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Yorkshire: There and Back
Author: Andrew Martin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood...
365: Great Stories from History for Every Day of the Year (Compact Edition)
Author: W.B. Marsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 Every day of the year has a story to tell. Who was assassinated, acceded to the throne, fled from their country?...
Mr Selden's Map of China: The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea
Author: Timothy Brook Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden,...
A Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the Founding of America
Author: Peter Firstbrook Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He...
British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980
Author: Ysenda Maxtone Graham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the mid-twentieth century and how they were spent, as recounted to...
The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller
Author: Sam Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Fascinating.' - Hilary Mantel 'Terrific.' - New Scientist 'Gripping.' - Financial Times What if you had a vision that something terrible...
Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV
Author: Joe Moran Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 But what does your furniture point at?' asks the character Joey in the sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance has no...
Hunter Killer: Inside the Lethal World of Drone Warfare
Author: T. Mark McCurley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 We are too close. We know too much, and when it is time to shoot, we can zoom in until...
Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya
Author: Annick Cojean Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of...
Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI 'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRIS Why is Italy called Italy? How...
52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn't Get Taught At School
Author: James Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I absolutely loved it' James O'Brien Twitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history...
Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps
Author: Wendy Holden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates...
Culloden: Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
Author: Trevor Royle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation...
The Age Of Revolution: 1789-1848
Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution...
George: A Magpie Memoir
Author: Frieda Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Times Best Book to Watch out for in 2023 A Guardian '2023 in books: highlights for the year ahead' Book...
Russia: Myths and Realities
Author: Sir Rodric Braithwaite Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Wise and thorough' - The Spectator 'Brisk and readable ... very valuable' -Financial Times 'He is an engaging guide ......
Accidental Gods: On Race, Empire and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
Author: Anna Della Subin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 488 Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods, deified politicians and imperialists,...
Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control
Author: Daniel Pick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A frankly brilliant book' - The Guardian 'An extraordinarily engrossing and wide-ranging analysis of a word and a concept. I fell...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults...
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
Author: Donnie Eichar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 This popular book is now in paperback! Imagine you are in the midst of the Siberian wilderness, the weather closing in,...
The Joy of Chocolate: Recipes and Stories from the Wonderful World of the Cacao Bean
Author: Paul A. Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Bring the joy of chocolate into your home with fascinating stories, tantalising treats and irresistible creations devised by a world-class...
52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn't Get Taught At School
Author: James Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I absolutely loved it' James O'Brien Twitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history...
Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West
Author: Katie Hickman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there...
The Transformation Of Ireland 1900-2000
Author: Diarmaid Ferriter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 896 This is a landmark book, full of insight and intelligent judgement and sheer diligent research, which deals with the complexity of...
The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New
Author: Peter Watson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before and spread out to populate...
Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny
Author: Michael Broers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 Napoleon Bonaparte: a man of intense emotion, iron self-discipline, acute intelligence and immeasurable energy. Michael Broers brings this remarkable man to...
The Colour Code: Why we see red, feel blue and go green
Author: Paul Simpson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 How many colours are there? In the West we see seven, but the Chinese see five, while the Piraha tribe in...
Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017
Author: Simon Reid-Henry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 880 'A dense narrative and a wealth of examples' Literary Review 'Reid-Henry narrates this story with elegance and gusto' Washington Post '[Reid-Henry]...
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 'Roberts boldly dons Churchill's own mantle, setting out to continue where Churchill's four volumes left off, which was in 1901. The...
Think You Know It All? History: The Activity Book for Grown-ups
Author: Meredith MacArdle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A great variety of activities to test your knowledge, whether highbrow or low culture. Proving you know it all about history...
House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty
Author: Robert Hutchinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 King-makers. Conspirators. Criminals. Nobles. Seducers. The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats...
Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West
Author: Katie Hickman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there...
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound
Author: Wendy Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Surgery was performed without anaesthesia, while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping...
The Celts: A Sceptical History
Author: Simon Jenkins (Columnist) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 'Simon Jenkins, as ever, writes with clarity and insight' Times 'One of the...
Accidental Gods: On Race, Empire and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
Author: Anna Della Subin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 488 Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods, deified politicians and imperialists,...
A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ?
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in...
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings
Author: Sylvia Plath Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Every day from nine to five I sit at my desk facing the door of the office and type up other...
Why I March
Author: Abrams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 New York Times Bestseller Indiebound Bestseller The Washington Post Bestseller San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller On January 21, 2017, five million people in...
Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults): A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Author: Barack Obama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 BRAND-NEW EDITION of the multi-million-copy bestseller, now adapted for YA readers and complete with never-before-seen colour photos. A revealing portrait of...
12 Japanese Masters
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Lemnos & Gallipoli Revealed: A Pictorial History of the Anzacs in the Aegean 1915-16
Author: Jim Claven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Lemnos was the advanced base for the Gallipoli campaign in 1915-16. its great harbour of Mudros Bay witnessed the arrival of the...