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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Author: Christopher Clark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland
Author: Christopher R. Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most...
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
Author: Dr John Barton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation- how it came to be written, how its contents were...
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist anatomizes the personal and ideological dimensions of the current appeal of authoritarian regimes...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and...
Facebook: The Inside Story
Author: Steven Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 From renowned tech writer Steven Levy, the complete history of one of America's most controversial and successful companies Today,...
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level
Author: Leander Kahney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An intimate look at the man who led Apple to be the world's first two-trillion-dollar company In 2011, Tim...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
Author: Valerie Hansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled...
The Monk of Mokha
Author: Dave Eggers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From San Francisco to Yemen, the gripping true story of a young American immigrant and his quest to resurrect...
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
Author: Jonathan Dimbleby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The tale of the campaign that determined the outcome of the Second World War - 'truly gripping' (Andrew Roberts)...
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person...
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One
Author: Miranda Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on...
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Author: John M Barry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called...
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge...
Sister Outsider
Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each...
Buckley's Chance
Author: Garry Linnell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The greatest Australian story never told - until now. He fought Napoleon's army and survived. He was sent to...
Raising Demons
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the...
Mao's Last Dancer
Author: Li Cunxin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Before you can fly, you have to be free. A new edition of the phenomenal international bestseller. From bitter...
The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi
Author: Robin de Crespigny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspiring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq...
The Trouble With Being Born
Author: E. M. Cioran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Darkly comic aphorisms on time, mortality and human relationships from one of the twentieth century's great philosophers 'Not...
The Fry Chronicles
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 National Treasure- noun - someone or something regarded as emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage, such as Stephen Fry...
The Light in Hidden Places: Based on the true story of war heroine Stefania Podgorska
Author: Sharon Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A novel based on the incredible true story of Stefania Podg rska, a Polish teenager who hid 13 Jews...
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction
Author: Terry Pratchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Terry Pratchett in his own words - a collection of writing by the creator of Discworld, about his life,...
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 The first part of an astonishing and revelatory new history of the Second World War from one of the...
The Shortest History of China
Author: Linda Jaivin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 China's past is key to the modern world. This nimble history of rogues, revolutions and rebellions can be read...
A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
Author: Robyn Annear Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This is a book about the making - and remaking - of a city. The demolition firm of Whelan...
Life on Air
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "The memoirs of the world's leading Natural History programme maker, updated and revised for 2009" "Sir David Attenborough is...
A Shorter History of Australia
Author: Geoffrey Blainey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians A broad, concise...
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire
Author: Priya Satia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An award-winning intellectual reconsiders the role of historians in political debate and the legacy of the British Empire For generations, British...
Home in the World: A Memoir
Author: Amartya Sen, FBA Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals Where is 'home'? For...
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
Author: Sarah Stewart Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A talented young planetary scientist traces our centuries-old obsession with a seemingly desolate planet Right now, spacecraft are circling Mars,...
Pessoa: An Experimental Life
Author: Richard Zenith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1088 A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers 'A completely superb and magisterial life of...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
Author: Christopher Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils...
The Golden Flea
Author: Michael Rips Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 For decades the legendary Chelsea flea market sprawled over several blocks on the west side of Manhattan. Visitors would...
The Art of War
Author: Sun-tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The ultimate guide to winning Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see...
The Story of Australia's People Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia
Author: Geoffrey Blainey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Compelling, groundbreaking and brilliantly readable, The Story of Australia's People- The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia is the...
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by the winner of the Nobel prize in literature On 26 April...
The Story of Australia's People Vol. II: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia
Author: Geoffrey Blainey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The much-anticipated second instalment of Geoffrey Blainey's history of Australia's people - his most ambitious work to date -...
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Perfectly timed for the anniversary, this is the new single-battle epic from bestselling author, James Holland - the only...
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Author: James Boswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of...
The Blind Watchmaker
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an...
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Extraordinary stories about Soviet children's experiences in the Second World War, from Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it...
The Histories
Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 One of the great books in Western history and the very first work of non-fiction, in Tom Holland's compelling new...
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
Author: Pankaj Mishra Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a...
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765
Author: Richard M. Eaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A magisterial history of the Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast...
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
Author: Niall Ferguson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 This astoundingly successful, superbly reviewed book vividly recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire. Ferguson's most...
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - Costa Book of the Year 2019
Author: Jack Fairweather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The first account of one of the greatest heroes of WWII, and a gripping story of defiance, rebellion, sabotage...
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Author: Adam Higginbotham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival...