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Soccernomics

Why England Has Started to Win, Why Clubs Sign the Wrong Players and Why Billionaires Still Lose Money in Football


2012

EN

The classic bestseller that changed how the world thinks about football'Quite magnificent – a sort of Freakanomics of football.' Jonathan Wilson, Guardian**'If you're a football fan, I'll save you some time: read this book' Daily Telegraph__________Football truly is the world’s favourite game, followed in over 200 countries by hundreds of millions of people pourin...

Price£2.99

Barça

The rise and fall of the club that built modern football


2021

EN

WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR'This is a masterfully written history of the world's greatest football club. Més que un book!' - GARY LINEKERFrom the bestselling co-author of Soccernomics comes the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful football club in the world - and how that envied position now hangs in the balance.Barça is not just the world's most popular sports club, it ...

Price£6.99

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The Happy Traitor

Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake


2021

EN

'A deeply human read, wonderfully written, on the foibles of a fascinating, flawed, treacherous and sort of likeable character.' Philippe SandsThose people who were betrayed were not innocent people. They were no better nor worse than I am. It's all part of the intelligence world. If the man who turned me in came to my house today, I'd invite him to sit down and have a cup of tea.George Blake was the last remaining Cold War spy. As a Senior Officer...

Price£6.99

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Impossible City

Paris in the Twenty-First Century


2024

EN

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A Waterstones Best History Book of 2024 Pick'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.

Price£7.99

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World Cup Fever

A Footballing Journey in Nine Tournaments


2025

EN

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A Sports Book of the Year in the Irish Times, the FT and the Mail on Sunday**'T**he ultimate book for anyone who loves football, and plenty who don't ... Unmissable' Mail on Sunday'Kuper is a wry and sharp-eyed guide' New Statesman'A brilliant evocation of the joy of the football carnival and the absurdities of the global spectacle... an essential companion' David...

Price£6.89

Barça

The rise and fall of the club that built modern football


Unabridged

12 hours 20 min

2021

EN

WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR'This is a masterfully written history of the world's greatest football club. Més que un book!' - GARY LINEKERFrom the bestselling co-author of Soccernomics comes the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful football club in the world - and how that envied position now hangs in the balance.Barça is not just the world's most popular sports club, it ...

Price£19.99

also available as ebook


2011

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'GREAT' Independent'TERRIFIC' Guardian'WONDERFUL' Time Out'QUALITY' Mail on Sunday'DEFINITIVE' FourFourTwoWinner of the William Hill Sports Book AwardFeatured in FourFourTwo's list of 'The 10 Best Football Books Ever'Featured in Esquire's 'Best Sports Bo...

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Good Chaps

How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It

2024

EN

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'At a time when democracy feels threatened, Simon Kuper is fighting hard for a better vision of politics - he is brutally honest about our problems but never loses hope that we can build a better democracy' Rory Stewart'An intelligible, compelling and enraging narrative ... how the Good Chaps get away with it' New StatesmanThe 'Good Chaps' theory holds that th...

Price£5.99

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Chums

How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK


Unabridged

5 hours 15 min

2022

EN

A damning look at the university clique-turned-Commons majority that will blow the doors of Westminster wide open and change the way you look at our democracy forever.Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians. They debated each other in tutorials, ran against each other in student elections, and attended the same balls and black tie dinners. They aren't just colleagues - they ar...

The Happy Traitor

Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake


Unabridged

6 hours 14 min

2021

EN

George Blake was the last remaining Cold War spy. As a Senior Officer in the British Intelligence Service who was double agent for the Soviet Union, his actions had devastating consequences for Britain. Yet he was also one of the least known double agents, and remained unrepentant. In 1961, Blake was sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for betraying to the KGB all of the Western operations in which he was involved, and the names of hundreds of British agents working behind the Iron Curtain....

Price£15.99

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Impossible City

Paris in the Twenty-First Century

Unabridged

6 hours 36 min

2024

EN

From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naïf eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel society - at least a little.Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, seen his wife through life-threatening cancer, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city's notorious banlieues

Price£24.99

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Good Chaps

How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It

Unabridged

4 hours 5 min

2024

EN

The 'Good Chaps' theory holds that those who rise to power in the UK can be trusted to follow the rules and do the right thing. They're good chaps, after all. Yet Britain appears to have been taken over by bad chaps, and politics is awash with financial scandals, donors who have practically bought shares in political parties, and a shameless contempt for the rules.Simon Kuper, author of the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller Chums, exposes how corruption too...

Price£24.99

also available as ebook