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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by...
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
Author: Kati Marton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An...
River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
Author: Cat Jarman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF 2021 'Astonishing and compelling' Bernard Cornwell 'This superb book is like...
A Life in Football: My Autobiography
Author: Ian Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Wrighty's characteristic honesty means his book is far more engrossing than most bland football memoirs' Sunday Times...
White Fragility: Why Its So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Author: Robin Diangelo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility...
Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly
Author: Billy Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you'd expect' Sunday Times...
How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
Author: Leslie Jordan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Viral sensation and Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about the...
Berlin: Imagine a City
Author: Rory MacLean Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
Letter to My Teenage Self
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Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI 'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRIS Why is Italy called Italy? How...
Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps
Author: Wendy Holden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates...
52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn't Get Taught At School
Author: James Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I absolutely loved it' James O'Brien Twitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history...
Testament Of Youth: Film Tie In
Author: Vera Brittain Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE With an introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge 'Remains one of the most powerful and widely...
If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't...
Liar's Poker: From the author of the Big Short
Author: Michael Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms...
Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI 'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRIS Why is Italy called Italy? How...
Battle: A History Of Combat And Culture
Author: John A Lynn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Battle: A History of Combat and Culture spans the globe and the centuries to explore the way ideas shape the...
Henry Viii Revealed: the Legacy of Holbein's Portraits
Author: Xanthe Brooke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Hans Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII perished in fire in 1698, yet has remained the definitive image of the English monarch,...
Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion
Author: Robert Coles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 206 Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her...
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London
Author: Andrew Nagorski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man' -SYLVIA NASAR, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND 'A...
The Age Of Revolution: 1789-1848
Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution...
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings
Author: Sylvia Plath Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Every day from nine to five I sit at my desk facing the door of the office and type up other...
Unbroken
Author: Laura Hillenbrand Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 500 The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. On a May afternoon in...
A Brief History of the British Army
Author: John Lewis-Stempel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of...
James Acaster's Classic Scrapes - The Hilarious Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: James Acaster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me cry with laughter as much...
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes...
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed....
Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir
Author: Stevie Van Zandt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'A wonderfully original take on a Rock and Roll autobiography' Paul McCartney 'An inimitable Rock 'n' Roll life told as...
Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan
Author: Toby Harnden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their bloody...
I Just Want to Be Loved
Author: Casey Watson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 After taking a few weeks off work, Casey is presented with a new foster child: 14-year-old Elise, whose Mum left her...
Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal
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Author: Julie Metz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 A breathtakingly honest memoir about the complexities of forgiveness that begins when a young widow discovers her husband's secret life after...
Great Society: A New History
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Author: Amity Shlaes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period...
1831: Year of Eclipse
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Author: University Louis P Masur (City College of the City University of NY) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years...
Gotta Get Theroux This: My life and strange times in television
Author: Louis Theroux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week
Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...
A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization
A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire. The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from...
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
Author: James Hannam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilised behaviour. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could...
Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America
Author: Mark Kurlansky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Ready for a Brand New Beat chronicles that extraordinary summer of 1964 and showcases the momentous role that a simple song...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme
Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In...
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner
Author: Andrea Wulf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill...
The Great Game
Author: Peter Hopkirk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth; Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia; fought a secret war in...
The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
Author: John Dickie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 'Convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining' - Wall Street Journal THE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2020 'This book shows that, despite rumours...
In the Dream House: Winner of The Rathbones Folio Prize 2021
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Author: Carmen Maria Machado Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Ravishingly beautiful' - Observer 'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' - Irish Times 'Provocative and rich' - Economist 'Daring, chilling,...
Allegorizings
Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...
Georgiana's Journal
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To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde
Author: Rupert Everett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose' The Times 'Everett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no one escapes...
Bloody Brilliant People: The Couples and Partnerships That History Forgot
Author: Cathy Newman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman's witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make...