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Comfort in Darkness

Comfort in Darkness

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A masterwork from the world's greatest Jiu Jitsu fighter and international bestselling author of BREATHE. A mythic figure in fighting and a legendary member of the "first family of martial...
All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between

All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between

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A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England-Wales border: Britain's deepest faultline. There is...
Guiding Lights: The Extraordinary Lives of Lighthouse Women

Guiding Lights: The Extraordinary Lives of Lighthouse Women

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Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames to manning modern day lighthouses. Yet most of their stories are little-known. Guiding Lights is...
Comfort in Darkness

Comfort in Darkness

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A masterwork from the world's greatest Jiu Jitsu fighter and international bestselling author of BREATHE. A mythic figure in fighting and a legendary member of the "first family of martial...
The Bible in the Sixteenth Century

The Bible in the Sixteenth Century

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A distinguished group of authors here illuminate a broad spectrum of themes in the history of biblical interpretation. Originally published in 1990, these essays take as their common ground the...
A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France

A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France

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As scandalous as any modern-day celebrity murder trial, the "Giroux affair" was a maelstrom of intrigue, encompassing daggers, poison, adultery, archenemies, servants, royalty, and legal proceedings that reached the pinnacle...
An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada's Transimperial Greater Caribbean World

An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada's

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In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1860. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of New...
Through Ice & Fire

Through Ice & Fire

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Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them

Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them

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The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater

The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go

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Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see...
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient

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'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and...
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

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The No1 Sunday Times BestsellerA Waterstones Best Politics Book 2024A Mail on Sunday 'Best Holiday Read 2024''A searing expose' Glamour'A timely reminder of the dangers posed by men who crave...
Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys

Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their

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Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have played a vital role in mankind's development. For almost...
The Secretary

The Secretary

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The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co.

The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co.

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Otherland: A Journey with My Daughter

Otherland: A Journey with My Daughter

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The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

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Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed

Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed

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The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships

The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships

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Money: The Unauthorised Biography

Money: The Unauthorised Biography

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The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

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One Bloody Thing After Another: The World's Gruesome History

One Bloody Thing After Another: The World's Gruesome History

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The Game of Hearts: True Stories of Regency Romance

The Game of Hearts: True Stories of Regency Romance

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'Endlessly captivating' - Tracy Borman'Tantalising' - Gill Hornby'More scandal than Bridgerton's Lady Whistledown' - Helena KellyThe carriages have rolled back into town, cards of invitation are propped up on chimney-pieces,...
Culture: The surprising connections and influences between civilisations. 'Genius' - William Dalrymple

Culture: The surprising connections and influences between

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It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry,...
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the

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In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American...
My Russia: War or Peace?

My Russia: War or Peace?

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To the Promised Land: The Birth of Israel

To the Promised Land: The Birth of Israel

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Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World

Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World

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A SUNDAY TIMES BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOK OF 2022'Anyone in love with the arts will fall in love with this beautifully written and fascinating book' - Kathy BurkeAstonish Me!...
A Point of View

A Point of View

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Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

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You don't get to choose where you grow up, and for more than 80 per cent of the population, the boring, unadventurous and thoroughly unfashionable suburbs serve as their childhood...
Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them

Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for

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'Uproarious . . . [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories' The TimesFrom the Satanic Panic...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

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- 'Illuminating . . . an important book' Sunday Times- 'A fascinating journey through the social, cultural and historical meanings of breastfeeding. A sublime book' Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell...
My Russia: War or Peace?

My Russia: War or Peace?

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In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair

A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and

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'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 began...
Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control

Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control

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'A frankly brilliant book' - The Guardian'An extraordinarily engrossing and wide-ranging analysis of a word and a concept. I fell under its spell immediately' - Simon GarfieldIn 1953, a group...
My Russia: War or Peace?

My Russia: War or Peace?

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In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black [...]

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024'An...
Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare

Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare

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A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK 2023'Prepare to be blown away' CHIKWE IHEKWEAZU, Assistant Director General at WHO'Important and ambitious' OBSERVERThis...
Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

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'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan, talkRADIO'An important new book' Daily Express An alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever...
Black History Walks

Black History Walks

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From Elephant and Castle to Southwark, from London Bridge to Westminster, Black History Walks takes you to historic locations around the city of London and gives in-depth historical context for...
Sun Tzu's Art of War

Sun Tzu's Art of War

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People's Party: The History of the Labour Party

People's Party: The History of the Labour Party

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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black [...]

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024'An...
Migrants: The Story of Us All

Migrants: The Story of Us All

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Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move<'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph'Enjoyable, provocative and...
Physicians and their Images

Physicians and their Images

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A Voyage Around the Queen

A Voyage Around the Queen

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From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of One Two Three Four and Ma'am Darling turns his attention to Queen Elizabeth...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the...
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule

The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera'By...