'Fascinating and insig…
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1. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.15
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
Soccer fans love to argue about the tactics a manager puts into play, and this fascinating study tr… read more
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"Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right."-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
"Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse."-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
"كان مينوتي شخصية رومانسية بشكل يفوق الوصف. كان نحيلا كقلم رصاص، ومدخنا شرها يتدل شعره على ياقته، أشيب السوالف، وله نظرة محدقة كصقر، بدا كما لو كان تجسيدا للبوهيمية الأرجنتينية، كان جناحأ أيسر ومفكرا،…"-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
2. Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
By: Tim Marshall
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel? For thousands of years … read more
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3. The Places in Between
By: Rory Stewart
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more
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4. 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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5. Among the Thugs
By: Bill Buford
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quanti… read more
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6. Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success
By: Matthew Syed
4.25
Format: None pages,
In the vein of the international bestselling Freakonomics, award-winning journalist Matthew Syed re… read more
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7. 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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"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
8. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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9. Hitting Against the Spin: How Cricket Really Works
By: Nathan Leamon
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Times Best Sports Books 2021 - 'the sporting nerd's book of the year' 'Fascinating and insig… read more
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10. Why We Kneel, How We Rise
By: Michael Holding
4.47
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Through the prism of sport and conversations with its legends, including Usain Bolt, Adam Goodes, T… read more
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11. Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket
By: Stefan Szymanski
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
One of the bestselling authors of Soccernomics, Stefan Szymanski, teams up with the award-winning c… read more
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12. Bowl. Sleep. Repeat.
By: Jimmy Anderson
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Ever wondered what it's like playing Test Cricket? What really goes on tour and beyond the boundary… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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15. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
By: Ian Dunt
4.45
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more
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16. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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17. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. No Spin: My Autobiography
By: Shane Warne
3.89
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the start of his glittering career in 1992, to his official retirement from all formats of the… read more
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22. Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain
By: Jeremy Paxman
4.14
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Coal is the commodity that made Britain. Dirty and polluting though it is, this black rock has acte… read more
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23. Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War
By: Tim Marshall
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular wr… read more
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24. Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution
By: Tim Wigmore
4.20
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
‘A fascinating insight into how the newest format has impacted on the game at every level including… read more
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25. Steve Smith's Men: Behind Australian Cricket's Fall
By: Geoff Lemon
4.36
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
He was the top Test batman in the world, with numbers bettered only by the great Don Bradman – then… read more
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26. The Wood Life: A Not so Helpful How-To Guide on Surviving Cricket, Life and Everything in Between
By: Mark Wood
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Need to know how to propel a cricket ball at unimaginable speeds? How to give the perfect speech at… read more
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27. VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977
By: Abhishek Choudhary
4.40
Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition
‘The finest biography of an Indian prime minister that I have read’ RAMACHANDRA GUHA‘A real achieve… read more
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28. Late Cuts: Musings on Cricket
By: Vic Marks
3.91
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
What follows, which explores some of the charms, the quirks and the peculiar allure of cricket from… read more
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29. White Hot: The Inside Story of England Cricket’s Double World Champions
By: Tim Wigmore
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of how England became the first men's team to hold both of cricket's World Cups si… read more
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30. Bazball: The Inside Story of a Test Cricket Revolution
By: Lawrence Booth
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
The inside story of how England transformed the way Test cricket is played. After one win in 17 … read more
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31. The Psychology of Cricket: Developing Mental Toughness [Cricket Academy Series]
By: Stewart Cotterill
3.89
Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition
The mental side of cricket is what separates the best players from the rest. Technical, tactical, … read more
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