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Cod
Author: Mark Kurlansky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based...
The Nazis Knew My Name: A remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz
Author: Magda Hellinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at...
Ferdinand Magellan (Little Guides to Great Lives)
Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Explorer, sailor and navigator, Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail all the way around the world. He encountered lands...
Nelson Mandela: Little Guides to Great Lives
Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist, Nelson Mandela's journey from political prisoner to president of South Africa is an incredible tale of...
Clothes... and other things that matter: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A beguiling and revealing memoir from the former Editor of British Vogue
Author: Alexandra Shulman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Chosen by Evening Standard as one of the best books to look forward to in 2020. 'a must-read memoir for even...
Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World
Author: Hugh Pope Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 413 A detailed portrait of the Turkic people explores events since World War I that have rendered the nation a vital NATO...
Fighting them on the Beaches
Author: Nigel Cawthorne
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The Child that Books Built
Author: Francis Spufford (author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 What would you find if you went back and re-read your favourite books from childhood? In The Child...
The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
Author: Dominique Enright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 162 He took his seat in Parliament in the reign of Queen Victoria, and died when Lyndon Johnson was in his second...
Stranger than we can imagine
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A Brief History of Spain: Indispensable for Travellers
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and is...
Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label
Author: Alan McGee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Alan McGee's role in shaping British culture over the past thirty years is hard to overstate. As the founder...
Heyday: The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age
Author: Ben Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Excellent . . . This is narrative history of the highest quality' Andrew Lycett, Sunday Telegraph 'Wonderfully engrossing and intelligent ....
Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege
Author: Marcus Luttrell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In June 2005 four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was...
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro
Author: Rachel Slade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a...
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
Author: Brian Switek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our...
Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
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Author: Sunil Amrith (University of Cambridge) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 From a MacArthur Genius, a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to...
Keeping On Keeping On
Author: Alan Bennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I...
The Minister and the Murderer: A Book of Aftermaths
Author: Stuart Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 1969, James Nelson confessed to murder, served a prison sentence, then applied to be ordained as a minster in the...
The World of Peaky Blinders: An unofficial guide
Author: Dan Whitehead Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Welcome to The World of Peaky Blinders, a cultural guide to the world that inspired the hit BBC drama. Get ready...
DNA
Author: Dr Kat Arney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 The Compact Guide: DNA provides a fascinating look at the world of the double helix and examines who...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute
Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History
Author: Sarah Prager Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 One of Time Out's "LGBTQ+ books for kids to read during Pride Month," this groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused illustrated biography collection takes readers...
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Author: Adam Tooze Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where...
Pele: The Autobiography
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Author: Pele Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to...
Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November): The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks
Author: Judy Parkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of...
Natural: The Seductive Myth of Nature's Goodness
Author: Alan Levinovitz, PhD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Without our realising it, a single, slippery concept has become a secular deity throughout the modern industrial world. We make...
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind
Author: Alan Jacobs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Should we still bother with the supposedly great works of past ages? Aristotle believed that men were naturally superior to women....
Misadventures
Author: Sylvia Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman's life in...
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent
Author: Emma Baxter-Wright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent is the pocket-sized and exquisitely illustrated story of 60 years of innovative fashion design. An...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
The Love of the Game: The Agonies and Ecstasies of Parenting and Sport
Author: Mark Chapman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 BBC sports presenter Mark Chapman is no longer in his physical prime. There is an argument to suggest he...
Forest: Walking among trees
Author: Matt Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Forest is a celebration of the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting...
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
Author: Saeed Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives-winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book...
Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Author: Garry Wills Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and...
Our Beautiful Earth
Author: Giancarlo Macri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 28 A timely and topical children's book seeking to promote ecological awareness and a desire to preserve the Earth and help it...
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown....
A Brief History of Khubilai Khan
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a...
I Should Know That: Great Britain: Everything You Really Should Know About GB
Author: Emma Marriott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 I Should Know That: Great Britain covers a range of key topics on our fair land, including essential British history (Magna...
The Men Who Stare At Goats
Author: Jon Ronson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Why are Iraqi prisoners of war forced to listen to Barney the Purple Dinosaur's theme tune repeatedly, at top...
In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea
Author: Danny Goldberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 'Danny Goldberg is probably one of the purest, most reasonable guides you could ask for to 1967.' - ex-Rolling...
Kew - Rare Plants: Forty of the world's rarest and most endangered plants
Author: Ed Ikin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 264 Rare Plants explores what makes the world's rarest plants so exceptional, and by what means they have become so...
Betrayal at Little Gibraltar: A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I
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Author: William Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America's bloodiest battle ever--World War I's Meuse-Argonne Offensive--and the shocking American...
Planet Awesome
Author: Stacy McAnulty Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 40 'Hi, I'm Earth! But you can call me Planet Awesome.' In this hilarious and informative book filled to the...
The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875
Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism...