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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...
Mediterra: Recipes from the islands and shores of the Mediterranean
Across the Mediterranean, from Spain to Morocco, via Italy, Sicily, Greece and Lebanon, one delicious food influence gives way to the next. The whole region is a rich seam of...
The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place
FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times , Financial Times , Spectator ,...
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag...
The Short Story of Contemporary Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements,
The Short Story of Contemporary Art is a must-read introduction to this exciting and important period, from bestselling author and art historian Susie Hodge. This fascinating pocket guide explains the...
The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine - Updated Edition
A WATERSTONES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A breathtaking history of Ukraine's war against Russia, by The Financial Times' Ukraine correspondent Christopher Miller 'Vivid... Shocking... [Miller] brings a...
Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean - shortlisted for
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 "A brilliant exploration of Cyprus's long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." -- Guardian "Poetic...Compelling" -- New Statesman One of National Geographic 's...
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This...
A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel-Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It didn't start in 1967 either, when...
Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space
As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER Silicon...
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's
When the R101 first took to the skies, she was the largest aircraft ever to fly. What followed was a tragic finale to a tale of human folly on a...
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...
Beasts of a Little Land: The International Bestseller
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...
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic
At the Israel America Council's national conference in 2018, Nancy Pelosi spoke these words: 'If this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain is our commitment...
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History
A fascinating exploration of why Hitler's death was only confirmed in 2018 Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put...
Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945
The extraordinary story of Kathleen Harriman, daughter of the US ambassador to the USSR, told through her wartime letters Kathleen Harriman was the daughter of American businessman W. Averell Harriman....
Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India
The gripping story of Indira Gandhi's premiership-and the profound influence she had on India Indira Gandhi's ascent as prime minister of India in 1966 was entirely unforeseen. But she soon...
A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End
The true story of Daniel Defoe and the dirty tricks which helped bring Scotland into union with England In 1706, Edinburgh was on the brink of a popular uprising. Men...
Nuclear Weapons: An International History
A groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold War How should we deal with nuclear weapons? The discovery of nuclear...
Empire of Booze: British History Through the Bottom of a Glass
From award-winning booze correspondent Henry Jeffreys comes this rich and full-bodied history of Britain and the Empire, told through the improbable but true stories of how the world's favourite alcoholic...
Shadow Cell: an explosive insider account of the world's new spy war
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling first-hand account by husband-and-wife CIA operatives who, against all odds, triumphed in a deadly cat-and-mouse game against a mole within the intelligence...
The Land Where Nothing Works: How Britain Lost the Plot
What has happened to Britain? As drivers on its roads can attest, it is the pothole capital of Europe. Once-beautiful towns now feature peeling paint, weeds, and broken railings. Public...
Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto
Doubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction, and fraying international alliances. Will the dollar continue to reign supreme? In Money...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
Century of Change 1900 - 2000
These outstanding books bring to life the people, places and events of the past in these islands, from the earliest settlers to the present day. They explore the everyday lives...
The Light of Truth
A comprehensive collection of writings from journalist, lecturer, anti-lynching activist, and early civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells. This is the latest addition to the African American classics series edited...
Bittersweet: Based on the True Tale of the Berlin Candy Bombers
Soar into the tender true story of how one airman inspired a movement by airdropping little parachutes of candy to kids trapped in occupied Berlin in this nonfiction picture book...
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern
A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of Hells Angels convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, bohemian theatre...
Red Plenty: 'Bizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, host of
The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things...
The Fourth Princess: A Gothic Novel of Old Shanghai
From the internationally bestselling author of The Porcelain Moon comes a haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China. Two young women living in a crumbling, once-grand Shanghai mansion face danger...
Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?
Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span...
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...
An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail
A friendship is a filiation we choose. It holds love and laughter; it can extend our sense of the possible. Moved to honour a form of relation often subordinated to...
Other Paths to Glory
A murderer targets British historians of the First World War in this 1970s classic Paul Mitchell spends his days researching the carnage of the First World War in the silence...
In Youth is Pleasure
A gay classic coming-of-age novel and an unforgettable slice of British interwar upper-middle class life Orvil Pym does not fit in. A waifish, eccentric, sensitive fifteen-year-old, he hates school and...
The Great Heist: China's Epic Campaign to Steal America's Secrets
A definitive, headline-making expose of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has carried out the largest-scale theft of intellectual property, technology, and data in history-reshaping the global balance of power...
The Shock of the Light
'A powerful story, beautifully told' M.L. STEDMAN 'Truly compelling' WILLIAM BOYD 'Exquisitely written and deeply human' CHRIS CLEAVE 'Far-reaching, but also intimate and intensely personal' FLORENCE KNAPP 'Alluring in its...
Operation Heartbreak
A moving reimagining of the man at the heart of Operation Mincemeat, brilliantly told by the celebrated wartime statesman, historian and author William Maryngton has one dream in life- to...
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 3
One of the most beloved translations of all time returns to Penguin Classics- Scott Moncrieff's masterful version of Proust Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth...
Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World
Daring essays on democracy, history and the nation state by one of China's leading twentieth-century intellectuals The power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichao's writings make him one of the...
These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future
A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition. These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides...
The Dirty Dozen
The gritty new thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama and the fifth book in the Sunday Times bestselling Jane Tennison series. Jane Tennison has worked hard to become the...
From Hitlers U-Boats to Kruschevs Spyflights
This book is about the Royal Air Force Career of Tom Clark, who joined the RAF as an Aircraft man just before WW2 in June 1939. After "Dunkirk" he trained...
Putin's Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia's Collapse into
The astonishing inside story of the Wagner Group, the world's deadliest militia " Putin's Sledgehammer provides an in-depth account of, and essential political and economic background to, the story of...
The Real Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes, born in York in 1570, is one of the key figures in British history, taking a central role in a plot that would have destroyed the ruling class...
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
**A SUNDAY TIMES MUST-READ** 'Riveting and vitally important' - Steven Pinker 'A gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change' - Anjana Ahuja, New Statesman EMPTY PLANET...
City of Lions
Lviv, Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its history, it is a city...
Undiscovered
Alone in an ethnographic museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener is confronted with her unusual inheritance. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artefacts, the spoils of European colonial plunder, many...