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The War Magician: The man who conjured victory in the desert
Author: David Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second...
Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style...
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex
Author: Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The extraordinary, never-before-told story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Frank's closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret...
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
Author: Barry Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script...
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Author: Mike Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of...
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
Author: Simon Schama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly...
The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy.
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know...
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Author: Giles Milton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it!' Anthony Horowitz Six gentlemen, one goal - the destruction of Hitler's war machine. In...
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
Author: Rosemary Sullivan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret...
A Brief History of Paris
Author: Cecil Jenkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Paris: city of love, food and fashion. Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas. Paris: a...
The Bronze Age in Europe: Gods, Heroes and Treasures
Author: Jean-Pierre Mohen
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 160
The heroes of the Iliad and Odyssey fought with shields and swords of bronze.
Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood
Author: Alistair Moffat Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A charming, lively and often amusing tour of 36 forgotten episodes and overlooked people and places of Scottish history. While Scotland's...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
Vendetta: High Art And Low Cunning At The Birth Of The Renaissance
Author: Hugh BichenoFormat: Paperback, 134mm x 216mm, 300g, 320 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2009Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, was the archetypal 'Renaissance man': a brilliant soldier, scholar...
In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon
Author: Helen Rappaport Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times 'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of...
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens
Author: David Mitchell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators....
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
Author: Ariana Neumann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'It's not always a grim story. Alongside anger and despair there is love and hope. But the message is stark. This...
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex
Author: Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The extraordinary, never-before-told story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Frank's closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret...
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms: Winner Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year. The thrilling story of an empire's rise & fall from the best-selling author of GOLDEN MAZE & GHOST EMPIRE.
Author: Richard Fidler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established...
In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon
Author: Helen Rappaport Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times 'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of...
Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire: Terrors and Torments, Diseases and Deaths
Author: Terry Deary Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE is the first in a new adult series by Terry Deary, the author of the...
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
Author: Simon Schama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly...
A Lethal Legacy: A History of Ireland in 18 Murders
Author: Fin Dwyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Instant Top 5 Irish Times Bestseller From the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish...
The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest's Sacrifice and A New Generation of Hope in Japan
Author: Naoko Abe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives...
The Tudor Kings and Queens: The Dynasty that Forged a Nation
Author: Alex Woolf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Tudor Kings and Queens is the ideal, handy guide to what is a perennially popular era in British history. Beginning with...
Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style...
African Europeans: An Untold History
Author: Olivette Otele Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A History Today Book of the Year, 2020 Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold...
The Strangers' House: Writing Northern Ireland
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Author: Alexander Poots Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends...
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...
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Simon Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and...
The Alhambra
Author: Robert Irwin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The Alhambra, the 'red fort' on its rocky hill above Granada, with its fountained courts and gardens, and intricate decoration, has...
A Brief History of Britain 1485-1660: The Tudor and Stuart Dynasties
Author: Professor Ronald Hutton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Praise for the author:: 'For anyone researching the subject, this is the book you've been waiting for.' Washington Post From...
How to Think Like Churchill
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Remembered for his leadership during the Second World War, Churchill's commitment to 'never surrender', along with his stirring speeches and radio...
The Eccentric Mr Churchill: Little-Known Facts About the Greatest Briton
Author: Jacob F. Field Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 As well as providing a new insight into the epochal historical events that Churchill was a part of, it documents...
Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
Author: Jacob Mikanowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to mind a jumble...
The Great British Speeches
Author: Simon Heffer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 50 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fascinating dip-in history title...
This Dark Business: The Secret War Against Napoleon
Author: Tim Clayton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Between two attempts in 1800 and 1804 to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a campaign of black propaganda of...
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown
Author: Katie Nicholl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire...
This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe
Author: Robert Tombs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 One of Brexit's leading intellectual advocates examines the referendum vote in the context of history Geography comes before history. Islands cannot...
Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong
Author: Claire Ratinon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A beautiful work of nature-writing, memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world, from food...
Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades
Author: Caitlin Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been...
Treasures of British History: The Nation's Story Told Through Its 50 Most Important Documents
Author: Dan Snow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Told by two of our most celebrated historians, this is a spirited journey of discovery of our nation's history seen through...
Venice: Panorama Pops
Author: Sarah McMenemyFormat: Hardback, 110mm x 110mm, 115g, 30 pagesPublished: Walker Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013Remember Venice for ever with this exquisite cut-paper guide.This beautifully illustrated pocket guide unfolds to...
The Rough Guide to First-Time Europe (Travel Guide)
Author: Rough GuidesFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 199mm, 344 pagesPublished: APA Publications, United Kingdom, 2016You can get to Europe, even travel around it, without help. But without a little pre-trip planning,...
You Can't Say That: Memoirs
Author: Ken LivingstoneFormat: Paperback, 126mm x 196mm, 563g, 720 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2012A frank, gripping, moving - and controversial - autobiography from one of the most idiosyncratic...
The Fire
Author: Daniela KrienFormat: Hardback, 142mm x 220mm, 311g, 192 pagesPublished: Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom, 2023In her perceptive and affecting new novel, Daniela Krien explores a marriage where everything hangs in...
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...