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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...
Currently Between Husbands
Author: Cathrine Mahoney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Trust me, there is life and love (and plenty of laughter) after divorce, even when your ex is one of Australia's...
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...
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Author: Richard Flanagan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the...
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...
Magicians of the Gods: Evidence for an Ancient Apocalypse
Author: Graham Hancock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past...
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 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...
Schindler's Ark: The Booker Prize winning novel filmed as 'Schindler's List'
Author: Thomas Keneally Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was...
The God Delusion
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic,...
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you...
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain
Author: Matthew Green Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This...
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...
A Biker's Life: Misadventures on (and off) Two Wheels
Author: Henry Cole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 I can't think of anywhere I'd less like to be than in a car. When you're driving a car, you're not...
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...
Rudolf Nureyev: The Life
Author: Julie Kavanagh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The incredible story of the 20th century's superstar ballet dancer, soon to be a major film by Ralph Fiennes...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Author: Isabel Wilkerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of...
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Author: Giles Milton
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The Celts: A Sceptical History
Author: Simon Jenkins (Columnist) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 'Simon Jenkins, as ever, writes with clarity and insight' Times 'One of the...
Abyss: World on the Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile...
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea: The Natural World and Material Culture of Twelfth-Century China
Author: Fan Chengda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 415 Fan Chengda (1126-1193) was a high-ranking Chinese government official in Guangxi, an experienced traveler, a keen observer, and a gifted writer....
Captain John Smith, Adventurer: Piracy, Pocahontas and Jamestown
Author: R E Pritchard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Captain John Smith is best remembered for his association with Pocahontas, but this was only a small part of an...
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror...
Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain
Author: Danny Goldberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground...
The Diary of a Young Girl
Author: Anne Frank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 220 une, 1942- I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide...
A Brief History of the Normans: The Conquests that Changed the Face of Europe
Author: Francois Neveux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The history of the Normans began a long time before 1066. Originating from the 'Norsemen' they were one of the most...
Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors
Author: Robby Krieger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'An attempt to retell an oft-told tale, this time informed by a desire to suck the hot air out of the...
Under the Camelthorn Tree: The Impact of Trauma on One Family
Author: Kate Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Kate Nicholls left England to raise her five children in Botswana: an experience that would change each of their lives. Living...
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
Author: Craig Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Terror Blackout Hurricane Recession Pandemic A symphony of contemporary New York told through the magnificent words of its people - from...
Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit
Author: Philip Stephens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new...
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...
The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington
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Author: Martha Saxton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father The Widow Washington is the first life of...
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Author: Tim Harford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change...
The Messenger
Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...
Histories of Nations How Their Identities Were Forged
Author: Peter Furtado Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 How do writers and citizens in the different countries of the world view their own past? What key events...
Inglorious Empire: What The British Did To India
Author: Shashi TharoorBinding: PaperbackPublisher: PENGUIN BOOKS, 2017Inglorious Empire: What The British Did To India presents a searing indictment of British colonial rule, meticulously detailing the economic exploitation, cultural destruction, and...
The Ode Less Travelled
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 358 Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. In The Ode Less Travelled, he...
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world
Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 An immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora 'A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history' Sunday Times 'Impressive, provocative and...
To Obama: With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair
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Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world
Author: Brett Mason Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 ** Shortlisted, 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award ** Two Australian scientists played a vital yet largely unknown role in...
The Secret Life of John le Carre
Author: Adam Sisman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive...
Looking for Trouble: 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.' (Antony Beevor)
Author: Virginia Cowles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Paris as it fell to the Nazis London on the first day of the Blitz Berlin the day Germany invaded Poland...
Accidental Gods: On Race, Empire and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
Author: Anna Della Subin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 488 Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods, deified politicians and imperialists,...