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Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
Author: Nicola Tallis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Following Lady Jane Grey's journey from the deadly intrigues of her childhood that led inexorably through to her trial and execution...
Modern Lives: Sixteen True Stories of Change and Creativity
From the ruins of war to the rise of digital empires, Modern Lives gathers sixteen remarkable true stories of people who have helped shape — or been transformed by —...
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Military History Bargain Book Box Embark on a gripping collection of fifteen books that plunge you directly into the most intense battles and clandestine operations of modern warfare, from the...
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History & Biography Bargain Book Box Step into the past with the History & Biography Bargain Book Box, an essential collection curated for the dedicated history buff and the curious...
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One-off Focus on China Bargain Book Box Delve into the heart of the Middle Kingdom with our exclusive "Focus on China" book box! This curated collection offers a diverse range...
One-off Focus on America Bargain Book Box ON1680
One-off Focus on America Bargain Book Box Delve into the heart of America with this curated collection of captivating narratives! This box offers a rich tapestry of American history, culture,...
Lancastrian Kings and Lollard Knights
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Author: K.B. McFarlane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 261 This book was originally a series of lectures by McFarlane, which were prepared by G. L. Harriss for book format ....
Lancastrian Kings and Lollard Knights
Author: K.B. McFarlane
Format: Hardback
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Ford Model T Coast to Coast: A Slow Drive across a Fast Country
Author: Tom CotterFormat: Hardback, 198mm x 254mm, 224 pagesPublished: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc, United States, 2018The book is as much a contemplation of early-20th century American life as it...
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Author: Gareth RussellFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 230g, 240 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022This is a biography of...
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
Author: Jonathan D. WellsFormat: Hardback, 154mm x 240mm, 580g, 368 pagesPublished: PublicAffairs,U.S., United States, 2020Although slavery was outlawed in the northern states in 1827, the illegal slave trade continued in...
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Politics Bargain Book Box This incisive collection of sixteen books tackles the most pressing political challenges of the twenty-first century, spanning global geopolitics, digital rights, and the internal machinery of...
The Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite Plain: An Edwardian Cricket Murder
Author: Gideon Haigh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Gideon Haigh has written numerous acclaimed books on both cricket and true-crime - now he's unearthed a gripping story that combines...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a...
Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo
Author: Teasel Muir-Harmony Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 On July 20th, 1969, over half of the world's population tuned in to witness the first lunar landing, waiting with bated...
Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys
Author: Alexander Maitland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 For nearly two hundred years the Society has been awarding gold medals to those individuals who have contributed most to our...
Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys
Author: Alexander Maitland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have...
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
Author: Natasha Tidd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Taking readers on a global journey through human history, Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from...
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East
Author: Barnaby Rogerson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating' - William Dalrymple At the heart of the Middle East, with its...
TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy
Author: Joyce Tyldesley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in...
The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's Water
Author: Nick Higham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew Marr No city can survive without water, and lots...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents
Author: Dominic Selwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 672 From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's...
Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica
Author: Duncan Mackay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'An engaged, informed companion for the armchair time traveller...captures the thrill and the difficulties of interpreting the past'. TLS 'Duncan has...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
Author: Audrey Osler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries....
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
Author: Audrey Osler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries....
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
Author: Richard Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 784 'A huge, fizzing omnium-gatherum of a book . . . marvellous' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, wise and elegant . . . a...
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland
Author: Tom Parfitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden 'Tom Parfitt has re-invented travel writing for the 21st century' Oliver Bullough On 1...
Yorkshire: There and Back
Author: Andrew Martin Format: Paperback 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...
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
Author: Kenneth R. Manning (Professor of the History of Science, Professor of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 This biography illuminates the...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from...
30-Second Twentieth Century: The 50 most significant ideas and events, each explained in half a minute
Author: Jonathan T. Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 You probably know, or think you know, quite a bit about what happened in the 20th century - chances are,...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
Author: Matthew Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full...
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior Republican to stand up to Donald Trump
Author: Liz Cheney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds
Author: Simon Ings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow...
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world
Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 An immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora 'A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history' Sunday Times 'Impressive, provocative and...
The World: A Family History
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1344 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR From the master storyteller...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age
Author: Ysenda Maxtone Graham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins 'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers
Author: Maria Smilios Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds
Author: Katie Spalding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit. The...
Vital Organs
Author: Suzie Edge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts. Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
Author: Stein Ringen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises,...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from...
My Russia: War or Peace?
Author: Mikhail Shishkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma':...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers
Author: Maria Smilios Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...