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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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed....
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (Collins Modern Classics)
Author: Margot Lee Shetterly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The #1 New York Times Bestseller Set amid the civil rights movement, the...
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
Author: Nigel Biggar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet...
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London
Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked...
Dear Senthuran: A Black spirit memoir
Author: Akwaeke Emezi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Unlike anything I've read . . . Remarkable.' - Roxane Gay 'An audacious sojourn through the terror and beauty of refusing...
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
Author: Matthew Continetti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 A "superb" and "ambitious" (New York Times) intellectual and political history of the last century of American conservatism When most people...
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City
Author: Matthew Teller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Original and illuminating ... what a good book this is' - Jonathan Dimbleby 'A love letter to the people of the...
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain
Author: Matthew Green Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This...
How Sugar Corrupted the World: From Slavery to Obesity
Author: Professor James Walvin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when...
America Over the Water
Author: Shirley Collins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Shirley is a time traveller, a conduit for essential human aches, one of the greatest artists who ever lived' Stewart Lee...
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban
Author: Malala Yousafzai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 *Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize* In 2009 Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog on BBC Urdu about life in...
Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain
Author: Danny Goldberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground...
Russia: Myths and Realities
Author: Sir Rodric Braithwaite Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Wise and thorough' - The Spectator 'Brisk and readable ... very valuable' -Financial Times 'He is an engaging guide ......
Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture
Author: Barbara Charone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand,...
Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit
Author: Philip Stephens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new...
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music
Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Supple, intricate and uncompromising, full of delicate observation andinsight, Amit Chaudhuri's Finding the Raga immerses us in the rigorousbeauty and cosmology...
A History of Royal Britain in 100 Objects
Author: Gill Knappett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 126 From the glory of coronation regalia to coins, from imposing statues to stamps, from distinguished medals to monuments, and from beautiful...
Welcome to Motherhood, Bitches: The Real Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond
Author: Victoria Emes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The real guide to pregnancy, birth and beyond. I'm assuming you've picked up this book because you're either curious...
The Year of Magical Thinking (Collins Modern Classics)
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...
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Author: Chris Kyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 SIX MILLION COPIES SOLD. THE SOURCE FOR THE HIGHEST-GROSSING WAR MOVIE OF ALL TIME. The #1 New York Times...
Cold-Water Eden
Author: Richie Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An immersive memoir about a groundbreaking surfing career, and a stunning portrait of Ireland as one of the world's...
Bert Hinkler: The Most Daring Man In The World
Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 454 The thrilling life of aviation pioneer Bert Hinkler, dubbed 'the most daring man in the world' Grantlee Kieza tells...
Open: An Autobiography
Author: Andre Agassi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to...
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Author: Jung Chang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 One of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years, 'Wild Swans' is an epic true story of how...