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The Great Divide

The Great Divide

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Author: Cristina Henriquez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST 'One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE...
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world

On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world

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Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ON EVERY TIDE is a wide-ranging and challenging reassessment of the Irish diaspora. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research, and his...
Mr Stuart's Track

Mr Stuart's Track

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Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

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Author: Gareth Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with...
Whatever Happened to Tradition?: History, Belonging and the Future of the West

Whatever Happened to Tradition?: History, Belonging and the Future of the West

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Author: Tim Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best...
This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

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Author: Andrew Doig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'An empowering story of human ingenuity'...
The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness

The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness

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Of Greece and China and a Few Australian Things

Of Greece and China and a Few Australian Things

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Bombers versus Battleships: The Struggle Between Ships and Aircraft for the Control of the Surface of the Sea

Bombers versus Battleships: The Struggle Between Ships and Aircraft for the Control of the Surface of the Sea

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They Passed This Way

They Passed This Way

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Winged Victory

Winged Victory

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The Australian Cruiser Perth

The Australian Cruiser Perth

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Lennox Legacy: the History of the Csiro Laboratory At 343 Royal Parade Parkville

Lennox Legacy: the History of the Csiro Laboratory At 343 Royal Parade Parkville

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Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation

Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation

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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions

How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions

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The Best Australian Science Writing 2012

The Best Australian Science Writing 2012

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Author: Elizabeth Finkel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 How were Ned Kelly's bones finally identified? What makes cockroaches some of the most successful creatures on the planet? Could some...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

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Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...
Diamonds and Precious Stones

Diamonds and Precious Stones

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Author: Patrick Voillot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Glittering jewels and precious stones, diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sapphires have from time immemorial held a special fascination because of their...
Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust

Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust

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Author: Eimear McBride Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'A fearless, interrogative work ... A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose' - Sinead Gleeson Here, Eimear McBride unpicks...
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist)

Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist)

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Author: Sarah Chaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* *A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* 'Excellent ... one...
Viva la Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America

Viva la Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America

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Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew...
Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain

Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain

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Author: Rob Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A striking expose of the insidious business practices that have generatedenormous profits for the companies operating within the UK's gamblingindustry. 'A...
AK47: The Story of the People's Gun

AK47: The Story of the People's Gun

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The Story of P & O: Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

The Story of P & O: Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

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The Voyage Of Their Life

The Voyage Of Their Life

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Raining Embers: Bendigo's Black Saturday Experience

Raining Embers: Bendigo's Black Saturday Experience

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Most Perfectly Safe: The Convict Shipwreck Disasters of 1833-42

Most Perfectly Safe: The Convict Shipwreck Disasters of 1833-42

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One Common Enemy: The Laconia incident: A survivor's memoir

One Common Enemy: The Laconia incident: A survivor's memoir

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Biracial Britain: What It Means To Be Mixed Race

Biracial Britain: What It Means To Be Mixed Race

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Author: Remi Adekoya Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life...
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON)

Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON)

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Author: Mr Richard King Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change. In...
The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller

The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: Sam Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Fascinating.' - Hilary Mantel 'Terrific.' - New Scientist 'Gripping.' - Financial Times What if you had a vision that something terrible...
1918: The Year of Victories

1918: The Year of Victories

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Author: Martin Marix Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Presents the Allied and German experience of war, both militarily and at a personal level on the ground. Illustrated throughout.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019

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Author: Professor Shoshana Zuboff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller 'Everyone needs to read this book as an act of digital self-defense.' - Naomi...
A History of Ocean Liners in 50 Objects

A History of Ocean Liners in 50 Objects

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Author: Mark Berry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 The story of ocean liners brought to life by objects and ephemera, revealing life on board, luxury and magnificence, and peril...
Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People

Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People

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Author: Dan Cruickshank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 SOHO - ILLICIT, GLAMOROUS, SORDID, LOUCHE, POVERTY-STRICKEN, SQUALID, EXHILARATING. One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank grants us an intimacy with...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes...
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History

Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History

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Author: Ian Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Ian Morris has established himself as a leader in making big history interesting and understandable' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs...
The Book of Unexplained Mysteries: On the Trail of the Secret and the Strange

The Book of Unexplained Mysteries: On the Trail of the Secret and the Strange

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Author: Will Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 How were the hunter-gatherers of Gobekli Tepe able to build a series of stunning stone monuments six thousand years before Stonehenge?...
London: Immigrant City

London: Immigrant City

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Author: Nazneen Khan-Ostrem Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the...
Murder at Wrotham Hill

Murder at Wrotham Hill

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Author: Diana Souhami Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Murder at Wrotham Hill takes the killing in October 1946 of Dagmar Petrzywalski as the catalyst for a compelling and unique...
52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn't Get Taught At School

52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn't Get Taught At School

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Author: James Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I absolutely loved it' James O'Brien Twitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history...
The Age Of Revolution: 1789-1848

The Age Of Revolution: 1789-1848

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Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution...
52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn't Get Taught At School

52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn't Get Taught At School

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Author: James Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I absolutely loved it' James O'Brien Twitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history...
The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New

The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New

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Author: Peter Watson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before and spread out to populate...
Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain

Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain

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Author: John Grindrod Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Barratt homes. Spectacular skyscrapers. Millennium monuments. City centre apartments. Out of town malls. These icons of our age, be they modest...
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

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Author: Wendy Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Surgery was performed without anaesthesia, while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

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Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ?

A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ?

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Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in...