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The most famous living rock musician on the planet, Paul McCartney is now regarded as a slightly cosy figure, an (inter)national treasure. Back in the 1970s, however, McCartney cut a...

From ancient riddles to modern Sudoko, people have been fascinated by puzzles. Whether they are seen as a glorious waste of time, a harmless way to spend a train journey...

Letters to the Midwife is a wonderful collection of correspondence received by Jennifer Worth, offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost world. Along with readers' responses and personal histories, it...

**Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian** A Times Political Book of the Year 'An entertaining, thorough and informative canter through the characters...

'Erudite, clever, brilliant' KATE MOSSE 'A crowning achievement' LUCY WORSLEY 'Fascinating and excellent' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Stories about royal women form some of our most foundational myths about femininity, yet...

THE LETTERS FROM THE SUITCASE reveals the vivid, poignant and hugely detailed wartime correspondence between David and Mary Francis from 1938 to 1943, and a unique love story, sure to...

The Next World War takes readers behind the scenes of the most dangerous era of international tensions since the end of the Cold War, as countries and military forces prepare...

Explore the lives of over forty men and women - great and otherwise - whose pioneering journeys beyond the Irish shore played a profound role in world history. The Irish...

A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over...

'One of the best books about the paranormal I have read... Uncannily good' DANNY ROBINS 'A fascinating testimony to our nervous hunger to map the hazy, haunted territory at the...

Far removed from the picture of Tehran we glimpse in news stories, there is another, hidden city, where survival depends on an intricate network of lies and falsehoods. It is...

In Secret Affairs, Mark Curtis shows how Britain has helped create the Islamic terrorism that now threatens us. Exploring how the bombings of7 July (2005) can be traced back to...

This overview of the financial history of St John's College, Oxford from the College's foundation in 1555 up until 1980 documents in detail how the richest college in Oxford very...

It tells of times when 'the air between people seems to alter' as art achieves profound change, across the globe and across history. Dominic Dromgoole has created a radical and...

A voyage of discovery, nature and untold histories - in the vein of Clare Wright, Edmund de Waal and Helen Macdonald. When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed...

Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands...

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Britain had eased its problem of crowded jails and surplus criminals by packing them into ships and sending them off to the American colonies...

The mutiny on HMS Bounty , in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure...

At the height of the postcard boom, when there were several deliveries of the post every day, you could send a postcard in the morning to arrange a meeting for...

Between 1939 and 1944, as the Nazis overran Europe, they were also quietly conducting another type of pillage. The Lost Museum tells the story of the Jewish art collectors and...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew nations have staked their claim on the frozen south with the tenacity and vision of Australia, and...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: worn dj with some loss; slightly discoloured boardsIn the vast, sun-scorched skies above a young nation, a handful of daring...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj; damaged fep - half of the page is missingCommando Extraordinary is a gripping...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the dawn of a new nation, a people grappled with the monumental task of forging laws, institutions, and an...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: small stain on the book block, otherwise internally soundIn the fourth volume of his monumental series, Manning Clark...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the third volume of his monumental A History of Australia, Manning Clark turns his penetrating gaze to the turbulent...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the formative decades between 1822 and 1838, the raw, convict-hewn colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped djBefore Australia was a nation, it was a continent of ancient peoples, colonial ambition, and raw, uncharted...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat drives a city to grow the way it does — sprawling outward in rings, clustering...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the restless waters of the Malay Archipelago to the fog-laden ports of the Eastern trade routes, Joseph...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom brooding moorlands and storm-lashed coasts to the shadowed halls of ancient castles, the ballad tradition captures the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the mid-fourteenth century, a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions swept across the known world, killing between...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; some moisture damage on later pages. At the heart of twentieth-century Thai Forest Tradition stands...

Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed,Previous ownerIn the sunburned heart of 19th-century Australia, two men dared to do what no European had done before...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedFrom the first sparks of life on a cooling planet to the complex civilisations of the modern age, Geoffrey Blainey's A Short...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew monarchs in history have captivated the popular imagination quite like Henry VIII, and The Six Wives of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the crossroads of medieval mysticism, sacred music, and visionary theology stands Hildegard von Bingen — a twelfth-century Benedictine...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFew works in the history of world literature have captivated the human imagination as profoundly as Stories from the Thousand and One Nights, the legendary collection...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCricket is more than a sport in New Zealand — it is a summer ritual, a collective memory, and a measure of national identity,...

Edition: vol I - BCA. vol II - CassellCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThis nautical duology presents a sweeping work of historical fiction, charting the life of Matthew Lawe...

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'Provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material about five centuries of court life' New York Times 'Naughty Knickers version of our island story' Daily Mail --------------------------------------------- Ladies in Waiting chronicles...

The book titled The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Insignia of the 20th Century by the author Guido Rosignoli. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The colonial days of Australia brought people from all walks of life to our shore - free settlers, convicts, deserters, public servant administrators and the unscrupulous - all for different...

The book titled Reflections of a Warrior by the author Franklin D. Miller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

With the aid of over 80 drawings and photographs, the author shows clearly how the different movements work and discusses the many efforts made to improve timekeeping over the years....

The book titled The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by the author Barbara W. Tuchman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players, from the bestselling author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE 'Supremely enjoyable . . . With a...