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Picasso's Lovers: A famous artist. An aspiring writer. The lifetime of
'A bold, sumptuous portrait of a great artist and the women who inspired, frustrated, loved, and loathed him... Picasso's Lovers is an epic, sensuous delight' Kate Quinn, New York Times...
Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild
Dressing up. Partying all night. This is the world of 1970s fashion, and this book is your backstage pass.Featuring over 25 exclusive interviews with the movers and shakers of the...
Now or Never: A Dunkirk Story (Voices #1)
A gripping adventure in an exciting new series reflecting the authentic, unsung stories of our past! "The superb Voices series takes unsung heroes of the past and imagines them recounting...
Red Menace
**An Irish Times best book of 2024 so far**"A very early candidate for the crime novel of the year" IRISH TIMESLive Aid, July 1985. The great and the good of...
Tell Me How It Ends: Sixties glamour meets film noir in a gripping
'A spellbinding read ... the glamour of early Sixties showbiz' LOUISE CANDLISH'Mesmerising and powerful ... an extraordinary sense of time and place' ELLY GRIFFITHS'A stylish and page-turning mystery' RACHEL HORE'Gripping...
Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII
'ASTONISHING' THE DAILY MAIL 'STRIKING' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'RADICAL' TATLER Described by The Telegraph as 'Edward's truth' Once a King is the never before seen and unfiltered story of King...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian
'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.'...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict
'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has an excellent eye for revealing detail' William Dalrymple'James has a...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian
'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.'...
P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern
With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a...
The Pianist
The powerful memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds.'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival...
The Trouble with Europe: Why the EU isn't Working, How it Can be
'This is a credible plan for life outside Europe and deserves to be widely read' The Week - Business Books of the Year THE 2016 REFERENDUM EDITIONThe EU hasn't delivered...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents
From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But,...
Memphis: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE'A rhapsodic hymn to Black women' New York Times Book Review'Epic yet intimate' Cosmopolitan'Ferocious and compassionate' Irish TimesFAMILY...
Seventeen and Oh: Miami, 1972, and the NFL's Only Perfect Season
The 1972 Miami Dolphins had something to prove. Losers in the previous Super Bowl, a ragtag bunch of overlooked, underappreciated, or just plain old players, they were led by Don...
Mr B.: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century
Balanchine's radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly evocative ballets made him a lasting legend. Today, nearly thirty years after his death, the man is...
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
No matter where you turn, it seems that the taut lines of borders are vibrating to - or even calling - the tune of global events.Today, there are more borders...
Through the Leopard's Gaze
In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to...
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
No matter where you turn, it seems that the taut lines of borders are vibrating to - or even calling - the tune of global events.Today, there are more borders...
The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy.
'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind....
Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers
"A true-crime masterpiece." -Don WinslowFrom the FBI's former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America's highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative's hunt for the...
Decoy
The shocking true story of one of Britain's most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operations Bristol, 1979.An attacker roams the streets...Young women are warned not to go out alone...Enter...
Mary Poppins in the Park
Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures!The original and classic stories available now in all-new luxurious livery. Whether it's a lion loose in the park...
Bowie at the BBC: A life in interviews
A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEAR'A unique insight... An excellent companion for both the casual and obsessive Bowie fan'Louder Then WarThe life of an icon, in his own...
Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived
FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURTPortion of proceeds go to NHS Charities Together.A beautiful and heart-warming collection of stories, this landmark publication tells, for the...
Mary Poppins in the Park
Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures!The original and classic stories available now in all-new luxurious livery. Whether it's a lion loose in the park...
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in
In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention...
Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s
In Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s, Rox Samer explores how 1970s feminists took up the figure of the lesbian in broad attempts to reimagine gender and sexuality....
Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil
In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently...
Inshallah United: A story of faith and football
Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awards 2023 'There was always hope. There was always next season. Inshallah.'Inshallah United is about growing up as a strictly...
A Very Private School
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times, Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year'Shocking and moving' Guardian'Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose' The Times At eight...
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
'A roadmap for a new generation' VOGUE'Radical, funny and fearless' VANITY FAIR'Gripping' NYLONAn electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre...
Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearA Wall Street Journal Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA New Yorker...
The House of Fever
'Shimmering with menace, this is a deliciously Gothic treat' Heat'What a book! So intriguing, with a terrific plot and strong characters' Prima'Simmering with secrets, this beguiling mystery is a dark...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face...
Up in Arms: How Military Aid Stabilizes-and Destabilizes-Foreign
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...
In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked
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...
Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of
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...
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating'
'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'...
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine
'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...
The Princess: The moving new novel about the young Diana
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...
Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West
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
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...
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
'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
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...
My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend
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...
The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania
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...