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The Old Gays' Guide to the Good Life
Author: Mick Peterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'I've fallen in love with this fabulous foursome ... They are a phenomenon!' Drew Barrymore From @theoldgays, the internet's most beloved...
An Uncommon Hangman: The life and deaths of Robert 'Nosey Bob' Howard
Author: Rachel Franks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 **Winner, The Danger Awards 2023, People's Choice Awards** **Shortlisted, The Danger Awards 2023, Non-fiction** Executioners were once a critical component of...
The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages
Author: Katherine Harvey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much or too little sex,...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
Lives of Houses
Author: Kate Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate...
Food on the Move: Dining on the Legendary Railway Journeys of the World
Author: Sharon Hudgins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 All aboard for a delicious ride on nine legendary railway journeys! Meals associated with train travel have been an important aspect...
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture
Author: Professor Jason Koenig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquity. The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor...
The Little Book of Kiwiana
Author: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 For the last 1000 years, since the Maori Polynesians first arrived, New Zealand has been seen as a long way away...
Railways
Author: Christian Wolmar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951
Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher
Author: John Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 600 Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when...
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty
Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet it's too often dismissed as something which only...
Shakespeare's Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
Author: Chris Laoutaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed' Financial Times...
A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: James Hamilton (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us...
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History
Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' Helen...
This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's 'Kid A' and the Beginning of the 21st Century
Author: Steven Hyden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline....
Teatimes: A World Tour
Author: Helen Saberi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In Teatimes: A World Tour food historian Helen Saberi takes us on a journey into the fascinating history of teatimes, from...
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
Author: Richard Hurowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 "In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration,...
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative
Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Author: Tiya Miles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR...
Avian Illuminations: A Cultural History of Birds
Author: Boria Sax Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Avian Illuminations examines the many roles birds have played in human society, from food, messengers, deities and pets, to omens, muses,...
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History
Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and...
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
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Author: Tom Segev Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 816 2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist "[A] fascinating biography . . . a masterly portrait of a titanic yet unfulfilled man...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
A Home for All Seasons
Author: Gavin Plumley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Gavin Plumley considered himself a distinctly urban being...until he met his rural husband, Alastair. Together, they bought Stepps House - a...
We All Go into the Dark
Author: Francisco Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A captivating, eloquent and deeply original book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read for true-crime fans across...
100 Books that Changed the World
Author: Scott Christianson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A chronological survey of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but how...
Model of a Summer Camp
Author: Tatiana Argounova-LowFormat: Paperback, 147mm x 210mm, 160g, 64 pagesPublished: British Museum Press, United Kingdom, 2020Model of a Summer Camp is an intriguing object with a range of stories to...
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
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Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from...
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Author: Ernest Freeberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs...
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
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The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation
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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
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Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust
Author: Eimear McBride Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'A fearless, interrogative work ... A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose' - Sinead Gleeson Here, Eimear McBride unpicks...
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
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Author: Kevin HazzardFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 208mm, 300g, 352 pagesPublished: Hachette Books, United States, 2024Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A...
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: An Unlikely Love Story
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East
Author: Kim Ghattas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Blistering' Sunday Times 'Indispensable' Observer 'Fascinating' The Times 'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan 'Revelatory' Lindsey Hilsum A timely and unprecedented examination of how...
Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins
Author: Gareth Harney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The extraordinary story of Rome told through one of the world's once most ubiquitous objects- coins. The extraordinary story of ancient...
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to
Author: Bernard Wasserstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in...
The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020
Author: Iain Dale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 **Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian** A Times Political Book of the Year...
As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
Author: Guido Alfani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didn't help) their...
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle
Author: Anna Shechtman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off...
Nothing New: A History of Second-hand
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