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Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

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Author: Joan Dejean Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found power in the Mississippi Valley In...
Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel's Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny

Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel's Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny

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Author: David Makovsky Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 At a time when the identity of Israel is more uncertain than at any moment since its modern founding, Be Strong...
The Fall of the Ottomans

The Fall of the Ottomans

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Author: Eugene Rogan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into...
Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton

Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton

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Author: Joe Moshenska Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for...
A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America

A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America

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Author: James Horn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a...
The Publishing Game: Adventures in Books: 150 years of Hodder & Stoughton

The Publishing Game: Adventures in Books: 150 years of Hodder & Stoughton

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Author: Edward Stourton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Author, journalist and BBC presenter Ed Stourton delves into the Hodder & Stoughton archives to tell the human story of 150...
A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II

A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II

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Author: Joanna Lumley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph 'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A...
Maggie

Maggie

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Woody Allen: Beyond Words

Woody Allen: Beyond Words

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Blind to Misfortune

Blind to Misfortune

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Margaret Whitlam

Margaret Whitlam

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The Summer of My Greek Taverna: a Memoir

The Summer of My Greek Taverna: a Memoir

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Bomber: The Whole Story

Bomber: The Whole Story

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Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent

Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent

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Librorum Ridiculorum: A Compendium of Bizarre Books

Librorum Ridiculorum: A Compendium of Bizarre Books

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Author: Brian Lake Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop. Books have the power to...
Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room

Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room

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Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how...
A History of Royal Britain in 100 Objects

A History of Royal Britain in 100 Objects

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Author: Gill Knappett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 126 From the glory of coronation regalia to coins, from imposing statues to stamps, from distinguished medals to monuments, and from beautiful...
The Times Lives Less Ordinary: Obituaries of the eccentric, unique and undefinable

The Times Lives Less Ordinary: Obituaries of the eccentric, unique and undefinable

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Author: Nigel Farndale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Discover the lives of some of the most fascinating and unconventional characters of recent times, with 80 obituaries carefully curated from...
Mr Horniman's Walrus: Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family

Mr Horniman's Walrus: Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family

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Author: Clare Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Family patriarch John Horniman established the tea company that bore his name in 1826, which went on to become one of...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater

The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater

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Author: Jeff Maynard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

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Author: Louis Menand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not...
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to...
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

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Author: Christopher Hadley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday...
Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos

Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos

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Author: Matt Lodder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on,...
The Microsoft Story: How the Tech Giant Rebooted Its Culture, Upgraded Its Strategy, and Found Success in the Cloud

The Microsoft Story: How the Tech Giant Rebooted Its Culture, Upgraded Its Strategy, and Found Success in the Cloud

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Author: Dan Good Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Imagine if you could see the playbook that returned a struggling tech empire to the top of the tech leaderboard. The...
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

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Author: Jonny Steinberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched,...
A Naturalist in Costa Rica

A Naturalist in Costa Rica

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Rebels and Precursors: The Revolutionary Years of Australian Art [SIGNED]

Rebels and Precursors: The Revolutionary Years of Australian Art [SIGNED]

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Shades of Darkness: Aboriginal Affairs 1925-1965

Shades of Darkness: Aboriginal Affairs 1925-1965

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In My FatherÕs Court: A Memoir

In My FatherÕs Court: A Memoir

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Clean Straw for Nothing Johnson Collins 1969 318 pages

Clean Straw for Nothing

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Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs

Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs

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My Memories

My Memories

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Thucydides

Thucydides

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Shakespeare

Shakespeare

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Johnno: A Novel

Johnno: A Novel

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The Townsend Journals: An ArtistÕs Record of His Times, 1928-51

The Townsend Journals: An ArtistÕs Record of His Times, 1928-51

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Ancient Macedonia - (Apxaia Makedonia).

Ancient Macedonia - (Apxaia Makedonia).

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Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century London

Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century London

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John Monash: A Biography

John Monash: A Biography

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Quest for Adventure: Remarkable Feats of Exploration and Adventure

Quest for Adventure: Remarkable Feats of Exploration and Adventure

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Theirs Was the Kingdom

Theirs Was the Kingdom

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Timing is Everything: A Life Backstage at the Opera

Timing is Everything: A Life Backstage at the Opera

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The Years of Grandeur: The Story of Mayfair

The Years of Grandeur: The Story of Mayfair

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Montrose: Cavalier in Mourning

Montrose: Cavalier in Mourning

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Sir Robert Menzies: 1894-1978 - A New, Informal Memoir

Sir Robert Menzies: 1894-1978 - A New, Informal Memoir

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At The Edge Of Time': War Letters From An Australian Private Soldier, 1915-1916

At The Edge Of Time': War Letters From An Australian Private Soldier, 1915-1916

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At The Edge Of Time': War Letters From An Australian Private Soldier, 1915-1917

At The Edge Of Time': War Letters From An Australian Private Soldier, 1915-1917

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