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The Missing of the Somme
Author: Geoff Dyer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and...
On the Horizon
Author: Lois Lowry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's...
This Day in History: A 365-Day Tour of History's Most Fascinating, Important and Strange Facts and Figures
Author: Cider Mill Press Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Have you ever wondered what happened on your birthday hundreds of years ago This Day in History is perfect for...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Author: J. D. Vance Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June) 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday Times 'You...
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
Author: David de Jong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Lucid and damning ... an absorbing - and infuriating - tale of complicity, coverup and denial' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author...
The Times Great Events: 200 Years of History as it Happened
Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 An accessible compilation of news-breaking stories from The Times. As one of Britain's leading newspapers for more than 200 years The...
Russia: Myths and Realities
Author: Sir Rodric Braithwaite Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Russia is the largest country in the world, with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over a thousand years this...
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History
Author: Ian Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Geography is Destiny tells the history of Britain and its changing relationships with Europe and the wider world, from its physical...
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City
Author: Matthew Teller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. The Old City has never had 'four quarters'...
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 - Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Author: Paul Stephenson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the...
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
Author: Lucy Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilisation had...
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
Author: Amit Katwala Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector...
Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home
Author: Benjamin Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." -Kirkus...
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages
Author: Martyn Whittock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this...
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom
Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy...
Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Few ancient works have been as influential as the MEDITATIONS of Marcus Aurelius. A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom,...
A Brief History of Science: through the development of scientific instruments
Author: Thomas Crump Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 From earliest pre-history, with the dawning understanding of fire and its many uses, up to the astonishing advances of the twenty-first...
The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times - World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
Author: Nina Siegal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The...
The World According to Joan Didion
Author: Evelyn McDonnell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who...
The Art Of Happiness
Author: Dalai Lama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 190 In this unique and important book one of the worlds great spiritual leaders offers his practical wisdom and advice on how...
Down and Out in Paris and London: The classic reimagined with cover art by Shepard Fairey
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was...
Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI
Author: The RNLI Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this...
Hidden Histories: 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class
Author: Tim Rayborn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we've heard a hundred times-but often our...
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
Author: Safiya Sinclair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Dazzling. Potent. Vital' TARA WESTOVER 'To read it is to believe that words can save' MARLON JAMES 'I adored this book...
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons
Author: Cat Jarman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES From bioarchaeologist and bestselling author...
Worthy
Author: Jada Pinkett Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A gripping, painfully honest and ultimately inspirational, New York Times bestselling memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red...
Abyss: World on the Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile...
The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival
Author: Ron DeSantis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it. He...
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
Author: Cody Keenan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan's new book...
Heavy Metal: The Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America's Supercarriers
Author: Michael Fabey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An extraordinary story of American can-do, an inside look at the building of the most dangerous aircraft carrier in the world,...
Tired and Tested: The Wild Ride Into Parenthood
Author: Sophie McCartney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Welcome to the jungle... When you've grown up thinking your twenties are all about working hard, playing hard and trying not...
The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution
Author: Peter Bradley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Haunting.' Jonathan Freedland 'Powerful.' Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust,...
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
Cold-Water Eden
Author: Richie Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An immersive memoir about a groundbreaking surfing career, and a stunning portrait of Ireland as one of the world's most captivating...
King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne
Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Stunning, photographic King Charles III memorabilia gift for royal fans As the nation celebrates the coronation of...
Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by the Women Left Behind
Author: Katherine MacInnes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry ... A welcome contribution to polar studies.' Sara Wheeler, Spectator '[MacInness] handles the...
The Day the World Came to Town Updated Edition: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Author: Jim DeFede Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway's Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material...
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
Author: Daniel Finkelstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS 'A modern classic' OBSERVER...
The Right Kind of Confident: The Remarkable Grit of a God-Fearing Woman
Author: Mary A. Kassian Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 What if we stopped placing our confidence in the things of this world-and instead put our trust in the only...
The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
Author: Anna Keay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR...
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain
Author: Paul Preston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is...
Wavewalker: Breaking Free
Author: Suzanne Heywood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES 'A seven-year old girl on a...
A Class Act
Author: Rob Beckett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Pacy, witty and affectionate' Guardian Rob Beckett never seems to fit in. At work, in the middle-class world of television and...
Living Brave: Lessons from Hurt, Lighting the Way to Hope
Author: Shannon Dingle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "Shannon's struggle, defiance, strength, and power emanate from every page. That kind of brave can be trusted." - Glennon Doyle, #1...
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama)
Author: C. S. Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in...
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey: The fascinating true story about the life of colonial Australia's most powerful woman from the bestselling award winning author of Mrs Kelly, Banks and Hudson Fysh
Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first female entrepreneur and the most powerful...
The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America
Author: Marcus J. Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 __________ 'Essential reading' Rolling Stone 'A must read. The best bit of literature currently out there on Kendrick Lamar' VICE...