13 Best biography books like The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken by The Secret Barrister

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The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

By: The Secret Barrister

3.90

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. T…

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1. Eve Was Framed: Women and British Justice

By: Helena Kennedy

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Helena Kennedy's Eve Was Framed: Women and British Justice book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University by Nicholas J. McBride

2. Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University

By: Nicholas J. McBride

4.13

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Letters to a Law Student relays all that a prospective law student needs to know before embarking o… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas J. McBride's Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • law
  • nonfiction
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3. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

By: Adam Kay

4.40

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"From the most insignificant of actions can come the most serious of consequences."

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"Even if I wanted to have an affair, I honestly think I'd be too tired to unzip my trousers"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"I’m all for explaining terminology as we go along, but if you don’t know what a stethoscope is, this is probably a book to regift. "

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"You work yourself to exhaustion, pushing yourself beyond what could be reasonably expected of you, and end up constantly feeling like you don’t know"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

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4. Is Eating People Wrong?: Great Legal Cases and How they Shaped the World

By: Allan C. Hutchinson

4.04

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Allan C. Hutchinson's Is Eating People Wrong?: Great Legal Cases and How they Shaped the World book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • law
  • history
  • nonfiction

5. Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces

By: John Sutherland

3.79

Format: 368 pages,

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6. The Rule of Law

By: Tom Bingham

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

The Rule of Law' is a phrase much used but little examined. The idea of the rule of law as the foun… read more

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7. What About Law: Studying Law at University

By: Catherine Barnard , Janet O'Sullivan , None

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Most young people considering studying law, or pursuing a career in the law, have very little idea … read more

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Cover of Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

8. 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

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
"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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9. 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

Similar categories in James O'Brien's How They Broke Britain book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
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10. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken by The Secret Barrister

11. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

By: The Secret Barrister

3.90

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. T… read more

Similar categories in The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • society
  • audiobook
Cover of Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey by Wendy    Joseph

12. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

By: Wendy Joseph

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Joseph's Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

By: Richard Shepherd

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more

Similar categories in Richard Shepherd's Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

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14. A Bit of a Stretch

By: Chris Atkins

4.21

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A shocking and darkly funny account of the reality of Britain's prisons. Where can a tin of tun… read more

Similar categories in Chris Atkins's A Bit of a Stretch book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television by Louis Theroux

15. Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

By: Louis Theroux

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, pr… read more

Similar categories in Louis Theroux's Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law by Sarah Langford

16. In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

By: Sarah Langford

4.08

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarah Langford is a barrister. Her job is to stand in court representing the mad and the bad, the v… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong

By: James O'Brien

4.13

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Every day, James O’Brien listens to people blaming benefits scroungers, the EU, Muslims, feminists … read more

Similar categories in James O'Brien's How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
"Theresa May took this aversion to thinking to its apotheosis when she declared that ‘Brexit means Brexit’ shortly after becoming prime minister in July 2016. Even by the standards of modern British p…"

-James O'Brien, How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong

Cover of Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence by William Clegg

18. Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

By: William Clegg

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How do you chat to someone accused of a savage murder? Or prepare a court case? Or sway a jury? … read more

Similar categories in William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials that Defined Modern Britain by Thomas Grant

19. Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials that Defined Modern Britain

By: Thomas Grant

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 'Superbl… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Grant's Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials that Defined Modern Britain book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. How Not to Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind

By: James O'Brien

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

There’s no point having a mind if you never change it In his bestselling How To Be Right , James pr… read more

Similar categories in James O'Brien's How Not to Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
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21. The Prosecutor

By: Nazir Afzal

4.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Nazir Afzal knows a thing or two about justice. As a Chief Prosecutor, it was his job to make sure … read more

Similar categories in Nazir Afzal's The Prosecutor book and The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

15 must-read audiobook books like The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken by The Secret Barrister

Transform Your Habits

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

Adam Kay

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

Adam Kay

3.91

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17 Top audiobook books like In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law by Sarah Langford

Transform Your Habits

Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

Ray Fysh

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

The Secret Barrister

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

Wendy Joseph

4.43

Transform Your Habits

A Bit of a Stretch

Chris Atkins

4.21

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