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The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England
Author: Dan Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country...
Open: An Autobiography
Author: Andre Agassi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to...
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery
Author: Alex Renton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'An incredible work of scholarship' - Sathnam Sanghera Through the story of his own family's...
The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family
Author: Olivia Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In 1889, Victorian impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte opened The Savoy, Britain's first luxury hotel. Allowing the rich to live...
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Author: Julian Sancton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A new classic of extreme endurance - Into Thin Air meets The Perfect Storm in 19th century Antarctica **A Times Best...
The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin
Author: Andrei Soldatov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with...
The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
Author: Anna Keay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR...
Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British
Author: Anthony Adolph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to...
Homage to Catalonia
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic...
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Author: Barack Obama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing...
The Cutting Edge: The Story of the Beatles' Hairdresser Who Defined an Era
Author: Leslie Cavendish Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set...
James Cook: The story of the man who mapped the world
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Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed,...
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
Author: Jonny Steinberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER A TIMES BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2023 From one of South Africa's...
Vessel: A Memoir
Author: Chongda Cai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 "Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary life in China, and highly recommended for memoir enthusiasts in general." -- Library Journal...
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...