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Forever Friends: A Keepsake of Questions and Answers for Best Friends: Volume 25

Forever Friends: A Keepsake of Questions and Answers for Best Friends: Volume 25

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Author: Editors of Chartwell Books Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 204 The best of friends share the best of themselves and they're all the better for it. Interactive...
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

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Author: Michela Wrong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 A new book from the award winning author of In the Footsteps...
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

$32.99$12.00
Author: Elizabeth Hinton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors'...
Who am I, again?

Who am I, again?

$22.99$10.00
Author: Lenny Henry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'Moving, powerful (and very funny).' - Mail On Sunday You might think you know Lenny Henry. Think again. In...
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A memoir of family, war and peace

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A memoir of family, war and peace

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Author: Wayetu Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 When Wayetu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big party at their home in Monrovia,...
Hitler's South African Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa

Hitler's South African Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa

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Author: Evert Kleynhans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Nazis' aim was to spread sedition, undermine the Allied war effort, and - given the strategic importance of...
British Museum: A History of the World in 25 Cities

British Museum: A History of the World in 25 Cities

$32.99$15.00
Author: Tracey Turner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 From the walled city of Jericho built over 10,000 years ago, to the modern-day metropolises of Tokyo and San Francisco, discover...
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A memoir about women, addiction and love

Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A memoir about women, addiction and love

$22.99$10.00
Author: Nina Renata Aron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'The disease he has is addiction,' Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend. 'The disease I have is...
Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life

Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life

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Author: Ray Richmond Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life is a visual salute to the First Lady of Television, spanning her...
Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe - The perfect Mother's Day gift

Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe - The perfect Mother's Day gift

$39.99$15.00
Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Delve into the lives and work of some of the world's great writers with this intriguing collection of correspondence. There is...
Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

$59.99$20.00
Author: John C. McManus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

$12.00
Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning

Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning

$12.00
Author: Elliot Ackerman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the...
Maoism: A Global History

Maoism: A Global History

$59.95$15.00
Author: Julia Lovell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 Winner of the 2019 Cundill History Prize "Revelatory and instructive . . . [a] beautifully written and accessible book" -The Times...
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew

This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew

$49.99$20.00
Author: Julia Copus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The British poet Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers, including...
Africa First!: Igniting a Growth Revolution

Africa First!: Igniting a Growth Revolution

$22.99$10.00
Author: Jakkie Cilliers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 392 Africa analyst Jakkie Cilliers uses 11 scenarios to unpack, in concrete terms, how the continent can ignite a growth...
Celebrating 100 Years at Duntroon: Royal Military College of Australia 1911 - 2011

Celebrating 100 Years at Duntroon: Royal Military College of Australia 1911 - 2011

$179.00$30.00
Author: Big Sky Publishing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Celebrate the 100 year anniversary of RMC and discover the rich history of Duntroon with this superbly designed and crafted...
Swordswoman!: The Queen of Jhansi in the Indian Uprising of 1857

Swordswoman!: The Queen of Jhansi in the Indian Uprising of 1857

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Author: Devika Rangachari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Queen Lakshmibal of of Jhansi was an unconventional queen. She could read and write; she rode a horse and...
Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History

Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History

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Author: Anna Aslanyan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the...
Espiscopally Led and Synodically Governed: Anglicans in Victoria 1803-1997

Espiscopally Led and Synodically Governed: Anglicans in Victoria 1803-1997

$55.00$27.50
Author: James Grant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:
The Undocumented Americans

The Undocumented Americans

$29.99$12.00
Author: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Right after the election of 2016, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio realized the story she'd tried to steer clear of...
London's No 1 Dog-Walking Agency: 'Charming, funny, heartwarming' - Adam Kay

London's No 1 Dog-Walking Agency: 'Charming, funny, heartwarming' - Adam Kay

$32.99$15.00
Author: Kate Macdougall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Kate Macdougall always knew her heart wasn't really in her job at Sotheby's. All around her, her friends were finding their...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

$27.99$12.00
Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Funny, moving, insightful, vulnerable. A brave book and a brilliant read.' - Miranda Hart Multi-award-winning television writer and producer...
Letters of Note: Grief

