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Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain's Lost Love of the Orient
Author: Fatima Manji Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Channel 4 News reporter and broadcaster Fatima Manji explores British history and identity through the art, objects and architecture that found...
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom
Author: Preeti Dhillon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality, and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before....
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
Author: Katherine Pangonis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon...
First VCS
Author: John Grehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 287 Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the...
The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia
Author: P.E. Caquet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain spoke...
Go Spy the Land: Being the Adventures of Ik8 of the British Secret Service
Author: George Alexander Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The latest in Biteback's best-selling Dialogue Espionage Classics series of rediscovered spy masterpieces, Go Spy the Land is George Alexander...
The Borgias
Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through...
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 FULLY UPDATED 'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture' INDEPENDENT Flat, fertile, and...
The Perfect Summer
Author: Juliet Nicolson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 One summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king...
The Sky Wept Fire: My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter
Author: Mikail Eldin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 On the eve of the first Chechen war, Mikail Eldin was a young and naive arts journalist. By the end of...
Revolution: The History of England Volume IV
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with...
A Brief History of Paris
Author: Cecil Jenkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Paris: city of love, food and fashion. Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas. Paris: a...
Luxury and Austerity
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The Last Time I Saw Paris
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For Love and Courage
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The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State: Cruelty, Co-operation and Compromise, 1917-91
Author: Martyn Whittock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 '[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
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The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the...
Venice: Lion City
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A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: James Hamilton (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us...
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the Zelensky book...
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
Author: Keiron Pim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon
Author: Simon Fenwick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator -...
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World
A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel has always been many things to many people. Today it's the busiest shipping...
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague
Author: Timothy Garton Ash (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by...