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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
Author: Richard Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 784 'A huge, fizzing omnium-gatherum of a book . . . marvellous' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, wise and elegant . . . a...
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland
Author: Tom Parfitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden 'Tom Parfitt has re-invented travel writing for the 21st century' Oliver Bullough On 1...
Yorkshire: There and Back
Author: Andrew Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood...
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
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Author: Kevin Hazzard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police...
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
Author: Kenneth R. Manning (Professor of the History of Science, Professor of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 This biography illuminates the...
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Author: Elizabeth Hinton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors' Choice A...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from...
30-Second Twentieth Century: The 50 most significant ideas and events, each explained in half a minute
Author: Jonathan T. Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 You probably know, or think you know, quite a bit about what happened in the 20th century - chances are,...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
Author: Matthew Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full...
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior Republican to stand up to Donald Trump
Author: Liz Cheney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds
Author: Simon Ings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow...
A Concise History of the World Since 1945: States and Peoples
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Tivoli: Hardback + 60 Minute Music CD
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Jeedara: One Alliance, One Ancient People and an Expedition for the Greataustralian Bight
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The Edwardians
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The Confession of Katherine Howard
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Letters of Love
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Six Men Out of the Ordinary
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The Soul: A History of the Human Mind
Author: Paul HamFormat: Hardback, 164mm x 241mm, 1098g, 800 pagesPublished: Random House Australia, Australia, 2024The Soul is a history of the human mind, from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to...
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world
Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 An immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora 'A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history' Sunday Times 'Impressive, provocative and...
Forgotten Women
Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces...
TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy
Author: Joyce Tyldesley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in...
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love
Author: Kate Mosse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Inspiring' - GUARDIAN 'Heartbreaking' - INDEPENDENT 'Beautiful' - MATT HAIG A Best Book for Summer in The Times, Guardian and The...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
Age of Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws and the Forerunners of Corporate Change
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Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
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Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage
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Octavia, Daughter of God
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Donald Horne: Selected Writings
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Over Earth and Ocean: the Archers of Tolderodden and Gracemere: The Archers of Tolderodden and Gracemere: a Queensland Pioneering Saga Spanning Two Centuries
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The Race to the Future: The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century, Radio 4 Book of the Week
Author: Kassia St Clair Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'An incredible and stirring story . . . a mix of competition, camaraderie as well as a larky sense of...
Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age
Author: Ysenda Maxtone Graham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins 'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The...
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
Author: William Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Lost in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of being vile and poisonous,...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers
Author: Maria Smilios Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds
Author: Katie Spalding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit. The...
Vital Organs
Author: Suzie Edge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts. Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
Author: Stein Ringen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises,...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable...
My Russia: War or Peace?
Author: Mikhail Shishkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma':...
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends
Author: Sarah Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of...
Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea
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Author: Barbara Demick (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A spectacular, definitive portrait of ordinary life within one of the world's...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers
Author: Maria Smilios Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
Author: Rebecca Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'Eye-opening and persuasive' SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant ... I loved it' KIT DE WAAL 'Thoughtful, moving, honest'...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 452 'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Hardback 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...
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History
Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' Helen...