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Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the Cia's War on Terror

Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the Cia's War on Terror

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Australian Outlook: A History of the Australian Institute of International Affairs

Australian Outlook: A History of the Australian Institute of International Affairs

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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

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Beasts of a Little Land: The International Bestseller

Beasts of a Little Land: The International Bestseller

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In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an...
In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

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The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold WarJonna Hiestand Mendez began her...
Move: How Mass Migration Will Reshape the World - and What It Means for You

Move: How Mass Migration Will Reshape the World - and What It Means

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Where will you live in 2030? Where will your children settle in 2040? What will the map of humanity look like in 2050?Mobility is a recurring feature of human civilisation....
Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History

Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of

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In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an...
The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That

The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That

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'I squealed laughing at this but now worry that my knowledge of history has been dangerously ruined' Matt FordeA fascinating and hilarious gallop through twentieth-century British history, by comedian Al...
If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women

If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp

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Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize: A 'profoundly moving chronicle' (Observer) that tells the story of Ravensbruck, the only concentration camp designed specifically for women, using new testimony from...
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating'

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'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past'...
The Wide World: An epic novel of family fortune, twisted secrets and love - the first volume in THE GLORIOUS YEARS series

The Wide World: An epic novel of family fortune, twisted secrets and

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ONE OF THE TIMES' FAVOURITE NOVELS OF 2023'The Wide World is one of his best . . . Compellingly plotted, stuffed with great characters, thought-provokingly situated in history - honestly,...
Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin

Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin

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In Rest in Power, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin offer a heartfelt testimony of their son. In life, their child was just that-a child. But In death, Trayvon became the...
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine history" of the world's most successful military alliance

Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine

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'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAILThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir...
Franz Gertsch (Bilingual edition): Die Siebziger / The Seventies

Franz Gertsch (Bilingual edition): Die Siebziger / The Seventies

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A time of new beginnings In 1969, Franz Gertsch painted Huaa...!-which shows a wildly galloping man on horseback-after a film still from a magazine. Photographs have formed the basis for...
The Princess: The moving new novel about the young Diana

The Princess: The moving new novel about the young Diana

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A deeply moving new novel about the young Princess DianaDiana believes in love. Growing up amid the fallout of her parents' bitter divorce, she takes refuge in romantic novels. She...
The Liverpool Matchgirl: The heartwarming saga from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author

The Liverpool Matchgirl: The heartwarming saga from the SUNDAY TIMES

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Parentless and alone on the streets of Liverpool, Lizzie must fight for a brighter future...Curl up this winter with a heart-warming and poignant saga by Sunday Times best selling author...
Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

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The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of...
Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

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The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of...
Enchanted Hill: A Novel

Enchanted Hill: A Novel

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Escape to Enchanted Hill in this historical mystery where two people with a dark, shared past collide while working undercover at a glittering mansion on the California coast. The year...
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

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'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Up in Arms: How Military Aid Stabilizes-and Destabilizes-Foreign Autocrats

Up in Arms: How Military Aid Stabilizes-and Destabilizes-Foreign

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How support from foreign superpowers propped up-and pulled down-authoritarian regimes during the Cold War, offering lessons for today's great power competitionThroughout the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union...
A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene:

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The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like Ben Folds Five, Superchunk, and Squirrel Nut ZippersNorth Carolina has always...
A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East

A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East

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It is in the Middle East that the U. S. has been made to confront its attitudes on the use of force, the role of allies, and international law. The...
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

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'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Cashing Out: The Flight of Nazi Treasure, 1945-1948

Cashing Out: The Flight of Nazi Treasure, 1945-1948

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By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around...
In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

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The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold WarJonna Hiestand Mendez began her...
The Wide World: An epic novel of family fortune, twisted secrets and love - the first volume in THE GLORIOUS YEARS series

The Wide World: An epic novel of family fortune, twisted secrets and

$55.00 AUD$44.00 AUD
ONE OF THE TIMES' FAVOURITE NOVELS OF 2023'The Wide World is one of his best . . . Compellingly plotted, stuffed with great characters, thought-provokingly situated in history - honestly,...
Barcelona Dreaming

Barcelona Dreaming

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Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked by time and place, and also by the moving,...
SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story

SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story

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'An incredible story, and so well told' Bear Grylls'A must read. Honesty, integrity and real experience that puts you in the thick of the action.' Billy BillinghamThere were three patrols...
My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend and hero

My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend

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Bobby Charlton is Manchester United through and through. One of the original 'Busby Babes'; he has devoted his career to the club, playing in 754 games over 17 years and...
Percy Leason: An Artist's Life

Percy Leason: An Artist's Life

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Who would have thought that a boy born in 1889 from the Victorian Mallee would become a successful artist on New York's Staten Island? This finely illustrated, exhaustively researched and...
Hitler's British Isles

Hitler's British Isles

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True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has vividly summoned a troubling episode from our national past.'...
The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania

The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania

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They say to never meet your heroes. Brad Balukjian doesn't listen. From the bestselling author of The Wax Pack, comes another eye-opening road trip adventure into a pocket of massively...
Voices of the Windrush Generation: The real story told by the people themselves

Voices of the Windrush Generation: The real story told by the people

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'Evocative, authentic and brilliantly told - a wonderful read.' David LammyForeword by West Indies Cricketer Sir Clive LloydVoices of the Windrush Generation is a powerful collection of stories from the...
The War Below: AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'TODAY': Lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives

The War Below: AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'TODAY': Lithium, copper, and

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A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK OF 2024AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION, AND THE FT BUSINESS BOOK...
The Boys

The Boys

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In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible...
Red, White and Blown: Is the United States of America a Cult?

Red, White and Blown: Is the United States of America a Cult?

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Tiger, Tiger

Tiger, Tiger

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A new non-fiction title uncovering the life of golf superstar, Tiger Woods, featuring original interviews and reporting. What makes Tiger tick? How did Tiger Woods become the greatest of all...
Us and Them: The Authorised Story of Hipgnosis: The visionary artists behind Pink Floyd and more...

Us and Them: The Authorised Story of Hipgnosis: The visionary artists

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'Hugely entertaining history' - MojoBetween the late '60s and early '80s, design house Hipgnosis created some of the most iconic and ubiquitous album artwork of all time. Their original lifespan...
The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania

The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania

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They say to never meet your heroes. Brad Balukjian doesn't listen. From the bestselling author of The Wax Pack, comes another eye-opening road trip adventure into a pocket of massively...
The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital

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A celebrated international bestseller that exposes the ticking time-bomb underneath our new technological order. The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the...
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes

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Is it ever possible to know 'the truth' about Sylvia Plath and her marriage to Ted Hughes, which ended with her suicide? In The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm (author of...
Emily Noble's Disgrace

Emily Noble's Disgrace

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'A brilliant, original read' - Daily Mail 'Totally absorbing, this is a story that will keep you gripped' - Janice Hadlow, author of The Other Bennet Sister The case is...
Karma: My Autobiography: 'The most entertaining music memoir since Elton John' Observer

Karma: My Autobiography: 'The most entertaining music memoir since

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THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS'Funny, smart and heartbreaking. Incredible... go listen to it or read it.'...
Design Monograph: Foster

Design Monograph: Foster

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A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and...
Michael Tippett: The Biography

Michael Tippett: The Biography

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'A delight to read' Philip Pullman'Essential reading ... a genuine landmark publication' Tom ServiceA BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'The music of the British composer Michael Tippett - including...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian

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'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.'...
Orwell: The New Life

Orwell: The New Life

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Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen...