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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and...
Facebook: The Inside Story
Author: Steven Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 From renowned tech writer Steven Levy, the complete history of one of America's most controversial and successful companies Today,...
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level
Author: Leander Kahney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An intimate look at the man who led Apple to be the world's first two-trillion-dollar company In 2011, Tim...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
Author: Valerie Hansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled...
The Monk of Mokha
Author: Dave Eggers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From San Francisco to Yemen, the gripping true story of a young American immigrant and his quest to resurrect...
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
Author: Jonathan Dimbleby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The tale of the campaign that determined the outcome of the Second World War - 'truly gripping' (Andrew Roberts)...
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person...
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One
Author: Miranda Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on...
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Author: John M Barry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called...
Sister Outsider
Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each...
Buckley's Chance
Author: Garry Linnell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The greatest Australian story never told - until now. He fought Napoleon's army and survived. He was sent to...
Raising Demons
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the...
Mao's Last Dancer
Author: Li Cunxin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Before you can fly, you have to be free. A new edition of the phenomenal international bestseller. From bitter...
The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi
Author: Robin de Crespigny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspiring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq...
The Trouble With Being Born
Author: E. M. Cioran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Darkly comic aphorisms on time, mortality and human relationships from one of the twentieth century's great philosophers 'Not...
The Fry Chronicles
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 National Treasure- noun - someone or something regarded as emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage, such as Stephen Fry...
Carry On, Warrior: From Glennon Doyle, the #1 bestselling author of Untamed
Author: Glennon Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The inspiring and universal true story of the transformative power of a mother's love. On Mother's Day, 2002, Glennon...
The Light in Hidden Places: Based on the true story of war heroine Stefania Podgorska
Author: Sharon Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A novel based on the incredible true story of Stefania Podg rska, a Polish teenager who hid 13 Jews...
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 The first part of an astonishing and revelatory new history of the Second World War from one of the...
The Shortest History of China
Author: Linda Jaivin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 China's past is key to the modern world. This nimble history of rogues, revolutions and rebellions can be read...
A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
Author: Robyn Annear Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This is a book about the making - and remaking - of a city. The demolition firm of Whelan...
Life on Air
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "The memoirs of the world's leading Natural History programme maker, updated and revised for 2009" "Sir David Attenborough is...
A Shorter History of Australia
Author: Geoffrey Blainey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians A broad, concise...
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire
Author: Priya Satia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An award-winning intellectual reconsiders the role of historians in political debate and the legacy of the British Empire For generations, British...
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
Author: Sarah Stewart Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A talented young planetary scientist traces our centuries-old obsession with a seemingly desolate planet Right now, spacecraft are circling Mars,...
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion
Author: Peter Heather Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A major new reinterpretation of the religious superstate that defined both Europe and Christianity, by one of our foremost medieval historians...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
Author: Christopher Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils...
When Darwin Sailed the Sea: Uncover how Darwin's revolutionary ideas helped change the world
Author: David Long Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 "One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand; then I...
Viking Voyagers
Author: Jack Tite Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 In this stylish non-fiction book, The Mega Meltdown creator Jack Tite turns his attention to the Vikings. Delve into the Viking...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
Author: Anna Reser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked,...
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time
Author: Tania Hershman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Here are the women whom time has forgotten; those who didn't make it into the history books and those whom society...
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology
Author: Dr Frances Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma...
You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals
Author: Elizabeth Foley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why settle for mere mortal excellence when you could be living like a goddess? You Goddess! takes us on a colourful...
The Messenger
Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
Author: Cheryl Strayed (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from...
The Journey Matters: Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style
Author: Jonathan Glancey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 What was it really like to take the LNER's Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King's Cross to Edinburgh, to...
How The Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria and the Riddle of Mental Illness
Author: Dr Allan Ropper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the...
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
Author: Norman Ohler (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony Beevor Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out...
The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003
Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
The Great Commanders of the Modern World 1866-1975
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Great Commanders of the Modern World is a sumptuous chronological survey of the 25 greatest commanders of the modern...
Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
Author: Patrick Garrett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'Unputdownable' Alexander McCall Smith 'One of the most unforgettable journalists I have ever met' Chris Patten 'She was a...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...
Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom
Author: Simon Barnes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Life on Planet Earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining. Ten Million Aliens...
Amazing Expeditions: Journeys That Changed The World
Author: Anita Ganeri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Throughout history, adventurers have always wondered what is beyond the next mountain, ocean, river... or even planet. Explorers head out to...
Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say
Author: Harriet Shawcross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated...
In A Time Of Monsters: Travels Through a Middle East in Revolt
Author: Emma Sky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American...
A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939
Author: Charles Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...