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Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
Author: Roger Crowley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in...
A History of the Arab Peoples: Updated Edition
Author: Malise Ruthven Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples...
Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits
Author: Barney Hoskyns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, Lowside of the Road is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on...
Touching From a Distance
Author: Deborah Curtis (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The only in-depth biographical account of the legendary lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow. Includes a foreword...
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew
Author: Julia Copus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'An exquisitely told account of the life of a half-forgotten London poet whose work was admired by Hardy, Sassoon and Virginia...
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Engrossing.' -Observer 'Remarkable.' - The Times 'Magnificent.'- Phillipe Sands 'Gripping.'- Literary Review 'A history so outlandish and unlikely that you feel...
The Great Peace: A Memoir
Author: Mena Suvari Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The Great Peace is a harrowing, heartbreaking coming-of-age story set in Hollywood, in which young teenage model-turned-actor Mena Suvari lost herself...
The English Civil Wars: 1640-1660
Author: Blair Worden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the...
Testament Of Youth: Film Tie In
Author: Vera Brittain Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE With an introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge 'Remains one of the most powerful and widely...
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Author: Helen Castor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 When Edward VI - Henry VIII's longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the...
Paths of Glory: The French Army, 1914-18
Author: Anthony Clayton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Anthony Clayton is an acknowledged expert on the French military and his book is a major contribution to the study and...
Girl in a Band
Author: Kim Gordon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells...
From Manchester with Love: The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson
Author: Paul Morley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 'Reading From Manchester With Love I feel I understand the times we've lived through differently, better, and from new angles. The...
Friends and Enemies: A Memoir
Author: Barbara Amiel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Included in The Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year round-ups 'Friends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching...
End to End: 'A really great read, fascinating, moving' Adrian Chiles
Author: Paul Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A really great read, fascinating, moving' Adrian Chiles The End to End record is the longest place-to-place cycling record in Britain....
Deer Man: Seven Years in the Forest
Author: Geoffroy Delorme Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'Haunting, remarkable and ultimately very moving' Sunday Times The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature...
Debs at War: 1939-1945
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Author: Paul Auster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 'Exhilarating.' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 'Sharp-eyed and revealing.' The New Yorker 'Brilliant . . ....
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Author: Russell Shorto Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin...
Allegorizings
Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...
Homage to Catalonia
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic...
Infidel
Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today's most admired and controversial political figures. She burst into international headlines following the murder...
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Author: Matthew Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The Waste Land is said to be the greatest poem of the age. It is thought to describe the moral decay...
The Twins of Auschwitz: The inspiring true story of a young girl surviving Mengele's hell
Author: Eva Mozes Kor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins. In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes...
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Author: Stacy Schiff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A Top 10 Best Books of the Year (Wall Street Journal), Top 10 Best Nonfiction (Time), Top 5 Nonfiction (LA Times),...
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner
Author: Andrea Wulf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill...
Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture
Author: Justine Picardie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Miss Dior explores the relationship between the visionary designer Christian Dior and his beloved younger sister Catherine, who inspired his most...
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared...
Mary, Queen of Scots
Author: Jenny Wormald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naive, beautiful and sexually...
James Acaster's Classic Scrapes - The Hilarious Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: James Acaster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me cry with laughter as much...
If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't...
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian 'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of...
Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History
Author: Dr. Ada Ferrer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights...
Coal Black Mornings
Author: Brett Anderson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in COAL BLACK MORNINGS he traces the journey...
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption
Author: Ben Mezrich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES and BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, comes BITCOIN BILLIONAIRES...
Ataturk
Author: Andrew Mango Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 This biography of Atat rk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain...
All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying
Author: Ruth Coker Burks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A renegade Florence Nightingale cares for the ill in a remarkable tale of compassion and combating prejudice" The Guardian 'Breath-taking...
The Diary of a Young Girl
Author: Anne Frank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 220 une, 1942- I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide...
The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia
Author: P.E. Caquet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain spoke...
The Great Game
Author: Peter Hopkirk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth; Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia; fought a secret war in...
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes...
The Car: The rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world
Author: Bryan Appleyard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . . . Its...
Liar's Poker: From the author of the Big Short
Author: Michael Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms...
No Shame: a queer life in suburbia
Author: Tom Allen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Excellent - I inhaled it, I absolutely loved it!... it's moving, and funny...It's a beautiful, beautiful read...for anyone who wants to...
Andy Warhol
Author: Wayne Koestenbaum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Properly analytical ... always entertaining' TIME OUT 'Should tempt both those generally familiar with Andy Warhol and, even more, young people...
Schindler's Ark: The Booker Prize winning novel filmed as 'Schindler's List'
Author: Thomas Keneally Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was...
A Prayer for Gallipoli: The Great War Diaries of Chaplain Kenneth Best
Author: Gavin Roynon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War - others insisted on doing so,...