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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...
Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

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Author: Sian Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 QUEEN BEES looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor,...
Einstein's War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World

Einstein's War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World

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Author: Matthew Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 How an unknown German and an Englishman on opposite sides of WWI created a scientific revolution In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a...
Curlip: the Life and Times of a Snowy River Paddle Steamer and the Family Who Built Her

Curlip: the Life and Times of a Snowy River Paddle Steamer and the Family Who Built Her

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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings

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Author: Sylvia Plath Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Every day from nine to five I sit at my desk facing the door of the office and type up other...
Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

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Author: David Lammy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who...
Letters of Note: Mothers

Letters of Note: Mothers

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Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and about mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour...
Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults): A Story of Race and Inheritance

Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults): A Story of Race and Inheritance

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Author: Barack Obama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 BRAND-NEW EDITION of the multi-million-copy bestseller, now adapted for YA readers and complete with never-before-seen colour photos. A revealing portrait of...
Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain

Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain

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A striking expose of the insidious business practices that have generatedenormous profits for the companies operating within the UK's gamblingindustry.'A methodical, sensitive and occasionally harrowing polemic about the gamblingindustry ....
Buy Me the Sky: The remarkable truth of China's one-child generations

Buy Me the Sky: The remarkable truth of China's one-child generations

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How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance

How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance

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Pride of Hotham: A Tale of North Melbourne and a Red-haired Architect

Pride of Hotham: A Tale of North Melbourne and a Red-haired Architect

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Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

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Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings

Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings

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Author: Matt Lodder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made...
Tragic Shores: A Memoir of Dark Travel

Tragic Shores: A Memoir of Dark Travel

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Author: Thomas Cook Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'I have come to thank dark places for the light they bring to life.' Thomas Cook has always been drawn to...
It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable-And How We Can Stop It

It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable-And How We Can Stop It

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Author: Jonathan Greenblatt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 "Refreshingly candid . . . Get off Instagram and read this book." -Sacha Baron Cohen From the dynamic head of ADL,...
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture

Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture

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Author: Alice Sherwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun' Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly witty, profoundly...
Endgame

Endgame

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Author: Omid Scobie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

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Reckoning: The forgotten children and their quest for justice

Reckoning: The forgotten children and their quest for justice

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Australia's Worst Disasters

Australia's Worst Disasters

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The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler

The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler

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Speaking Their Minds

Speaking Their Minds

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Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City

Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City

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A Time of Paradox: America from the Cold War to the Third Millennium, 1945-Present

A Time of Paradox: America from the Cold War to the Third Millennium, 1945-Present

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Endgame

Endgame

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Author: Omid Scobie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
Forgotten War

Forgotten War

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Shipwrecked: Australia's Greatest Maritime Disasters

Shipwrecked: Australia's Greatest Maritime Disasters

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Struggletown

Struggletown

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Who's Who in the Ancient World

Who's Who in the Ancient World

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The Voice in the Headphones

The Voice in the Headphones

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Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953

Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953

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Author: Charles J. Hanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a highly consequential and deeply...
False Flags: Disguised German Raiders of World War II

False Flags: Disguised German Raiders of World War II

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Author: Stephen Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Now available in paperback, False Flags tells the epic story of German raider voyages to the South Seas during the early...
Gallipoli: A Ridge Too Far

Gallipoli: A Ridge Too Far

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Author: Ashley Ekins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 In early August 1915, after months of stalemate in the trenches on Gallipoli, British and Dominion troops launched a series of...
General James Longstreet

General James Longstreet

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History of the World

History of the World

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How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939

How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939

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In Our Time: The Speeches That Shaped the Modern World

In Our Time: The Speeches That Shaped the Modern World

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Starting Again

Starting Again

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The Real Great Escape

The Real Great Escape

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The Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front

The Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front

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Author: Max Arthur Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops had vanished and an eerie emptiness...
Lost at Sea: Found at Fukushima

Lost at Sea: Found at Fukushima

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Author: Andy Millar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 On a calm, tropical afternoon in the South Atlantic Ocean in April 1942, a British tramp steamer, the SS Willesden, was...
Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific

Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific

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Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR...
The Missing of the Somme

The Missing of the Somme

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Author: Geoff Dyer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and...
The Puzzles of Childhood: His Early Life

The Puzzles of Childhood: His Early Life

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The School That Escaped the Nazis

The School That Escaped the Nazis

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