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Soldier Spy
Author: Tom Marcus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Soldier Spy is to the war against the enemy at home what Bravo Two Zero was to Gulf War...
The Apocryphal Gospels
Author: Simon Gathercole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A new translation of the oldest non-canonical Christian gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary and...
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Author: Barbara Tuchman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 A classic history of fourteenth-century Europe, from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Guns of August The fourteenth century...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
Author: John Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler,...
The Civil War
Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Caesar's own account of his struggle with Pompey over leadership of Republican Rome A military leader of legendary genius,...
London: A Travel Guide Through Time
Author: Dr Matthew Green Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this...
The Wisdom of Wolves: How Wolves Can Teach Us To Be More Human
Author: Elli H. Radinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 What wolves can teach us about being human Love your family, care for your those around you, never...
Warhol: A Life as Art
Author: Blake Gopnik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive biography of one of the most famous and influential artists the world has ever seen When critics...
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life
Author: Daniel Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the...
Ferdinand Magellan (Little Guides to Great Lives)
Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Explorer, sailor and navigator, Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail all the way around the world. He encountered lands...
Nelson Mandela: Little Guides to Great Lives
Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist, Nelson Mandela's journey from political prisoner to president of South Africa is an incredible tale of...
This is Rembrandt
Author: Jorella Andrews Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Rembrandt van Rijn is the quintessential Old Master. His intimately observed, vivid and profoundly atmospheric works are what many museum-goers consider...
This is Matisse
Author: Catherine Ingram Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 In the history of twentieth century modernism, Henri Matisse is a calm and unstoppable revolution of creative genius. Trained originally in...
Tree Vision: Know Your Trees in 30 Cards
Author: Tony Kirkham Format: Cards Number of Pages: 31 Tree Vision is the ultimate card set to help you learn all about trees, their leaves, seeds, flowers and so much...
The History of Everything in 32 Pages
Author: Anna Claybourne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 In the beginning, about 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe started with a bang. Travel through time and space to learn...
Tracey Emin
Author: Jonathan Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the...
Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Oliver Stone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 *** "I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux "A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless." - Chris...
Global Art and the Cold War
Author: John J. Curley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In this readable and highly original book, John J. Curley presents the first synthetic account of global art during the...
A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue
Author: John Aldridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Film in development with The Weinstein Company In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was...
The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia
Author: David S. MacLean Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 2002, at twenty-eight years old, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped...
The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State
Author: Graeme Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A timely and essential rethinking of what ISIS is and what it really wants Based on Graeme Wood's unprecedented...
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
Author: Dr Neil MacGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The panoramic new history of belief from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects. No...
Who Discovered What When?
Author: David Ellyard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Who Discovered What When? is an absorbing and easy-to-read book about the growth of scientific ideas and knowledge since...
Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World
Author: Hugh Pope Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 413 A detailed portrait of the Turkic people explores events since World War I that have rendered the nation a vital NATO...
A History of the French Revolution
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Author: E. D. Bradby
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Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father
Author: George Goodwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian 'Fantastic' Dan Snow For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin...
The Cryotron Files: The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist
Author: Douglas Buck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the...
The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both
Author: Juno Dawson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'It's a boy!' or 'It's a girl!' are the first words almost all of us hear when we enter the world....
The Meritocracy Trap
Author: Daniel Markovits Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A revolutionary argument from an eminent Yale Law professor, attacking the myth of meritocracy to show how it has...
Pushing the Limits: The Two-Time World MotoGP Champion's Own Explosive Story
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Author: Casey Stoner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Casey Stoner, the two-time World MotoGP champion, tells his own explosive story. Showing anything is possible when determination meets...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87
Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy...
Seneca: A Life
Author: Emily Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a...
The Art of More: how mathematics created civilisation
Author: Michael Brooks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civilisation, as he explains...
A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis
Author: Nigel Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War...
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro
Author: Rachel Slade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a...
White Nights: A Colombian Odyssey
Author: Austin Galt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'God made Colombia the most beautiful country in the world so he had to balance it by inhabiting it...
Checking In: How Getting Real About Depression Saved My Life-and Can Save Yours
Author: Michelle Williams
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 240
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
Author: Brian Switek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our...
Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
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Author: Derek Leebaert (Georgetown University Washington DC) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire...
Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
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Author: Sunil Amrith (University of Cambridge) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 From a MacArthur Genius, a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to...
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
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Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
Macarthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II
Author: Peter Eisner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in the exotic landscape of occupied Manila during World War...
Oxford
Author: Matthew Rice Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Oxford is one of the jewels of European architecture, much loved and much visited. The city offers an unparallelled collection of...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures
Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent
Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that...
Salvador Dali at Home
Author: Jackie De Burca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Salvador Dali at Home explores the influence of Catalan culture and tradition, Dali's home life and the places he lived,...
Young Rembrandt: A Biography
Author: Onno Blom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 278 Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist...
The Minister and the Murderer: A Book of Aftermaths
Author: Stuart Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 1969, James Nelson confessed to murder, served a prison sentence, then applied to be ordained as a minster in the...