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Forgotten Women

Forgotten Women

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Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces...
TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy

TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy

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Author: Joyce Tyldesley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in...
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

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Author: Kate Mosse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Inspiring' - GUARDIAN 'Heartbreaking' - INDEPENDENT 'Beautiful' - MATT HAIG A Best Book for Summer in The Times, Guardian and The...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

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Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
Vital Organs

Vital Organs

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Author: Suzie Edge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts. Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy

The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy

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Author: Stein Ringen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises,...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

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Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

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Author: Simon Garfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable...
My Russia: War or Peace?

My Russia: War or Peace?

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Author: Mikhail Shishkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma':...
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

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Author: Sarah Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of...
Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea

Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea

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Author: Barbara Demick (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A spectacular, definitive portrait of ordinary life within one of the world's...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers

The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers

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Author: Maria Smilios Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside

Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside

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Author: Rebecca Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'Eye-opening and persuasive' SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant ... I loved it' KIT DE WAAL 'Thoughtful, moving, honest'...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

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Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 452 'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding...
Endgame

Endgame

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Author: Omid Scobie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

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Author: Simon IngsFormat: Hardback, 158mm x 236mm, 608g, 368 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN...
Wild Hope

Wild Hope

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Author: Marisa Bate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Retracing my mother's footsteps in search of women's freedom 1974. A 22-year-old Jacqui French stands for a photograph in...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

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Author: Michiko Kakutani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic...
The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history

The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history

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Author: Roland Ennos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A...
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

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Author: Michael Harriot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American...
The Great Divide

The Great Divide

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Author: Cristina Henriquez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST 'One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE...
GIRL: On Black Womanhood and Belonging

GIRL: On Black Womanhood and Belonging

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Author: Kenya Hunt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Powerful, intelligent and vital - one of the year's must-reads' Hannah Nathanson, Features Director, ELLE Featuring contributions from Candice Carty-Williams, Jessica...
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

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Author: Renee Bergland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin...
Gurawul the Whale: An ancient story for our time

Gurawul the Whale: An ancient story for our time

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Author: Max Dulumunmun Harrison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 'When I was 10 years old, I was given Gurawul's story by my grandfather Muns...in the dirt...they made me promise...
Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World

Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World

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Author: David Blistein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 over 60,000 Americans died as the result of opioid overdoses, more than died annually in this country during the...
Fear: A Cultural History

Fear: A Cultural History

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Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific:...
The New Socialist Handbook: Everything You Need to Know About Why It Matters Now

The New Socialist Handbook: Everything You Need to Know About Why It Matters Now

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Author: Dan Tucker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 From Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, the U.S. is witnessing a leftward shift that hasn't been...
Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers

Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers

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Author: Randy Malamud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 324 Virginia Woolf's novel famously begins - 'Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.' Of course she would: why would...
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History

A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History

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Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES...
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

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Author: Buzz Bissinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Instant New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation...
The Wager

The Wager

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Author: David Grann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of...
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology

Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology

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Author: Dr Frances Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma...
Today: A History of our World through 60 years of Conversations & Controversies

Today: A History of our World through 60 years of Conversations & Controversies

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Author: Sarah Sands Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Today is the sound of history being made - live on air. In an era of fake news, echo chambers and...
100 Letters that Changed the World

100 Letters that Changed the World

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Author: Colin Salter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A collection of the most inspiring and powerful letters of all time. The written word has the power to inspire, astonish...
Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings

Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings

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Author: Matt Lodder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made...
Heroic Animals: Amazing Creatures that Changed Our World

Heroic Animals: Amazing Creatures that Changed Our World

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Author: Clare Balding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ORDINARY ANIMAL. EVERY ONE HAS A HEROIC STORY TO TELL. Discover how . ....
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America

Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America

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Author: Curtis Bunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific eight minutes and...
This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's 'Kid A' and the Beginning of the 21st Century

This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's 'Kid A' and the Beginning of the 21st Century

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Author: Steven Hyden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline....
What It Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the present

What It Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the present

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Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which...
Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022

Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022

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Author: Andrea Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Andrea Elliott, comes the unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty...
The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

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Author: Oded Galor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A grand unifying theory of human flourishing and inequality from one of the world's pre-eminent thinkers A bold retelling of the...
1964: Eyes of the Storm

1964: Eyes of the Storm

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Author: Paul McCartney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Photographs and Reflections 'Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

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Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's lives back...
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

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Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history The modern era saw the emergence of...
The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

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Author: The Countess of Carnarvon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory...
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court

The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court

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Author: Gareth Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500...
We All Go into the Dark

We All Go into the Dark

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Author: Francisco Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A captivating, eloquent and deeply original book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read for true-crime fans across...
The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle

The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle

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Author: Anna Shechtman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off...