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Napoleon the Great
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive modern biography of Napoleon - now in paperback Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other...
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
Author: David Abulafia Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's...
Citizen: An American Lyric
Author: Claudia Rankine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st century daily life and in the media In this...
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' (Financial Times) What are time and space made of? Where does...
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Author: Michael J. Sandel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Michael Sandel's Justice- What's the Right Thing to Do? invites readers of all ages and political persuasions on...
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
Author: Steven Pinker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1056 'Brilliant, mind-altering...Everyone should read this astonishing book' David Runciman, Guardian Contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less...
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics
Author: Richard H. Thaler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The renowned behavioural economist exposes the irrational tendencies in our thinking and illuminates the way to make clear,...
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery
Author: Seb Falk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A spellbinding journey through the life of an English monk, an age of discovery and the mysteries of the...
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Author: Jonathan Haidt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York Times Why can it sometimes feel as though...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Author: Abhijit V. Banerjee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The Nobel Prize-winning economists show how, when done right, economics can help us solve the thorniest social and...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition
Author: Robert Service Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian...
English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life
Author: James Rebanks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A poetic, practical, raw and almost miraculously detailed picture of an ancient way of life struggling to survive and...
Out of the Shadows: The Psychology of Gay Men's Lives
Author: Walt Odets Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A moving, humane and empathetic psychological exploration of gay men's emotional lives- through pain, trauma, love, loss, survival and...
A Wild Child's Guide to Endangered Animals
Author: Millie Marotta Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 A bold menagerie of the world's weird, wonderful and disappearing animals, perfect for young adventurers and budding conservationists We...
Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
Author: Jonathan C. Slaght Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Times Nature Book of the Year 2020 - A breathtaking portrait of Russia's remote far eastern forest,...
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A New York Times bestseller and recommended by Bill Gates- Jared Diamond's visionary exploration of how nations cope with...
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Author: Joseph Henrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 An exhilarating account of how psychology, culture and institutions co-evolved to produce the Western mind Do you identify yourself...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Author: Steven D. Levitt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Are you a FREAKONOMIST? Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see...
The Bookseller's Tale
Author: Martin Latham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller 'The right book has a neverendingness, and...
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
Author: Jevin D. West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter's guide to bullshit in...
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 The enchanting international bestselling sensation on modern physics comes to paperback In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo...
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
Author: Judith Herrin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and...
Conquistadores
Author: Fernando Cervantes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A riveting new history of Spanish imperialism, and the men who laid its foundations The 'conquistadores', the early explorers...
Outliers: The Story of Success
Author: Malcolm Gladwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Malcolm Gladwell shows why the story of success is far more surprising, and more fascinating, than we could ever...
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti 'One of...
The Book of All Books
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 A splendid reimagining of key stories from the Bible, from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher A man named Saul...
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 Thirty-Nine Steps
Author: John Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'My guest was lying sprawled on...
The Ring of the Nibelung
Author: Richard Wagner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 A superb translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems- the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle The scale...
Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step by Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay in or Get Out of Your Relationship
Author: Mira Kirshenbaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Your relationship is either too goog to leave or too bad to stay in. But it can't be both.'...
The Small House at Allington
Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic...
Kipps
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a...
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy
Author: Tove Ditlevsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The classic Danish trilogy hailed as a masterpiece on publication in English last year - now in a single...
Somme: Into the Breach
Author: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on the greatest battle of World War One - with groundbreaking new material...
Lives of the Artists
Author: Giorgio Vasari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Penguin Classics relaunch Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art...
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force
Author: Richard Overy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its founding The dizzying pace...
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo
Author: Christine Helliwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A remarkable new book about Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organisation popularly known as...
Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties
Author: Peter Hennessy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 The third volume of Peter Hennessy's landmark postwar history of Britain Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter...
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness
Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The bestselling historian's gripping account of the Allied bombing of Dresden for the 75th anniversary In February 1945 the...
Cod
Author: Mark Kurlansky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based...
1914: The Year the World Ended
Author: Paul Ham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. Few years can justly be said to have...
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who...
Jamie's Friday Night Feast Cookbook
Author: Jamie Oliver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Cook up an epic feast for friends and family with Jamie Oliver's new cookbook, featuring the best of the...
Nightingale
Author: Fiona McIntosh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A breathtaking novel of heartbreak and heroism, love and longing by a powerhouse Australian storyteller. 'Love comes out of...
The French Promise
Author: Fiona McIntosh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Postwar Paris is alive with optimism but lavender keeper Luc Ravens and his love Lisette remain haunted by the...