The King Must Die/The Bull from the Sea
10 best books like The King Must Die/The Bull from the Sea (Mary Renault): The Silence of the Girls, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, A Night to Remember, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, The Loudest Voice in the Room: How Roger Ailes and Fox News Remade American Politics, Palaces of Pleasure, White Tears, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Spartacus: The Gladiator
| Author | Pat Barker |
| ISBN | 0385544219 |
The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, which continues to wage bloody war over a stolen woman—Helen. In the Greek camp, another woman—Briseis—watches and waits for the war's outcome. She was queen of one of Troy's neighboring kingdoms, until Achilles,...
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
| Author | Adam Higginbotham |
| ISBN | 1501134612 |
The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.
April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the...
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
| Author | David Wallace-Wells |
| ISBN | 0525576703 |
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...
| Author | Walter Lord |
| ISBN | 0805077642 |
First published in 1955, A Night to Remember remains a completely riveting account of the Titanic's fatal collision and the behavior of the passengers and crew, both noble and ignominious. Some sacrificed their lives, while others fought like animals for their own survival. Wives beseeched husbands...
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents:...
The Loudest Voice in the Room: How Roger Ailes and Fox News Remade American Politics
| Author | Gabriel Sherman |
| ISBN | 0812992857 |
The Loudest Voice in the Room: Roger Ailes, Fox News and the Remaking of American Politics by Gabriel Sherman is not only a book about Ailes as an adult but about how his father raised him and his childhood to adulthood. His father was a douche bag also and taught Ailes to be the douche bag Ailes is today. Ailes...
An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact
The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century’s growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure...
| Author | Hari Kunzru |
| ISBN | 0451493699 |
From one of the most talented fiction writers at work today: two ambitious young musicians are drawn into the dark underworld of blues record collecting, haunted by the ghosts of a repressive past.
Two twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is glamorous and the heir...
The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
| Author | Oscar Zeta Acosta |
| ISBN | 0679722130 |
Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge.
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| Author | Ben Kane |
| ISBN | 1848093403 |
Historically very little is known about Spartacus. We know that he came from Thrace, a land north of Greece, that he once fought in the Roman legions and that, during two fateful years, he led a slave army which nearly brought Rome to its knees.
In Ben Kane's brilliant novel, we meet Spartacus...
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himself discovering how trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions;...
| Author | Owen Sheers |
| ISBN | 0385529074 |
The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner - thinking the Nelsons' house was empty - stepped through their back door.
After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner moves to London and quickly develops a close friendship...
Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think
| Author | James Vlahos |
| ISBN | 1328799301 |
**To chat with the author, ask your Alexa device to "open the voice computing book."**
The next great technological disruption is coming
The titans of Silicon Valley are racing to build the last, best computer that the world will ever need. They know that whoever successfully creates...
How To Stop Brexit - And Make Britain Great Again
| Author | Nick Clegg |
| ISBN | 1847925235 |
Keep calm – but do not carry on. There is nothing remotely inevitable about Brexit – except that it will be deeply damaging if it happens. Extricating Britain from Europe will be the greatest challenge this country has faced since the Second World War. And as negotiations with the EU expose the promises...
All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class
'Tim Shipman's dispatches from the political front line are a must read’ NICK ROBINSON
Politics was turned upside down during 2016. This book by Sunday Times political editor Tim Shipman is the first to tell the full story of how and why Britain voted to leave the European Union and how the...
For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind
| Author | Rosemary Mahoney |
| ISBN | 0316043427 |
"In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind....She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree
In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary...
| Author | William Shaw |
| ISBN | 1782064192 |
London, 1968.
The Runaway. A young woman is found naked and strangled in an alley in well-to-do St John’s Wood.
The African. The neighbours would love to pin it on the enigmatic black stranger who has just moved in.
The Pariah. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen is convinced...
على الخط الفاصل بين السلطة والناس، أو بين الجلاد والضحية، تتحرك رواية (حدائق الرئيس)، وتقول من خلال هذه الحركة حكايات ثلاثة من أبناء العراق كلهم (أبناء شق...
