Best Nonfiction Summer Books Transport you from the White House in Hollywood and the pristine greens of Augusta to Belfast's sweaty gyms. Richard Fitzpatrick dives between the blankets.
Will - Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama's memoirs have not left the list of best-selling books since they were released last November. A favorite of Irish reading clubs, the American public is particularly seduced by the fact that they have never had a first lady with who had much desire to identify.
The simple charm of Obama and the disarming openness ("I wake up every morning in a slave-built house") have made her a loveable character. This book, in which he explains how his marriage took second place after the beginning of Barack Obama's political career, has only reinforced his actions.
Tiger - Jeff Benedict and Poor Keteyian
A few sports books have been published in the last decade, can compete with Tiger Woods biography, co-author Jeff Benedict and poor Keteyian, read for sheer pleasure.
There are 500 pages of a fascinating family melodrama: the abnormal care of a sports superstar; It was reported that several years after her marriage, more than a hundred had been married, including morning discussions in a parking lot; a father resting in an unmarked grave; Celebrity Quotes; and incredible athletic performance.
It was written before his victory in April and is an immersion in the psychology of a deeply troubled person and a sporting phenomenon. A must for the light that enlightens the man who has achieved one of the best results of this sport.
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the secret history of the sixties - Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring
One of the year's most anticipated non-fiction books was released last week. After 20 years of research and more than 500 interviews, Tom O'Neill's revelations about the murder of Charles Manson were revealed.
In an ominous chapter of the twentieth century in America, the story of summer 1969, the Sun of California, tells Hollywood stars, including Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski, the CIA's mind control experiments, their cover-ups and plans, the magnetic Manson and a group Hippie girls became loopholes.
Happy Hinch Yourself: The best cleaning tips for your sink to light and soothe your soul - Sophie Hinchliffe
The world is changing mysteriously. Sophie Hinchliffe, a 28-year-old barber from Essex, took a bath in Dublin with a book signing session: the 500 tickets were sold in less than an hour.
His success is based on surprise cleaning tips that his 2.6 million followers on Instagram and the belief that washing the restroom and master other chores might be the way to do it. spiritual calm
Elsewhere: a woman, a backpack, a life traveling - Rosita Boland
The Irish writer and journalist Rosita Boland has been traveling alone on Earth for more than three decades. Some things have changed during this time. He found a sign in front of a Bali café informing its customers, "We have Wi-Fi so you do not have to talk to you."
Other things have not changed: Since the age of 25, he has crossed the continents with the same backpack. His experiences are reflected in this collection, which will arouse the readers' envy to imitate him.
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A woman without meaning: the untold story of the most dangerous spy of the Second World War - Sonia Purnell
The extraordinary life of the American spy Virginia Hall in World War II is the treatment of Hollywood: Daisy Ridley must play on the screen.
In Hall's biography, the details of his incredible adventures are collected for impressive reading.
He coordinated the resistance operations in occupied France by the Nazis with fantastic costumes and explosively poop horse, among others escape from the clutches of Klaus Barbie, the famous butcher of the Gestapo, despite his wooden leg.
Then he collapsed - Moby
Moby continued his highly regarded memories, PORZELLAN, telling what were the glory years of worldwide fame that came after his Play album became the soundtrack of the new millennium.
Instead, how he tried to escape the mind of a dead father who killed himself and a Bohemian mother who often neglected, he had dinner with David Bowie and Lou Reed, took her to Hollywood stars and celebrated with Bono. Leave empty.
Vision of the tunnel - Kevin Breathnach
As with the recommendation of Sally Rooney as "one of Ireland's most interesting writers today," Kevin Breath's first collection of 12 postmodernist studies drew much attention.
They act as a platform for his intellect and diverse tastes, from photography to cultural criticism, sexual relations with both sides, Norwegian cinema, travel and recreational drugs. , Football and pornography addiction.
So long in such a small space - Karl Ove Knausgaard
A more interesting cocktail is hard to imagine. Karl Ove Knausgård, who revolutionized memory with his epic six-volume series, Mein Kampf, and Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, also famous for his iconic 1893 painting, The Scream.
The publication of the book Knausgaard, a mixture of biography, history and memories, coincides with a traveling exhibition of Munch's work, which was inevitably organized by Knausgaard.
Furious Hours: Harper Lee and the unfinished story of race, religion - Casey Cep
Harper Lee is known to many readers because the author of the classic novel To Kill Mockingbird has. Once a year in his homeland Alabama in the 1970s, covering a terrible affair, was tried in an insurance scam for killing five members of his family a preacher.
The preacher went, but was killed by a family member at the funeral of one of his victims was unbelievably murdered and defended by the same lawyer who released him. Casey Cep revises the case and Lee's story about it.
The boy who followed his father to Auschwitz - Jeremy Dronfield
Austrian Gustav Kleinmann Sattler managed to keep a newspaper for five years while enduring the Nazi camp in Buchenwald, where he was imprisoned in 1939 with his son Fritz 16 and finally to Auschwitz, where again joined his son.
Jeremy Dronfield used the newspaper to tell a story that has devastated the literary world. Dronfield is a master of storytelling. Explain in detail how Father and Son have survived the horrors of the Holocaust to tell their story.
Unterland: A Time Travel - Robert Macfarlane
Macfarlane is undoubtedly the most talented nature author in the world at the time.
There is much to recommend for his diving in the catacombs of our world, which mixes memories, spitunking stifling stories, analysis of nuclear waste tanks, major mythological digressions, worlds endangering the catastrophic effects of climate change and a gallery. to meet eccentrically on the street.
In the sun or in the shade: how boxing brings hope into trouble - Donald McRae
There are only a few more talented sports writers than Donald McRae. The South African author has written 11 non-fiction books, including the 1990 boxing book Dark Trade.
For his last effort, he resorts to boxing again and discovers how the sport offered boxers on both sides of the pool a safe haven in the days of trouble in Northern Ireland.
McRae tells his story at Gerry Storey's legendary "Holy Family" gymnasium in Belfast, where Barry McGuigan, Davy Larmour, and Olympic bronze medalist Hugh Russell, for example, became an accomplished photographer.
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