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Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 During these extraordinary times Greg Jenner is able to sign you a personalised bookplate for your hardback. Please email info@gregjenner.com with...
On Your Bike, Son!
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Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian 'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of...
Black Icons in Herstory
Author: Monica Ahanonu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Black Icons in Herstory is the follow-up book to Icons: 50 Heroines Who Shaped Contemporary Culture by Monica Ahanonu. Following the...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mother had fed her. Yet...
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
Author: Lucy Inglis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most...
The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Peniel E Joseph Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The...
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land
Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read...
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
Author: Saumya Roy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'If you read one book about India, read this one.' - Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure 'Mountain...
Capturing Time: Panoramas of old Australia
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Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery
Author: Alex Renton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it...
The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria
Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From Dr Annie Gray, presenter of BBC2's Victorian Bakers What does it mean to eat like a queen? Elizabeth gorged on...
Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization
Author: Andrew Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From antiquity until the present day, on every continent, human beings have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of periodic...
Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979
Author: Ysenda Maxtone Graham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Brilliant, hilarious... My book of the year' INDIA KNIGHT 'A wonderful book' CRAIG BROWN, Mail on Sunday 'Funny, bloodcurdling and...
How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere
Author: Peter Conrad Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'We Are All Americans Now' proclaimed headlines around the world on the day after 9/11. It was not news: it had...
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
Author: Jack Lowery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and...
When I Was Your Age: Ireland's Grandparents Share Memories and Wisdom
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...
Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II
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Author: Paul Betts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Winner of the American Philosophical Society's 2021 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History From an award-winning historian, a panoramic account of...
Remember the Forties
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Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land
Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read...
Dynasties 2: An Inside Look at More of Australia's Most Remarkable and Influential Families
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The Publishing Game: Adventures in Books: 150 years of Hodder & Stoughton
Author: Edward Stourton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Author, journalist and BBC presenter Ed Stourton delves into the Hodder & Stoughton archives to tell the human story of 150...
Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos
Author: Matt Lodder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on,...
RCP 10: The Global RCP
Author: Krishna Chinthapalli Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of...
Sex: Lessons From History
Author: Fern Riddell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Out now: the new book by Dr Fern Riddell, a powerful and entertaining history of sex. __________ These are the facts:...
Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do
Author: Tracy Dawson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In this entertaining and eye-opening collection, writer, actor, and feminist Tracy Dawson showcases trailblazers throughout history who disguised themselves as men...
I Have a Dream
Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Introducing the Martin Luther King Jr Library With a New Foreword by Amanda Gorman A beautiful collectible edition...
Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos
Author: Matt Lodder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on,...
Mythology of the British Isles
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Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society
Author: David Lammy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Thoughtful' Guardian Best Politics Books of 2020 'A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly...
Whitley - The Baptist College of Victoria, 1891-1991
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Live Working or Die Fighting
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Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do
Author: Tracy Dawson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In this entertaining and eye-opening collection, writer, actor, and feminist Tracy Dawson showcases trailblazers throughout history who disguised themselves as men...
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
Author: Edward Glaeser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world, turning the physical proximity which...
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 Great War: A Nation's Story
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Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube
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Race and Reckoning: From Founding Fathers to Today's Disruptors
Author: Ellis Cose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Ranging from chattel slavery, through the New Deal to the Covid pandemic, a groundbreaking work that investigates how pivotal decisions have...
Capital: Melbourne When It Was the Capital City of Australia 1901-27
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Justice All Their Own: Caledon Bay and Woodah Island Killings 1932-1933
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The Brazilians
Author: Joseph Page Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 A country warmly hospitable and surprisingly violent, physically beautiful, yet appallingly poor,these are the contrasts Joseph Page explores in The Brazilians,...
Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
Author: David Graeber Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything The Enlightenment...
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery
Author: Alex Renton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'An incredible work of scholarship' - Sathnam Sanghera Through the story of his own family's...
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON)
Author: Mr Richard King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 There is no present in Wales, / And no future; / There is only the past, / Brittle with relics...
Things I Have Withheld
Author: Kei Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so...
Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty
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Strength of Spirit: Pioneering Women of Achievement from First Fleet to Federation
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