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The Anointed
Author: Michael Arditti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 337 Michal, Abigail and Bathsheba: three women trapped by circumstance. They are the property of husbands, fathers and grandfathers; their own lives...
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...
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....
The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
Author: Oded Galor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A grand unifying theory of human flourishing and inequality from one of the world's pre-eminent thinkers A bold retelling of the...
1964: Eyes of the Storm
Author: Paul McCartney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Photographs and Reflections 'Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's lives back...
The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun
Author: The Countess of Carnarvon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory...
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court
Author: Gareth Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500...
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...
Great Pioneer Women Of The Outback: True Stories of Hardship and Endurance
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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...
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...
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
Author: Karl Schloegel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly...
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...
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 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...
Cheerfulness - A Literary and Cultural History
Author: Timothy Hampton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A timely story of a forgotten emotion Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination...
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...
Our Troubles with Food: Fears, Fads and Fallacies
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Truth Is Trouble: The strange case of Israel Folau, or How Free Speech Became So Complicated
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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...
The Clumsiest People in Europe: A Bad-Tempered Guide To The World
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A Woman's World, 1850-1960
Author: Dan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The third volume in the much-admired The Colour of Time series. A Woman's World, 1850-1960 explores the many roles - domestic,...
How Old Are You?: Age Consciousness in American Culture
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War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
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The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
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Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves
Author: Lucy Lethbridge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 *FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH* 'I really can't recommend this enough - especially if you are going on holiday' Tom...
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...
Inheritance: The tragedy of Mary Davies: Property & madness in eighteenth-century London
Author: Leo Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "In June 1701, a young widow, Mary Grosvenor wakes up in a hotel room in Paris and finds a man in...
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
Author: Louise Willder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 It's good to judge a book by its cover. Drawing on her 25 years writing blurbs for Penguin books, Louise Willder...
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...
Sweat: A History of Exercise
Author: Mr. Bill Hayes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'I was riveted by Sweat and its extraordinary tale of the ups and downs of exercise over millennia' Jane Fonda...
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...
The Britannias: An Island Quest
Author: Alice Albinia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The story of Britain told through its islands - a personal journey through an ancient landscape The Britannias tells the story...
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
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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 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...
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...
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist)
Author: Sarah Chaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* *A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* 'Excellent ... one...
Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain
Author: Rob Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A striking expose of the insidious business practices that have generatedenormous profits for the companies operating within the UK's gamblingindustry. 'A...
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
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All at Sea
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What'S Golf?: The First 50 Years of the Cranbourne Golf Club
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