History

Author: Sunil Khilnani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical study that...

Author: Anthony R. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one...

Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that...

Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown....

Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensA short history of everybody...

Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 310 Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going...

Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...

Author: Carl Chinn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl Chinn The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit...

Author: David E. Hoffman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary...

Author: Philip Coggan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not...

Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...

Author: Cheryl Strayed (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from...

Author: Jonathan Glancey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 What was it really like to take the LNER's Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King's Cross to Edinburgh, to...

Author: Eric Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Just read it.' Elon Musk The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon...

Author: Kirsty Everett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down' Kirsty Everett was going to...

Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword...

Author: Casey Gerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the...

Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed...

Author: Rory MacLean Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of...

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....

Author: Agatha Christie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' - her own autobiography. Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976,...

Author: Captain David Render Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander. In 1944,...

Author: Ronan Farrow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan...

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,...

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...

Author: Helen Macdonald Format: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 320 **WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR****WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION****WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE TRANGER**'Dazzling....

Author: Richard Flanagan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the...

Author: Barrett Tillman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and...

Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Heather Morris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved.Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies'...

Author: Damian Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:

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...

Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and...

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...

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...

Author: Mark Bowden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Ranging from war journalism to crime stories to profiles on influential leaders to pieces on sports, gambling and the...

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Author: Robert C Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 376 Like every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. In this book, Robert Davis and Beth Lindsmith highlight dozens...

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...

Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: A History of British nightclubs.

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...

Author: Heinz Guderian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Published in 1937, the result of 15 years of study since his days on the German General Staff in...

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...