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The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller
Author: Sam Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Fascinating.' - Hilary Mantel 'Terrific.' - New Scientist 'Gripping.' - Financial Times What if you had a vision that something terrible...
Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control
Author: Daniel Pick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A frankly brilliant book' - The Guardian 'An extraordinarily engrossing and wide-ranging analysis of a word and a concept. I fell...
Tragic Shores: A Memoir of Dark Travel
Author: Thomas Cook Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'I have come to thank dark places for the light they bring to life.' Thomas Cook has always been drawn to...
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...
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom
Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy...
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...
Cold-Water Eden
Author: Richie Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An immersive memoir about a groundbreaking surfing career, and a stunning portrait of Ireland as one of the world's most captivating...
Slash: The Autobiography
Author: Slash Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 It seems excessive...but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from pouty...
Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife
Author: Gustav Mahler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Alma Mahler-Werfel was one of the most fascinating and ambivalent of twentieth-century women. Her book Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters (1940)...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A moving portrait of Diwan and the Cairo that embraced it, an ode to all the people who have kept it...
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...
Victoria: A Life
Author: A. N. Wilson (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 656 When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and...
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...
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...
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography,...
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 "Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New Yorker Now in paperback with a new epilogue...
Gentleman Jack: The Jack Crawford Story
Author: Richard Naughton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Jack Crawford was one of Australia's great sporting heroes of the 1930s,along with Donald Bradman, Hubert Opperman and Haydn Bunton- sportsmen...
Voices From the Past: A year of great quotations - and the stories from history that inspired them
Author: W.B. Marsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 In a treasure trove for history buffs, W. B. Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day...
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the some of greatest wars the world has ever...
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...
A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ?
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in...
Aphrodite & the Others
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The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution
Author: Peter Bradley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Haunting.' Jonathan Freedland 'Powerful.' Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust,...
Breathe: A Life in Flow
Author: Rickson Gracie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA master Rickson Gracie comes a riveting, insightful memoir that weaves together the story of Gracie's...
The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
Author: Meghan Daum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 "[A]ffectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary." -Vogue "Personal, convincing, unflinching." -Tablet From an author who's been called "one...
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
Author: Kate Andersen Brower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen...
Rewired: An Unlikely Doctor, a Brave Amputee, and the Medical Miracle That Made History
Author: Dr. Ajay K. Seth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An inspirational story of hope and miracles as a small-town orthopedic surgeon forever changes one woman's life after performing...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England
Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to...
Churchill and Empire: Portrait of an Imperialist
Author: Lawrence James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical...
Chaise Longue
Author: Baxter Dury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Wild, exhilarating and very funny' Sunday Times 'A must-read for pop culture fans' The Times 'Unflinching' Observer ---------------- Chaos and debauchery...
Budapest: Between East and West
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin,...
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...
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 Other Exile: The Story of Fernao Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost
Author: Abdul Rahman Azzam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The first known inhabitant of St Helena - long before Napoleon - was a 16th-century Portuguese renegade. In 1506 Fernao...
How the World Works
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Noam Chomsky is one of the world‰Ûs most respected linguists, yet his radical political ideas, while attracting legions of followers across...
Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One
Author: Vishvapani Blomfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The words and example of Gautama (often known by the title, 'Buddha') have affected billions of people. But what do we...
A Brief History of the Vikings
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.' Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their...
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...
Little and Often: A Memoir
Author: Trent Preszler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A USA TODAY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ( ) "Little and Often is a beautiful memoir of grief, love, the...
Then There Was Her
Author: Sophie Cachia Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Social media and business entrepreneur Sophie Cachia reveals never-before-shared details of her marriage breakdown, and how delving into her feminine intuition...
The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War
Author: Don Doyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 408 "Doyle's important book reveals why the war was more than a domestic quarrel it was also a geopolitical event that shook...
A Leap of Faith: Memoir of an Unexpected Life
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Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter
Author: Emma Soames Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'A daily love letter from a brave young woman to her adored father . . . immensely evocative of wartime Britain,...
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary
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Author: Henry Hitchings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year In 1746, Samuel Johnson undertook the Herculean task of writing the first...
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...
Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them
Author: Judy Parkinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 From the bestselling author of 'I before E', this light-hearted book examines some of the more unusual phrases that litter the...