History

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 . ....

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...

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...

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...

Author: Sam Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Fascinating.' - Hilary Mantel 'Terrific.' - New Scientist 'Gripping.' - Financial Times What if you had a vision that something terrible...

Author: James Mann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Celebrate six decades of outrageous, unforgettable Lamborghini cars with this must-have volume featuring fascinating history and stunning photography. Sixty years ago,...

Author: James Belich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age....

Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 This fascinating book tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a...

Author: Ambelin Kwaymullina Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 *Longlisted for the 2021 ABIAs: Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year* You are on Indigenous lands, swimming in Indigenous waters,...

Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...

Author: Victoria Flexner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 For every lover of food culture, this scrupulously researched and accessible cookbook presents one-of-a-kind dinner parties inspired by seminal moments in...

Author: Ms. Rachael Lennon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of...

Author: Adam Sisman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive...

Author: Richard Glover Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to...

Author: Dan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The third volume in the much-admired The Colour of Time series. A Woman's World, 1850-1960 explores the many roles - domestic,...

Author: Natalie Koch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 The iconic deserts of the American southwest could not have been colonized and settled without the help of desert experts from...

Author: Virginia Cowles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Paris as it fell to the Nazis London on the first day of the Blitz Berlin the day Germany invaded Poland...

Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew...

Author: Roger Crowley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the...

Author: Melvyn Bragg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Melvyn not only makes you think ... he makes it enjoyable too. He's brilliant.' - John Humphrys, the Today Programme. 'In...

Author: Preeti Dhillon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality, and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before....

Author: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it's often...

Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn' 'Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only...

Author: Dick Strawbridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE ENTERTAINING AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but...

Author: Frieda Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Times Best Book to Watch out for in 2023 A Guardian '2023 in books: highlights for the year ahead' Book...

Author: Martin Marix Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Presents the Allied and German experience of war, both militarily and at a personal level on the ground. Illustrated throughout.

Author: Mikey Robins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey...

Author: Richard Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 784 MAKING HISTORY is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether...

Author: John Eidinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten...

Author: Valerie Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 INCLUDES INTERVIEWS WITH BERTIE AHERN, MARY KENNEDY, SEAN O'ROUKE, MARY COUGHLAN AND MANY OTHERS. What was life like for Ireland's grandparents...

Author: Mark Berry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 The story of ocean liners brought to life by objects and ephemera, revealing life on board, luxury and magnificence, and peril...

Author: Rob Young Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 Growing up in the 1970s, Rob Young's main storyteller was the wooden box with the glass window in the corner of...

Author: Joe Moran Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 But what does your furniture point at?' asks the character Joey in the sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance has no...

Author: Abdul Rahman Azzam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A tale of a real-life Robinson Crusoe and his total retreat from human society. The first known inhabitant of St...

Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI 'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRIS Why is Italy called Italy? How...

Author: Will Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 How were the hunter-gatherers of Gobekli Tepe able to build a series of stunning stone monuments six thousand years before Stonehenge?...

Author: Nazneen Khan-Ostrem Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the...

Author: Diana Souhami Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Murder at Wrotham Hill takes the killing in October 1946 of Dagmar Petrzywalski as the catalyst for a compelling and unique...

Author: James Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I absolutely loved it' James O'Brien Twitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history...

Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution...

Author: Mary Pat Kelly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of...

Author: Patrick Bishop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From the bestselling author of 'Fighter Boys', the true story of two ruthless adversaries and a wartime killing that shook the...

Author: Jill Burke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced to the 16th century? As the Renaissance visual world became populated...

Author: David Runciman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to...

Author: Herb Frazier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea...

Author: Peter Watson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before and spread out to populate...

Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with...

Author: Paul Simpson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 How many colours are there? In the West we see seven, but the Chinese see five, while the Piraha tribe in...