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The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun
Author: The Countess of Carnarvon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
Author: David Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who,...
Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers
Author: Randy Malamud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 324 Virginia Woolf's novel famously begins - 'Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.' Of course she would: why would...
Keegan John : Untitled on World War II
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From Wireless to Wallabies: A Life of Norman McCance
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Brief Histories of Almost Anything: 50 Savvy Slices of Our Global Past
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St Catherine's : a Centenary Celebration 1896-1996
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Macquarie
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Antarctic Eyewitness
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Suburban Heartland: A History of the City of Whitehorse
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The Real Mad Men: The Remarkable True Story of Madison Avenue's Golden Age
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A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES...
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
Author: Buzz Bissinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Instant New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation...
Hope and Fear: Modern Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Pseudo-History
Author: Ronald H. Fritze Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A myth-busting journey through the twilight world of fringe ideas and alternative facts. Is a secret and corrupt Illuminati conspiring...
Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day
Author: Simon Jarrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities over 300 years The Idiot traces the little-known lives of people with...
Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers
Author: Randy Malamud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 324 Virginia Woolf's novel famously begins - 'Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.' Of course she would: why would...
Paths of Fire: The Gun and the World It Made
Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 If you squeeze the trigger of a Kalashnikov a bullet is kicked up the barrel by an archaic chemical explosion that...
Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love
Author: Joanna Bourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Renowned historian Joanna Bourke explores the modern history of bestiality Sex with animals is one of the last taboos but, for...
Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs
Author: P. E. Caquet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 Opium's Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the 'war on drugs'. A no-holds-barred but balanced account,...
Broken Dreams: An Intimate History of the Midlife Crisis
Author: Mark Jackson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The midlife crisis has become a cliche in modern society. Since the mid-twentieth century, the term has been used to explain...
Avian Illuminations: A Cultural History of Birds
Author: Boria Sax Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Avian Illuminations examines the many roles birds have played in human society, from food, messengers, deities and pets, to omens, muses,...
Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control over the World's Diamonds Throughout History
Author: Tijl Vanneste Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical expos of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the...
Breathing: An Inspired History
Author: Edgar Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history, and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status to the...
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
Author: Buzz Bissinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Instant New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation...
The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail
Author: Kristen Green Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the...
The Wager
Author: David Grann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of...
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...
Today: A History of our World through 60 years of Conversations & Controversies
Author: Sarah Sands Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Today is the sound of history being made - live on air. In an era of fake news, echo chambers and...
Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America
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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: An Unlikely Love Story
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To Build a New Jerusalem: Labour Movement from the 1890s to the 1990s
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The Sea Hunters II: More True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks
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Gallipoli
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Augustus: The Biography
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Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning
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Rodinsky's Room
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Fields of Glory
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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 Anointed
Author: Michael Arditti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 337 Michal, Abigail and Bathsheba: three women trapped by circumstance. They are the property of husbands, fathers and grandfathers; their own lives...
Defiant Voices: How Australia's Female Convicts Challenged Authority 17881853
Author: Babette Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of...
100 Letters that Changed the World
Author: Colin Salter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A collection of the most inspiring and powerful letters of all time. The written word has the power to inspire, astonish...
Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings
Author: Matt Lodder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made...
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
Heroic Animals: Amazing Creatures that Changed Our World
Author: Clare Balding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ORDINARY ANIMAL. EVERY ONE HAS A HEROIC STORY TO TELL. Discover how . ....
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
Author: Curtis Bunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific eight minutes and...
This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's 'Kid A' and the Beginning of the 21st Century
Author: Steven Hyden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline....
What It Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the present
Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which...
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
Author: Curtis Bunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific eight minutes and...