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'The year has, indeed, begun in gloom. The King ill, and Kipling dead . . .' so wrote the diarist Chips Channon in 1936 as George V lay on his...

The First World War deprived Britain of three-quarters of a million soldiers, with as many more incapacitated. In 1919 a generation of women who unquestioningly believed marriage to be their...

A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James. In the long hot...

Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, published in a beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first time 'Living in Corfu was rather like living in one...

Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time 'Another tiger-golden day lay ahead of us. It was as though England...

An endlessly ingenious battle across Japan between dogged detective Akechi Kogoro and the many-faced thief Gold Mask A frenzied test of wits between ace detective Akechi Kogoro and the seemingly...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Today, George Orwell is perhaps most...

The much-loved masterpiece from one of the key figures of twentieth-century Italian literature In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's dictatorship of Ant nio...

Waugh's great novel of the lost golden age before the Second World War, new to the Penguin English Library The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited...

The now-classic account of Orwell's experiences in the Spanish Civil War, in a stunning new cover look for his great works 'Every line of serious work that I have written...

This semi-autobiographical classic, written by the beloved Judith Kerr, tells the story of a Jewish family escaping Germany in the days before the Second World War Suppose your country began...

From acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler is a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures In this brilliant short biography of Adolf Hitler,...

' An atmospheric and gripping standalone thriller' - THE TIMES The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times and one million copy bestselling author of The English Fuhrer. In...

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library , a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph...

'A well-written and fascinating narrative about love and loss, courage and betrayal, the past and secrets, art and reproductions' Reader review, 'This is certainly a wow of a read ....

'A well-written and fascinating narrative about love and loss, courage and betrayal, the past and secrets, art and reproductions' Reader review, 'This is certainly a wow of a read ....

September, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca.Then a shocking act of...

The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A TIME OF GIFTS, which covered the author's exacting journey from the...

'Real escapism...for me the book was an absolute win' A gorgeous Greek island A stranger in a veil And a fatal fall from the cliffs... Miss Atalanta Ashford is sightseeing...

Between 1914 and 1922, millions of Europeans left their homes as a result of war, postwar settlements, and revolution. After 1918, the immense movement of people across Germany's eastern border...

In the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, nearly two million citizens in Turkey and Greece were expelled from homelands. The Lausanne treaty resulted in the deportation...

The book titled Britain Between the Wars, 1918-40 by the author C. L. Mowat. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Agile Rabbit Edition - This book contains stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM...

New York Deco profiles the architecture of the city during its most stylish and dazzling decades: the 1920s and 30s. During this period, art deco, with its emphasis on machine-tooled...

The book titled The Illustrated History of the Third Reich by the author John Bradley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A biographical study of Hitler's inner circle offers a new way to understand the horrors of the Nazi regime Why did so many Germans take part in the crimes of...

The book titled Searching for the Emperor by the author Roberto Pazzi. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Soon to be a major film from the creators of Downton Abbey - the unputdownable story of two young women in 1920s New York On a summer's day in 1922...

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library , a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph...

A lover in peril. A nation under threat. The clock is ticking . . . Winter is drawing thick in 1932 Shanghai, as is the threat of a Japanese invasion....

Assassin. Immortal. Spy. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An ill-matched pair of spies pose as a couple to investigate a series of murders in 1930s Shanghai, from the author of...

Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart...

'Exuberantly entertaining' NYT Book Review 'M ark Braude's writing and subject make this book irresistible, as was Kiki herself.' Jim Jarmusch 'A delightful, marvelously readable, meticulously-researched romp of a book,...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TARAN KHAN, author of Shadow City TRANSLATED FROM BENGALI BY NAZES AFROZ An intrepid traveller and true cosmopolitan, legendary Bengali writer Syed Mujtaba Ali spent...

THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book...

Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission,...

'An intoxicating blend of romance, mystery, and magic' 1919 May Day Kit Arton-Price should be celebrating. It's his engagement party and, unlike many young men of his generation, he survived...

1927. Transatlantic flight fever grips the globe.The Honourable Miss Elsie Mackay, glamorous ex-film star turned bold aviator, sets her sights on becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic....

This book contains a collection of stories of captivity and escape from World Wars I and II, all involving Australian soldiers. The stories tell of capture, imprisonment and escape -...

The first publication to bring together three major twentieth- century photographers - Wolfgang Suschitzky, Dorothy Bohm and Neil Libbert - presenting their artistic responses to three great world cities across...

The first book to recount the extraordinary story of Fleet Street's Murder Gang. The Murder Gang recounts the remarkable true story of the elite group of renegade Fleet Street crime...

'To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was particularly difficult.' For H. W. 'Bill' Tilman, the solution...

The book titled Expatriate Paris by the author Arlen J. Hansen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The celebrated Venetian architect Carlos Scarpa viewed glass as raw material for experimentation and research, and was challenged by this vastly suggestive age-old art. Now back in print, this beautifully-designed...

Discover the utterly addictive southern gothic horror saga by that is sweeping Europe, over two million copies sold so far. 'Riveting, terrifying, and just absolutely great' Stephen King The electrifying...

Discover the utterly addictive southern gothic horror saga by that is sweeping Europe, over two million copies sold so far. 'Riveting, terrifying, and just absolutely great' Stephen King The fifth...

Discover the utterly addictive southern gothic horror saga by that is sweeping Europe, over two million copies sold so far. 'Riveting, terrifying, and just absolutely great' Stephen King Discover the...