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Spare

kirjoittanut Prince Harry • 2023

Motherless at twelve, soldier at twenty, in love at thirty: then his family turned their backs.

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400 000+

🏰 Royal Family 👑 British Monarchy 🧠 Trauma And Recovery 📰 Tabloid Culture 🩹 Mental Health Stigma

Spare

Motherless at twelve, soldier at twenty, in love at thirty: then his family turned their backs.

kirjoittanut Prince Harry 2023 557 sivua

3.83

400 000+ arvostelua

🏰 Royal Family 👑 British Monarchy 🧠 Trauma And Recovery 📰 Tabloid Culture 🩹 Mental Health Stigma

1776

kirjoittanut David McCullough • 2005

How a year of defeats and desertions almost ended the American Revolution before it began.

4.10

200 000+

🦅 American Revolution ⚔️ Military History 🏰 18th Century Warfare 📖 Narrative History 📚 Popular History

1776

How a year of defeats and desertions almost ended the American Revolution before it began.

kirjoittanut David McCullough 2005 386 sivua

4.10

200 000+ arvostelua

🦅 American Revolution ⚔️ Military History 🏰 18th Century Warfare 📖 Narrative History 📚 Popular History

Neidot

kirjoittanut Alex Michaelides • 2021

At Cambridge, a grieving therapist suspects a professor's secret circle after a student is murdered.

3.61

400 000+

🖤 Dark Academia 🏛️ Oxbridge Setting 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🎭 Charismatic Suspect 💔 Grieving Protagonist

Neidot

At Cambridge, a grieving therapist suspects a professor's secret circle after a student is murdered.

kirjoittanut Alex Michaelides 2021 337 sivua

3.61

400 000+ arvostelua

🖤 Dark Academia 🏛️ Oxbridge Setting 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🎭 Charismatic Suspect 💔 Grieving Protagonist

Understanding John Lennon

kirjoittanut Francis Kenny • 2020

Three forces made John Lennon, then broke him: Liverpool, a lost mother, and McCartney.

4.00

🎸 Music Biography 🎵 Rock History 💔 Childhood Trauma 🇬🇧 Postwar Britain 🤝 Artistic Partnership

Understanding John Lennon

Three forces made John Lennon, then broke him: Liverpool, a lost mother, and McCartney.

kirjoittanut Francis Kenny 2020 320 sivua

4.00

9 arvostelua

🎸 Music Biography 🎵 Rock History 💔 Childhood Trauma 🇬🇧 Postwar Britain 🤝 Artistic Partnership

Shattered Nation

kirjoittanut Danny Dorling • 2023

Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.

3.97

119

🗺️ Regional Inequality 📉 Austerity Politics 🏚️ Welfare State Erosion 🏠 Housing Crisis 💰 Wealth Inequality

Shattered Nation

Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.

kirjoittanut Danny Dorling 2023 288 sivua

3.97

119 arvostelua

🗺️ Regional Inequality 📉 Austerity Politics 🏚️ Welfare State Erosion 🏠 Housing Crisis 💰 Wealth Inequality

Black Flags, Blue Waters

kirjoittanut Eric Jay Dolin • 2018

From welcomed economic partners to hanged outlaws: the real story of pirates in colonial America.

3.76

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🏴‍☠️ Golden Age Piracy 🏛️ American Colonies ⛵ Maritime History 💰 Colonial Trade 📈 Economics Of Crime

Black Flags, Blue Waters

From welcomed economic partners to hanged outlaws: the real story of pirates in colonial America.

kirjoittanut Eric Jay Dolin 2018 380 sivua

3.76

4 000+ arvostelua

🏴‍☠️ Golden Age Piracy 🏛️ American Colonies ⛵ Maritime History 💰 Colonial Trade 📈 Economics Of Crime

The Great Boer War

kirjoittanut Byron Farwell • 1976

To beat a handful of farmers, Britain burned 30,000 farms and invented the concentration camp.

4.15

500+

🎖️ Boer War 🇿🇦 South African History 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare 💥 Military Blunders 🛡️ Counterinsurgency

The Great Boer War

To beat a handful of farmers, Britain burned 30,000 farms and invented the concentration camp.

kirjoittanut Byron Farwell 1976 532 sivua

4.15

500+ arvostelua

🎖️ Boer War 🇿🇦 South African History 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare 💥 Military Blunders 🛡️ Counterinsurgency

No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy

kirjoittanut Mark Hodkinson • 2022

One book in his house growing up. Now he owns 3,500 and publishes his own.

3.74

500+

🏭 Working Class Literature 📚 Bibliophilia 🎓 Autodidact Stories 🎭 Kitchen-Sink Realism 🖨️ Print Culture

No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy

One book in his house growing up. Now he owns 3,500 and publishes his own.

kirjoittanut Mark Hodkinson 2022 360 sivua

3.74

500+ arvostelua

🏭 Working Class Literature 📚 Bibliophilia 🎓 Autodidact Stories 🎭 Kitchen-Sink Realism 🖨️ Print Culture

Old Rage

kirjoittanut Sheila Hancock • 2022

Sheila Hancock, 89, plans her funeral, rages at Brexit, and finds the pandemic strangely stoic.

4.06

500+

🇬🇧 British Memoirs 🎭 Celebrity Memoirs 🗳️ Political Commentary 🕯️ Quaker Spirituality ⚒️ Class Consciousness

Old Rage

Sheila Hancock, 89, plans her funeral, rages at Brexit, and finds the pandemic strangely stoic.

kirjoittanut Sheila Hancock 2022 238 sivua

4.06

500+ arvostelua

🇬🇧 British Memoirs 🎭 Celebrity Memoirs 🗳️ Political Commentary 🕯️ Quaker Spirituality ⚒️ Class Consciousness

Politics

kirjoittanut Nick Clegg • 2016

Coalition with the Tories nearly destroyed his party. His case for why it was still right.

