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His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill
'A gem. Brief, authoritative and fair in its judgements - an intensely readable introduction to this most complex and fascinating man' - Graham Farmelo, award-winning author of The Strangest Man...
SOL: At Home in Mallorca
In this gorgeous interiors hardback, SOL: At Home In Mallorca , author Nic Holden takes you inside fifteen beautiful properties in her adopted home of the Balearic Islands in Spain....
SOL: At Home in Mallorca
In this gorgeous interiors hardback, SOL: At Home In Mallorca , author Nic Holden takes you inside fifteen beautiful properties in her adopted home of the Balearic Islands in Spain....
A Seat at My Table: Philoxenia: Vegetarian and Vegan Greek Kitchen Recipes
Join Kon Karapanagiotidis at his table in A Seat at My Table: Philoxenia , a beautiful and inspiring Greek vegetarian and vegan cookbook. Featuring more than 100 recipes passed down...
Chateau Reawakening: One Couple's Wild And Wonderful Journey To Restore A Crumbling French Masterpiece
Chateau Reawakening is the story of the highs and lows of one couple's journey to save an eighteenth century French chateau. When former Australian politician Tim Holding and his fiancee...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane...
Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation
A "pioneering and fundamental" (Timothy Snyder) new history of Ukraine from one of its leading public intellectuals When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the "creative, freewheeling, darkly...
African Europeans: An Untold History
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, "masterfully" ( Smithsonian ) revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History...
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation
The secret history of one of the largest--and least-known--rescue operations of World War II Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable--and...
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the...
Black and British: A Forgotten History
A Waterstones History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Orwell Prize Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark...
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived...
A Brief History of 1917: Russia's Year of Revolution
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Napoleon
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Brexit Britannia: A concise history of Britain as it leaves the EU
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Robin Hood
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Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory
A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-shifting understanding of our own identities, for readers of Gender Queer and I Was Their American Dream...
The French Affair
'An exceptional tale, expertly crafted with endearing characters and an enthralling plot that will captivate readers.' NetGalley reviewer, A country at war. A dangerous secret. After a failed honey-trap mission...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS A TABLET BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney
'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES ' If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de...
Yes To Life In Spite of Everything
A newly discovered classic- a collection of inspirational lectures on embracing life from worldwide bestseller Viktor Frankl. 'Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as...
Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary
A thousand mile, three billion year journey that tells the story of how the land beneath our feet shapes our past, present and future from the author of The January...
The Shortest History of Italy: A Captivating Journey from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic
'Italian history has always been about resilience and rebirth ... It is a country that for so many centuries has offered up visions of the wonders to which we humans,...
Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir
An exceptional memoir by the world-famous, pioneering filmmaker who directed the multi-award-winning Grizzly Man Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema- building an opera house in the middle...
Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain
A new history of modern Britain that makes sense of its contradictions today Imperial Island shows how empire, its disintegration and its ever-present aftermath have profoundly shaped the British people,...
Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
An essential short introduction to the Middle Ages - and the companion volume to Ian Mortimer's bestselling The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England. We tend to think about the...
1945: Victory in the West
The first book on the final 100 days of the Second World War in a generation 'Magisterial . . . a fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be...
The Broken House: Growing up Under Hitler - The Lost Masterpiece
The major rediscovery of a forgotten masterpiece in the mould of Alone in Berlin and Stoner - the literary memoir of a youth in Nazi Germany. 'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few...
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna
An entertaining and informative journey across Italy in the footsteps of the great Italian political hero, Garibaldi. 'Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its...
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
A powerful blend of reportage, nature, travel and science writing, deeply researched and beautifully written, underpinned by a startling and urgent message for our time. A ground-breaking and beautifully written...
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
From Sunday Times bestseller Caroline Moorehead comes a thrilling and immersive look at the life of Mussolini's favourite daughter and a heart-stopping account of the rise and fall of fascist...
The Great Defiance: How the world took on the British Empire
A fascinating new history of the early days of the British Empire, told through the stories of the forgotten international powerhouses who aided, abetted and resisted the march of the...
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
A thrilling and highly-acclaimed joint biography of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, uncovering how their complex 30-year relationship shaped their dynasties, perfect for fans of Alison Weir and Tracy...
The Pathfinders: The Elite RAF Force that Turned the Tide of WWII
The untold story of the elite force that spearheaded almost every British bombing raid over Nazi Germany by the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Kamikaze Hunters. Perfect for fans...
A Flat Place
Beautiful and haunting, a personal journey through Britain's flatlands and a reckoning with the painful memories and hidden histories they contain Noreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes - their...
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world; perfect for fans of Ian Mortimer, who calls this book 'rich and wonderful' From the medieval bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious...
The Garden of the Gods
A new standalone edition of the third book in the trilogy that inspired ITV''sThe Durrells In the concluding volume of the Corfu trilogy, telling of the Durrell family's five-year sojourn...
Birds, Beasts and Relatives
A new standalone edition of the second book in the trilogy that inspired ITV''sThe Durrells In this second collection of tales concerning the Durrell family on the island of Corfu,...
How to be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life
The real Wolf Hall, full of fascinating detail - 'Seldom have I had so much fun reading history' (The Times) The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in...
Passchendaele: A New History
The most compelling, critically acclaimed, account ever written of the climax of trench warfare on the Western Front 'A timely re-appraisal . . . a masterpiece' General Lord Richard Dannatt...
The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are
A magnetic book on the North Sea brimming with rollicking adventures, vivid characters and witty observations Between the fall of Rome and the dawn of the Enlightenment, northern Europe went...
How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People
A warm yet incisive exploration of the French intellectual tradition, and its exceptional place in a nation's identity and lifestyle WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'ID ES The...
Night at the Crossroads
Inspector Maigret investigates a case of deception in an isolated community Maigret has been interrogating Carl Andersen for seventeen hours without a confession. He's either innocent or a very good...
The Story of a Life
An astonishing memoir of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child, and an exquisite meditation on memory and trauma Aharon Appelfeld was the beloved only child of middle-class Jewish...
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
One of the greatest and most controversial feats of twentieth-century journalism Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as...
Capitalism and Slavery
The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racism 'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our most basic way of viewing...
The Hatter's Ghosts
A masterful tale of murder and intrigue in a small French town, from the celebrated author of the Maigret series Nobody mentioned the victims, or the terror that had gripped...
The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels
A sharply poignant history of British seafaring, from the Bronze Age to the present day If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric...