History

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...

Author: Andre Aciman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Set in Alexandria, this classic and much-loved memoir chronicles the exploits of Andre Aciman's colourful Sephardic Jewish family from...

Author: Paul Du Noyer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In June 1989, Paul Du Noyer was contacted by Paul McCartney's office in London and asked to interview...

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...

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...

Author: Carl Chinn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl Chinn The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit...

Author: Philip Coggan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not...

Author: Lemn Sissay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This...

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...

Author: Rosamund Young Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows.' - James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life Cows...

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...

Author: Sir Rodric Braithwaite Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and warfare was never the same again. Armageddon and...

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,...

Author: Millie Marotta Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 The new book by the Sunday Times bestseller, Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom. Lose yourself in the calming world of...

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...

Author: Kirsty Everett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down' Kirsty Everett was going to...

Author: Barry Stone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Humanity's written history stretches back only 5,000 years, a mere blip on the timeline of our existence. If you...

Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword...

Author: Mick Wall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'An epic tale, told the way it should be' RECORD COLLECTOR 'The book he was born to write' CLASSIC...

Author: Matthew Kneale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Nominated for the 2017 Pen Hessell-Tiltman Daily Telegraph's Best History Books of 2017 Sunday Times' Best History Books of 2017 A sweeping...

Author: Ben Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 The bestselling complete history of the British Navy - our national story through a different prism. The story of...

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...

Author: Rory MacLean Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of...

Author: Lorraine Marwood (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: A beautiful collection of poems about animals. Squawk! Snuffle! Bark! Roar! Feathers, fins, scales, claws. Running, hopping, crawling, soaring....

Author: Ronan Farrow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan...

Author: Andy Warhol & Pat HackettFormat:Paperback Number of Pages: A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat...

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...

Author: Helen Macdonald Format: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 320 **WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR****WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION****WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE TRANGER**'Dazzling....

Author: Richard Flanagan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the...

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Author: R. Keith Schoppa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 Combining evocative historical description and cogent analysis, Song Full of Tears is a chronicle of nine hundred years...

Author: Kenneth Catania Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In Great Adaptations, Kenneth Catania presents an entertaining and engaging look at some of nature's most remarkable creatures. Telling...

Author: David Badre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why...

Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C.: The...

Author: Laurence Louer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Mohammed died in 632...

Author: Heather Morris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved.Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies'...

Author: Damian Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:

Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and...

Author: Richard B. Frank Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his ability to adapt, a quality that catalyzed his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability...

Author: Frederic Raphael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering...

Author: Normandi Ellis (Normandi Ellis) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Tools to powerfully write about and manifest your life using the power found in the sacred sites...

Author: David Olusoga Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A unique account of the millions of colonial troops who fought in the First World War, and why they were later...

Author: Robert C Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 376 Like every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. In this book, Robert Davis and Beth Lindsmith highlight dozens...

Author: G. Buckler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Anna Comnena (1083-1148) was a princess of the Comneni dynasty, the eldest daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I, and the...

Author: Patrick Radden Keefe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR...

Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: A History of British nightclubs.

Author: John Haywood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 John Haywood presents a grand sweep of global history in an immediately accessible format via concise, insightful and engaging text summaries...

Author: Joanne Clarke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This book examines social change in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th millennia BC; a period that is traditionally viewed as...