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Every Hill Got a Story
Author: Central Land Council Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 This collective memoir is for anyone who has ever wondered why Aboriginal people choose to live in remote communities in...
The Boy in the Book
Author: Nathan Penlington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Nathan discovered a job lot of the first 106 adventures for sale on eBay, there was never any question that...
50 Queers Who Changed the World: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Icons
Author: Dan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 Featuring beautifully illustrated portraits and profiles, 50 Queers Who Changed the World is a tribute to some of the most inspirational...
Fake History: From Mozart's Murder to Cleopatra's Asp
Author: Graeme Donald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 As Napoleon himself once said, 'History is a version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.' Noted down...
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits
Author: Jennifer Higgie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white...
When There Were Birds
Author: Roy Adkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Birds are a joy and solace in troubled times, as well as a reminder of past experiences and a symbol of...
Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy
Author: Anne Sebba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down" VICTORIA HISLOP "Masterful, original and painfully gripping" PHILIPPE SANDS "A heart-piercingly brilliant book about...
Don't Believe A Word: The Surprising Truth About Language
Author: David Shariatmadari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Wonderful ... You finish the book more alive than ever to the enduring mystery and miracle of that thing that makes...
This Sceptred Isle
Author: Christopher Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 What is Britishness? What allowed one small island group to rule a quarter of the world and, even today, to have...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents
Author: Dominic Selwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's...
The Best of Me
Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself?...
Around the Village Green: The Heart-Warming Memoir of a World War II Childhood
Author: Dot May Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The heart-warming tale of a wartime childhood. It's 1939 and little Dot May Dun is playing with her brothers in...
Anyone Can Do It: My Story
Author: Duncan Bannatyne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 At 30, Duncan Bannatyne had no money and was enjoying life on the beaches of Jersey. He saw a story of...
Everything in Moderation
Author: Daniel Finkelstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'I've never met Danny Finkelstein but I think I'm in love with him. His book is such good company - sane,...
Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
Author: Linda Porter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known,...
The Autobiography
Author: Mary King Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Mary King s success in the world of eventing (now officially classed as the most dangerous sport in the world) has...
Icons of Style: Denim
Author: The Daily Street Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Once a functional piece of workwear, denim has long since taken its place as a global style icon - but...
Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen
Author: Kate Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 This is the story of how Elizabeth became Queen. We can hardly imagine a Britain without Elizabeth II on the throne....
What Might Have Been?: Leading Historians on Twelve 'What Ifs' of History
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Throughout history, great and terrible events have often hinged upon luck. Andrew Roberts has asked a team of twelve leading historians...
Hanoi: Biography of a City
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: W Logan Format: Paperback...
The Ballad of Les Darcy
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback...
Will the Boat Sink the Water?
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Guidi Chen Format: Paperback...
Keith Murdoch: The War Correspondent Who Founded an Empire
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: R m Younger Format:...
Deadly Australian Women
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Kay Saunders Format: Paperback...
Song of Survival: Women Interned
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Helen Collin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Helen Colijn's autobiographical account of three...
Looking for Australia: Historical Essays
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: John Hirst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In these enthralling essays, John...
Bringing Mulligan Home: The Long Search for a Lost Marine
Author: Dale Maharidge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Sergeant Steve Maharidge returned from World War II an angry man. For a long time, the only evidence that remained of...
King's Counsellor: Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis
Author: Sir Alan Lascelles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The diaries of 'Tommy' Lascelles - as featured in the Netflix hit THE CROWN 'Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless' Spectator...
KP: The Autobiography
Author: Kevin Pietersen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Outrageous, audacious, jaw-dropping' SUNDAY TIMES 'An essential read' DAILY MAIL 'Utterly captivating' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Hugely entertaining' GUARDIAN...
The Prometheans: John Martin and the generation that stole the future
Author: Max Adams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The richly varied lives of the Martin brothers reflected the many upheavals of Britain in the age of Industrial Revolution. Low-born...
A-Z of the 80s
Author: Ally Molloy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Return to the glamorous decade that brought us Footloose and The Breakfast Club, where leg warmers and shoulder pads were all...
Nobody's Child: Against All the Odds, He Managed to Escape the Horrors of a Stolen Childhood
Author: Michael Seed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Abused by those who were supposed to love and cherish him, Michael Seed had to fight for survival against his violent...
The Pill That Steals Lives: One Woman's Terrifying Journey to Discover the Truth About Antidepressants
Author: Katinka Blackford Newman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When Katinka Blackford Newman was prescribed a common anti-depressant drug by her doctor, she could never have predicted the almost...
Retreat from Mons 1914: Casteau to Le Cateau (Battle Lines Series)
Author: Jon Cooksey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'The Retreat from Mons' the latest volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series of walking, cycling and driving guides to...
Letters To Poseidon
Author: Laura Watkinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 I had been looking for someone to write to for a long time, but how does a man write letters to...
The Hidden Lives of London Streets: A Walking Guide to Soho, Holborn and Beyond
Author: James Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 London's streets have always worn a variety of influences, reflecting the diverse crowds who live and work on them. Take a...
Let Love Rule
Author: Lenny Kravitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I...
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
Author: Roger Crowley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the...
Why It's Not All Rocket Science: Scientific Theories and Experiments Explained
Author: Robert Cave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Robert Cave examines 100 extraordinary projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the name of science. Some, including various...
The Drowned And The Saved
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Shortly after completing THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and...
Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions
Author: Trevor Norton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Laszlo Biro (the ballpoint...
The Communist Manifesto
Author: Karl Marx, Friedrech Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working...
Beyond Good and Evil
Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...
The Way of the Samurai
Author: Inazo Nitobe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This classic text by Inazo Nitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a huge...
The Art of Rhetoric
Author: Aristotle Format: Number of Pages: Written around the time that Aristotle (384Ð322 BCE) established his own school in Athens, this is a guide to what was a critical skill...
Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Meditations of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (121Ð180 CE) draw on Stoic philosophy to find ways of dealing with...
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons...
The Queen
Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In this entertaining and insightful biography of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana,...