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1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed
Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Eric Cline's 1177 B.C. tells the story of one of history's greatest mysteries: what caused the ancient civilisations of the...
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party
Author: Nick Dyrenfurth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Acclaimed historians Nick Dyrenfurth and Frank Bongiorno tell the story of the Australian Labor Party's rich history of more than 130...
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...
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...
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...
Culture: A new world history
Author: Martin Puchner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The surprising connections and influences between civilisations. 'Genius' - William Dalrymple Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues...
The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930
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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...
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...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
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Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
Author: David Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who,...
The Great Divide
Author: Cristina Henriquez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST 'One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE...
Macquarie
Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history. Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping...
Blitz Spirit: 'Fascinating' -Tom Hanks
Author: Becky Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Fascinating ' Elizabeth Day 'Finally, a book that is proving very therapeutic in these difficult times... Full of doubt, fear, anger...
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)
Author: Beryl Gilroy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Being denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites. Serving as a...
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...
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
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The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence
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Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories
Author: Diarmuid Hester Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 How do places make us, and how do we make them? At the turn of the century, in the shade of...
Dangerous Games: Australia at the 1936 Nazi Olympics
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The Swastika's Darkening Shadow: Voices before the Holocaust
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Homelands: The History of a Friendship
Author: Chitra Ramaswamy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 THE SALTIRE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN'S BEST MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY OF 2022 'Remarkable' - The Times 'Achingly beautiful'...
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...
Diamonds and Precious Stones
Author: Patrick Voillot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Glittering jewels and precious stones, diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sapphires have from time immemorial held a special fascination because of their...
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...
Power Players: Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency
Author: Chris Cillizza Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often...
Power Players: Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency
Author: Chris Cillizza Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often...
Biracial Britain: What It Means To Be Mixed Race
Author: Remi Adekoya Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life...
The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music
Author: Tony King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beatingheart of music's most iconic moments for...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes...
Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
Author: John Grindrod Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Barratt homes. Spectacular skyscrapers. Millennium monuments. City centre apartments. Out of town malls. These icons of our age, be they modest...
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...
Library of Dreams: Treasures from the National Library of Australia
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Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain
A striking expose of the insidious business practices that have generatedenormous profits for the companies operating within the UK's gamblingindustry.'A methodical, sensitive and occasionally harrowing polemic about the gamblingindustry ....
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...
Luxury and Austerity
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Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation
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Pride of Hotham: A Tale of North Melbourne and a Red-haired Architect
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The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation
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Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love
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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...
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
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The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony
What does following in the footsteps of our ancestors mean? Iain Sinclair takes it literally. In The Gold Machine, Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by the itinerary...
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...
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
Author: Lucy Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilisation had...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony
'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in...