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A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and
'Ultimately, my experiences as a mental health nurse have taught me that we should judge less and open our hearts more.' Belinda Black was just seventeen years old when she...
Notorious: History's Villains and Why They Matter
History loves a villain. Across the entire span of human civilisation, certain people and groups have been identified as being responsible for the ills of the world, and have remained...
Notorious: History's Villains and Why They Matter
History loves a villain. Across the entire span of human civilisation, certain people and groups have been identified as being responsible for the ills of the world, and have remained...
Scapegoat
We may have come a long way from the days when a goat was saddled with all the iniquities of the children of Israel and driven into the wilderness, but...
Great Women's Speeches: Empowering Voices that Engage and Inspire
Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation. The first dedicated collection of seminal speeches by women from around the world, Great Womens Speeches...
Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided
Discover the "fascinating and outrageously readable" account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in...
Unremitting: The Marine "Bastard" Battalion and the Savage Battle that
Former USA Today journalist and author of The Chosen Few , Greg Zoroya, reveals the untold story of The Battle of Ramadi, the true start of the war in Iraq...
Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys
How Captain Scott became the Greatest Hero of them all Captain Robert Falcon Scott didn't start out life as a hero. In fact, as a boy and young man he...
Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women's Bodies
'Illuminating, thoughtful and scholarly' FINANCIAL TIMES'Does a fascinating job of exploring the history of women's bodies' GREG JENNER'Mind-blowing, fascinating stuff' BBC WOMAN'S HOUR'Authoritative, rich and wide-ranging, this is an immensely...
The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean
THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER 'A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to the world's oceans and its life forms' Observer 'A vital, fascinating, deeply researched exploration of...
The Jamestown Brides: The Bartered Wives of the New World
In 1621, fifty-seven women undertook a three-month journey to Jamestown after responding to an advert placed by the Virginia Company of London calling for maids 'young and uncorrupt' to make...
Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation
Two of Russia's most prominent investigative journalists tell the "gripping" (Foreign Policy) story of how the hopes of their generation of optimistic Russians in the 1990s faded to be replaced...
From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
From the author of Work Won't Love You Back , a stirring examination of how collective grief can ignite powerful change. Our era is one of significant and substantial loss,...
A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders
In this groundbreaking new book from the UK's leading criminologist, David Wilson explores what our nation's most lethal murderers reveal about us in a thrilling blend of history and true...
SNAFU: The Definitive Guide to History's Greatest Screwups: the
From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history's greatest screwups, complete with lively illustrations. History contains...
"Titanic" Voices: Memories from the Fateful Voyage
The RMS Titanic was supposedly unsinkable, but in the early hours of 15 April 1912 this newest flagship of the White Star Line sank with great loss of life. Titanic...
Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor
This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite tune comes on. It's more than a social history: it's...
Cavalry: The History of Mounted Warfare
The author explores in detail the history of mounted warfare which in reality is a history of war itself. For over 3,000 years the mounted warrior was a dominant figure,...
Ninette's War: A Jewish Story of Survival in 1940s France
Ninette Dreyfus was a cosseted scion of one of France's most prominent Jewish families - a cousin to Albert Einstein and family friend to Colette. But when the Second World...
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of France, Power
From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe-Elisabeth, empress of Austria,...
A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World: The hilarious and
'Superb ... entertaining ... Phillips traverses this sprawling terrain with energy and charm' Telegraph 'Exceptionally funny from cover to cover, it is not only an entertaining read but also deeply...
Borough and Its People: Port Melbourne 1839-1939
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Childhood at Court 1819-1914
What was childhood like for the princes and princesses in the Victorian and Edwardian period? Here their education, recreation and general upbringing is discussed, from Queen Victoria's isolated and lonely...
The Great Game: The Myths and Reality of Espionage
A former high-level CIA officer compares the classics of spy fiction with the reality of the espionage world -- and shows how the truth is usually the more interesting. First...
Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present
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Spanning the wide world of sports, this volume is packed with everything you could possibly want to know about hundreds of sports. Along with detailed information on how sports are...
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the
In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air , Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking of the container ship El...
Cassius X: A Legend in the Making
Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path to becoming the greatest sportsman of all time. Cassius Clay is training in the 5th Street Gym for...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of
From the author of Fake History , Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and...
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
'Kuper is a shrewd observer in this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting...
Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog
A Church Times Book of the Year 2024 'Essential reading' John Bradshaw, author of In Defence of Dogs 'Fascinating' Telegraph 'Funny, irreverent and enthusiastic, [Pearson] parades his love for all...
The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High
'Annie Gray's fascinating history of a British institution in crisis illuminates and entertains' GREG JENNER'Properly immersive, full of juicy sensory detail - Annie Gray's romp down British high streets through...
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020
THE NUMBER 1 IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 An Irish Times Book of the Year 2024 Ireland is a strikingly...
The History Gossip: Was Anne of Cleves a Minger? and 365 Other
TikTok sensation Katie Kennedy, aka @TheHistoryGossip, serves up a delicious blend of fascinating, witty and salacious history tea for every day of the year. With infectious wit and historical insight,...
The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean
THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER 'A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to the world's oceans and its life forms' Observer 'A vital, fascinating, deeply researched exploration of...
Our Moon: A Human History
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024 'Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship' TELEGRAPH 'I learned more about the Moon by...
Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from
Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten her? This is the story of Esther Simpson, a...
Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits
In Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits, journalist Aaron Goldfarb goes on an adventure in vintage spirits. This is an intoxicating story of obsessives on the hunt for old...
Vanity Fair's Women on Women
Looking back at the last thirty-five years of Vanity Fair stories on women, by women, with an introduction by the magazine's editor in chief, Radhika Jones Gail Sheehy on Hillary...
The Confessions of Samuel Pepys: His Private Revelations
'A brilliantly entertaining and revealing new transcription of Pepys's diary' Claire Tomalin A collection of the most personal aspects of Samuel Pepys' diaries, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of their...
Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the supernatural
'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...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Excellent... his mastery of detail is...
All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of
'Sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' - Sunday Times At the heart of this history is the female body. The...
The Horses of St. Marks: A Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris and
For seven centuries four gilded horses stood proudly on the loggia above St Mark's basilica in Venice. They are remarkable as the only team of four horses to survive since...
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
With a new Afterword and Reading Group Guide exclusive to the paperback edition. In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight...
Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance in 1588
The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised Selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the Best Books of 2023 "Will surely become the definitive account."-Stephen...
Jane Austen: A Brief Life
An elegant and accessible introduction to the life and works of one of England's greatest and most popular novelists "I want to salute Fiona Stafford's brilliant [book]. . . ....