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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...
The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Peniel E Joseph Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Nadia's story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found...
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!
Author: Tom Scharpling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Tom Scharpling is good at being funny, which is a miracle, considering what he's survived. Like hitting a deer and narrowly...
Art Hiding in Paris: An Illustrated Guide to the Secret Masterpieces of the City of Light
Author: Lori Zimmer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Paris is the city of light, the city of love, and the city of more art than you could possibly explore...
The Passengers: Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023
Author: Will Ashon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience . . . funny, moving, surprising and thought-provoking. It humanises literature in this toxic...
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...
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...
Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
Author: Nigel Nicolson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita...
The Real Crown Jewels of England: 100 Places That Make Us Great
Author: Clive Aslet Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Written with both charm and elegance, The Real Crown Jewels of England is a triumphant tribute to some of England's original...
Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One
Author: Vishvapani Blomfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The words and example of Gautama (often known by the title, 'Buddha') have affected billions of people. But what do we...
A Brief History of the Vikings
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.' Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their...
Freefall
Author: Tom Read Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'This is BRAVO TWO ZERO meets ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. Tom Read's story had me on the edge of...
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
Author: Marjoleine Kars Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BERBICE SLAVE REBELLION Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass...
Dante
Author: Alessandro Barbero Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Since Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy it has defined how people imagine and depict not only heaven and hell, but...
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women
Author: Lady Antonia Fraser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian 'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals'...
Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society
Author: Roderic Fenwick Owen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but that is - amazingly - all...
The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
Author: John Dickie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 'Convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining' - Wall Street Journal THE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2020 'This book shows that, despite rumours...
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,...
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
Author: Saumya Roy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'If you read one book about India, read this one.' - Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure 'Mountain...
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers
Author: William Palmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read' NICK COHEN, Critic 'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'...
The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home
Author: Katherine May Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Perfect for fans of The Salt Path and The Outrun, this book is a life-affirming exploration of wild landscapes, what it...
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,...
What Language Do I Dream In?: My Family's Secret History
Author: Elena Lappin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Elena Lappin's life could be described as 'five languages in search of an author'. She now lives in London, but she...
A Brief History of the Atlantic
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In...
Deer Man: Seven Years in the Forest
Author: Geoffroy Delorme Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer for seven years....
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...
Goodbye to All That
Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The Western front through the eyes of a survivor 'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made...
Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People
Author: Dan Cruickshank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 SOHO - ILLICIT, GLAMOROUS, SORDID, LOUCHE, POVERTY-STRICKEN, SQUALID, EXHILARATING. One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank grants us an intimacy with...
Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant
Author: Michael Vatikiotis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and...
A Brief History of the Tudor Age
Author: Jasper Ridley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth...
Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In
Author: Freddie Foreman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law...
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...
Erebus: The Story of a Ship
Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time....
On Photography
Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 390 From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes the epic, visionary book, now in a revised edition with a new afterword,...
The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood
Author: Elias Canetti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'The Tongue Set Free is so beautifully written. It begins with an extraordinary image, Canetti's earliest memory. He comes out of...
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music
Author: Blair Tindall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Blair Tindall has been a professional oboe player for over twenty-five years. In this provocative memoir, she blows the lid off...
I Am What I Am
Author: John Barrowman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Anything Goes, John's first book, gave you the story so far. I Am What I Am reveals more about the man...
Small Bodies of Water
Author: Nina Mingya Powles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Where is the place your body is anchored?...
When You Lose It: Two voices. One true story. A mother and daughter on the edge. 'A very important subject' - ITV's This Morning
Author: Roxy Longworth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Read this book. Then talk to your sons. It is essential reading' Jamie Theakston 'An extraordinary and important book. Read it...
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery
Author: Alex Renton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it...
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Author: Blake Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 And when did you last see your father? Was it when they burnt the coffin? Put the lid on it? When...