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Author: Anita Ganeri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Throughout history, adventurers have always wondered what is beyond the next mountain, ocean, river... or even planet. Explorers head out to...

Author: Harriet Shawcross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated...

Author: Charles Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...

Author: Graham Robb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Graham Robb's new book will change the way you see European civilization. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became...

Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...

Author: Eric Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Just read it.' Elon Musk The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon...

Author: John Gribbin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from...

Author: Thomas Crump Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to...

Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD 'This is a book...

Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...

Author: Nina Bunjevac Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland renders the searing history of the Balkans in the...

Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 In the Spring of 1940, as Britain reeled from defeats on all fronts and America seemed frozen in isolation, one fear...

Author: Casey Gerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the...

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Author: Mary Hollingsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Borgias have become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. An inspiration for many...

Author: David Coulthard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From his quiet beginnings in rural Scotland to his multi-millionaire lifestyle in Monte Carlo, where he owns one of...

Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed...

Author: Russell Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Masterly biography of the 'greatest commander of the 20th century'. Field Marshal Slim is less well known than other...

Author: James Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A Tudor voyage of exploration - an extraordinary story of daring, discovery, tragedy and pioneering achievement. In the spring...

Author: Mary S. Lovell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 THE RIVIERA SET is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at...

Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four...

Author: Vera Brittain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 With a new introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge. In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was...

Author: James Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Marvellously engaging' The Times 'Brisk, informative and eye-opening' Daily Telegraph In the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England...

Author: Andrew Marr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Sunday Times bestseller Now a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan Morris....

Author: Slash Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 It seems excessive...but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling...

Author: Christine Lagorio-Chafkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'A gripping read' Adam Grant, bestselling author of Originals Reddit hails itself as 'the front page of the Internet'....

Author: Andy Warhol & Pat HackettFormat:Paperback Number of Pages: A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat...

Author: Evgeny Kissin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Evgeny Igorevitch Kissin is a Russian-British-Israeli classical pianist. He first came to international fame as a child prodigy. He has been...

Author: Professor of English Jeremy Treglown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An open-minded and clear-eyed reexamination of the cultural artifacts of Franco's Spain True, false, or both?...

Author: Michael Ashcroft Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Special Ops Heroes tells the extraordinary stories behind Lord Ashcroft's collection of SAS and other Special Forces medals - the largest...

Author: Will Pearson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Inspiration for the major motion picture 6 DAYS, starring Jamie Bell as Rusty Firmin GO! GO! GO! tells the...

Author: Malcolm Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'The sky was lit by burning villages and houses . . . Rivers and seas of flame leaping up...

Author: Jacob F. Field Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A grisly and gruesome guide to history's most shocking and macabre moments... Horrible, spine-chilling and deeply fascinating, this...

Author: Thelma Fenster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In medieval Europe, the word fama denoted both talk (what was commonly said about a person or event) and...

Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 What's the easiest way to tell species apart? Check their genitals. Researching private parts was long considered taboo, but scientists are...

Author: Barrett Tillman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and...

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Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt...

Author: R. Keith Schoppa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 Combining evocative historical description and cogent analysis, Song Full of Tears is a chronicle of nine hundred years...

Author: Kenneth Catania Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In Great Adaptations, Kenneth Catania presents an entertaining and engaging look at some of nature's most remarkable creatures. Telling...

Author: David Badre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why...

Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C.: The...

Author: Laurence Louer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Mohammed died in 632...

Author: Adam Makos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls...

Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Trees are an important part of the life of many cities. Whether in avenues or parks they provide shade, a green...

Author: Simon Barnes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'So, so good! ... More gems than a pirate's chest ... science, art, history, culture - it's epic and mammoth, a...

Author: Nicholas Foulkes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This is a tale of money, gambling and sporting obsession; of rogues and rascals, outrageous criminality, aristocratic complacency and...

Author: John Merriman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of...