Letters of Note: Grief

$14.99$8.00
Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In Letters of Note: Grief, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about grief, from the...
Amazing Art Adventures: Around the world in 400 immersive experiences

Amazing Art Adventures: Around the world in 400 immersive experiences

$39.99$15.00
Author: Yolanda Zappaterra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Discover hundreds of the most interesting and memorable art experiences from around the world! Amazing Art Adventures offers us art and...
The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia

The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia

$15.00
Author: Stephan Talty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Inspiration for the hit new podcast "Hunting the Butcher" The untold story of an Israeli spy's epic journey to bring the...
I Think, Therefore I Draw: Understanding Philosophy Through Cartoons

I Think, Therefore I Draw: Understanding Philosophy Through Cartoons

$15.00
Author: Thomas Cathcart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A hilarious new exploration of philosophy through cartoons from the duo who brought you the New York Times bestselling Plato and...
Women of the White House: The Illustrated Story of the First Ladies of the United States of America

Women of the White House: The Illustrated Story of the First Ladies of the United States of America

$32.99$12.00
Author: Amy Russo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Women of the White House looks at the work, lives and times of the 47 women officially recognized as America's first...
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

$34.99$15.00
Author: Alex Renton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it...
The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

$15.00
Author: Norman Ohler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "A detailed and meticulously researched tale... that reads like a thriller."--New York Times Book Review From the New York Times best-selling...
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

$15.00
Author: Jung Chang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic...
Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces

Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces

$39.99$15.00
Author: Patrick Mackie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Mozart holds a central, unwavering place in our culture, and his works are widely loved and listened to, often as much-loved...
Come Fly the World: The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace

Come Fly the World: The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace

$34.99$15.00
Author: Julia Cooke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Glamour, danger, liberation: in the Jet Age, Pan Am offered young women the world. Come Fly the World tells the story...
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

$34.99$20.00
Author: Rebecca Donner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Berlin and witnessed the...
Falling is Like Flying

Falling is Like Flying

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Author: Manon Uphoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 This is a story she never wanted to tell, but in the end she had no choice. When her older sister...
Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy

Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy

$27.99$12.00
Author: Larissa Pham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 '...I don't know what comes after, once I decide to let desire have its way with me. How to un-melt the...
Hardcore History: History At The Extremes

The End is Always Near

$53.84$15.00
Author: Dan Carlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A journey back in time that explores what happened-and what could have happened-from creator of the wildly-popular podcast Hardcore History and...
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote

Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote

$45.00$15.00
Author: Ellen Carol DuBois Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the...
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)

Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)

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Author: Beryl Gilroy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Fresh and vital ... Full of wit, perceptiveness, humour and compassion ... A remarkable pioneer ... A hugely important memoir from...
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake

The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake

$29.99$15.00
Author: Simon Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Those people who were betrayed were not innocent people. They were no better nor worse than I am. It's all part...
Bring Back Our Girls: The Astonishing Survival and Rescue of Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls

Bring Back Our Girls: The Astonishing Survival and Rescue of Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls

$32.99$12.00
Author: Joe Parkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Bounty hunters, the manpower of western militaries and special Swiss agents were all deployed but they either met road block...
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me - a Memoir

Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me - a Memoir

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Author: Deirdre Bair Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Fascinating... Wonderfully entertaining and absorbing' - Sunday Times 'Gripping... A story well told.' - New York Times Book Review...
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

$27.99$12.00
Author: Kate Mosse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A deeply moving story of what it means to care for those we love, a celebration of older people and ageing,...
Cult Following: My escape and return to the Children of God

Cult Following: My escape and return to the Children of God

$29.99$12.00
Author: Bexy Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Bexy Cameron grew up in the notorious Children of God cult, where the concept of family means something very...
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

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Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated...
A Class Act: Life as a working-class man in a middle-class world

A Class Act: Life as a working-class man in a middle-class world

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Author: Rob Beckett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Pacy, witty and affectionate' Guardian Rob Beckett never seems to fit in. At work, in the middle-class world of...
Waddle: A Book of Fun for Penguin Lovers

Waddle: A Book of Fun for Penguin Lovers

$29.99$15.00
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...
Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima

Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima

$32.99$10.00
Author: Martha MacCallum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World...