Private Eye Annual 2023
By: Ian Hislop
3.96
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The year's best cartoons, jokes, parodies and topical sketches from the UK's most successful satiri…
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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 Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a story, Henrich Boll's The Lost Honor… read more
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3. The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett , Stephen Baxter
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up… read more
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4. With a Mind to Kill
By: Anthony Horowitz
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and wh… read more
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5. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
"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
6. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
7. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
8. Pity
By: Andrew McMillan
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more
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- politics
9. Slough House (Slough House, #7)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more
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"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
10. Out There Screaming
By: Jordan Peele
3.79
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more
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"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming
11. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Private Eye Annual 2023
By: Ian Hislop
3.96
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The year's best cartoons, jokes, parodies and topical sketches from the UK's most successful satiri… read more
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13. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
By: Jasper Fforde
4.50
Format: 459 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more
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- humor
"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
14. Alien III
By: William Gibson
3.45
Format: 136 pages, Audible Audio
Audible is bringing William Gibson’s uncovered Alien III script to life in audio for the first time… read more
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15. 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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- nonfiction
16. The Shortest History of England
By: James Hawes
3.73
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
As James Hawes moves through time, from Caesar to Brexit, through conquests, empires and wars, he w… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
17. Keir Starmer: The Biography
By: Tom Baldwin
4.06
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Chapters
By: Tim Key
4.58
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Tim Key got ants in his pants and has written an anthology of poetry. It is his least ambitious pro… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1)
By: Luke Jennings
3.54
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopa… read more
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"Oxana had never felt the slightest need to be liked, but it gave her profound satisfaction to be desired."-Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1)
"With her make-up-free complexion and nondescript brown hair gathered in a scrappy up-do, she looks like someone for whom there are more important things than being thought pretty. She might be an aca…"-Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1)
20. Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors: 50 Places That Changed British Politics
By: Matt Chorley
4.01
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
‘’F *** ing brilliant. I would describe it as like a bag of political nuts – moreish and fabulously… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Led by Donkeys: How Four Friends with a Ladder Took on Brexit
By: Led By Donkeys
4.48
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The official account - complete with full-color illustrations - of how four ordinary people managed… read more
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- humor
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