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Doctor Strange: A Decade of Dark Magic
Explore the Stories Behind the Legends Enter a world where reality bends, and magic reigns supreme. From psychedelic dimensions to counterculture cool, Doctor Strange was unlike anything else in comics....
Very Ordinary Seaman: The unforgettable account of British naval
First published to huge acclaim during the war it describes, Very Ordinary Seaman relates - with humanity, humour and the authority of experience - lower-deck life in the British navy,...
Miss Veal and Miss Ham
It is 1951 and behind the counter of a modest post office in a leafy Buckinghamshire village Miss Dora Ham and Miss Beatrix Veal maintain their careful facade as respected...
A Beautiful Way to Die
From the author of BBC Between the Covers pick The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou . 'Gripping and compelling.' LAURA MARSHALL 'A magnificent melodrama, full of glamour and grit.' THE...
1977: How Progressive Rock Defied Punk
In this informative, readable and for punk fans at least annoying book, Kevan Furbank looks at the progressive rock bands and albums that left punk reeling in the moshpit. To...
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man
A fascinating new biography of the man behind James Bond, by an award-winning biographer and novelist who has unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive. A fresh portrait of the man...
The Days I Loved You Most: 'If you need a big ol' love story in your
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'I've never read a story quite like this deeply moving, complex novel' Jodi Picoult 'It emotionally wrecked me' **** 'Fabulous' ***** 'Breathtaking' **** 'Heart-breaking' ***** 'A truly...
Richie Benaud's Blue Suede Shoes: The Story of an Ashes Classic
CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR THE CRICKET WRITERS' CLUB DEREK HODGSON BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR...
A Case of Life and Limb: 'A brilliant mystery' Daily Mail
A WATERSTONES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR A LITERARY REVIEW CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 'As brilliant a cosy crime novel as you'll ever read' JANICE HALLETT 'A masterful voice...
A Case of Mice and Murder: 'A delight from first page to last' Sunday
*WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS CRIME & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2026* ' An absolute delight ' JANICE HALLETT 'A triumph of ingenuity ' DAILY MAIL ' I...
A Case of Mice and Murder: 'A delight from first page to last' Sunday
' A delight from first page to last ' SUNDAY TIMES ' I loved it! ... A whiff of Shardlake and a pinch of Rumpole ... a joy ' S.J....
Hidden Treasure: A timeless children's adventure story from the
From the bestselling author of The Miniaturist . Jessie Burton's Hidden Treasure is the phenomenal page-turning story of two children whose lives collide when they find an ancient treasure with...
My Story
The no-holds-barred autobiography from one of this country's greatest ever footballers, Steven Gerrard Steven Gerrard is the former captain of Liverpool football team and of the England national football team,...
The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
'An extraordinary firsthand account of Communist Party machinery at its most brutal and paranoid' -- Sunday Telegraph Picked as Hilary Spurling's Book of the Year in The Spectator. The spellbinding...
Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero
With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon...
Iran: Dictatorship and Development
It is quite possible that before too long the Iranian people will chase the Pahlavi dictator and his associates from power... So wrote historian Fred Halliday in the conclusion to...
Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman And Her
Sylvia Brooke was the consort of His Highness Sir Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, the last in a bizarre dynasty of English despots who ruled their jungle kingdom on Borneo...
Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt
In 1903, a renowned naturalist joined the President of the United States for a two-week camping trip to Yosemite. John Burroughs offers delightful reminiscences of Theodore Roosevelt and their shared...
The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years 1950-57
From August 1950 until 1966, Harold Macmillan kept one of the fullest and most entertaining political diaries of the 20th century. This first volume starts in the last full year...
Hal Foster - Prince of Illustrators
Award-winning illustrated biography of Hal Foster, in which author Brian M. Kane examines the 70-year career of one of the greatest illustrators of the 20th century. Superman was modelled after...
Laws of Love and Logic
'Those looking for the next Lessons in Chemistry - a story of ferociously bright, feisty women holding their own in a man's world - may have found it ... this...
A Case of Mice and Murder: 'A delight from first page to last' Sunday
' A delight from first page to last ' SUNDAY TIMES ' I loved it! ... A whiff of Shardlake and a pinch of Rumpole ... a joy ' S.J....
Chrome Dome 1960-68: The B-52s' high-stakes Cold War nuclear operation
In 1960, SAC's B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold War's most challenging operations was conceived and flown. Operation Chrome...
Fantasy Art
In this text, Dick Jude explores the range of fantasy, horror and sci-fi art with ten of the leading practitioners of the genre. Some of the brightest talents in the...
1970s Jazz Fusion
The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop. The once derided...
The Witch's Daughter
'A spellbinding tale of love, lust, magic and betrayal in Imperial Russia... I couldn't put it down' Santa Montefiore A city burning. A revolution raging. A woman on the run....
Hubris: The Origins of Russia's War Against Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukraine conflict that began eight years earlier. But the roots of the conflict began...
Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza
Consent to the obliteration of Gaza has created an enormous gulf in the global moral order. History will record how Western governments and large sections of their elites have supported...
In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story
In Search of Fatima reflects the author's personal experiences of displacement and loss against a backdrop of the major political events which have shaped conflict in the Middle East. Kharmi...
The Rest is History Returns: An A-Z of Historical Curiosities
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The world's most successful history podcast . . . Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The Times From...
The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: The Beatles, the Beach Boys, and
Nicholas Tochka analyzes the role of rock music in the life of Charles Manson, the Family, and the August 1969 Tate-LaBianca killings, which also gives larger insight into Sixties counterculture....
To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42
'[An] excellent account.' - Richard Overy, The Telegraph Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2024 A ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges....
German Soldier vs Soviet Soldier: Stalingrad 1942-43
By the end of the first week of November 1942, the German Sixth Army held about 90 per cent of Stalingrad. Yet the Soviets stubbornly held on to the remaining...
Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of Cyprus - shortlisted for the London
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2025 "A brilliant exploration of Cyprus's long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." -- Guardian One of National Geographic 's Summer Reads 2024...
Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of Cyprus - shortlisted for the London
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2025 "A brilliant exploration of Cyprus's long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." -- Guardian One of National Geographic 's Summer Reads 2024...
Empires of Violence: Massacre in a Revolutionary Age
Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many...
Listening In: How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial Intelligence
In 1945, W. Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was presented with a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States as a 'gesture of...
The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951
This seminal text by renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, discusses one of the most significant periods in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Based on archival material, it presents the reader with a...
The Tunnels: The Untold Story of the Escapes Under the Berlin Wall
In the summer of 1962, one year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture and even death to liberate...
The Waking Giant: Soviet Union Under Gorbachev
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Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967
The second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life for queer men in London, from the end of the Second World War to decriminalization in 1967...
Listening In: How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial Intelligence
In 1945, W. Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was presented with a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States as a 'gesture of...
Doctor Strange: A Decade of Dark Magic
Explore the Stories Behind the Legends Enter a world where reality bends, and magic reigns supreme. From psychedelic dimensions to counterculture cool, Doctor Strange was unlike anything else in comics....
The Mighty Avengers vs. the 1970s
Explore the Stories Behind the Legends The team that defined a generation-and reshaped a universe. The Avengers was the comic book of the 1970s. From Civil Rights to the Women's...
The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan...
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading
***A Financial Times, TLS, Economist and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024*** Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read...
The Peacock and the Sparrow: A dark, twisty, award-winning spy novel
BEST FIRST NOVEL WINNER: Edgar Awards International Thriller Writers Awards A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker NPR The Diplomatic Courier During the Arab Spring, an American spy's...