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Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History

Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History

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Author: Ian Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Geography is Destiny tells the history of Britain and its changing relationships with Europe and the wider world, from its physical...
Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

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Author: Benjamin Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." -Kirkus...
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

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Author: Cody Keenan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan's new book...
King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne

King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne

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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...
Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle

Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle

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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...
The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

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Author: Dwight Chapin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate...
This Book Could Save Your Life: Breaking the silence around the mental health emergency

This Book Could Save Your Life: Breaking the silence around the mental health emergency

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Author: Ben West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'What's sort of funny when something horrific happens is that nothing happens to the rest of the world. The cars still...
Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI

Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI

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Author: The RNLI Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending...
One Jump at a Time: My Story

One Jump at a Time: My Story

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Author: Nathan Chen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In this exhilarating memoir, three-time World Champion and Olympic gold-medalist Nathan Chen tells the story of his remarkable journey to success,...
His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer

His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer

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Author: Fred Kaplan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the...
The Lion And The Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

The Lion And The Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

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Author: Alexander Rose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain...
The Family Outing: A Memoir

The Family Outing: A Memoir

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Author: Jessi Hempel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Fascinating, funny, and wise, The Family Outing is an affirmation to all of us who know the pain and shame of...
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery

White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery

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Author: Thomas Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an...
The Ballast Seed: A story of motherhood, of growing up and growing plants

The Ballast Seed: A story of motherhood, of growing up and growing plants

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Author: Rosie Kinchen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'I loved The Ballast Seed. I couldn't put it down. Beautiful and sad and hopeful all at once - luminous and...
Beryl - WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete, Beryl Burton

Beryl - WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete, Beryl Burton

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Author: Jeremy Wilson (Football Writer) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Cyclist Beryl Burton - also known as BB - dominated her sport much as her male contemporary Eddy Merckx,...
Comedy, Comedy, Comedy, Drama: The Sunday Times bestseller

Comedy, Comedy, Comedy, Drama: The Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: Bob Odenkirk Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 *THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* 'A real gem of a book for comedy fans... honest, irreverent and...
Outside, the Sky is Blue: The story of a family told with searing honesty, humour and love

Outside, the Sky is Blue: The story of a family told with searing honesty, humour and love

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Author: Christina Patterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 OUTSIDE, THE SKY IS BLUE is a beautifully drawn, heart-breaking yet also joyful memoir of growing up, of living with mental...
The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty

The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty

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Author: Neal Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 "Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating."-Jon Meacham Based on genealogical breakthroughs...
The Sunday Times A Life in the Day: Words of wisdom and domestic details from the rich and famous

The Sunday Times A Life in the Day: Words of wisdom and domestic details from the rich and famous

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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,...
My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

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Author: Ash Barty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where...
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

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Author: Miranda Seymour Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best...
The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, to the East Indies: with abstracts of journals of voyages to the East Indies during the seventeenth century, preserved in the India Office : and the voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to seek the North-West Passage

The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, to the East Indies

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description...
Boleyn Boy: My Autobiography

Boleyn Boy: My Autobiography

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Author: Mark Noble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton...
Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century

Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century

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Author: Stephen Galloway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. A New York Times...
Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

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Author: Tina Gaudoin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 TELEGRAPH 50 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 'A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman' - Lynn Barber, Telegraph ***** 'Gaudoin's book is...
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

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Author: John Henry Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters

The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters

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Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly...
The Cure for Sleep

The Cure for Sleep

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Author: Tanya Shadrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun Just days...
Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People

Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People

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Author: Dan Cruickshank Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Soho - illicit, glamorous, sordid, louche, poverty-stricken, squalid, exhilarating. One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank, grants us an intimacy with...
Oxford University on Mont Blanc: The Life of the Chalet des Anglais

Oxford University on Mont Blanc: The Life of the Chalet des Anglais

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Author: Stephen Golding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The 'Chalet des Anglais' on Mont Blanc, home to the longest-running university reading party, is a unique survivor from Victorian and...
If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future

If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future

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Author: Jill Lepore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Radio 4's Book of the Week A Financial Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey...
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France

Francis I: The Maker of Modern France

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Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Francis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Yet he was also arguably the most significant king that France ever...
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

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Author: John Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young...
Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

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Author: Greg Jenner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Jenner uses all the questions you never dared to ask about history as an excellent excuse to rummage around in some...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

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Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults...
Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man

Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man

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Author: Fiona Gell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'This is my earliest memory. I am three years old and I sit in the bottom of my great-uncle's pot boat...
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

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Author: Jami Attenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 As the bookish daughter of a travelling salesman, Jami Attenberg was drawn to the road. Her wanderlust led her to drive...
My Life in Food: A Memoir

My Life in Food: A Memoir

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Author: Albert Roux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age

Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age

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Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said...
1942: Britain at the Brink

1942: Britain at the Brink

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Author: Taylor Downing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

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Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Nadia's story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found...
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

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Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

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Author: Tom Scharpling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Tom Scharpling is good at being funny, which is a miracle, considering what he's survived. Like hitting a deer and narrowly...
The Passengers: Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023

The Passengers: Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023

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Author: Will Ashon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience . . . funny, moving, surprising and thought-provoking. It humanises literature in this toxic...
Small Bodies of Water

Small Bodies of Water

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Author: Nina Mingya Powles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Where is the place your body is anchored?...
When You Lose It: Two voices. One true story. A mother and daughter on the edge. 'A very important subject' - ITV's This Morning

When You Lose It: Two voices. One true story. A mother and daughter on the edge. 'A very important subject' - ITV's This Morning

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Author: Roxy Longworth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Read this book. Then talk to your sons. It is essential reading' Jamie Theakston 'An extraordinary and important book. Read it...
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

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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...
Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization

Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization

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Author: Andrew Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From antiquity until the present day, on every continent, human beings have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of periodic...