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Author: Elie Wiesel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz...
White Fragility: Why Its So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Author: Robin Diangelo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility...
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
Author: Lucy Inglis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most...
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 - Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Author: Paul Stephenson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' - The Times Long before Rome fell...
Tom Stoppard: A Life
Author: Professor Dame Hermione Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 992 In this gripping narrative, Hermione Lee builds a unique portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Her biography is...
Vera Brittain: A Life
Author: Mark Bostridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The definitive biography of Vera Brittain, acclaimed author of Testament of Youth. With a new introduction by Mark Bostridge. 'Riveting and...
The Romanovs: The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one...
A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons
Author: Geoffrey Hindley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey...
The Reacher Guy: The Authorised Biography of Lee Child
Author: Heather Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 'A biography as gripping as one of Lee Child's own bestsellers' Ian Rankin 'Very enjoyable' The Times 'Vivid and entertaining' Telegraph...
Achtung Panzer!
Author: Heinz Guderian Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Published in 1937, the result of 15 years of study since his days on the German General Staff in World War...
The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State: Cruelty, Co-operation and Compromise, 1917-91
Author: Martyn Whittock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 '[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety. From worrying about the monsters under her...
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land
Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read...
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Author: Margalit Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation
Author: Joanne Limburg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family,...
Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49
Author: Jim Baggott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 An account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. This book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's FarmHall...
Written in History: Letters that Changed the World
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian...
SAS Shadow Raiders: The Ultra-Secret Mission that Changed the Course of WWII
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The incredible story of the radar wars - Britain's most secret battle In the winter of 1941 an alien-seeming object was...
The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks
Author: Jacob F. Field Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History...
The God Delusion
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic,...
How Democracies Die
Author: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Donald Drumpf's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy...
Holocaust Child: Lalechka - An Inspirational Story of Survival
Author: Amira Keidar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto by two courageous women. Holocaust Child is an inspirational story of...
D-Day: The Soldiers' Story
Author: Giles Milton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis Almost seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the...
I Am Not Your Negro
Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Baldwin's last, unrealized project comes to life, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race...
A Brief History of the Normans: The Conquests that Changed the Face of Europe
Author: Francois Neveux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The history of the Normans began a long time before 1066. Originating from the 'Norsemen' they were one of the most...
I Used to Know That: History
Author: Emma Marriott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, 'Hmmm, I've heard...
Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History
Author: Anna Aslanyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the...
On Palestine
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 On Palestine is Noam Chomsky and Ilan PappŽ's indispensable update on a suffering region. Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault...
A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis
Author: Nigel Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and...
In the Dream House: Winner of The Rathbones Folio Prize 2021
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Author: Carmen Maria Machado Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Ravishingly beautiful' - Observer 'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' - Irish Times 'Provocative and rich' - Economist 'Daring, chilling,...
Notes on a Nervous Planet
Author: Matt Haig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it? Looking at sleep, news,...
Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death
Author: Peter Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the...
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Author: Anna Funder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic for sure' Claire Tomalin, Guardian Extraordinary...
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything you ever wanted to know about the Romans but were afraid to ask
Author: Peter Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us - from our calendar and...
Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors
Author: Robby Krieger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'An attempt to retell an oft-told tale, this time informed by a desire to suck the hot air out of the...
Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe
Author: Mick Wall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'An epic tale, told the way it should be' RECORD COLLECTOR 'The book he was born to write' CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE...
Thinking Again
Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Necrophilia is not one of my failings, but I do like graveyards and memorial stones and such... Following the publication In...
Joan of Arc
Author: Helen Castor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 We all know the story of Joan of Arc. A peasant girl who hears voices from God. A warrior leading an...
Allegorizings
Author: Jan Morris Format: Hardback 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...
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you...
Rising Sun And Tumbling Bear: Russia's War with Japan
Author: Richard Connaughton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The Russians were wrong-footed from the start, fighting in Manchuria at the end of a 5,000 mile single track railway; the...
The Life of P.T. Barnum (Collins Classics)
Author: P. T. Barnum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th Century......
Bob Marley: The Untold Story
Author: Chris Salewicz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 What was it about Bob Marley that made him so popular in a world dominated by rock'n'roll? How is that he...
A Brief History of The Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis
Author: Martyn Whittock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features...
A Short History of the World in 50 Books
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilisation. It is a vessel for sharing stories,...
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
Author: Matthew Kneale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Nominated for the 2017 Pen Hessell-Tiltman Daily Telegraph's Best History Books of 2017 Sunday Times' Best History Books of 2017 A...
Hello, Stranger: Stories of Connection in a Divided World
Author: Will Buckingham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 What if meeting new people were a gift, not a burden? How might we transform our lives if we set aside...
The John Lennon Letters: Edited and with an Introduction by Hunter Davies
Author: John Lennon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary The Beatles musician and songwriter John Lennon John Lennon...