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Churchill and Empire: Portrait of an Imperialist
Author: Lawrence James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A moving portrait of Diwan and the Cairo that embraced it, an ode to all the people who have kept it...
Chest Pain: A man, a stent and a camper van
Author: Michael Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In late 2018, Michael Harding was in a hotel room in Blanchardstown experiencing severe pains in his chest. He eventually phoned...
Chaise Longue
Author: Baxter Dury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Wild, exhilarating and very funny' Sunday Times 'A must-read for pop culture fans' The Times 'Unflinching' Observer ---------------- Chaos and debauchery...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Author: Paul Auster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 'Exhilarating.' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 'Sharp-eyed and revealing.' The New Yorker 'Brilliant . . ....
Budapest: Between East and West
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin,...
Brian Friel: Essays, Diaries, Interviews: 1964-1999: Essays and Interviews
Author: Professor Christopher Murray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Since the success of "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" in 1964, Brian Friel has written over twenty plays, successively confirming his...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents
Author: Dominic Selwood Format: Hardback 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...
Allegorizings
Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...
All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying
Author: Ruth Coker Burks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'This book will make you love her as much as I do' FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON 'Breath-taking courage and compassion...
All the Colors Came Out: A Father, a Daughter, and a Lifetime of Lessons
Author: Kate Fagan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 ? Kate Fagan and her father forged their relationship on the basketball court, bonded by sweaty high fives and a dedication...
A Stinging Delight: A Memoir
Author: David Storey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The third son of a coalminer, David Storey takes us from his tough upbringing in Wakefield, to being 'sold' to Leeds...
Little Big Man
Author: Stanley J. Browne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Stanley J. Browne is an actor, and he has been an actor all his life. Born to a Jamaican mother...
The Daily Telegraph Military Obituaries Book Three
Author: David Twiston Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 David Twiston Davies's latest and highly entertaining collection of 100 Daily Telegraph military obituaries from the last fifteen years, include...
Lost Without You: Loving and Losing Tanya
Author: Vinnie Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'This is a wonderful book. Incredibly moving, sad, inspiring and courageous.' PIERS MORGAN ****** 'This...
Arnhem
Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The vivid account of how a brilliant plan turned into an epic tragedy - made into the BAFTA award-winning film A...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Daunt Books Book of the year 2023. Winner of the...
James and Nora
Author: Edna O'Brien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 It was June 10th, Barnacle Day. He saw her in Nassau Street and they stopped to talk. She thought his blue...
Adrift: On Fertility, Uncertainty and the Wilderness of the Body
Author: Miranda Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'What would it mean to name this place I'm in, to map it? To say: this is the landscape. It looks...
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy
Author: John Henry Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative...
A Brief History of the British Army
Author: John Lewis-Stempel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of...
The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home
Author: Heath Hardage Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Featured in Stylist's guide to 2019's best non-fiction books The true story of the fierce band of women who battled...
All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying
Author: Ruth Coker Burks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'This book will make you love her as much as I do' FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON 'Breath-taking courage and compassion...
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...
We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel
Author: Eric Alterman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been...
Good for a Girl: My Life Running in a Man's World - Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and a New York Times bestseller
Author: Lauren Fleshman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Women's sports have needed a...
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian 'A magical mystery tour through the history...
Homage to Catalonia
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic...
Virginia Woolf
Author: Nigel Nicolson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'You cannot find peace by avoiding life' Virginia Woolf An intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author...
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Author: Stacy Schiff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A Top 10 Best Books of the Year (Wall Street Journal), Top 10 Best Nonfiction (Time), Top 5 Nonfiction (LA Times),...
The Dress: 100 Iconic Moments in Fashion
Author: Megan Hess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From Ms Hepburn's elegant black shift to Lady Gaga's meat gown, The Dress relives the marvellous and unforgettable dresses of fashion:...
Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition
Author: Julia Kaye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Instead of a traditional written diary, Julia Kaye has always turned to art as a means of self-reflection. So when she...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles...
James Acaster's Classic Scrapes - The Hilarious Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: James Acaster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me cry with laughter as much...
Into the Rip: How the Australian Way of Risk Made My Family Stronger, Happier ... and Less American
Author: Damien Cave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Damien Cave brought his young family to Sydney to set up the New York Times' Australian Bureau, they encountered the...
Inside Ukraine: A Portrait of a Country and its People
Author: Ukrainer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Inside Ukraine is a compelling visual portrait of the real Ukraine, lovingly put together by Ukrainians in the years leading up to...
How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea
Author: Marcus Berkmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Marcus Berkmann has been a freelance writer since 1988, working for newspapers and magazines and occasionally writing a book, like this...
Frank Whittle (Icon Science): The Invention of the Jet
Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943...
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian 'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of...
Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History
Author: Dr. Ada Ferrer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights...
Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Jenner uses all the questions you never dared to ask about history as an excellent excuse to rummage around in some...
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...
A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist
Author: Chris Paling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times 6 April 2007 Writing income for the year...
A Short History of the World in 50 Books
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilization. It is a vessel for sharing stories,...
Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain
Author: Danny Goldberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground...
Task Force Helmand: A Soldier's Story of Life, Death and Combat on the Afghan Front Line
Author: Doug Beattie, MC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Doug Beattie MC returns to Helmand Province for one final tour before retiring - and it's the most bloody and...