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Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan
This innovative study of ethics in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) explores the intense struggle to define a common morality for the emerging nation-state. In the Social Darwinist atmosphere of the time,...
Black Box Canberras: British Test and Trials Canberras 1951-1994
English Electric's Canberra saw an unbroken 46 years of service in the UK as a test and trials aircraft from 1951 until final retirement in 1994. Flown by Government research...
Modern Art in Egypt: Identity and Independence, 1850-1936
Following a spectacular surge in interest for Egyptian masters, Modern Art in Egypt fills the void in Egyptian art history, chronicling the lives and legacies of six pioneering artists working...
Southern Thunder: The Royal Navy and the Scandinavian Trade in World
During World War One the Scandinavian countries played a dangerous and sometimes questionable game; they proclaimed their neutrality but at the same time pitched the two warring sides against one...
Commitment
A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s.When Diane Aziz drives her...
Silver Stars (The Front Lines series)
The second novel in the epic new young adult series that Michael Grant is calling his best yet! It's WWII but not as you know it from school. This time...
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose...
On the Estate: Memoirs of a Russian Lady Before the Revolution
These are the reminiscences of Mariamna Davydoff, born in 1871 and forced to flee the country in 1919. Mariamna's vivid, detailed watercolours and writings reveal the intimate details of life...
Churchill and Empire: A Portrait of an Imperialist
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One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, one focusing solely on his relationship with the British Empire. As a young...
Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War
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Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era--the decade after World War II when the...
Nein!: Standing up to Hitler 1935-1944
From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler.'Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known stories and places...
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile the Making of a Revolutionary
The father of Communist Russia, Vladimir Ilych Lenin now seems to have emerged fully formed in the turbulent wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. But Lenins character...
Some Liked It Hot
Women have been involved with jazz since its inception, but all too often their achievements were not as well known as those of their male counterparts. Some Liked It Hot...
The Ballad of Roy Benavidez: The Life and Times of America's Most
The dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, a Mexican American Green Beret from a working-class family with deep roots in Texas, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped...
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...
Picasso's Lovers: A famous artist. An aspiring writer. The lifetime of
'A bold, sumptuous portrait of a great artist and the women who inspired, frustrated, loved, and loathed him... Picasso's Lovers is an epic, sensuous delight' Kate Quinn, New York Times...
Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild
Dressing up. Partying all night. This is the world of 1970s fashion, and this book is your backstage pass.Featuring over 25 exclusive interviews with the movers and shakers of the...
Now or Never: A Dunkirk Story (Voices #1)
A gripping adventure in an exciting new series reflecting the authentic, unsung stories of our past! "The superb Voices series takes unsung heroes of the past and imagines them recounting...
Red Menace
**An Irish Times best book of 2024 so far**"A very early candidate for the crime novel of the year" IRISH TIMESLive Aid, July 1985. The great and the good of...
Tell Me How It Ends: Sixties glamour meets film noir in a gripping
'A spellbinding read ... the glamour of early Sixties showbiz' LOUISE CANDLISH'Mesmerising and powerful ... an extraordinary sense of time and place' ELLY GRIFFITHS'A stylish and page-turning mystery' RACHEL HORE'Gripping...
Clare Woods: Strange Meetings
British artist Clare Woods is internationally regarded as one of the most significant painters working today. Her paintings and works on paper are found in important public and private collections...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict
'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has an excellent eye for revealing detail' William Dalrymple'James has a...
P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern
With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a...
The Pianist
The powerful memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds.'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival...
Six Motives for Murder
'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' DAILY MAIL A charming historical mystery set in 1960s Yorkshire, starring prisoner governor and amateur sleuth...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents
From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But,...
Memphis: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE'A rhapsodic hymn to Black women' New York Times Book Review'Epic yet intimate' Cosmopolitan'Ferocious and compassionate' Irish TimesFAMILY...
Mr B.: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century
Balanchine's radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly evocative ballets made him a lasting legend. Today, nearly thirty years after his death, the man is...
Through the Leopard's Gaze
In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to...
Secrets in the Dark: THE glamorous blockbuster and the escapist treat
The ultimate glamorous, escapist blockbuster - perfect for fans of Melanie Blake, Jackie Collins and Shirley Conran's Lace. 'Just the kind of glamorous escapism we all desperately need...
Vulcan Boys: From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales of the
The Vulcan, the second of the three V bombers built to guard the UK during the Cold War has become an aviation icon like the Spitfire, its delta shape is...
Queen Elizabeth II
Rod Green explores the personal and political intrigues that have dogged the House of Windsor, including the Queen's fascinating relationships with prime ministers from Winston Churchill and Antony Eden to...
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries,...
Decoy
The shocking true story of one of Britain's most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operations Bristol, 1979.An attacker roams the streets...Young women are warned not to go out alone...Enter...
Mary Poppins in the Park
Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures!The original and classic stories available now in all-new luxurious livery. Whether it's a lion loose in the park...
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World...
Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived
FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURTPortion of proceeds go to NHS Charities Together.A beautiful and heart-warming collection of stories, this landmark publication tells, for the...
Mary Poppins in the Park
Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures!The original and classic stories available now in all-new luxurious livery. Whether it's a lion loose in the park...
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in
In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention...
Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s
In Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s, Rox Samer explores how 1970s feminists took up the figure of the lesbian in broad attempts to reimagine gender and sexuality....
The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956
In The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956, Noel Burch and Genevieve Sellier adopt a sociocultural approach to films made in France before, during, and after World War...
Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil
In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently...
Inshallah United: A story of faith and football
Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awards 2023 'There was always hope. There was always next season. Inshallah.'Inshallah United is about growing up as a strictly...
A Very Private School
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times, Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year'Shocking and moving' Guardian'Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose' The Times At eight...
The War Diaries: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through
Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The War Diaries illuminates a part of history we haven't...
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
'A roadmap for a new generation' VOGUE'Radical, funny and fearless' VANITY FAIR'Gripping' NYLONAn electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre...
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
As seen on The TODAY Show!Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood's most prolific but woefully underappreciated stars-and the first Black person...