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The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong

The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong

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A Safe Area: Srebrenica - Europe's Worst Massacre Since the Holocaust

A Safe Area: Srebrenica - Europe's Worst Massacre Since the Holocaust

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Protecting the Empire's Humanity: Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830-1870

Protecting the Empire's Humanity: Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830-1870

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The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

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The Genesis of a Policy: Defining and Defending Australia's National Interest in the Asia-Pacific, 1921-57

The Genesis of a Policy: Defining and Defending Australia's National Interest in the Asia-Pacific, 1921-57

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Creating a World without Poverty

Creating a World without Poverty

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The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

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The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End

The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End

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The Inheritance

The Inheritance

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Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do about It

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do about It

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A Message from Ukraine

A Message from Ukraine

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Empires Apart

Empires Apart

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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...
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...
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens...
The Ophelia Girls: An Immersive, Intoxicating Read

The Ophelia Girls: An Immersive, Intoxicating Read

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'An immersive, intoxicating summer read with the long-lasting feel of a classic' - Molly Aitken, author of The Island Child 'A potent blend of art, beauty, awakening desire and mortality...
The Chanel Sisters

The Chanel Sisters

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'Delicious and utterly absorbing... This is a book to be relished and savoured. I can't recommend it enough' GILL THOMPSON, author of THE CHILD ON PLATFORM ONE'Historical fiction at its...
Columbine: 25th Anniversary memorial edition

Columbine: 25th Anniversary memorial edition

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**THE GROUNDBREAKING BESTSELLER AND CLASSIC**'Excellent . . . amazing how much still comes as a surprise' New York Times Book Review'Like Capote's In Cold Blood, this tour de force gets...
Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

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You don't get to choose where you grow up, and for more than 80 per cent of the population, the boring, unadventurous and thoroughly unfashionable suburbs serve as their childhood...
The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

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During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns...Conradin Muller was an unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg in June...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

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WINNER OF THE 2024 SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDIts name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures....
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler

The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler

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Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story,...
Holocaust Journey: Travelling In Search Of The Past

Holocaust Journey: Travelling In Search Of The Past

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Includes a new foreword by Rob RinderWhat readers are saying about HOLOCAUST JOURNEY:'Brilliant ... A must read for everybody' 'Devastating' 'Fascinating, thought provoking and shocking' 'Everybody should read this' 'Informative...
Goth: A History

Goth: A History

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'Goth can plausibly claim to be the near-definitive word on the subject' - GuardianGoth is an entertaining and evocative personal history of Goth music and culture, told by a true...
Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

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'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan, talkRADIO'An important new book' Daily Express An alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever...
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul

The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt - from the [...]

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'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding'As an exploration of the social fabric of Afghan life, this book takes some beating' DAILY TELEGRAPH'No other recent...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story

Finding Home: A Windrush Story

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On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them...
Permanent Record: A Memoir of a Reluctant Whistleblower

Permanent Record: A Memoir of a Reluctant Whistleblower

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The God of the Woods

The God of the Woods

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF JIMMY FALLON'S SUMMER READS BOOK CLUBSELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER 2024 READING LIST'I was totally gripped' DOUGLAS STUART'Immersive and enthralling' PAULA HAWKINS ___________'If you...
The Austrian Revolution

The Austrian Revolution

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The definitive work on Eastern Europe's revolutionary period and the unique working-class experiment of Red Vienna.This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated...
The Thorns Remain

The Thorns Remain

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Author: JJA HarwoodFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 270g, 416 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023From the Sunday Times bestselling historical fantasy author of THE SHADOW IN THE GLASS comes a...
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

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Author: Mike DavisFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 1074g, 800 pagesPublished: Verso Books, United Kingdom, 2020Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an...
The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States

The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States

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Author: Ali VelshiFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 263g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 Edited and introduced by MSNBC's Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging...
By Sea & Stars: The story of the First Fleet, from the bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and LOLA IN THE MIRROR

By Sea & Stars: The story of the First Fleet, from the bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and LOLA IN THE MIRROR

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Author: Trent DaltonFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 190mm, 147g, 160 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, Australia, 2024Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the...
The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)

The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)

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Author: Virginia WoolfFormat: Paperback, 111mm x 178mm, 160g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed,...
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border

The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border

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Author: Timothy PhillipsFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 695g, 480 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2022The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as...
Cold War Games: Spies, Subterfuge and Secret Operations at the 1956 Olympic Games

Cold War Games: Spies, Subterfuge and Secret Operations at the 1956 Olympic Games

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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East

Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East

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Author: Kim Ghattas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Blistering' Sunday Times 'Indispensable' Observer 'Fascinating' The Times 'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan 'Revelatory' Lindsey Hilsum A timely and unprecedented examination of how...
The Diary of a Secret Royal

The Diary of a Secret Royal

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Author: Henry Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The most scandalous Royal book of the year In a rapidly changing world the Royal Family own swathes of the country,...
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

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Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
Forgotten War: new edition

Forgotten War: new edition

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Author: Henry Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a...
Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power

Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power

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Author: Clifford Bob Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the world. Rights are usually viewed...
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

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Author: Benedicte Savoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial...
With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs

With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs

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Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain

Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain

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Author: Paul Preston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is...
Philip Guston

Philip Guston

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Author: Musa Mayer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 120 Written by Musa Mayer - Philip Guston's daughter and President of The Guston Foundation - this book brings Guston's life and...
Glass: The life and art of Klaus Moje

Glass: The life and art of Klaus Moje

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Author: Nola Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'It is always based on what I see, what is touching me.' For more than fifty years, Klaus Moje devoted his...
The Dean Koontz Companion

The Dean Koontz Companion

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