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Dumb Money: The Major Motion Picture, based on the bestselling novel
*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that...
Rural Britain Then & Now
- Firm Sale - A celebration of the British countryside and how it has changed over the last 140 years using photography from the Francis Frith Collection - the world's...
Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 19th Century: Hannah's Story
The success of the Durham Coalfield and its important role in the Industrial Revolution is attributed to men of influence who owned the land and the pits, and men who...
The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into
The powerful true story of the first flight across the Atlantic - and of the ordinary heroes who risked their lives to race in pursuit of progress 'David Rooney is...
A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its...
The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume 7
The moving story of the life and work of novelist Virginia Woolf, revealed through her own letters to those closest to her. Virginia Woolf is considered by many to be...
Around Whitehaven in Old Photographs
The book titled Around Whitehaven in Old Photographs by the author Harry Fancy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to
In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the...
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One
'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph 'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary Review Kenneth Rose was one...
The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Times bestseller A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024 A Spectator Book of the Year What kind of...
Anima: A Wild Pastoral
Author: Kapka Kassabova Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The spellbinding new book by the prizewinning writer Kapka Kassabova tells the story of her time with the last moving pastoralists...
The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous
' Captivating, intimate, dazzling epic and revelatory' SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much...
Lady in Waiting: The charming, word-of-mouth bestseller, with over
** SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** ** SUNDAY TIMES FAVOURITE PAPERBACKS OF 2020** 'The best royal book by miles . . . funny, gossipy and riveting' JANE RIDLEY, SPECTATOR...
Kings of Shanghai
'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from colonialism to communism...
Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant...
The Times Queen Elizabeth II: Commemorating her life and reign 1926 -
From young princess to internationally revered head of state, Queen Elizabeth has always fascinated and intrigued. This fully updated second edition celebrates and remembers the glorious reign of Britain's longest-serving...
War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties
World War II stung Britain like a wasp. It was a stimulus and an endurance. The Blitz concentrated the mind wonderfully. The arts flowered - poetry and painting, cinema and...
Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant...
To The City: Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics...
On Antisemitism: A Word in History
What do we mean when we talk about antisemitism? For most of history, antisemitism has been understood as a menace from Europe's political Right, the province of blood-and-soil ethno-nativists who...
Moscow Underground
'A gripping thriller and Belkin is a character many readers will want to encounter again' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Remarkable ... If only all first novels were as enthralling as this'...
This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain
'Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time' BART VAN ES 'A terrific, clear-eyed and balanced history that cuts through today's toxic debates' DAILY TELEGRAPH...
Of The People, By The People: A New History of Democracy
A fascinating and erudite history of the world's democracies - past and present - and the people who fought to bring democracy about. 'Democracy is the worst form of government,...
Loach on Loach: Updated edition
'A master of world cinema.' Cililan Murphy Since the original publication of Loach on Loach in 1998, Ken Loach has completed fourteen full-length feature films. This substantial body of work...
Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global
Tennis's gladiatorial beauty, its stylish duelling and fashionable court-wear make it a romantic's dream. Ever since young men and women first came together to play on vicarage lawns, this most...
Vintage New York City Subway Signs: 1920s-1980s
Photographic chronicle of the history and evolution of New York subway signage, covering porcelain, wood, tin, and mosaic signs from the 1920s to the 1980s. Vintage New York City Subway...
How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic
Ireland played the central role in maintaining European culture when the dark ages settled on Europe in the fifth century: as Rome was sacked by Visigoths and its empire collapsed,...
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style. What is going on with our atmosphere? The headlines...
London's Royal Parks: Buildings and Monuments
London's Royal Parks are among its most beautiful and beloved spaces: just as much as the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace or St Pancras Station, the mere mention of Hyde...
The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of
This splendidly illustrated book is a history of medieval Castile from the 11th to 14th centuries, told from a largely cultural standpoint. Whilst the political narrative of these centuries may...
Bring on United: Ferguson's Golden Generation in their Own Words
How Manchester United conquered all, by the players who won everything ______________________________________________________________ With a foreword by Ruud van Nistelrooy An Irish Times Bestseller The Champions League, the Club World Cup,...
Unprofitable Servants: Crown Slaves in Berbice, Guyana, 1803-1831
In 1803, during the Napoleonic Wars, the British imperial government conquered the Dutch colony of Berbice and took over the management of presumed governmental slaves. These consisted of persons on...
The Queer Bible
'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' A powerful, joyous, stunningly illustrated collection of essays by queer icons about the LGBTQ+ trailblazers throughout history who...
A Ramble Through the History of Walking
'The great affair is to move: to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot,' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. This book celebrates the history of...
Shelf Life: A Journey Through the Past, Present & Future of
Embark on a captivating journey through the ages with Shelf Life, a meticulously crafted exploration of bookselling and publishing spanning two millennia. This engaging narrative, designed for book lovers of...
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
'Kuper is a shrewd observer in this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting...
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
The story of a hotel. The story of a nation. When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan's first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to...
Mapping Human History: Discovering Our Past Through Our Genes
Until just a few years ago, we knew surprisingly little about the 150,000 or so years of human existence before the advent of writing. Some of the most momentous events...
How Did it Begin
The book titled How Did it Begin by the author Brasch. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Ghetto Reveals Rome
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Benjamin walked down from the Capitoline Hill towards the Circus Flaminius in order to reach the other Jews on the banks of the Tiber river at the Tiberina Island. They,...
Symbols of Australia
How did the kangaroo transform from a bizarre curiosity to an internationally recognised symbol of Australia? How did Vegemite, a waste product of beer, come to be the most popular...
Eltham in Old Photographs
The book titled Eltham in Old Photographs by the author John Kennett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Bureaucrats' Domain
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This book offers a new perspective on the pioneer settlement experience of colonial Victoria by examining the ways in which prized lands and natural resources were protected from the designs...
Worldly Goods: New History of the Renaissance
The flowering of civilization, the rebirth of classical scholarship and the serendipitous coming together of some of the greatest artists the world has ever known: this is the traditional view...
Made In America: An Informal History of American English
An informal history of the English language in America by the inimitable Bill Bryson. 'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive' - GQ Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and...
Gardens of Court and Country: English Design 1630-1730
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Gardens of Court and Country provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often overshadowed by the English landscape garden that...