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Forgotten Women
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...