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The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Author: Eric Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Just read it.' Elon Musk The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon...
Out of the Woods
Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD 'This is a book...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
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Author: Jeffrey Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead...
Fatherland: A Family History
Author: Nina Bunjevac Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland renders the searing history of the Balkans in the...
The White Album
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of...
The Great Commanders of the Medieval World 454-1582AD
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 What qualities made Attila the Hun a strategist of genius? How did Henry V of England achieve victory at...
Alfred the Great
Author: Justin Pollard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Alfred is the only English king ever to be called 'Great'. It was not a title given by political...
Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her...
After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank
Author: Eva Schloss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless...
It Is What It Is
Author: David Coulthard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From his quiet beginnings in rural Scotland to his multi-millionaire lifestyle in Monte Carlo, where he owns one of...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed...
Berlin: Imagine a City
Author: Rory MacLean Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the...
The Story of Egypt
Author: Joann Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The story of the world's greatest civilisation spans more than 4000 years of history that has shaped the world....
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged
Author: Andrew Marr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Sunday Times bestseller Now a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan Morris....
Popism
Author: Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett Format:Paperback Number of Pages: A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre...
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by the winner of the Nobel prize in literature On 26 April...
The Story of Australia's People Vol. II: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia
Author: Geoffrey Blainey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The much-anticipated second instalment of Geoffrey Blainey's history of Australia's people - his most ambitious work to date -...
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
Author: Paul Brannigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's...
The Making of Australia
Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable...
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Perfectly timed for the anniversary, this is the new single-battle epic from bestselling author, James Holland - the only...
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Author: James Boswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of...
The Blind Watchmaker
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an...
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Extraordinary stories about Soviet children's experiences in the Second World War, from Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it...
American Spirit: Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith
Author: Taya Kyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The "American Sniper" legacy continues: Taya Kyle celebrates the American Spirit in her inspiring new book Life leads us...
Special Ops Heroes
Author: Michael Ashcroft Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Special Ops Heroes tells the extraordinary stories behind Lord Ashcroft's collection of SAS and other Special Forces medals - the largest...
The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914
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Author: Malcolm Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'The sky was lit by burning villages and houses . . . Rivers and seas of flame leaping up...
The Little Book of Big Ideas: 150 Concepts and Breakthroughs that Transformed History
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Author: Daniel Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: An exploration of some of the most important and enduring ideas in human history - from religion, science, philosophy, medicine,...
The Histories
Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 One of the great books in Western history and the very first work of non-fiction, in Tom Holland's compelling new...
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
Author: Pankaj Mishra Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a...
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765
Author: Richard M. Eaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A magisterial history of the Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast...
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed...
A History of the Crusades II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187
Author: Steven Runciman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage...
Berlin Finale
Author: Heinz Rein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of...
The Age of Alexander
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45
Author: Volker Ullrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ' The...
The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true
Author: Richard Dawkins (Oxford University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 "An inspiring introduction to science and a fascinating exploration of the natural world." "Magic takes many forms....
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Author: Richard Dawkins (Oxford University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Britain's greatest science writer comprehensively rebuts the creationists by pulling together the incontrovertible evidence for evolution Charles...
A Pair of Silver Wings
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 ______________ It can take a lifetime to heal the wounds of war 'Brings history to life' Guardian ______________ Edward...
Icons of England
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 England- our favourite things, by well-known names led by Bill Bryson, Michael Palin and Eric Clapton. This celebration of...
Normandy '44: D-Day and the Battle for France
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 From established historian James Holland, this is the top ten bestselling and second biggest history book of 2019. 'A...
Berlin: The Downfall 1945: The Number One Bestseller
Author: Antony Beevor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A classic work from the international mega-seller, Antony Beevor, on the terrifying end to the Second World War The...
The French Revolution and What Went Wrong
Author: Stephen Clarke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution and how it could have been avoided, by Stephen Clarke,...
Europe: The First 100 Million Years
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Accompanying the release of his new book Life- Selected Writings, this new format of Europe presents one of Tim...
The Fatal Shore
Author: Robert Hughes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 "An extraordinary vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler"...