3.72

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🏛️ Coalition Government 🇬🇧 British Politics 🤝 Political Compromise 📢 Rise Of Populism ⚖️ Liberal Centrism

Politics

Coalition with the Tories nearly destroyed his party. His case for why it was still right.

kirjoittanut Nick Clegg 2016 304 sivua

3.72

1 000+ arvostelua

🏛️ Coalition Government 🇬🇧 British Politics 🤝 Political Compromise 📢 Rise Of Populism ⚖️ Liberal Centrism

Big Fellow, Long Fellow

kirjoittanut T. Ryle Dwyer • 1998

Why a calculating idealist and a street-smart operator led Ireland to independence, then civil war.

4.23

129

🍀 Irish History 👥 Dual Biography ✊ Revolutionary Politics 🔥 Guerrilla Warfare 🕵️ Intelligence Operations

Big Fellow, Long Fellow

Why a calculating idealist and a street-smart operator led Ireland to independence, then civil war.

kirjoittanut T. Ryle Dwyer 1998 371 sivua

4.23

129 arvostelua

🍀 Irish History 👥 Dual Biography ✊ Revolutionary Politics 🔥 Guerrilla Warfare 🕵️ Intelligence Operations

Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

kirjoittanut Maxine Berg • 2023

Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.

4.42

🏛️ Economic History ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🍬 Colonial Commodities 🟤 Racial Capitalism

Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.

kirjoittanut Maxine Berg 2023 282 sivua

4.42

26 arvostelua

🏛️ Economic History ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🍬 Colonial Commodities 🟤 Racial Capitalism

Natives

kirjoittanut Akala • 2018

Britain's empire never ended. It just learned to call itself meritocracy.

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🇬🇧 British Empire 🏛️ Structural Racism 👮 Police And Race 🏫 Education Inequality 🖤 Black Britain

Natives

Britain's empire never ended. It just learned to call itself meritocracy.

kirjoittanut Akala 2018 352 sivua

4.53

22 000+ arvostelua

🇬🇧 British Empire 🏛️ Structural Racism 👮 Police And Race 🏫 Education Inequality 🖤 Black Britain

On History

kirjoittanut Eric J. Hobsbawm • 1997

Scotland's ships were built by war and state meddling: bounties, blockades, tobacco, and smuggling.

3.98

500+

🚢 Maritime History 📈 Economic History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish History 💰 Mercantilism 🥷 Smuggling

On History

Scotland's ships were built by war and state meddling: bounties, blockades, tobacco, and smuggling.

kirjoittanut Eric J. Hobsbawm 1997 416 sivua

3.98

500+ arvostelua

🚢 Maritime History 📈 Economic History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish History 💰 Mercantilism 🥷 Smuggling

Agent Garbo

kirjoittanut Stephan Talty • 2012

A failed chicken farmer invented 27 imaginary spies, then froze Hitler's panzers on D-Day.

4.08

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🕵️ Wwii Espionage 🎭 Military Deception 👥 Double Agents 🪖 D-Day Deception 🧠 Counterintelligence

Agent Garbo

A failed chicken farmer invented 27 imaginary spies, then froze Hitler's panzers on D-Day.

kirjoittanut Stephan Talty 2012 301 sivua

4.08

1 000+ arvostelua

🕵️ Wwii Espionage 🎭 Military Deception 👥 Double Agents 🪖 D-Day Deception 🧠 Counterintelligence

The Battle of New Orleans

kirjoittanut Robert V. Remini • 1999

Two thousand British fell. Seven Americans died. The battle that forged a nation was already over.

3.85

500+

🎖️ Military History 🏛️ Early American Republic ⚔️ War Of 1812 💥 Decisive Battles 🫡 Military Leadership

The Battle of New Orleans

Two thousand British fell. Seven Americans died. The battle that forged a nation was already over.

kirjoittanut Robert V. Remini 1999 226 sivua

3.85

500+ arvostelua

🎖️ Military History 🏛️ Early American Republic ⚔️ War Of 1812 💥 Decisive Battles 🫡 Military Leadership

Bournville

kirjoittanut Jonathan Coe • 2022

In a chocolate-maker's utopian village, one family mirrors Britain's long argument with itself.

3.78

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🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 🕰️ Postwar Britain 🏛️ State Of The Nation 🔑 Family Secrets 🇬🇧 English Identity

Bournville

In a chocolate-maker's utopian village, one family mirrors Britain's long argument with itself.

kirjoittanut Jonathan Coe 2022 354 sivua

3.78

8 000+ arvostelua

🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 🕰️ Postwar Britain 🏛️ State Of The Nation 🔑 Family Secrets 🇬🇧 English Identity

Gideon

kirjoittanut Lily Morton • 2019

A closeted actor, a cruise ship, and a Welsh nurse who refuses to be another secret.

4.23

3 000+

🎬 Celebrity Romance 🩹 Hurt Comfort 🚢 Forced Proximity ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🌈 Coming Out

Gideon

A closeted actor, a cruise ship, and a Welsh nurse who refuses to be another secret.

kirjoittanut Lily Morton 2019 268 sivua

4.23

3 000+ arvostelua

🎬 Celebrity Romance 🩹 Hurt Comfort 🚢 Forced Proximity ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🌈 Coming Out

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