History

Author: Sue Roe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed." -...

Author: Julia Blackburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells...

Author: Monica L Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "A revelation of the drive and creative flux of the metropolis over time."--Nature "This is a must-read book for any...

Author: Pico Iyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 "Arguably the greatest living travel writer" (Outside magazine), Pico Iyer has called Japan home for more than three decades. But, as...

Author: Dorian Lynskey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey's account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory." --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and...

Author: Max Egremont Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Max Egremont, author of Some Desperate Glory, tells stories from the Glass Wall between Europe and Asia. Few countries have suffered...

Author: James Donovan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Learn why NASA astronaut Mike Collins calls this extraordinary space race story "the best book on Apollo" this inspiring and intimate...

Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Multiple copy pack Number of Pages: 0 Six-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-one of the world's most admired and...

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...

Author: The Church Mouse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'As informative as it is entertaining - read it, you won't regret it' Paula Gooder Beards have had cultural and...

Author: Mark Logue Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the...

Author: Central Land Council Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 This collective memoir is for anyone who has ever wondered why Aboriginal people choose to live in remote communities in...

Author: Graeme Donald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 As Napoleon himself once said, 'History is a version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.' Noted down...

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: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In this entertaining and insightful biography of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana,...

Author: Grace Bonney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 POWERFUL WISDOM FROM THE ELDERS OF OUR COMMUNITIES In this rich and multilayered collection of interviews, conversations, and intimate photographs, over...

Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. 'Astounding' Sebastian Barry...

Author: Alistair Brownlee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In his quest to define 'sporting greatness', double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee has spent nearly 4 years interviewing and...

Author: Richard Atkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021 'Rarely has family history been so vivid' JENNY UGLOW 'An extraordinarily...

Author: Lloyd Spencer Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Penguins. We love them. They are instantly recognizable. Seemingly upright caricatures of us, it is easy to bond with these...

Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine...

Author: Jung Chang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that...

Author: Dan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 A chilling medieval ghost story, first written by a 15th-century monk and now retold by historian Dan Jones. A chilling medieval...

Author: Amy-Jane Beer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The beauty and power of the world's trees is timeless. Our appreciation of one of the oldest forms of life is...

Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The...

Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Britain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and...

Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A magisterial history of the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million civilians...

Author: Tim Butcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind A compulsively readable...

Author: Frank McLynn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller' (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the...

Author: Ed Douglas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains...

Author: John Eliot Gardiner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such...

Author: John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 Renowned historian, and author of A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich's classic history of Venice A...

Author: Laura Tunbridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An authoritative and refreshing account of Beethoven's life and music Ludwig van Beethoven- to some, simply the greatest ever...

Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...

Author: Michelle Obama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir;15 million copies sold worldwide Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle...

Author: Dolly Alderton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The wildly funny Sunday Times bestseller about growing up and navigating all kinds of love along the way When...

Author: Dawn French Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The number one bestselling autobiography of Britain's best-loved comedienne ___________________________ A hilarious, heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's best-loved...

Author: Stephen Alford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The story of the individuals whose ambition and recklessness transformed London, England and the world. Life in Europe was...

Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...

Author: Christopher Tyerman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A lively and compelling account of how the crusades really worked, and a revolutionary attempt to rethink the Middle...

Author: Robert Dallek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as...

Author: Frank Trentmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years. We...

Author: Augustine Sedgewick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'Thoroughly engrossing ... his literary gifts and prodigious research make for a deeply satisfying reading experience studded with narrative...

Author: Colin McEvedy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A fascinating illustrated history of the most important cities of antiquity, from Alexandria to York From Alexandria to York,...

Author: David Pilling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A both definitive and highly enjoyable book on how modern Japan works - now fully updated to 2020 and...

Author: Frank Wilczek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the entire universe In this scientific...

Author: Erica Benner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today Niccol Machiavelli lived in a...

Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The...