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Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain
Author: Tanya HarrodFormat: Hardback, 185mm x 245mm, 1340g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990)...
Katherine Preston: Inn of the Few
Author: Katherine PrestonFormat: Hardback, 250mm x 190mm, 720g, 154 pagesPublished: Hurtwood Press, United Kingdom, 2023Inn of the Few is a tale of the White Hart inn, which became a home...
This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists
Author: Michael BirdFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 980g, 352 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022A compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the...
Breaking the Maafa Chain
Breaking the Maafa Chain chronicles two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century, when transporting slaves from Africa to America was an illegal but lucrative business.Nineteenth century-Two sisters,...
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown
Author: Alexander LarmanFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 320g, 432 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2024'This riotous and engaging biography has it all'GUARDIAN'As much fun to read as a good...
Free For All: Why The NHS Is Worth Saving
Britain's health service is dying. Gavin Francis shows us why we should fight for it. Since its birth in 1948, the powers that be have chipped away at the NHS....
Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday Times Book of the Week
Author: Max DecharneFormat: Hardback, 160mm x 236mm, 554g, 336 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024With their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy BlackFormat: Paperback, 124mm x 196mm, 200g, 256 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts...
Common or Garden: Encounters with Britain's 50 Most Successful Wild Plants
It's often imagined that rarity is special. We seek out uncommon plants or birds to tick them off our lists, but most of us overlook the extraordinary splendour of the...
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 ....
All In: How we build a country that works
'A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.' Observer Book of the DayBritain needs a fresh start. This timely book by one of the stars of the new government shows how...
Fractured: How We Learn to Live Together
'An urgent manifesto for collective healing.' David Lammy MP This landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the...