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Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England
Author: James Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A Tudor voyage of exploration - an extraordinary story of daring, discovery, tragedy and pioneering achievement. In the spring...
Guinea Pig Town and Other Animal Poems
Author: Lorraine Marwood (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: A beautiful collection of poems about animals. Squawk! Snuffle! Bark! Roar! Feathers, fins, scales, claws. Running, hopping, crawling, soaring....
The Big Animal Activity Book: Fun, Fact-filled Wildlife Puzzles for Kids to Complete
Author: Jean Claude Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Paw-some challenges include guiding a panda through a bamboo forest, spotting a snow leopard on the mountain, matching up chameleon...
Emigrants: Why the English Sailed to the New World
Author: James Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Marvellously engaging' The Times 'Brisk, informative and eye-opening' Daily Telegraph In the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England...
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged
Author: Andrew Marr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Sunday Times bestseller Now a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan Morris....
It's Never Too Late: The Joe Biden Effect - Stories of People Who Changed the World in Later Life - Foreword by Michael Whitehall
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Joe Biden has shown us all, the best is yet to come. Here are the stories of the inspiring, inventive,...
Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth
Author: Adam Zamoyski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad A landmark new...
Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936
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Author: Professor of English Jeremy Treglown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An open-minded and clear-eyed reexamination of the cultural artifacts of Franco's Spain True, false, or both?...
The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914
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Author: Malcolm Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'The sky was lit by burning villages and houses . . . Rivers and seas of flame leaping up...
A Pair of Silver Wings
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 ______________ It can take a lifetime to heal the wounds of war 'Brings history to life' Guardian ______________ Edward...
Song Full Of Tears: Nine Centuries Of Chinese Life Around Xiang Lake
Author: R. Keith Schoppa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 Combining evocative historical description and cogent analysis, Song Full of Tears is a chronicle of nine hundred years...
Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved
Author: Kenneth Catania Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In Great Adaptations, Kenneth Catania presents an entertaining and engaging look at some of nature's most remarkable creatures. Telling...
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
Author: David Badre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why...
Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon
Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C.: The...
Sunnis and Shi'A: A Political History
Author: Laurence Louer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Mohammed died in 632...
Gentlemen and Blackguards: Gambling Mania and the Plot to Steal the Derby of 1844
Author: Nicholas Foulkes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This is a tale of money, gambling and sporting obsession; of rogues and rascals, outrageous criminality, aristocratic complacency and...
Iron Horses: America's Race to Bring the Railroads West
Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 After the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for...
MacArthur
Author: Richard B. Frank Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his ability to adapt, a quality that catalyzed his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability...
Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling
Author: Normandi Ellis (Normandi Ellis) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Tools to powerfully write about and manifest your life using the power found in the sacred sites...
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland
Author: Patrick Radden Keefe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR...
A Private War
Author: Marie Brenner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Now a major motion picture - starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci and Jamie Dornan. The book that inspired the...
Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures from the Nazis
Author: Gerri Chanel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case...
Escaping Hitler: Stories Of Courage And Endurance On The Freedom Trails
Author: Monty Halls Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Some of the great untold stories of the Second World War concern the freedom trails, the highly dangerous escape...
Closing the Books: Jewish Insurance Claims in the Holocaust
Author: Charles Weiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A torrent of recent studies have attempted to set the record straight about the Holocaust, the most horrendous atrocity...
Al Dente: Madness, Beauty and the Food of Rome
Author: David Winner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Imagine the River Tiber as an alimentary tract. Picture a hungry saint. Think of erotic Renaissance fruit paintings, transubstantiation...
Fatal Rivalry, Flodden 1513: Henry VIII, James IV and the battle for Renaissance Britain
Author: George Goodwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The relationship of England and Scotland became defined by events on 9 September 1513 in a battle of great...
We Germans
Author: Alexander Starritt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side...
The Last Giants: The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant
Author: Levison Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 This book comes at a critical time. Thirty years ago, Africa was home to a million elephants, today the...
I Should Know That: Great Britain: Everything You Really Should Know About GB
Author: Emma Marriott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 From icons of British history to geography, and the economy to the legal system, I Should Know That: Great...
North Pole: Nature and Culture
Author: Michael Bravo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In North Pole, Michael Bravo explains how visions of the North Pole have been supremely important to the world's...
Taking Command
Author: General Sir David Richards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman
Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
Lifesize
Author: Sophy Henn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Let's go on a LIFESIZE adventure! Step into the book and see how you measure up against some of...
The Six Loves of Billy Binns
Author: Richard Lumsden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 THE SIX LOVES OF BILLY BINNS is a deeply moving debut set in London against the backdrop of the...
With God In Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest'sTwenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps
Author: Walter J. Ciszek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Republished for a new century and featuring an afterword by Father James Martin, SJ, the classic memoir of...
Far From Home: Refugees and migrants fleeing war, persecution and poverty
Author: Cath Senker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 What if you had to leave your home and you could never go back? What do you think that...
The Bronze Horseman
Author: Paullina Simons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE...
Operation Thunderbolt Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport
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Author: Saul David Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military...
The Battle of the Somme The First and Second Phase
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Waiting for the Albino Dunnock: How birds can change your life
Author: Rosamond Richardson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'A beautiful book' Tim Birkhead, author of Bird Sense 'The prose is sublime, and so is the intelligence behind...
The Fat Boy with the Bomb and 299 of the Worlds Craziest Politicians
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Author: Brian O'Connell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A completely original illustrated international dossier of lunatic statesmen and insane leaders! This first attempt to catalogue the world...