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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...
Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker
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Author: A N Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life. With the publication of On the...
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...
Destination Buchenwald: The astonishing survival story of Australian and New Zealand airmen in a Nazi death camp
Author: Colin Burgess Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The harrowing story of the Allied airmen who experienced the true horrors of Nazism firsthand. It was the summer of 1944...
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...
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...
Seasick Steve: Tales of a Travellin' Man
Author: Matthew Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 It remains one of the most remarkable breakthroughs in music history. Apparently a sixty-five-year-old former hobo, Steve played his trademark three-string...
Unbought and Unbossed
Author: Shirley Chisholm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 "A tremendously impressive book."-Washington Post "Her motto and title of her autobiography-Unbought and Unbossed-illustrates her outspoken advocacy for women and minorities...
God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments
Author: Hannah Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A New York Times bestseller. "My life was a complete mess, and God bless all of it. Because it's in the...
Last of the Giants: The True Story of Guns N' Roses
Author: Mick Wall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Last Of the Giants is the mad, funny, dark and often painful story of a lost band from a now-distant time'...
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,...
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...
Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967-75
Author: Richard Thompson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Thompson could be said to be an English Dylan - only in some ways he's even better than that.' - Guardian...
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
Author: Peter Pomerantsev Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A Times and Guardian Book of the Year 'Quietly frightening.' - Guardian 'Essential reading.' - Irish Times 'Consistently chilling.' - Herald...
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
Author: Roger Crowley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in...
Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits
Author: Barney Hoskyns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, Lowside of the Road is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on...
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...
The English Civil Wars: 1640-1660
Author: Blair Worden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the...
From Manchester with Love: The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson
Author: Paul Morley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 'Reading From Manchester With Love I feel I understand the times we've lived through differently, better, and from new angles. The...
Debs at War: 1939-1945
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the...
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Author: Russell Shorto Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin...
Portillo's Hidden History of Britain
Author: Michael Portillo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Discover the hidden history of Britain through the stories of its 'lost' or abandoned places and buildings. Portillo's Secret History of...
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...
Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture
Author: Justine Picardie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Miss Dior explores the relationship between the visionary designer Christian Dior and his beloved younger sister Catherine, who inspired his most...
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption
Author: Ben Mezrich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES and BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, comes BITCOIN BILLIONAIRES...
Andy Warhol
Author: Wayne Koestenbaum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Properly analytical ... always entertaining' TIME OUT 'Should tempt both those generally familiar with Andy Warhol and, even more, young people...
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,...
Notes on a Nervous Planet
Author: Matt Haig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it? Looking at sleep, news,...
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything you ever wanted to know about the Romans but were afraid to ask
Author: Peter Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us - from our calendar and...
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...
The Life of P.T. Barnum (Collins Classics)
Author: P. T. Barnum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th Century......
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...
Being human : why robots are not the answer to business success
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War...
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now,...
You Made Me This Way: A powerful personal investigation into trauma, hope and healing from the author of the memoir Fourteen
Author: Shannon Molloy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A harrowing and heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful book about one of our society's deepest shames, from Shannon Molloy, the author of...
Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable
Author: Zain E. Asher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain Asher pays tribute to her mother's strength and determination to raise four...
The Sanest Guy in the Room: A Life in Lyrics
Author: Don Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER '. . . a compelling memoir. Breezy and unpretentious, The Sanest Guy in the Room is a...
Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
Author: Annette Gordon-Reed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 As a young college student in Atlanta, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. had a summer job driving a white banker around town....
For a House Made of Stone: Gina's Story
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Guidebook Zen Art Motorcycle
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Irongran: How keeping fit taught me that growing older needn't mean slowing down
Author: Edwina Brocklesby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'If I can start to run at 50 and become the oldest British woman to complete an Ironman, everyone should realise...
Wings on My Sleeve: The World's Greatest Test Pilot tells his story
Author: Captain Eric Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany in 1939, and the first he knew of...
Nicola Sturgeon: A Political Life
Author: David Torrance Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Born in Irvine in 1970 Nicola Sturgeon joined the SNP aged only 16 and devoted her teenage years to Glasgow University's...
Law: Studies By Soviet Scholars: The Status Of Foreigners In The Ussr
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - pamphlet/soft cover, slightly worn edges with minor yellowing to covers. Page Condition: Likely yellowed given age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding:...
When Being Italian Was Difficult
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Middleton Vc
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A (paperback). Page Condition: Good. Markings: sticker FEP. Binding: Appears intact. This compelling biography chronicles the extraordinary life of Pilot Officer Rawdon Hume Middleton VC,...