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Oracle Bones
Peter Hessler's previous book River Town was a prize-winning, poignant and deeply compelling portrait of China. Now, in Oracle Bones, Hessler returns to the country, excavating its long history and...
Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold
The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita herself in an autobiography which she left behind at...
The Girl from Nowhere: A Romani Ghetto Life
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My mother was a prostitute. My grandmother and great-grandmother were prostitutes.Maybe I should have given the family business a chance...BBC RADIO 4 PICK OF THE WEEK, Katie Puckrik'Eliska's story is...
Handle With Care: Confessions of an NHS Health Visitor
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'[It] manages to be funny, moving, activist, and challenging.' Harriet Minter, TalkRadio'I loved this book - I thought it was really interesting' Jane Garvey, BBC Radio 4 Woman's HourHealth Visiting...
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...
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in adulthood he became a judge at the International Court in The Hague. In...
The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong
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Time Shelter: Winner of the International Booker Prize 2023
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023 'The most exquisite kind of literature... I've put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that demand...
Air America
Air America - a secret airline run by the CIA - flew missions no one else would touch, from General Claire Cennault's legendary Flying Tigers in WW II to two...
Hadriana in All My Dreams
Set during Carnival in Haiti 1938, a young and beautiful woman named Hadriana drinks a mysterious potion on her wedding day and collapses at the altar. She is buried and...
Pines
The first book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward...
Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings.Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Moehne and Eder dams in north-west Germany...
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Now a major Guy Ritchie film:
One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily ExpressIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew...
Lemmy & Motorhead: In The Studio
One of the founding fathers of heavy metal, Lemmy Kilmister's musical legacy can never be forgotten despite his death in December 2015. As their frontman, songwriter and bassist, Ian Fraser...
Glass
A writer in self-imposed exile in London receives a call from the Prime Minister of his former country, inviting him to return to write the Prime Minister's biography. As he...
Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening
Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky...
Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening
Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky...
Escaping Hitler: Heroic True Stories of Great Escapes in Nazi Europe
Some of the great untold stories of the Second World War concern the freedom trails, the highly dangerous escape routes out of Nazi Occupied Europe. Over 5,000 British, Commonwealth and...
Young Elizabeth: One Extraordinary African Summer in the Life of the
Young Elizabeth captures in vivid detail perhaps the single-most important formative experience in Queen Elizabeth's life, the 1947 royal tour of southern Africa with her parents King George VI, Queen...
Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Teach Yourself
Understand the Israeli Palestinian Conflict is the essential guide to one of the world s most distressing confrontations. Putting the present situation into its broader context and examining all perspectives,...
Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife (SIGNED)
'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN'Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down' VICTORIA HISLOP'Ethel sings out for...
What Was Football Like in the 1990s?
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What Was Football Like in the 1990s? captures the spirit of a decade that witnessed so many changes in the game, especially off the field. This engaging and absorbing account...
Emily Noble's Disgrace
'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...
When the Apricots Bloom: The evocative and emotionally powerful story
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At night, in Huda's fragrant garden of apricot trees, a breeze sweeps in from the desert, carrying warning of visitors at her gate . . . Huda, a secretary at...
Lessons I've Learned
"I am a work in progress. There are times when I feel in control and like I know what I'm doing...and there are times (quite a few)(actually lots) when I've...
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...
Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies
INTERCEPT is the previously untold - and previously highly classified - story of the melding of technology and espionage. Gordon Corera's compelling narrative, rich with historical details and characters, takes...
A Safe Area: Srebrenica - Europe's Worst Massacre Since the Holocaust
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, now a Major Guy Ritchie Film:
One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily ExpressIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader Winston...
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
'Enthralling' GUARDIAN'Incredibly absorbing ... astonishingly candid' Bill BrysonWinner of the PEN Ackerley Prize and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for LiteratureShortlisted for the Costa Biography Award; Duff Cooper Prize;...
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...
First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill
From the personal and political upheavals of the Great War, through the Churchills' 'wilderness years' in the 1930s, to Clementine's desperate efforts to preserve her husband's health during the struggle...
Hitler's Secret Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Nazi Plan for Final
A fascinating illustrated account of a crucial but less well-known aspect of the Third Reich. The story of the weapons that could have won the war: Nazi flying saucers, the...
Empire of Liberty
In this thoughtful and timely consideration of the nature of American power and empire, Anthony Bogues argues that America's self-presentation as the bastion of liberty is an attempt to force...
Biafra Genocide: Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967-1970
One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people-mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children-died in one of Africa's first post-independence...
My Own Worst Enemy: Scenes of a Childhood
'A small masterpiece' The SpectatorMy Own Worst Enemy is a wry and moving memoir of a working-class childhood in 1960s Sheffield, and the relationship between a touchy, tragicomic bully of...
All Us Sinners: A beautifully written crime debut set in the shadow of
'Powerful, provocative, beautiful and unforgettable. All Us Sinners is a chilling, moving, majestic debut' --- CHRIS WHITAKERLeeds, 1977. A chill lies over the city: sex workers are being murdered by...
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
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The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir
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The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
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,...
Hitler's Spy Chief
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Arrested in the wake of the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, Canaris was executed by the Nazis in the last week of the war, although the extent of his...
Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That
A rousing look at Japanese railways and history for railroad enthusiasts. Dan Free tells the fascinating history of the rise of Japanese railways amidst a period of rapid modernisation during...
The Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal 1940: France and Flanders
Known in some accounts as the Battle of Wijtschaete, the confrontation along the Ypres-Comines Canal in 1940 is still hardly remembered in this country and, apart from the battle honours...
Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the
"Winter Soldiers is an immensely valuable contribution to the history of the Vietnam War. It brings to life, through the words of the veterans themselves, the journey each individual made,...
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
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The Inheritance
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Australia's Lost Heroes: Anzacs in the Russian Civil War 1919
This extraordinary book is both an engaging military history and an enthralling mystery. Australia's Lost Heroes tells the astonishing little-known story of the Australian soldiers who fought the Red Army...