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The Sunday Times A Life in the Day: Words of wisdom and domestic details from the rich and famous
Author: Richard Woods Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet 100 of the most remarkable people from The Sunday Times Magazine's acclaimed column, A Life in the Day. Wonderfully intimate,...
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...
Lost Animals: The story of extinct, endangered and rediscovered species
Author: John Whitfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Documenting the species that have emerged, disappeared and been reborn over the millennia since the Cambrian Explosion, Lost Animals is the...
Anna Comnena: A Study
Author: G. Buckler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Anna Comnena (1083-1148) was a princess of the Comneni dynasty, the eldest daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I, and the...
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...
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 Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Author: Mary Jo Nye (Oregon State University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 708 A narrative and interpretative history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to...
Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence
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Author: Frances Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his...
Every Human Intention: Japan in the New Century
Author: Dreux Richard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A thoughtful, illuminating exploration of modern Japanese politics and culture through the eyes of an investigative reporter A stunning blend of...
Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room
Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how...
Lost: A History of Disappearances
Author: Tim Rayborn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 The Bermuda Triangle. Amelia Earhart. The Mary Celeste. D.B. Cooper. The lost colony of Roanoke. The Lindbergh baby. With puzzling disappearances...
The South Irish Horse in the Great War
Author: Mark Perry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 211 On 12 June 1922 King George V received at Windsor Castle representatives of the six disbanded Irish regiments. While five had...
Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings
Author: Reyna Grande Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 ""Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America."" -Publishers Weekly "[These...
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON)
Author: Mr Richard King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 There is no present in Wales, / And no future; / There is only the past, / Brittle with relics...
The Book of Harry: A Celebration of Harry Styles
Author: Charlotte McLaren Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A celebration of Harry Styles - we Adore You! Harry Styles is a global superstar and fashion icon who has broken...
Sabres on the Steppes: Danger, Diplomacy and Adventure in the Great Game
Author: John Ure Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Back in the day when men were men and Britain ruled the world, the two great world powers went head to head...
Who I Am
Author: Charlotte Rampling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Oscar-nominated Charlotte Rampling most recently appeared in hit ITV drama Broadchurch, the BBC's London Spy and HBO's Dexter, and the feature...
In America
Author: Geert Mak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America,...
Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
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Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. These were the words uttered by the seventeen-year-old Lady Jane Grey as...
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty
Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet it's too often dismissed as something which only...
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives
Author: Jude Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and...
Artists' Lives
Author: Michael Peppiatt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Engaging encounters, personal anecdotes and jargon-free critical insights into some of the liveliest creative minds in modern art, by an international...
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes
Author: Barnaby Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "In 1897, Britain responded to the killing of a group of officials by razing an empire to the ground. The men...
Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle
Author: Hopwood DePree Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story-with charm and humor in abundance-about a Los Angeles producer who moves to England to...
Rilke: The Last Inward Man
Author: Lesley Chamberlain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde...
Born to Rule
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Soar: A Life Freed by Dance
Author: David McAllister Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'McAllister's triumphant story.' Benjamin Law 'A ripping memoir.' Jane Turner From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England
Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...
On a Pedestal: A Trip around Britain's Statues
Author: Roger Lytollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores...
Vintage Knitwear: Collecting and wearing designer classics
Author: Marnie Fogg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Foreword by Kaffe Fassett A visual journey through the decades, Vintage Knitwear takes a close look at the key periods, significant...
Prisoners of War: From Gallipoli to Korea
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My Father's Letters: Correspondence from the Soviet Gulag
Author: Georgia Thomson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'They will live as human beings and die as human beings; and in this alone lies man's eternal and bitter victory...
If You Were There: Missing People and the Marks They Leave Behind
Author: Francisco Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'One of the non-fiction books of the year.' Andrew O' Hagan A powerful, evocative and deeply personal journey into the world...
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize...
General Mark Clark Commander of U.S. Fifth Army and Liberator of Rome
Author: Jon B. Mikolashek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Although not nearly as well known as other U.S. Army senior commanders, General Mark Clark is one of the four...
Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica
Author: Duncan Mackay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'An engaged, informed companion for the armchair time traveller...captures the thrill and the difficulties of interpreting the past'. TLS 'Duncan has...
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis
Author: Charles Spicer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It's one of the great 'what ifs' of history. What if Britain had stood up to Hitler much earlier? Coffee with...
Wordwatching: Field Notes from an Amateur Philologist
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A Biased Memoir
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Second Half First
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The Little Book of Kings & Queens: A Jewelled Collection of Royal Wit & Wisdom
Author: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Kings and Queens are monarchs and are still present in many countries around the world, thousands of years after the first...
Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local Journalist
Author: Roger Lytollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022 You dreamed of being a journalist and the dream has come...
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon
Author: Simon Fenwick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator -...
Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers
Author: Michelle Obama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A younger reader's edition of the number-one bestselling memoir by former first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. With a...
The Minister and the Murderer: A Book of Aftermaths
Author: Stuart Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 1969, James Nelson confessed to murder, served a prison sentence, then applied to be ordained as a minster in the...
Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Author: Garry Wills Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and...
Seeing into the Future: A Short History of Prediction
Author: Martin van Creveld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 If there is anything that distinguishes us from animals, it is our ability to understand that such a thing as...
Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II
Author: Catherine Musemeche, MD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Magnificently researched, brilliantly written, Lethal Tides is immensely entertaining and reads like an action novel. Catherine Musemeche has brought to...