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Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
Lifesize
Author: Sophy Henn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Let's go on a LIFESIZE adventure! Step into the book and see how you measure up against some of...
Dance Your Troubles Away
Author: Pamela Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pam Evans' heartwarming London saga, DANCE YOUR TROUBLES AWAY, is set during the Second World War and is sure...
Schadenfreude, A Love Story
Author: Rebecca Schuman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 You know that feeling when you catch the elevator but don't hold it for the person behind you? Seeing Lindsay Lohan...
The Wicked Wit of Princess Margaret
Author: Karen Dolby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 172 Celebrate the rapier-like wit of the royal rebel, the late, great Princess Margaret - or 'Ducky' as she was known behind...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week
Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...
Consider the Platypus: Evolution through Biology's Most Baffling Beasts
Author: Maggie Ryan Sandford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 CONSIDER THE PLATYPUS explores the history and features of more than 50 animals to provide insight into our current understanding...
The Six Loves of Billy Binns
Author: Richard Lumsden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 THE SIX LOVES OF BILLY BINNS is a deeply moving debut set in London against the backdrop of the...
With God In Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest'sTwenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps
Author: Walter J. Ciszek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Republished for a new century and featuring an afterword by Father James Martin, SJ, the classic memoir of...
Far From Home: Refugees and migrants fleeing war, persecution and poverty
Author: Cath Senker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 What if you had to leave your home and you could never go back? What do you think that...
30-Second Ancient Rome
Author: Matthew Nicholls Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 30-Second Ancient Rome presents a unique insight into one of the most brilliantly governed societies, where military might and expansive...
Colder The Illustrated Story of Britains Greatest Polar Explorer
Author: Ranulph Fiennes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Sir Ranulph Fiennes is arguably the UK's greatest polar explorer and adventurer, whose never-say-die approach to life has enabled him to...
Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations)
Author: Simon Schama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe, having led the British troops up the St Lawrence to victory in...
Nicholas II
Author: Michael Paterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The character of the last Tsar, Nicholas II (1868-1918) is crucial to understanding the overthrow of tsarist Russia, the...
America's Bank: The Epic Struggle To Create The Federal Reserve
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Author: Roger Lowenstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A tour de force of historical reportage, America's Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth...
Operation Thunderbolt Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport
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Author: Saul David Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military...
The Strategy of Victory How General George Washington Won the American Revolution
Author: Thomas Fleming Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Led by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost their war for independence because their military thinking was badly muddled. The...
Waiting for the Albino Dunnock: How birds can change your life
Author: Rosamond Richardson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'A beautiful book' Tim Birkhead, author of Bird Sense 'The prose is sublime, and so is the intelligence behind...
Darwin Comes to Town
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Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, and a large portion of the planet's...
Blaise Pascal Miracles and Reason
Author: Mary Ann Caws Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 This book, which includes a preface by Tom Conley, covers many aspects of Blaise Pascal's life and work that are...
The Fat Boy with the Bomb and 299 of the Worlds Craziest Politicians
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Author: Brian O'Connell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A completely original illustrated international dossier of lunatic statesmen and insane leaders! This first attempt to catalogue the world...
Snowing in Bali
Author: Kathryn BonellaFormat: Paperback / softbackNumber of Pages: 'It's snowing in Bali.' Among Bali's drug dealers, this is the secret code for a huge cocaine shipment having just landed. For the...
Bruce
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Author: Peter Ames CarlinFormat: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 496 Peter Ames Carlin’s New York Times bestselling biography of one America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the...
The Spartacus War
Author: Barry Strauss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who started a prison breakout with 74 men armed only with kitchen knives. It...
The Fishing Fleet Husband-Hunting in the Raj
Author: Anne De Courcy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest...
Damn Few Making the Modern Seal Warrior
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Author: Rorke Denver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, "American Grit" feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL's Call to...
The Pig A Natural History
Author: Richard Lutwyche Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 At any given time there are around one billion pigs in the world; that's one for every seven of us. And...
The Borgias
Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful,...
Missions to the Moon The Story of Mans Greatest Adventure Brought to Life with Augmented Reality
Author: Rod Pyle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Full of personal insights and accounts of the long journey to getting a man on the moon, Missions to the Moon...
Till the Cows Come Home The Story of Our Eternal Dependence
Author: Philip Walling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 To tell the story of the relationship between humankind and cattle is to tell the story of civilisation itself. Since the...
Burden A Preacher
Author: Courtney Hargrave Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community...
The Cold Wars Killing Fields
Author: Paul Thomas Chamberlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the...
Rome A History in Seven Sackings
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Author: Matthew Kneale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 "Kneale's account is a masterpiece of pacing and suspense. Characters from the city's history spring to life in his hands." --The...
Borderland A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Centre of the first great Slav civilisation in the tenth century, then divided between warring neighbours for a millennium,...
Vietnam Diary
Author: Mark Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Leigh and Jason are inseparable. But when Jason is conscripted and sent to fight in Vietnam, they are divided...
SAS Italian Job The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Praise for Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author Damien Lewis' SAS mission series: 'One of the great untold stories of...
Fascinating Footnotes From History
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Paperback Unearthed from the vast collection of the National Archives by Giles Milton’s ‘metaphorical metal detecting’, here are 100 nuggets of almost – but not quite – forgotten history and...
How Compassion Made Us Human An Archaeology of Stone Age Sentiment
Author: Penny Spikins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Our capacity to care about the wellbeing of others, whether they are close family or strangers, can appear to be unimportant...
The Groundings with My Brothers
Author: Walter Rodney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 "I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers...
Commandant Of Auschwitz Commandant Of Auschwitz
Author: Rudolf Hoess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis...
The Common Wind Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
Author: Julius Scott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Out of the grey expanse of official...
The Age Of Revolution: 1789-1848
Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution...
Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany
Author: Jonathan Petropoulos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose...
Idiot Wind A Memoir
Author: Peter Kaldheim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who...
1916 The Easter Rising
Author: Tim Pat Coogan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Easter Rising began at 12 noon, 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days,...
The Book of Humans The Story of How We Became Us
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but is there really anything special about us that sets...