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The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Author: Hana Videen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A dream! I learnt something new and fascinating on every page' - Lucy Mangan 'If you love words, the weird and...
Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country's First Century
Author: Julian Sayarer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDEN By...
UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation
Author: Yaroslav Hrytsak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy...
Wellington: A Journey Through My Family
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Henry VIII and the men who made him: The secret history behind the Tudor throne
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Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story
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The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance
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Isle of Wight in the Great War
Author: Meirion Trow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 The Isle of Wight went to war in August 1914 along with the rest of Britain. German waiters were arrested. The...
A Fortunate Life: The Autobiography of Paddy Ashdown
Author: Paddy Ashdown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Paddy Ashdown's autobiography was hailed as one of the most readable and exciting political life stories ever written of all precisely...
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World
Author: Colin ElliottFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 328 pagesPublished: Princeton University Press, United States, 2024In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex....
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
Author: Stein Ringen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises,...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Hardback 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...
The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin's Disinformation War
Author: Alan PhilpsFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 340g, 464 pagesPublished: Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom, 2024'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review)'Philps' book vindicates...
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...
Ever After: The escapist, emotional and romantic new story from the bestselling author of Miss You
Author: Kate EberlenFormat: Paperback, 154mm x 196mm, 320g, 448 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023'Warm and funny and truly uplifting' Veronica Henry 'Achingly real and wise. A truly special,...
The Great Fire of London
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Hitler's British Isles
Author: Duncan Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has...
The Book of Eve: A beguiling historical feminist tale - inspired by the undeciphered Voynich manuscript
Author: Meg Clothier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The Binding meets The Handmaid's Tale - Discovering a book of dark and ancient power, a convent librarian must defend it...
Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World
Author: Marc-William Palen (Senior Lecturer) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free...
Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History
Author: Marc Millon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 440 The world is enamoured with Italy: its culture, art, food and fashion, its beautiful landscapes and famous cities - and, of...
The English Soul: The Faith of a Nation
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years. As...
The Rise And Fall of Athens
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this...
The English and their History: Updated with two new chapters
Author: Robert Tombs Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1056 The first full-length history of England in one volume for many decades - now in paperback The English first came into...
Never Despair: Sixty Years in the Service of the Jewish People and of Human Rights
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The Last Alchemist: The Seven Extraordinary Lives of Count Cagliostro, Eighteenth-century Enchanter
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The Diary of Petr Ginz
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga
Author: Olaudah Equiano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Equiano's narrative is the most significant autobiographical account of slavery to emerge from Britain's centuries as a slave trading and slave...
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter
Author: Emma Soames Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'A daily love letter from a brave young woman to her adored father . . . immensely evocative of wartime Britain,...
The Germans and Europe: A Personal Frontline History
Author: Peter Millar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 456 "An engrossing portrait" Independent Based on a lifetime living in and reporting on Germany and Central Europe, award-winning journalist and author...
The Renaissance: All That Matters
Author: Michael Halvorson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Was the Renaissance just a period of extraordinary art and architecture? The Renaissance: All That Matters examines the major developments of...
Bad Girls: The Rebels and Renegades of Holloway Prison
Author: Caitlin Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 'Davies's absorbing study serves up just enough sensationalism - and eccentricity -...
Women at the Ready: The Remarkable Story of the Women's Voluntary Services on the Home Front
Author: Robert Malcolmson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 From the summer of 1938, British women from all walks of life joined the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS). This disparate band...
1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler's Coup
Author: Mark Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The astonishing year when German democracy faced crisis and near destruction. 1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern...