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  Immerse yourself in the enigmatic realms of the supernatural with "Mysteries of the Unknown," a riveting 33-volume series from Time-Life Books (This box contains 27 of the volumes) that...

The Britannica Great Books span the spectrum of human thought and achievement. Each volume is not merely a book but a cornerstone of knowledge, inviting readers to engage with the ideas...

Author: Dick Strawbridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE ENTERTAINING AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but...

Author: Frieda Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Times Best Book to Watch out for in 2023 A Guardian '2023 in books: highlights for the year ahead' Book...

Author: Martin Marix Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Presents the Allied and German experience of war, both militarily and at a personal level on the ground. Illustrated throughout.

Author: Mikey Robins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey...

Author: Richard Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 784 MAKING HISTORY is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether...

Author: Michael Dorflinger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 It was in World War I that the skies first became a battlefield, with nations seeking to decide military outcomes off...

Author: John Eidinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten...

Author: Rick Stroud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd 'This compelling and complete account...

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...

Author: Valerie Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 INCLUDES INTERVIEWS WITH BERTIE AHERN, MARY KENNEDY, SEAN O'ROUKE, MARY COUGHLAN AND MANY OTHERS. What was life like for Ireland's grandparents...

Author: Mark Berry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 The story of ocean liners brought to life by objects and ephemera, revealing life on board, luxury and magnificence, and peril...

Author: Rob Young Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 Growing up in the 1970s, Rob Young's main storyteller was the wooden box with the glass window in the corner of...

Author: Bernard Cornwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.' On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended...

Author: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it's often...

Author: Gordon Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: In these ten stories of Second World War battlefield action, Gordon Brown pays tribute to the courage of a whole generation. Some...

Author: David Lammy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who...

Author: Tim Burrows Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' Essex. A county both famous and infamous: the stuff of tabloid headlines and...

Author: Justin Pollard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Did you give school history lessons your undivided attention? Even if you did, youre probably none the wiser as to how...

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...

Author: Dan Cruickshank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 SOHO - ILLICIT, GLAMOROUS, SORDID, LOUCHE, POVERTY-STRICKEN, SQUALID, EXHILARATING. One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank grants us an intimacy with...

Author: Herb Frazier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea...

Author: Stephen Golding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The 'Chalet des Anglais' on Mont Blanc, home to the longest-running university reading party, is a unique survivor from Victorian and...

Author: Naomi Wolf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The bestselling author of The Beauty Myth, Vagina and The End of America chronicles the struggles and eventual triumph of John...

Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising...

Author: Anthony Sattin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A Spectator Book of the Year 'Sweeping . . . Poetic . . . Not only readable but also vital' Literary...

Author: Benjamin Levy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Step below the pavemants of Soho's Beak Street, and discover the untold tale of the exotic - and scandalous - Murray's...

Author: Tom Ambrose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Demonised by the Church throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, homosexuals became the scapegoats of society, constantly facing exile or...

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Author: Philippa Gregory Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES 'A genuinely new history of...

Author: Mark Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The Author, who lives in Shanghai, sets out to demonstrate that the British military has been at the forefront of many...

Author: David de Jong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Lucid and damning ... an absorbing - and infuriating - tale of complicity, coverup and denial' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author...

Author: Professor Nigel Ashton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War...

Author: J. B. Priestley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'The finest book ever written about England and the English' Stuart Maconie 'J. B. Priestley is one of our literary...

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...

Author: Professor in Medieval History Helen Nicholson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history...

Author: Steve Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320

Author: Michael Fabey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An extraordinary story of American can-do, an inside look at the building of the most dangerous aircraft carrier in the world,...

Author: Matthew Gabriele Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 "The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to...

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...

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Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...

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...

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Author: Jeanna Kadlec Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community. Jeanna Kadlec knew what...