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The Queen's Speeches: Poignant and Inspirational Speeches from Queen Elizabeth II's 70-Year Reign
Author: Lucy York Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 During her 70-year reign she delivered many poignant, touching and inspirational speeches, always with a warmth and sincerity, many of which...
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
Author: David Talbot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells America's greatest untold story: the United States' rise to world dominance...
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
Author: Richard Hurowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 "In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration,...
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...
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...
Guns, Germs and Steel: The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition)
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens A short history of everybody for...
The Witches: Salem, 1692
Author: Stacy Schiff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die...
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
Author: James Hannam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilised behaviour. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could...
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...
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...
My Own Words
Author: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg-"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly...
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...
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 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...
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...
One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives
Author: Dr Matt Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had...
Phosphorescence: Winner of the Australian Book Industry BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021
Author: Julia Baird Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The national bestseller, Phosphorescence is a beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that...
Hit Refresh: A Memoir by Microsoft's CEO
Author: Satya Nadella Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Microsoft's CEO tells the inside story of the company's continuing transformation, while tracing his own journey from a childhood in India...
Destination Buchenwald: The astonishing survival story of Australian and New Zealand airmen in a Nazi death camp
Author: Colin Burgess Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The harrowing story of the Allied airmen who experienced the true horrors of Nazism firsthand. It was the summer of 1944...
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet...
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown
Author: James McBride Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A formidable free-style book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music...
Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy
Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. 'What is the finest sight in the...
Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION AND NEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare...
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
Author: Katherine Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story...
Unbought and Unbossed
Author: Shirley Chisholm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 "A tremendously impressive book."-Washington Post "Her motto and title of her autobiography-Unbought and Unbossed-illustrates her outspoken advocacy for women and minorities...
His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
Author: Fred Kaplan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the...
The Lion And The Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy
Author: Alexander Rose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain...
The Family Outing: A Memoir
Author: Jessi Hempel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Fascinating, funny, and wise, The Family Outing is an affirmation to all of us who know the pain and shame of...
The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club
Author: Julie Welch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 When Julie Welch called in her first ever football report at the Observer, an entire room of men fell silent. Heart...
Long Drawn Out Trip: A Memoir
Author: Gerald Scarfe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In 1964 a young artist sat in the public gallery of the House of Commons, sketching former Prime Minister Winston Churchill....
Last of the Giants: The True Story of Guns N' Roses
Author: Mick Wall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Last Of the Giants is the mad, funny, dark and often painful story of a lost band from a now-distant time'...
Prime: Art's Next Generation
Author: Phaidon Editors Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The most exciting rising stars in contemporary art - who's who and what's next - featuring 107 artists born since 1980,...
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland
Author: Patrick Radden Keefe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DUA LIPA BEST...
Shakespeare
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A new edition of bestselling author Bill Bryson's compelling and concise biography of William Shakespeare, to mark the 400th anniversary of...
Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific
Author: Christina Thompson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history...
Face It: A Memoir
Author: Debbie Harry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'I was saying things in songs that female singers didn't really say back then. I wasn't submissive or begging him to...
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Collins Modern Classics)
Author: Jung Chang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light...
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by...
Young Bucks: Killing the Business from Backyards to the Big Leagues
Author: Matt Jackson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The electric and daring independent wrestling tag team share their inspiring story of how two undersized, ambitious athletes from Southern California...
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it,...
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Author: Miranda Seymour Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme
Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In...
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror...
The Pilgrimage
Author: Paulo Coelho Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A Journey for the Ages The Pilgrimage paved the way to Paulo Coelho's international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In many ways,...
Boleyn Boy: My Autobiography
Author: Mark Noble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton...
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
Author: Kati Marton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An...