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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
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Author: Alistair HorneBinding: HardbackPublished: Viking Press, 1977Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive account of the Algerian War of Independence against French colonial rule. Alistair...
The First Elizabeth
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Author: Carolly EricksonBinding: SoftbackPublished: St. Martin's Griffin, September 1997Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe First Elizabeth is a captivating biography that explores the life of Queen Elizabeth...
Thomas Becket
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Author: Richard WinstonBinding: HardbackPublished: Constable, 1967Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the life of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who became a martyr and saint after...
Leonardo
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Author: Bruno SantiBinding: SoftbackPublished: Constable, 1975Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book offers a detailed exploration of the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci, covering...
Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape
'Poetic and profound, Time and Tide is wise, considered and full of surprises' Observer'Poignant and touching' Mail on Sunday'Miraculous' ScotsmanA village waits at the bottom of a reservoir. A monkey...
Cashing Out: The Flight of Nazi Treasure, 1945-1948
By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around...
The Wisdom of Birds: Essential Life Lessons for Positivity and Grace
This beautifully illustrated book shares the infinite wisdom of birds, providing inspiration from these small but mighty creatures on how to live bravely and care for the things we love.Taking...
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that
'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL'Tender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Profound, elegiac and fascinating... I zipped through it' PHILIPPE SANDS'Compelling' DAILY MAIL,...
New Europe
'For most of my lifetime, half of my own continent had been chilled by a Cold War and concealed behind an Iron Curtain. Now there was the prospect of being...
Rome: Eternal City
A portrait of the city at the heart of Western civilization, brought to life in twenty-two scenes from its 2,500-year history. The sweeping story of the city of Rome, told...
Perfect Pasta at Home: Bring Italy to your kitchen with over 80 quick
Over 80 delicious and authentic pasta recipes that can be made in just 30 minutes - simple, fresh and truly Italian! We've all got a pack of pasta in the...
Hitler's British Isles
True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has vividly summoned a troubling episode from our national past.'...
The Boundless River: Stories from the Realm of the Rhine
"A joy to read" Times Literary Supplement"[A] stirring and accessible history of the mighty Rhine" Irish Times "It's easy to be swept away by Deen's delightful prose" New Statesman"A beautiful...
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...
Storms and Dreams
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URQUHART CASTLE AND THE GREAT GLEN
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The Lover: A twisty scandi thriller about a woman caught in her own
"An absolutely prime slice of Scandicrime . . . the writer channels her professional expertise into a noteworthy domestic thriller" Barry Forshaw, FT"Having hit a bull's-eye with . . ....
History of the Peloponnesian War
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Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939
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Night Hunters: A Black Forest Investigation IV
"Night Hunters, like the previous three Black Forest cases, is hard-hitting and tightly written" MARK SANDERSON, The Times Crime Club"Oliver Bottini is a terrific storyteller" Sunday Express"Taut writing and pacy...
Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November): The History of Britain in
'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks'...
Out Of Her Depth: A Thrilling Richard & Judy Book Club Pick
Patricia Highsmith meets E. Lockhart in Out Of Her Depth - a simmering summer thriller about the choices you make as a teenager, and what happens when they go horribly...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
WINNER OF THE 2024 SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDIts name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures....
Fighting Fit: The Wartime Battle for Britain's Health
At the beginning of the Second World War, medical experts predicted epidemics of physical and mental illness on the home front. Rationing would decimate the nation's health, they warned; drugs,...
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'...
Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country's First Century
"A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDENBy a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing"The...
Dead of Night: The edge-of-your seat Berlin wartime thriller from the
YOU CAN PRE-ORDER A DEATH IN BERLIN, THE NEW BERLIN WARTIME THRILLER FROM SIMON SCARROW, NOW - COMING MARCH 2025 'A compelling, atmospheric page-turner' STEVE CAVANAGH ...
Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century
What if walls could talk? For historian Madeleine Pelling, they can - if you know where to look.A brilliant new cultural history of the long eighteenth century, Writing on the...
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...
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook
"A remarkable and important story" BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour"Unputdownable . . . Urbach has also retold the tragic Holocaust story in quite unforgettable lines" A.N. Wilson"In a remarkable new...
The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in
How rhetoric-the art of persuasion-can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimonyThe discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand...
Takeover
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and...
New Europe
Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its...
French Riviera, Nice, Cannes & Monaco Marco Polo Pocket Guide
Marco Polo French Riviera: the Travel Guide with Insider Tips Experience all of the Cote d'Azur's attractions with this up-to-date, authoritative guide, complete with 'Best Of' recommendations. You'll find the...
I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors
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UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation
'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy Snyder #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday...
Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer
The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack.Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid...
Stalin's War: Through the Eyes of His Own Commanders
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A History of Europe
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Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century
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The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy.
'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind....
Moon Grand European Journeys: 40 Unforgettable Trips by Road, Rail,
Moon Grand European Journeys: Unforgettable Trips by Road, Rail, Sea & More features:* Strategic lists and itineraries for every type of journey: Choose from the best cities, road trips, rail...
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...
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...
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...
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,...