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Wicked Lord Lyttelton
Author, Thomas Frost Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 192 A drug addict and debaucher of women, Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton, indulged in all the vices and libertinism...
Backstop Land
Author, David Passes Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 46 A witty and impassioned book on Ulster, which has been thrust into the centre of British and European politics...
Unsolved Case Files, Escape at 10,000 Feet, D.B. Cooper and the Missing Money
Author, Tom Sullivan Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 104 A thrilling new graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases, launching with a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the only...
The House of Yan, A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History
Author, Lan Yan Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 432 Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th...
Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed
Author: David Cole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Donald Trump's policies, from his travel ban to his approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline, have prompted an immediate...
The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win
Author: Mark 'Billy' Billingham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'The SAS and all it stands for is exemplified in men such as Mark...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme
Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally...
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe's cities No...
The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Start-Up Delusion
Author: Eliot Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'An amazing portrait of how grifters came to be called visionaries and high finance lost its mind.' Charles Duhigg,...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman
Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
Democracy Rules
Author: Jan-Werner Muller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 One of our most essential political thinkers offers a vital account of democracy in the twenty-first century After the acrimony of...
The Senecans
Author: Peter Stothard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A year after the death of Margaret Thatcher, a young woman arrives to ask Peter Stothard, former Editor of...
The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back...
The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff
Author: Phillips Payson O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief...
The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat
Author: Eric Haseltine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow--before more American assets...
In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
Author: Jeffrey Tayler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
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Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 This impeccably researched and "adventure-packed" (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus's son to create...
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A fascinating exploration of the character of Adolf Hitler- the most powerful and destructive man in history. Accompanies the...
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Following the hugely successful hardback, this extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology looks set to be the...
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Author: X Malcolm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Compelling, controversial, angry, startling - one of the fundamental books of the Twentieth Century Civil Rights Movement They called...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor
Author: Ben MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback...
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of...
The Confessions
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the...
Soldier Spy
Author: Tom Marcus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Soldier Spy is to the war against the enemy at home what Bravo Two Zero was to Gulf War...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
Author: John Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler,...
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life
Author: Daniel Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the...
The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State
Author: Graeme Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A timely and essential rethinking of what ISIS is and what it really wants Based on Graeme Wood's unprecedented...
Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity
Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In a time of pandemic and tyranny Our Malady is an urgent diagnosis of the vital link between health...
The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War
Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Many of the men and women who had worked at Bletchley Park moved on to GCHQ, the British government's new facility...
The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear
Author: Kate Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman...
Seneca: A Life
Author: Emily Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a...
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Author: Jordan B. Peterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 THE GLOBAL NON-FICTION PHENOMENON OF 2018 - now in paperback Jordan Peterson has become one of the world's...
Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
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Author: Derek Leebaert (Georgetown University Washington DC) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire...
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
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Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures
Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
Apocalypse How?: Technology and the Threat of Disaster
Author: Oliver Letwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 As the world becomes better connected and we grow ever more dependent on technology, the risks to our infrastructure are multiplying....
No Return: The True Story of How Martyrs Are Made
Author: Mark Townsend Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Five teenage friends leave Brighton to wage jihad in Syria. All except one are killed. This is their untold...
From Fatwa to Jihad: How the World Changed: The Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo
Author: Kenan Malik (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Almost thirty years ago, the image of burning copies of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses held aloft by...
Australia Day
Author: Stan Grant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute
Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Author: Adam Tooze Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where...
The Journals of Captain Cook
Author: Captain James Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from...
The Gulag Archipelago
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' - Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph The...
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Author: Maggie Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day *A...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
Author: Nichola Raihani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Exploring evolution, animal behaviour and human psychology, THE SOCIAL INSTINCT reveals how and why cooperation has shaped and defined...
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem
Author: Amanda Gorman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem 'The Hill We Climb,' read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a...
Mein Kampf
Author: Adolf Hitler Format: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 704 Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as...
How Should A Government Be?: The New Levers of State Power
Author: Jaideep Prabhu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For a century, the most divisive question in political thought has been about the size of the state. Should it expand...