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The Little Guide to Christian Dior: Style to Live By
Though his life was relatively short, Christian Ernest Dior's seismic influence on the fashion world ensures his name lives on as one of the most successful and celebrated designers of...
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware
'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say...
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland
'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden'Tom Parfitt has re-invented travel writing for the 21st century' Oliver BulloughOn 1 September 2004, Chechen and Ingush militants took more than a thousand...
City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Epoque
Paris in the Belle Epoque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The period between the revolutionary 1870s and the outbreak of war in 1914...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third ReichA Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the...
Courtiers: The Sunday Times bestselling inside story of the power
FEATURING A BRAND NEW CHAPTER ON KING CHARLES III AND HIS CORONATION'Fascinating' The Times'Tantalising' Telegraph The gripping account of how the royal family really operates. Valentine Low, royal correspondent for...
SAS Nazi Hunters
'A humbling, inspiring account of some of the real founders of modern day Special Forces soldiering' Bear GryllsSAS NAZI HUNTERS is the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial
FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and author of EAST WEST STREETTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Should be read by anyone who cares about justice, humanity and human...
King's Counsellor: Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis
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The Renaissance: All That Matters
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Russian Psychology: A Critical History
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The Last Italian: Portrait of a People
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Queen Elizabeth II: A Celebration of Her Life and Reign in Pictures
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Napoleon's Plunder and the Theft of Veronese's Feast
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The Authentic Ukrainian Kitchen: Recipes from a Native Chef
'A muscular celebration of Ukraine's culinary heritage, it is most certainly a political 'statement in itself, but The Authentic Ukrainian Kitchen is also, and most emphatically, a rich repository of...
The Girl in the Eagle's Talons: The New Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
"Lisbeth Salander is back - and maybe better than ever . . . Remarkable" LEE CHILD"Highly readable - and still ferocious" Financial Times"The first to be written by a woman,...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict
'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has an excellent eye for revealing detail' William Dalrymple'James has a...
The Forever Garden
'A gorgeous story, full of heart' Jo Thomas'Bursting with sunlight and beauty' Kate FurnivallAmid the sun-soaked hills of southern Italy lies the Romano family olive grove, where Lara lives with...
The Last to Disappear: a chilling and heart-pounding thriller full of
'Dark and terrifying, utterly compelling' SARAH PEARSE********A luxury resort. Three missing women. One body.When young London professional Alex Evans is informed that his sister's body has been pulled from an...
The Orphans on the Train: Gripping historical WW2 fiction perfect for
'Exciting and tragic . . . beautifully written' 'A fantastic historical read' 'I loved it!' 'I highly recommend it to all lovers of historical fiction' Two orphaned girls are separated...
Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England: Thieves, Tricksters, Bards and
The reign of Elizabeth I - a Golden Age? Try asking her subjects...Elizabethans did all they could to survive in an age of sin and bling, of beddings and beheadings,...
The New Wife: the perfect escapist thriller from the author of The
'I loved it . . . Unputdownable' MICK HERRON'Like Daphne du Maurier he sustains the ambiguity deftly and deliciously' SUNDAY TIMES'Mysterious, suspenseful and suffused with paranoia' ALEX MICHAELIDES'Fast-paced and exhilarating,...
The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme
Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any...
Homer and His Iliad
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A "compelling and impressive" (Sunday Times) reassessment of the Iliad, uncovering how the poem was written and why it remains enduringly powerful The Iliad is the world's greatest epic poem--heroic...
Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea
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Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don't understand it? As...
The Forever Garden
'A gorgeous story, full of heart' Jo Thomas'Bursting with sunlight and beauty' Kate FurnivallAmid the sun-soaked hills of southern Italy lies the Romano family olive grove, where Lara lives with...
The Authentic Ukrainian Kitchen: Recipes from a Native Chef
'A muscular celebration of Ukraine's culinary heritage, it is most certainly a political 'statement in itself, but The Authentic Ukrainian Kitchen is also, and most emphatically, a rich repository of...
Berlitz Pocket Guide Cyprus (Travel Guide)
From the ancient clifftop site of Kourion, to Keryneia's picturesque harbour and the must-see Cyprus Archaeological Museum, Cyprus has much to tempt the visitor. Berlitz Pocket Guide Cyprus is a...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian...
Greek Sculpture
Greek Sculpture presents a chronological overview of the plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancient Greek world from the emergence of life-sized marble statuary at the end of the...
The Girl in the Eagle's Talons: The New Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
"Lisbeth Salander is back - and maybe better than ever . . . Remarkable" LEE CHILD"Highly readable - and still ferocious" Financial Times"The first to be written by a woman,...
The Violence of Empire: The Tragedy of the Congo-Ocean Railroad
The gruesome history of the Congo-Ocean Railway, a forgotten chapter in the story of colonial Africa. In September 1927, a 30-year-old man was taken from his village in the French...
Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS: The Final Testament of the
At the very beginning of the Second World War Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. Yet less than a year later some of Belgium's citizens volunteered to join the Waffen-SS and...
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era
'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history at its climax. Alwyn Turner sets...
Stormcrow: Enter the battlefields of the Irish Vikings from the Sunday
On the east coast of Ireland thirteen-year old Finn finds the sword of a slain Norseman, and with Odin's raven watching, is given the name Stormcrow. When Finn's family is...
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for
** Eastern Eye's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023 **The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before....
Baptiste: The Blade Must Fall: The official prequel to the hit
The official prequel to the hit television showFrance, 1976. Baptiste is an intelligent but somewhat naive detective, sent to work in Clermiers, a town filled with corruption. A girl goes...
The Seaside: England's Love Affair
A vivid journey around England's great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, and what they reveal about England, from the award-winning author of Love of CountryEngland's seaside is...
The Borgia Portrait
A noble family, a legendary painting, a cursed palazzo. The new Venetian mystery from master storyteller David Hewson.When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into...
La Patisserie des Reves
La Patisserie des Reves (translating literally as The Patisserie of Dreams) is the name of the world famous French pastry shops; the brainchild of pastry chef Philippe Conticini and entrepreneur...
The Sea Cemetery: Secrets and lies in a bestselling Norwegian family
"A windswept, wave-tossed, altogether irresistible novel of literary suspense - I truly didn't want it to end" A. J. FINN"In its scale, scope and ambition, The Sea Cemetery is truly...
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times
'My book of the year. It's personal, historical, political, and it speaks to where we are now. This is the book I've been waiting for - for years' Benjamin Zephaniah'A...
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta
'Deeply researched and written with verve... thoughtful as well as action packed' The Times'Gripping, moving and important' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Agent Zo is a triumph. Absolutely essential reading' Hallie RubenholdThis is...
When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy
'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la...
Holocaust Journey: Travelling In Search Of The Past
Includes a new foreword by Rob RinderWhat readers are saying about HOLOCAUST JOURNEY:'Brilliant ... A must read for everybody' 'Devastating' 'Fascinating, thought provoking and shocking' 'Everybody should read this' 'Informative...
Gino's Italian Family Adventure: All of the Recipes from the New ITV
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER TAKE A SEAT AT GINO'S FAMILY TABLE: with every recipe from his latest hit ITV series __________________ Italian families know that food is where the heart...
Pleasures And Landscapes
A glorious collection of essays from one of Britain's most beloved travel writers, Pleasures and Landscapes features eight stunningly realized essays on Sybille Bedford's enviable and unpredictable travels through Europe....
One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton
The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.'Remarkable' - GuardianSir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink...