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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown

The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown

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Author: Alexander LarmanFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 320g, 432 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2024'This riotous and engaging biography has it all'GUARDIAN'As much fun to read as a good...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

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Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
A Place Called Home: (The Cliffehaven Series Book 19)

A Place Called Home: (The Cliffehaven Series Book 19)

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  THE NINETEENTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEANCliffehaven, 1946. The war is over and those who have spent years fighting behind enemy lines are finally coming...
The Mind of a Thief

The Mind of a Thief

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga

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Author: Olaudah Equiano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Equiano's narrative is the most significant autobiographical account of slavery to emerge from Britain's centuries as a slave trading and slave...
ISIS: A History

ISIS: A History

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Author: Fawaz A. Gerges Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Islamic State stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. However, its most striking and...
The Russia Conundrum: One man's fight to save his country's soul

The Russia Conundrum: One man's fight to save his country's soul

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Author: Mikhail Khodorkovsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West, by former Kremlin insider and now vocal Putin critic Mikhail...
The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government

Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government

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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...
The Contraceptive Revolution

The Contraceptive Revolution

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Here is the full report of the 1970 National Fertility Study, a national sample survey for which thousands of women were interviewed who had been married at some time and...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

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Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail 'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times 'A...
Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten

Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten

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Author: Will Alexander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Refractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This 'pas de trois'...
Over Here

Over Here

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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11

The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11

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Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story

Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story

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Author: Jeremy Farrar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The Coronavirus pandemic has devastated lives and livelihoods around the world - and continues to do so. These personal tragedies will,...
Heart of Darkness (Collins Classics)

Heart of Darkness (Collins Classics)

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Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if...
The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery

White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery

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Author: Thomas Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors...
I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History

I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History

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'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSONAn astonishing search for a missing person, the...
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...
Hitler and Nazism

Hitler and Nazism

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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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'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in...
Writing in Hope and Fear: Literature as Politics in Postwar Australia

Writing in Hope and Fear: Literature as Politics in Postwar Australia

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The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them

The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them

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The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them

The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them

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Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

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Author: Anthony R. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one...
The Journey Matters: Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style

The Journey Matters: Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style

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Author: Jonathan Glancey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 What was it really like to take the LNER's Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King's Cross to Edinburgh, to...
The Kamikaze Hunters: The Men Who Fought for the Pacific, 1945

The Kamikaze Hunters: The Men Who Fought for the Pacific, 1945

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Author: Will Iredale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 456 The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but...
We Germans

We Germans

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Author: Alexander Starritt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side...
All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See

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Author: Anthony Doerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE...
The Fat Boy with the Bomb and 299 of the Worlds Craziest Politicians

The Fat Boy with the Bomb and 299 of the Worlds Craziest Politicians

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Author: Brian O'Connell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A completely original illustrated international dossier of lunatic statesmen and insane leaders! This first attempt to catalogue the world...