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Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower
Sparta - its legendary warriors and steadfast resilience are famous throughout the world as a model for toughness, justice and masculinity. The Spartans' reputation as fighters is matched only by...
Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime
'Enthralling' Philip Ball 'Ingenious' Sujit Sivasundaram In Tracks on the Ocean , Sara Caputo tells how our journeys around the globe became fixed lines on maps - and how journey...
Deep Sea Hunters
Beginning with the disastrous Norwegian Campaign, it takes in the numerous attacks on the bustling German submarine base at Lorient, the attack on Brest, as well as many other pivotal...
The Real Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes, born in York in 1570, is one of the key figures in British history, taking a central role in a plot that would have destroyed the ruling class...
Bosom Buddies: A Celebration of Female Friendships throughout History
Featuring 25 remarkable and inspiring female friendships throughout history, Bosom Buddies is an illustrated celebration of these empowering relationships. From the formidable Trung Sisters, to friendly rivals Katherine Mansfield and...
Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives
BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023 *Includes additional material* A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and black life and death from one of the...
Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP
THE IRISH TOP 10 BESTSELLER A gripping investigation into one of Irish history's greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of the most significant political assassinations to...
The Barbizon: The New York Hotel That Set Women Free
AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR ' Captivating ... a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York' Observer 'A fascinating look at a...
Diaries of Note: 366 Lives, One Day at a Time
'Captures moments in time like nothing else.' RICHARD E. GRANT 'Intimate . . . and rarely predictable.' MICHAEL PALIN 'Completely fascinating and inspiring. Completely addictive.' STEPHEN FRY 'A volume to...
Crunch: The History of Crisps
We are a nation of crisp obsessives. Squashed into sandwiches on our lunch breaks and torn-open as centrepieces on pub tables, we buy tens of millions of packets every single...
The Other Fab Four: Our life in Britain's first female rock 'n' roll
'In Liverpool everybody wanted to be in a band. On every street corner and in every cellar there were young fellas practising with guitars. But it was rare to see...
The Liverbirds: Our life in Britain's first female rock 'n' roll band
In the early '60s, four friends from Liverpool formed a band. But this is not the 'fab four' story we know . . .Mary, Sylvia, Valerie and Pamela - also...
The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music
The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years. Leaving school and starting his...
The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape
'Remarkable.' THE TIMES 'Wonderful.' GUARDIAN 'Fascinating.' TELEGRAPH 'As a portrait of a place, it's hard to better.' COUNTRY LIFE 'A thrill akin to discovering buried treasure.' RICHARD MABEY 'Humane, humorous...
Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
Is Santa Claus really a magic mushroom in disguise? Was Alice in Wonderland a thinly veiled psychedelic mushroom odyssey? Did mushroom tea kick-start ancient Greek philosophy? The 'magic mushroom' was...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story
"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...
A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class and
A History of the World in Six Plagues unveils a powerful and unsettling truth: epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. In this...
The Riviera Set
THE RIVIERA SET is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years...
Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged
How do writers and citizens in the different countries of the world view their own past? What key events and influences shaped those perspectives? And how accurate are the views...
Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read' At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb...
The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil War,
This gorgeously designed, definitive single-volume edition of Julius Caesar's complete works features a new translation, annotations, color maps, and illustrations. The Landmark Julius Caesar is the definitive edition of the...
Mexico: A History
This sweeping new history of Mexico spans 500 dramatic years of conquest, innovation and revolution It begins in 1511 with the shipwreck of two Spanish sailors in Yucatan. Only ten...
Capitalism: A Global History
A brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years A Financial Times Book of the Year No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively...
At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime
A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime. 'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR 'Fascinating' SUNDAY TIMES 'A splendid book ... great entertainment' Sir Patrick...
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade, surveys the tradition...
The Dead Sea: A 10,000-Year History
A human history of one of the planet's most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around...
Waiting for the Monsoon
By the New York Times 's legendary war correspondent, written while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep wisdom, and finding true happiness amid the unlikeliest...
Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid
Liz Truss's journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister The Sunday Times Politics Book of the YearA Guardian Politics Book of the Year 2023 'An insightful and at...
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History
A Waterstones Best History Book 2024 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' - Helen Fry, historian...
A Revolution of Common Sense: How Donald Trump Stormed Washington and
"Scott Jennings is a Patriot from the Great State of Kentucky... A Revolution of Common Sense was directly inspired by my Inaugural Address and the many Common Sense actions we...
A Voyage Around the Queen
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 ... 'GENIUS' A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the SPECTATOR , MAIL ON SUNDAY , NEW STATESMAN...
The Good Death Through Time
Can our forebears help us face complex questions of dying, now? 'I have quite a bit of understanding of white man's ways but it is difficult for me to understand...
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
"Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government." - The New York Times Book Review * "Well researched and eloquently presented." - The Atlantic...
The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin
A radical work of history that re-centers the American story around El Paso, Texas, gateway between north and south, center of indigenous power and resistance, locus of European colonization of...
The History Gossip: Was Anne of Cleves a Minger? and 365 Other
'History's hottest gossip' - You Magazine 'A tongue-in-cheek whirlwind through 365 days of history' - Sunday Post TikTok sensation Katie Kennedy, aka @TheHistoryGossip, serves up a delicious blend of fascinating,...
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
The surprising history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others On farms and in factories, Americans once had...
Guide to British Military History: The Subject and the Sources
What exactly is military history? Forty years ago it meant battles, campaigns, great commanders, drums and trumpets. It was largely the preserve of military professionals and was used to support...
Turning to Stone
WINNER OF THE 2025 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED NATURAL HISTORY WRITING 'Vast and arresting' SPECTATOR 'A remarkably human take on the geological world' NEW STATESMAN Rocks are the record...
Paper: Paging Through History
Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported...
The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally, a riveting social history of everything that led up...
China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world,...
Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That
On the 50 th anniversary of Talking Heads, acclaimed music biographer Jonathan Gould presents the long-overdue, definitive story of this singular band, capturing the gritty energy of 1970s New York...
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History of Time. 'An exquisite book' -
'A true joy. A work of staggering complexity and bewildering economy.' TELEGRAPH 'Every page glitters' SPECTATOR 'Mesmerising' NEW STATESMAN A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ______________________ In Hands...
Impossible Victories
Victory on the battlefield is sometimes achieved against the odds victory snatched from the jaws of apparently inevitable defeat. A daring counter attack, an unexpected manoeuvre, a stubborn refusal to...
A Tomb With a View - The Stories & Glories of Graveyards: Scottish
**WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021** **A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR** 'In his absorbing book about the lost and...
Hidden Treasures of the National Trust: Unlock the Stories Behind the
A beautiful gift for fans of the BBC Hidden Treasures of the National Trust. Go behind the scenes with the National Trust as they uncover extraordinary stories and save our...
Media Tarts Revised and Updated Edition
A powerful insight into how the media treats female politicians - now revised and updated with a new foreword by Annabel Crabb - from one of our foremost journalists and...
Money: A Story of Humanity
*AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION...