21st Century History

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Afghanistan, August 2021. As the clock ticks down to a total Allied withdrawal and the Taliban go door to door to execute 'collaborators', a small, semi-official force of allied Paratroopers...

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It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...

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Growing, growing, gone... Penrith, in the heart of the Lake District, is not the kind of place you can easily vanish. Certainly not when the members of the Penrith Bingo...

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For more than a half century, Ibrahim El-Salahi has been at the forefront of African modernism in the visual arts. A renowned artist, writer, critic, and teacher, El-Salahi continues to...

Using the theme of Currency to invite reflection on the contemporary power of the photograph to relay and relate meaning across distance, the Triennial of Photography Hamburg explores the value...

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A Telegraph Best Book 2025 'Elegant and terrifying, the story of those who gave up life in the West for Ukraine's frontlines - some to save democracy, some to save...

Winner of the Irish Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2025! Pip's world is small. But it's about to become a whole lot bigger. For years she's tucked...

Barack Obama approaches the US presidency at a critical moment in American history - facing simultaneous crises of war, the environment, and healthcare, but most especially in the economy. If...

The inside story of legendary golfer Tiger Woods' magnificent run, when he won all four major tournaments in a single calendar year, becoming the greatest player of his generation-a show...

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' A Neighbour's Guide to Murder is fiendishly sharp, clever and gripping . Nobody captures the mores of neighbourhoods and communities, and multi-generational complexities, like Louise Candlish. She's in a...

In April 2013 a global breaking-news story surfaced on social media and in the world press, and rapidly gathered momentum. A South African man had fallen overboard in the night...

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Secrets. Lies. Murder. Fame can be deadly. A British icon delivers a powerful blockbuster in an exhilarating thriller set in London's East End. ____________________________________________________ A FALLEN ROCKSTAR. ONE LAST CHANCE...

Dark times lie ahead for Special Agent Ren Bryce and the Rocky Mountains Safe Streets Task Force in the heart-stopping new thriller from the bestselling author of DARKHOUSE and BLOOD...

'Kuper is a shrewd observer in this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting...

The story of a hotel. The story of a nation. When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan's first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to...

An authoritative history of the tank and the remarkable individuals who designed them and fought in them, from a former soldier and best-selling historian Tanks are the ultimate embodiment of...

In its new presentation of the collection, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart establishes a dialogue between works from the private Scharpff-Striebich collection and works from its own stocks. Contemporary positions and works...

'He did kill . Kill and kill and kill .' Tess 's number one priority has always been her three-year-old daughter Poppy . But splitting up with Poppy's father Jason...

Designing Peace asks, how might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a future we want to live in and take action to create it now? This book...

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A compelling new historical mystery from the author of The Secrets of Rochester Place and The Story Collector How far will they go to find their story? When Alexis meets...

What's gone wrong in the land of the free? Jack Huberman's bestseller, The Bush-Hater's Handbook, exposed the iniquities and idiocies of George W. Bush's first term in the White House....

Despite our culture's proclaimed respect for scientific reason, we live in a society that is no less bedazzled-and bedevilled-by myth than those of our remote ancestors. Roland Barthes first examined...

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She's no damsel in distress, and he's certainly not wearing shining armour. But one knight can change everything... Daisy Hastings has always thought she was born in the wrong era....

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