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Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...
Mary I: Queen of Sorrows
'A must for Tudor fans everywhere' Tracy Borman'Thrilling, captivating . . . unforgettable' Kate Williams'A gripping story that's underpinned by a wealth of research . . . this is Alison...
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900
A passionate history of a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians. A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding...
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900
The definitive history of the terrible process by which much of Scotland was 'cleared' of many inhabitants, written by Scotland's foremost living historian Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many...
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia
Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize, The Age Book of the Year 'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential...
Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE...
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of
Dark Renaissance is the thrilling story of the writer who transformed culture in Elizabethan England, bringing it out of the darkness and into the light. Poor boy. Dark star. Spy....
Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Journey back to the world of the Tudors, with the celebrated children's history series 'Winter has come; and in a far distant land, a warrior queen is expecting a child...'...
This Earthly Globe: 'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter
'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan 'Marries the intrigue of Europe's most powerful royal courts with the globe-trotting thrill of adventure and discovery' Sunday Telegraph, 5* review DURING THE...
Humanly Possible: The great humanist experiment in living
Seven hundred years of heroic humanists (and their enemies), from the acclaimed author of How to Live and At The Existentialist Cafe The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live...
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses
There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad's Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together...
Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women's Mental Health and What
For centuries so called 'difficult women' have been labelled as 'hysterical' and 'out of their minds'. Today they wait longer for health diagnoses, often being told it's 'all in their...
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the
'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan'A wonderful book' Sunday Telegraph, 5*'Triumphant' Literary ReviewDURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth...
So Great a Prince
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Author: Lauren JohnsonFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 221mm, 363g, 336 pagesPublished: Pegasus Books, United States, 2018England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII,...
Lois the Witch
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Beware the self-righteous man of faith, the wicked-eyed child, the jealous lover. For this is Salem, in 1691, where rumours fly...
The Devil In The White City
Chicago, 1893. One man built a heaven on earth. Another built hell beside it... 'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUT One was...
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan'A wonderful book' Sunday Telegraph, 5*'Triumphant' Literary ReviewDURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth...
In the Shadow of Queens: Tales from the Tudor Court
The complete SIX TUDOR QUEENS short-story collection by acclaimed historian and SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author, Alison Weir. 'This brilliant series has brought Henry VIII's six wives to life as never...
London
A wonderful, epic story that tells the history of the greatest city in the world, from Roman times to the present day. A grand, epic story that tells the history...
Capitalism and Slavery
The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racism 'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our most basic way of viewing...
The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch
The ship was almost instantly in flames . . . Some jumped overboard immediately, and all was in indescribable confusion. The masts began to fall one after another, and it...
Navola
' One of the amazing feats of worldbuilding which I've encountered this year, or really in the last few years.' Lev Grossman Navola is a city built on trade. Its...
This Sceptred Isle: Empire
Britain had the biggest empire the world has ever known. At one time a quarter of the global land mass was British. Over a third of the world was insured...
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That
A TLS , TIMES, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and...
Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace
Autumn 1536. Both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are dead. Henry VIII has married Jane Seymour, and still awaits his longed-for male heir. Disaffected conservatives in England may have...
Tudor Children
The first history of childhood in Tudor England " Tudor Children is social history at its best. . . . By connecting with our own history as children, Orme invites...