Author: Dame Edna Everage Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Dame Edna Everage, Australia's most famous - and funniest - export, tells the history of her homeland in 100 objects....
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it,...
Author: David Byrne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 For over thirty years, besides making music, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as the archaeology...
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
By delving into an overlooked history, this book shows how neuroscience and brain scans alone cannot account for a robust mental life, or a deeply disturbed one.
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Author: Allan H. Ropper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A noted neurologist challenges the widespread misunderstanding of brain disease and mental illness. How the Brain Lost Its Mind tells...
Author: Chris Beetles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Louis Wain invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world'. Broadcast in 1925 by H.G. Wells, these words...
Author: Jerry Brotton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The fascinating story of Queen Elizabeth's secret outreach to the Muslim world, which set England on the path to...
Author: Esther Safran Foer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a...
Lost pilots, secrets of the universe, the history of Blockchain, how to give a TED talk, death rays and more.
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Some years are better than others. 1816 was the year without a summer! Learn about this, and many more Very Interesting topics in our latest box full of great conversation starters....
Author: Kerry Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 This #1 bestselling picture book will help even the very young understand the significance of ANZAC Day My granddad...
Author: Gordon Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 "A terrifying and timely account of resistance in the face of the greatest of evils."--Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author...
Author: Stephen Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES 'This book is a triumph' DAN SNOW 9.07...
Author: William Geroux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II- the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic...
Author: Hans Keilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 [1944 Diary] is a deeply personal account, made even more remarkable that it was written during World War II...
Author: John Gribbin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from...
Author: Kati Marton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the...
Our Hard Hitting History & Biography Box is back with a collection of fascinating reads that covers topics from the ancient world to today. The Atomic bomb, Houdini, the Spanish Civil...
Author: Frank Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected spy - this is the fascinating story...
Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 "Spring features Knausgaard unbound, writing for the first time without a gimmick or the crutch of extravagant experimentation...Fall in love...
Author: Anthony Doerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE...
