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Great World Wonders: 100 Remarkable World Heritage Sites
In Great World Wonders , travel enthusiast and writer Michael Turtle offers a curated guide to the best UNESCO World Heritage sites around the globe, each with a fascinating tale...
Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallory's Life and Death in the Mountains
'An extraordinary treasure trove' Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains....
Secondhand HIstory Bargain Book Box SP2141
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Secondhand History and Biography Bargain Book Box Embark on a literary expedition through pivotal moments in history and compelling biographical narratives. This curated collection offers a spectrum of perspectives, from...
Secondhand Biography & Autobiography Bargain Book Box SP2142
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Secondhand Autobiographies and Biographies Bargain Book Box Uncover a treasure trove of personal narratives with this curated collection of secondhand books. From the lives of iconic figures to the inspiring...
Terra Nova: Ambition, jealousy and simmering rivalry in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
'A riveting account about Scott of Antarctica and the machinations of his demise. Of the food depots that were diminished and the rescue that never came.' - Peter Hillary, mountaineer...
Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore
An unprecedented look at women's everyday clothes-from Sylvia Plath's Girl Scout uniform to psychedelic microminis, modern suits, and fast-food workers' uniforms-this fascinating volume shows how American women from every background...
Extraordinary Pools
A visual feast of 50 weird, wonderful and architecturally astounding swimming pools from around the world. Swimming pools are no longer simply places to swim, they are versatile sites of...
On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath - By The People Who Were There
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE ***** 'There have been many books written about the events of Bloody Sunday, however, none has wrenched the reader as violently back to those...
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane...
Agent Josephine
The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022 Booklist, Best Books of 2022 Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and...
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
The "monumental" ( Washington Post ), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before...
African Europeans: An Untold History
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, "masterfully" ( Smithsonian ) revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History...
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation
The secret history of one of the largest--and least-known--rescue operations of World War II Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable--and...
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific
An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account. One of the Best Books of 2021 -- Wall Street Journal The islands...
The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not...
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the...
The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain
A Country Life 'Best Book of the Year' 2023 The Times Book of the Week * * * 'I could read Martin Williams all day. He is a staggeringly communicative...
Black and British: A Forgotten History
A Waterstones History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Orwell Prize Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark...
We All Go into the Dark
A captivating, eloquent and nuanced book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read for true-crime fans across the board. Three women were brutally murdered between early 1968...
Pulp: The Rise and Fall of an Industry
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Once in A Great City
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Days That Changed the World
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The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean
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Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul
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This May Help You Understand the World
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When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity
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The Mammoth Book of Combat: Reports from the Frontline
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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora ,...
Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century
Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That single year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a global political force, the beginning of market...
Slouching Toward Utopia: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century
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An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever,...
England's Gardens: A Modern History
Discover the iconic and enduring beauty of English gardens, the people who made them, and the legacy they leave We may all feel we know what an "English" garden is,...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS A TABLET BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney
'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES ' If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de...
Perfume: A Century of Scents
A beautiful gift book of the 100 scents that changed the world THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY OCCASION The incredible stories of 100 perfumes from a whole century of scents...
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
A rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie...
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
A groundbreaking exploration of the best possible solution to the climate crisis- a new economic model, and a new way of viewing our relationship with the natural world. 'A powerfully...
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: Two lives, one nation and a century of art under tyranny in China
Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the...
The Shortest History of India
An illuminating and concise telling of the 5000 years of turbulent history that led India from the ruins of ancient civilisations to emerging global superpower One of the oldest civilisations...
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary
The hidden history of the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary **LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024** 'Unmissable' Stephen Fry 'A delight' Katherine Rundell 'Illuminating' Susie...
Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
An essential short introduction to the Middle Ages - and the companion volume to Ian Mortimer's bestselling The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England. We tend to think about the...
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
From Sunday Times bestseller Caroline Moorehead comes a thrilling and immersive look at the life of Mussolini's favourite daughter and a heart-stopping account of the rise and fall of fascist...
The Great Defiance: How the world took on the British Empire
A fascinating new history of the early days of the British Empire, told through the stories of the forgotten international powerhouses who aided, abetted and resisted the march of the...
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world; perfect for fans of Ian Mortimer, who calls this book 'rich and wonderful' From the medieval bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious...
Size: How It Explains the World
A mind-expanding exploration size, the measure of all things, from the New York Times bestselling author The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size...
The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World
An interrogation of why we don't talk to strangers, what happens when we do, and why it affects everything from the rise and fall of nations to personal health and...
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
A unique history of the forgotten, oldest strand of human history, and its resurgence today Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history - science, religion and...
How to be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life
The real Wolf Hall, full of fascinating detail - 'Seldom have I had so much fun reading history' (The Times) The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in...