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The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty
Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet it's too often dismissed as something which only...
Inheritance: The tragedy of Mary Davies: Property & madness in eighteenth-century London
Author: Leo Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "In June 1701, a young widow, Mary Grosvenor wakes up in a hotel room in Paris and finds a man in...
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
Author: Louise Willder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 It's good to judge a book by its cover. Drawing on her 25 years writing blurbs for Penguin books, Louise Willder...
Railways
Author: Christian Wolmar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival...
Sweat: A History of Exercise
Author: Mr. Bill Hayes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'I was riveted by Sweat and its extraordinary tale of the ups and downs of exercise over millennia' Jane Fonda...
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories
Author: Diarmuid Hester Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 How do places make us, and how do we make them? At the turn of the century, in the shade of...
The Britannias: An Island Quest
Author: Alice Albinia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The story of Britain told through its islands - a personal journey through an ancient landscape The Britannias tells the story...
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
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An Uncommon Hangman: The life and deaths of Robert 'Nosey Bob' Howard
Author: Rachel Franks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 **Winner, The Danger Awards 2023, People's Choice Awards** **Shortlisted, The Danger Awards 2023, Non-fiction** Executioners were once a critical component of...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951
Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...
Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust
Author: Eimear McBride Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'A fearless, interrogative work ... A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose' - Sinead Gleeson Here, Eimear McBride unpicks...
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist)
Author: Sarah Chaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* *A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* 'Excellent ... one...
Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain
Author: Rob Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A striking expose of the insidious business practices that have generatedenormous profits for the companies operating within the UK's gamblingindustry. 'A...
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
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All at Sea
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What'S Golf?: The First 50 Years of the Cranbourne Golf Club
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Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain's Lost Love of the Orient
Author: Fatima Manji Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Channel 4 News reporter and broadcaster Fatima Manji explores British history and identity through the art, objects and architecture that found...
Biracial Britain: What It Means To Be Mixed Race
Author: Remi Adekoya Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life...
Power Players: Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency
Author: Chris Cillizza Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often...
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON)
Author: Mr Richard King Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change. In...
Power Players: Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency
Author: Chris Cillizza Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often...
Biracial Britain: What It Means To Be Mixed Race
Author: Remi Adekoya Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life...
Our Voices From The Heart: The authorised story of the community campaign that changed Australia
A behind-the-scenes book about the Uluru Statement From The Heart, from the co-chairs of the Uluru Dialogue, Professor Megan Davis and Patricia Anderson, AO. The Australian story began long before...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone?...
Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook
Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply worked hard...
A History of Ocean Liners in 50 Objects
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...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes...
The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project
Author: Robert S. Boynton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens - perhaps hundreds - of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos...
Safe: 20 Ways to be a Black Man in Britain Today
Author: Derek Owusu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'This is an inspiring collection of essays ... Every page of this book breaks down stereotypes of what being a Black...
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
Author: Jacqueline Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made...
Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
Author: John Grindrod Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Barratt homes. Spectacular skyscrapers. Millennium monuments. City centre apartments. Out of town malls. These icons of our age, be they modest...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
Letters of Note: Mothers
Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and about mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour...
Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain
A striking expose of the insidious business practices that have generatedenormous profits for the companies operating within the UK's gamblingindustry.'A methodical, sensitive and occasionally harrowing polemic about the gamblingindustry ....
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 Unsettlers: In Search Of The Good Life In Today's America
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Luxury and Austerity
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Policing Provincial England, 1829-1856: The Politics of Reform
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The Last Time I Saw Paris
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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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Pride of Hotham: A Tale of North Melbourne and a Red-haired Architect
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The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation
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The Old Gays' Guide to the Good Life
Author: Mick Peterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'I've fallen in love with this fabulous foursome ... They are a phenomenon!' Drew Barrymore From @theoldgays, the internet's most beloved...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Paperback 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...
Shakespeare's Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
Author: Chris Laoutaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed' Financial Times...
Tooth and Nail: the Story of the Rabbit in Australia: The Story of the Rabbit in Australia
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A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: James Hamilton (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us...