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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers
Author: Maria Smilios Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...
Mr Horniman's Walrus: Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family
Author: Clare Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Family patriarch John Horniman established the tea company that bore his name in 1826, which went on to become one of...
Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West
Author: Katie Hickman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The extraordinary, dramatic story of the women of the American west 'Brave Hearted is not just history, it is an incredibly...
The Raven's Nest
Author: Sarah Thomas (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In 2008, on a week-long trip to a film festival in Iceland, Sarah Thomas was spellbound by the strange landscape...
Going for Broke: How Bond Got away with it
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Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World
Author: Danielle Friedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Author of The Cut's viral article shared thousands of times unearthing the little-known origins of barre workouts, Danielle Friedman explores the...
My Story
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The Happiest Refugee
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Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and Discovery of the New World
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Author: Brian Fagan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? What persuaded the king and queen of Spain...
Plantagenet Princes: Sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II
Author: Douglas Boyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When Count Henry of Anjou and his formidable wife Eleanor of Aquitaine became king and queen of England, they amassed an...
The One Impossible Labyrinth: From the creator of No.1 Netflix thriller INTERCEPTOR
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Author: Matthew Reilly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 THE BRAND NEW JACK WEST THRILLER AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Spectacular...Part-Jack Reacher, part-Indiana Jones' SMH THE END IS HERE Jack West...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles...
Glass: The life and art of Klaus Moje
Author: Nola Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'It is always based on what I see, what is touching me.' For more than fifty years, Klaus Moje devoted his...
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage...
Diana: The Life and Legacy of the People's Princess
Author: Brian Hoey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 189 Diana, Princess of Wales was admired throughout the world for her vitality, determination and beauty. When she first came on the...
Our History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters
Author: Travis Elborough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first...
Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s
Author: Nancy Princenthal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The 1970s was a time of deep division and newfound freedoms. Galvanized by The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique, the...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents
Author: Dominic Selwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's...
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery
Author: Alex Renton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it...
Caesar's Great Success: Sustaining the Roman Army on Campaign
Author: Alexander Merrow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Logistics have become a principle, if not a governing factor, in modern military operations. Armies need to be fed and supplied...
Julia Velva, A Roman Lady from York: Her Life and Times Revealed
Author: Patrick Ottaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The tombstone of Julia Velva, one of the best-preserved examples from Roman Britain, was found close to a Roman road just...
The Army of the Roman Republic: From the Regal Period to the Army of Julius Caesar
Author: Michael M. Sage Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 332 From the moment its last king was expelled (traditionally in 753) the Roman republic had to fight for its very...
Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China
Author: Craig Clunas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy - relatives...
King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne
Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Stunning, photographic King Charles III memorabilia gift for royal fans As the nation celebrates the coronation of...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mother had fed her. Yet...
Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
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Author: Joan Dejean Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found power in the Mississippi Valley In...
Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton
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Author: Joe Moshenska Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for...
A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America
Author: James Horn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a...
Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard
Author: Richard Greene Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
Kidnapped by the Junta: Inside Argentina's Wars with Britain and Itself
Author: Julian Manyon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 On 12 May 1982 as the Falklands conflict became a shooting war, ITN journalist Julian Manyon and his TV crew were...
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir
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Author: Justus Rosenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the...
Weary: Life of Sir Edward Dunlop
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Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age
Author: Ysenda Maxtone Graham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins 'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The...
The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On
Author: Joan Bakewell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously' The Times Old age is...
Migrants: The Story of Us All
Author: Sam Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move. 'Fascinating... Miller's perspective...
Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture
Author: Barbara Charone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand,...
Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans
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Author: Malcolm Gaskill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain...
This Will Be Funny Later: A Memoir
Author: Jenny Pentland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir of coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding your own way in...
The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way
Author: Anthony Seldon (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In August 2021, Anthony Seldon set out on a gruelling 35-day pilgrimage from the Swissborder to the English Channel, following...
Ray
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Maggie
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Just Ignore Him: A BBC Two Between the Covers book club pick
Author: Alan Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A simply astonishing achievement. The quality, depth, emotional power and terrifying honesty of Alan Davies's story-telling take the breath away' Stephen...
What Coco Chanel Can Teach You About Fashion
Author: Caroline Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Discover the life, work and legacy of Coco Chanel in bite-sized, highly visual lessons concentrating on her artistic spirit, influences and...
Giving A Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind
Author: Patricia Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place...
The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
Author: Charlie English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Timbuktu has long been seen as a paradise to Westerners who had, for centuries, led perilous and mostly failed 'discovery' expeditions...
Catherine, the Princess of Wales: The Biography: THE INSTANT SUNDAY
DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND THE HEADLINES, THE REVELATORY ROYAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR From the Sunday Times bestselling author and Royal correspondent, Robert Jobson - with his extensive connections within...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from...