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Whispering City: Rome and Its Histories

Whispering City: Rome and Its Histories

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The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

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Author: Hugh Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But...
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland

High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland

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Author: Tom Parfitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden 'Tom Parfitt has re-invented travel writing for the 21st century' Oliver Bullough On 1...
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

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Author: Elizabeth Hinton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors' Choice A...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

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Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink

One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink

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Author: Matthew Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full...
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior Republican to stand up to Donald Trump

Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior Republican to stand up to Donald Trump

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Author: Liz Cheney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

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Author: Simon Ings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow...
Tivoli: Hardback + 60 Minute Music CD

Tivoli: Hardback + 60 Minute Music CD

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The Edwardians

The Edwardians

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Six Men Out of the Ordinary

Six Men Out of the Ordinary

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The Soul: A History of the Human Mind

The Soul: A History of the Human Mind

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Author: Paul HamFormat: Hardback, 164mm x 241mm, 1098g, 800 pagesPublished: Random House Australia, Australia, 2024The Soul is a history of the human mind, from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to...
Forgotten Women

Forgotten Women

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Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces...
TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy

TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy

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Author: Joyce Tyldesley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in...
Age of Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws and the Forerunners of Corporate Change

Age of Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws and the Forerunners of Corporate Change

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Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage

Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage

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Octavia, Daughter of God

Octavia, Daughter of God

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The Race to the Future: The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century, Radio 4 Book of the Week

The Race to the Future: The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century, Radio 4 Book of the Week

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Author: Kassia St Clair Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'An incredible and stirring story . . . a mix of competition, camaraderie as well as a larky sense of...
Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age

Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age

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Author: Ysenda Maxtone Graham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins 'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The...
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

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Author: William Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Lost in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of being vile and poisonous,...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers

The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers

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Author: Maria Smilios Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds

The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds

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Author: Katie Spalding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit. The...
Vital Organs

Vital Organs

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Author: Suzie Edge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts. Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy

The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy

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Author: Stein Ringen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises,...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

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Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from...
My Russia: War or Peace?

My Russia: War or Peace?

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Author: Mikhail Shishkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma':...
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

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Author: Sarah Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers

The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers

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Author: Maria Smilios Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside

Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside

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Author: Rebecca Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'Eye-opening and persuasive' SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant ... I loved it' KIT DE WAAL 'Thoughtful, moving, honest'...
Endgame

Endgame

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Author: Omid Scobie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

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Author: Simon IngsFormat: Hardback, 158mm x 236mm, 608g, 368 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN...
You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals

You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals

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The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 4: 1901-Present Day - The Modern World

The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 4: 1901-Present Day - The Modern World

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The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 3: 1776-1900 - The Changing World

The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 3: 1776-1900 - The Changing World

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The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 2: 1492-1775 - The Expanding World

The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 2: 1492-1775 - The Expanding World

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The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 1: Prehistory-1491 AD - The Ancient and Medieval World

The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: v. 1: Prehistory-1491 AD - The Ancient and Medieval World

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

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Author: Michael Harriot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American...
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

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Author: Renee Bergland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin...
Gurawul the Whale: An ancient story for our time

Gurawul the Whale: An ancient story for our time

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Author: Max Dulumunmun Harrison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 'When I was 10 years old, I was given Gurawul's story by my grandfather Muns...in the dirt...they made me promise...
Paper Tigers: The Latest, Greatest Newspaper Tycoons

Paper Tigers: The Latest, Greatest Newspaper Tycoons

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The Year Of Indecision: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America

The Year Of Indecision: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America

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Moonwalkers

Moonwalkers

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Egypt: Land and Lives of the Pharaohs

Egypt: Land and Lives of the Pharaohs

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Agent Undercover

Agent Undercover

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The Associated Grammar Schools of Victoria: A Sporting and Social History

The Associated Grammar Schools of Victoria: A Sporting and Social History

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A New Deal for New York

A New Deal for New York

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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World

Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World

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Author: David Blistein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 over 60,000 Americans died as the result of opioid overdoses, more than died annually in this country during the...
The Church in Germany (With Maps)

The Church in Germany (With Maps)

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