Fibber in the Heat
10 best books like Fibber in the Heat (Miles Jupp): The Moroccan Girl, Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait, The Spinoza Problem, My Father And Other Working Class Football Heroes, James Acaster's Classic Scrapes, Penguins Stopped Play, Our Friends in Berlin, A Lot of Hard Yakka, The Chimp Paradox: The Acclaimed Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness, Rain Men: The Madness of Cricket
The Moroccan Girl
| Author | Charles Cumming |
| ISBN | 1250129958 |
Kit Carradine is the successful author of several best-selling novels. When he is approached by MI6 and asked to carry out a simple task on behalf of his country while attending a literary festival in Morocco, he jumps at the chance.
But...
Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait
| Author | Alison Weir |
| ISBN | 1101966572 |
Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry...
The Spinoza Problem
| Author | Irvin D. Yalom |
| ISBN | 0465029639 |
My Father And Other Working Class Football Heroes
| Author | Gary Imlach |
| ISBN | 0224072684 |
WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
A poignant and moving account of the author’s search for the man his father was and the life he led as a well-known footballer, blending the personal and the historical into an unforgettable story
Stewart Imlach was an ordinary...
James Acaster's Classic Scrapes
| Author | James Acaster |
| ISBN | 1472247183 |
But behind the fame and critical acclaim is a man perpetually getting into trouble. Whether it's disappointing...
Penguins Stopped Play
| Author | Harry Thompson |
| ISBN | 0719563461 |
As I drove back and forth to work over the last few weeks with this audiobook chuntering...
Our Friends in Berlin
| Author | Anthony Quinn |
| ISBN | 1473558921 |
Edward Wilson, author of A Very British Ending
London, 1941. The city is in blackout, besieged by nightly air raids from Germany. Two strangers are about to meet. Between them they may alter the course of the war.
While...
A Lot of Hard Yakka
| Author | Simon Hughes |
| ISBN | 0747255164 |
The Chimp Paradox: The Acclaimed Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness
| Author | Steve Peters |
Rain Men: The Madness of Cricket
| Author | Marcus Berkmann |
| ISBN | 0349107424 |
Fatty Batter
| Author | Michael Simkins |
| ISBN | 0091901502 |
1. In all the years since you first picked up a cricket bat, do you still remember with a thrill the occasion when you actually got to the pitch of a friendly half-volley, and just for once the ball didn't dribble a few humiliating yards toward mid-on or loop gently...
North Korea Journal
| Author | Michael Palin |
A glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as told by Britain’s best-loved travel writer.
In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive...
Secret of the Sirens
| Author | Julia Golding |
| ISBN | 0761453717 |
When eleven-year-old Connie is sent to live with her eccentric aunt by the sea, she’s not...
Zimmer Men: The Trials and Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer
| Author | Marcus Berkmann |
| ISBN | 0349119155 |
This book, like any given England test match, is a book of contrasting innings. The first blocks, leaves, swings and misses before eventually nicking off trying to knock one out of the park for a swash buckling 20-ball duck. Then, with a chapter called "Raining all over the World", the second comes...
The Race Against the Stasi: The Incredible Story of Dieter Wiedemann, The Iron Curtain and The Greatest Cycling Race on Earth
| Author | Herbie Sykes |
| ISBN | 1781313083 |
When the `Iron Curtain' descended across Europe, Dieter Wiedemann was a hero of East German sport.ÿA podium finisher in The Peace Race, the Eastern Bloc equivalent of the Tour de France, he was a pin-up for the supremacy of socialism...
Parsnips, Buttered: How to baffle, bamboozle and boycott your way through modern life
| Author | Joe Lycett |
Life is hard. We are a bombarded generation: Facebook, billboards, Twitter, Instagram, taxes, newspapers, watches monitoring our sleep, apps that read our pulse, terrorism. There's such an onslaught to the senses these days it's a marvel any of us manage to get out of bed....
Death: Vintage Minis
| Author | Julian Barnes |
| ISBN | 1784872601 |
Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond--The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager
| Author | Mark Blake |
| ISBN | 0306902834 |
Peter Grant is the most famous music manager of all time. Often acknowledged as the "fifth member of Led Zeppelin," Grant's story has appeared in fragments across...