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The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New
Author: Peter Watson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before and spread out to populate...
The Somme
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Frederick Douglass
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The Puzzles of Childhood: His Early Life
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Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny
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Hidden Histories: 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class
Author: Tim Rayborn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we've heard a hundred times-but often our...
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain
Author: Paul Preston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is...
Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink
Author: Veronique Hyland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2022 * An Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 * A Town & Country...
Down The Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures And Cautionary Tales Of A Former Playboy Bunny
Author: Holly Madison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A spontaneous decision at age 21 transformed small-town Oregon girl Holly Cullen into Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner's number-one girlfriend. But like...
Becoming Forrest: One man's epic run across America
Author: Rob Pope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the...
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown
Author: James McBride Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A formidable free-style book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music...
Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy
Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. 'What is the finest sight in the...
A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Daily Life
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A wonderful idea, gloriously put into practice. Greg Jenner as is witty as he is knowledgeable' - Tom Holland Every day,...
Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION AND NEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare...
Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked
Author: Lauren Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Raw, intense and absorbing.' MATT HAIG 'As tender and funny as it is painful.' TLS 'I didn't give my hands much...
A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics
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Prime: Art's Next Generation
Author: Phaidon Editors Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The most exciting rising stars in contemporary art - who's who and what's next - featuring 107 artists born since 1980,...
Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations
Author: Kathryn Mannix Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Powerful, humane and wise' JULIA SAMUEL 'Everyone should read it' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Beautiful ... This is a book for everyone. You...
Young Bucks: Killing the Business from Backyards to the Big Leagues
Author: Matt Jackson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The electric and daring independent wrestling tag team share their inspiring story of how two undersized, ambitious athletes from Southern California...
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
Author: Bret Baier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 #1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue...
Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump
Author: Peter Strzok Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ^ From "the FBI agent who started it all" (David Martin, CBS Sunday Morning), an epic,...
The Game: Player. Pundit. Fan.
Author: Micah Richards Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'The game isn't what it seems from the outside. The game isn't quite what I was expecting. The game doesn't always...
The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969-73
Author: Allan Kozinn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in...
The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home
Author: Heath Hardage Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Featured in Stylist's guide to 2019's best non-fiction books The true story of the fierce band of women who battled...
The Last Assassin
Author: Peter Stothard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A gripping history' Mary Beard 'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel 'Atmospheric and gripping, and [his]...
The Great Peace: A Memoir
Author: Mena Suvari Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The Great Peace is a harrowing, heartbreaking coming-of-age story set in Hollywood, in which young teenage model-turned-actor Mena Suvari lost herself...
Hope is a Woman's Name
Author: Amal Elsana Alh'jooj Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 456 At birth it was only Amal's father who looked at her and said "I see hope in her face. I...
Chest Pain: A man, a stent and a camper van
Author: Michael Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In late 2018, Michael Harding was in a hotel room in Blanchardstown experiencing severe pains in his chest. He eventually phoned...
Cezanne: A life
Author: Alex Danchev Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839 1906), many did not understand him or his...
Magritte: A Life
Author: Alex Danchev Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The first significant biography of the artist' - Michael Prodger, The Times'Best art books...
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker Format: Paperback 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...
Frank Whittle (Icon Science): The Invention of the Jet
Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943...
Away From Beloved Lover: A Musical Journey Through Cambodia
Author: Dee Peyok Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 In the swinging 1960s, after nearly a century of colonisation, Cambodia had gained its independence and was ready to rock. Young...
Ataturk
Author: Andrew Mango Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 This biography of Atat rk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain...
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...
A Prayer for Gallipoli: The Great War Diaries of Chaplain Kenneth Best
Author: Gavin Roynon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War - others insisted on doing so,...
A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons
Author: Geoffrey Hindley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey...
Written in History: Letters that Changed the World
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian...
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers
Author: William Palmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read' NICK COHEN, Critic 'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'...
Thinking Again
Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Necrophilia is not one of my failings, but I do like graveyards and memorial stones and such... Following the publication In...
Bob Marley: The Untold Story
Author: Chris Salewicz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 What was it about Bob Marley that made him so popular in a world dominated by rock'n'roll? How is that he...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon
Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...
A Brief History of The Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis
Author: Martyn Whittock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features...
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
Author: Matthew Kneale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Nominated for the 2017 Pen Hessell-Tiltman Daily Telegraph's Best History Books of 2017 Sunday Times' Best History Books of 2017 A...
In Strictest Confidence
Author: Craig Revel Horwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The third instalment in Craig Revel Horwood's frank and funny autobiography takes the reader through the highs and lows of...
Solid Ivory
Author: James Ivory Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Read this wonderfully entertaining book: a unique story of a unique life in the world of world cinema' Wes Anderson 'Jim...
U & I: A True Story
Author: Nicholson Baker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike,...
The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hit List
Author: Sybil Oldfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'Oldfield's thoroughly researched and fascinating historical biography explores the lives of many of the 2,600 citizens who attracted Hitler's ire, ranging...