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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora ,...
The Midwife's Here!: The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain's Longest Serving Midwives
The Sunday Times bestseller 'Delivering my first baby is a memory that will stay with me forever. Just feeling the warmth of a newborn head in your hands, that new...
The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Holocaust Survival, Music and Hope
This is a story about a piano and its most prodigious player - how it, along with him, survived. When her father died, singer songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a...
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets
A history of unmarried motherhood through three generations of an Irish family, and the secrets we conceal How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in...
Njal's Saga
New edition of one of the most powerful of the Icelandic prose sagas Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages...
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went
The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before Decades ago, the historian...
The Birth Of Sydney
The Birth of Sydney tells the story of the founding of one of the world's greatest cities. Tim Flannery's brilliant anthology reveals Sydney's strange and secret life from its unruly...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
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The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed writer and potter **THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **WINNER OF THE...
Finding Your Family Tree: A Beginner's Guide to Researching Your
Finding Your Family Tree is the perfect guide for beginners of all backgrounds entering the world of genealogy, providing techniques for finding and understanding your family history.Genealogy offers you the...
The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Holocaust Survival,
One man, his piano and their miraculous survival.'Extraordinary' Baroness Julia Neuberger'Powerful and gruelling ... an almost unimaginable story of horror and survival' Mail on Sunday'Stunning. A beautiful blend of action,...
Newport Mansions: Postcards of the Gilded Age
Newport, Rhode Island, nicknamed "the Queen of Resorts," has been celebrated in beautiful postcard portrayals for over a hundred years. Today, these vintage cards illuminate the glories of the Gilded...
Courtiers: The Sunday Times bestselling inside story of the power
Who advises the royal family, what influence do they have and how have they shaped history?Throughout history, the British monarchy has relied on its courtiers - the trusted advisers in...
Great Ormond Street Hospital Nurse: The life of a trainee nurse at
"You must learn to hold in your feelings," Matron said, firmly but not unkindly. "One day it will be your duty to support the family and other staff through this...
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last
"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." -Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential...
Transition to an Industrial South: Athens, Georgia, 1830-1870
Renowned New South booster Henry Grady proposed industrialization as a basis of economic recovery for the former Confederacy. Born in 1850 in Athens, Georgia, to a family involved in the...
Promotion or the Bottom of the River: The Blue and Grey Naval Careers
South Carolinian Alexander F. Warley (1823'1895) was an exceptional naval officer who enjoyed a robust life of far-flung adventures at sea during several dramatic periods in American maritime history. Warley's...
Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro
'An utterly enjoyable voyage under Paris' - THE OLDIE'Delightful and diverting... Martin is the most unpretentious and companionable of guides; the book is great fun' - LITERARY REVIEW'An eclectic blend...
Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro
'An utterly enjoyable voyage under Paris' - THE OLDIE'Delightful and diverting... Martin is the most unpretentious and companionable of guides; the book is great fun' - LITERARY REVIEW'An eclectic blend...
The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Holocaust Survival,
One man, his piano and their miraculous survival.'Extraordinary' Baroness Julia Neuberger'Powerful and gruelling ... an almost unimaginable story of horror and survival' Mail on Sunday'Stunning. A beautiful blend of action,...
Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC
Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter about his rescue dog #SophiefromRomania comes a moving memoir in search of the...
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,...
Bournemouth Then & Now
This fascinating book explores the transformations that have seen Bournemouth develop from a small seaside town into a major South Coast resort and bustling centre of commerce. Beautiful archive images...
All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between
A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England-Wales border: Britain's deepest faultline. There is...
A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the
A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain -...
A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the
A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain -...
No Free Parking: The Curious History of London's Monopoly Streets
From the medieval cobbles, through Dickensian iron and fog, to the neon lights and bustle of the twenty-first century, the ever-changing streets of London map out the vibrant stories, triumphs...
A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene:
The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like Ben Folds Five, Superchunk, and Squirrel Nut ZippersNorth Carolina has always...
Yorkshire: There and Back
In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood and as it is today.Journeying to every historic corner,...
The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book Legends and Landmarks: Pit your wits
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING PUZZLE SERIES Come on a puzzle adventure and meet iconic figures from British history. The bestselling series returns with over 300 new...
Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place
You don't get to choose where you grow up, and for more than 80 per cent of the population, the boring, unadventurous and thoroughly unfashionable suburbs serve as their childhood...
Courtiers: The Sunday Times bestselling inside story of the power
FEATURING A BRAND NEW CHAPTER ON KING CHARLES III AND HIS CORONATION'Fascinating' The Times'Tantalising' Telegraph The gripping account of how the royal family really operates. Valentine Low, royal correspondent for...
Courtiers: The Sunday Times bestselling inside story of the [...]
FEATURING A BRAND NEW CHAPTER ON KING CHARLES III AND HIS CORONATION'Fascinating' The Times'Tantalising' Telegraph The gripping account of how the royal family really operates. Valentine Low, royal correspondent for...
Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro
'An utterly enjoyable voyage under Paris' - THE OLDIE'Delightful and diverting... Martin is the most unpretentious and companionable of guides; the book is great fun' - LITERARY REVIEW'An eclectic blend...
Finding True Connections: How to Learn and Write About a Family [...]
Our individual memories define us. Our tribal memories unite us. If these are missing, parts of us are missing too. The Emotional Inheritance division of Exisle Publishing works with a...
The Westminster Circle
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The People Who Lived and Worked in the Early Town of Westminster, 1066-1307.
Belfast Transport
`Belfast Transport' is the story of public transport in Belfast from the horse buses of the 1860s to the Metro buses which were introduced in 2005. It is a fascinating...
The Great Aussie Road Trip
A compendium of Heather Ewart's favourite road trips around this great land with tips on where to go, when to go, what to pack and what to see. The...