20 Top nonfiction books like Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston

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Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

By: John Preston

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell f…

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1. 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
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 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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2. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

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3. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

By: Oliver Bullough

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
  • audiobook
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4. Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

By: John Preston

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell f… read more

Similar categories in John Preston's Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell book and John Preston's Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • crime
  • business
  • audiobook
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5. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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6. 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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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club

By: Simon Kuper

4.24

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times j… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • audiobook
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8. Attack Warning Red!

By: Julie McDowall

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Family Politics

By: John O'Farrell

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back i… read more

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10. The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal

By: Duncan Mavin

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The inside story of one of the superstars of global FinTech, Lex Greensill, and his dramatic fall f… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
  • audiobook
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11. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

By: Tom Burgis

3.80

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
  • audiobook
"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

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12. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy

By: Matthew Campbell

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
  • audiobook
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13. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK

By: Simon Kuper

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Odd Boy Out

By: Gyles Brandreth

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In Odd Boy Out Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of growing up and comi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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15. No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris

By: Tim Shipman

4.03

Format: 711 pages, Kindle Edition

The unmissable next instalment of Tim Shipman’s #1 bestselling Brexit quartet. To follow his bestse… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche by John Higgs

16. Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

By: John Higgs

4.15

Format: 518 pages, Kindle Edition

A deep-dive into the unique connections between the two titans of the British cultural psyche—the B… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"His voice was proof that no matter how lost you may be you are never alone because there are people like John Lennon who could reach you."

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

"In the midst of communal screaming there is only the present moment. The past and the future dissolve the way, nothing more than illusions. When the past disappears it takes with it the possibility o…"

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

"When Bond was born he personified an aspect of male identity that was prevalent after the war that of the protector. Man saw their role as being the one to protect their families from external threat…"

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

"An important factor here is that Bond does not see himself as a victim. This feels like it should be an increasingly important aspect of the character given the extent which society consistently urge…"

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

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17. How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

By: Peter Pomerantsev

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propa… read more

Similar categories in Peter Pomerantsev's How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler book and John Preston's Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

  • politics
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power

By: Sasha Swire

3.47

Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition

What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the l… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island by Ian Cobain

19. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island

By: Ian Cobain

4.21

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • crime
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20. The Fall

By: Michael Wolff

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ―Leo Tolstoy, Anna … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Built on a Lie: The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and the Fate of Middle England’s Money by Owen Walker

21. Built on a Lie: The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and the Fate of Middle England’s Money

By: Owen Walker

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The definitive account of the Neil Woodford scandal from the award-winning FT journalist who first … read more

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  • biography
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • business

15 must-read audiobook books like Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston

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Rory Stewart

4.36

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Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

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Oliver Bullough

4.00

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John Preston

4.23

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Nicholas Shaxson

3.77

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James O'Brien

4.29

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Walt Bogdanich

3.80

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Chris Miller

4.44

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