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Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
A captivating biography of two famous women whose sons, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt, would change the course of the 20th century-by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray. Born into upper...
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
***Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award*** 'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible ' New York Times An...
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs , shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character....
The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Times bestseller A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024 A Spectator Book of the Year What kind of...
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft
A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey...
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. It travels from the sugar rush that brought the...
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION **NOW A...
The Art of Not Eating: A Doubtful History of Appetite and Desire
A luminously original exploration of the deep roots of diet culture by an award-winning historian'A courageous and beautifully written exploration of a vitally important subject' The Herald'Fascinating' Katherine May'These books...
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity
*A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week**A New York Times Editor's Pick*'Terrific' SARAH DUNANT'Lively and intriguing ... You'll never look at Renaissance portraits in...
The Shipwreck: The true story of the Dunbar, the disaster that broke the colony's heart and forged a nation's spirit
'gripping, engaging popular history' - Sydney Morning Herald The Dunbar was one of the most advanced and celebrated sailing ships of the mid-19th century. Built to carry passengers in speed...
Australians: A short history
Australians , Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam, gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the...
Courage in the Skies: The untold story of Qantas, its brave men and women and their extraordinary role in World War II
Between 1942 and 1943, Qantas lost eight aircraft during its involvement in Australia's war against the Japanese. Over sixty passengers and crew died as a result. Yet Qantas' exemplary contribution...
The Shipwreck Hunter: A lifetime of extraordinary discovery and adventure in the deep seas
'The underwater worlds of past and present collide in the depths of the ocean in this gripping and suspenseful narrative by David Mearns, a true expert on the mysteries of...
Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history
Monash and Chauvel follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel. John...
Atlas of Forgotten Places: Journeys to Abandoned and Deserted Destinations Around the Globe
Atlas of Forgotten Places is a collection of maps so unique and left behind that you won't even believe they exist. From ancient ruins and crumbling castles to more recent...