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Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
Author: Jeevan Vasagar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state. In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita...
Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War
Author: Diarmaid Ferriter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Ferriter has richly earned his reputation as one of Ireland's leading historians' - Irish Independent 'Absorbing ... A fascinating exploration of...
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women
Author: Lady Antonia Fraser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian 'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals'...
Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society
Author: Roderic Fenwick Owen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but that is - amazingly - all...
Seven Cats I Have Loved
Author: Yardenne Greenspan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Anat Levit never considered herself a cat lover, but when her life was thrown into upheaval, she found herself adopting one...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety. From worrying about the monsters under her...
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land
Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read...
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Author: Margalit Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation
Author: Joanne Limburg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family,...
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
Author: Saumya Roy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'If you read one book about India, read this one.' - Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure 'Mountain...
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers
Author: William Palmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read' NICK COHEN, Critic 'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'...
The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks
Author: Jacob F. Field Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History...
The God Delusion
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic,...
What Language Do I Dream In?: My Family's Secret History
Author: Elena Lappin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Elena Lappin's life could be described as 'five languages in search of an author'. She now lives in London, but she...
Aircrew: The Story of the Men Who Flew the Bombers
Author: Bruce Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A vivid, first-hand account of the tension and excitement of flying missions over Nazi Germany The British and American bomber crews...
A Brief History of the Atlantic
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In...
Deer Man: Seven Years in the Forest
Author: Geoffroy Delorme Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer for seven years....
Goodbye to All That
Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The Western front through the eyes of a survivor 'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made...
Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People
Author: Dan Cruickshank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 SOHO - ILLICIT, GLAMOROUS, SORDID, LOUCHE, POVERTY-STRICKEN, SQUALID, EXHILARATING. One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank grants us an intimacy with...
Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant
Author: Michael Vatikiotis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and...
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Women of Letters
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Starbucked
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Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving
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Author: Julia Samuel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Grief Works is a compassionate guide that will inform and engage anyone who is grieving, from the 'expected' death of a parent...
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Updated and revised to celebrate the author's 75th year
Author: Ranulph Fiennes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'Always the leader and always the best' Bear Grylls 'Fiennes has so much to fit in, it's a wonder to grasp...
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut
Author: James Hanning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'James Hanning's book is excellent . . . The fascination of Love & Deception lies in the meticulously detailed account it...
Under Cover: adventures in the art of editing
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Eternal Wisdom
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Rostropovich: The Musical Life of the Great Cellist, Teacher, and Legend
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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography
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Marching as to War
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Wednesdays with Bob
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The Osama Bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al-Qaeda's Leader
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Business as Unusual: The Journey of Anita Roddick and the Body Shop
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A Foreign Affair
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The Penguin Guide to Women's Health
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Overworked and Underlaid: A seriously funny guide to life
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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
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My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage
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Victoria and Abdul (film tie-in): The Extraordinary True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
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The Happiness Project
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Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History
Author: Anna Aslanyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the...
Erebus: The Story of a Ship
Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time....
On Photography
Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are...
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music
Author: Blair Tindall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Blair Tindall has been a professional oboe player for over twenty-five years. In this provocative memoir, she blows the lid off...
I Am What I Am
Author: John Barrowman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Anything Goes, John's first book, gave you the story so far. I Am What I Am reveals more about the man...
A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis
Author: Nigel Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and...