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The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
Author: Bruce de Mesquita Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Western exceptionalism-the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent-is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has...
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...
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
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...
Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room
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
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...
Mr Horniman's Walrus: Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family
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
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
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
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...
Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos
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,...
Welcome to Motherhood, Bitches: The Real Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond
Author: Victoria Emes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The real guide to pregnancy, birth and beyond. I'm assuming you've picked up this book because you're either curious...
The Microsoft Story: How the Tech Giant Rebooted Its Culture, Upgraded Its Strategy, and Found Success in the Cloud
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
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,...
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy
Author: Bill Browder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The Sunday Times and NYT bestseller. A shocking true-life thriller about corruption, dirty politics and murder in Russia by one of...
Hitler: A Global Biography
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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 From a prize-winning historian, the definitive biography of Adolph Hitler Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that...
Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans
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Author: Malcolm Gaskill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain...
Free Market: The History of an Idea
Author: Jacob Soll Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal....
The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance
Author: Simon Doubleday Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 If I had been present at the Creation," the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, Many faults...
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
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Author: Marc David Baer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West. The Ottoman Empire...
Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends
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Author: Linda Kinstler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back...
Restoration Heart: A Memoir
Author: William Cash Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Breathtaking untold story . . . riotously colourful' Mail on Sunday 'I read most of it in one exciting sitting. It...
Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly
Author: Billy Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you'd expect' Sunday Times...
Whistle Blower: My Autobiography
Author: Mark Clattenburg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The outspoken and hard-hitting autobiography of one of the most highly-rated, recognisable and controversial football referees of modern times. Mark Clattenburg...
Over and Out: My Innings of a Lifetime with Test Match Special: Memories of Test Match Special from a broadcasting icon
Author: Henry Blofeld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Henry Blofeld's voice is the sound of the summer to thousands of cricket lovers all over the world, and this autobiographical...
When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia
Author: Robert Carmichael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart' Jon Swain, writer...
What Am I Bid?: How one of television's favourite auctioneers went from counting sheep to selling silver
Author: Philip Serrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A sparkling memoir... My hope is that Philip Serrell will do for the antiques trade...
Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The...
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
Author: Michela Wrong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that...
Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song
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Author: Marlon Peterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration--and a call to break...
Little and Often: A Memoir
Author: Trent Preszler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A USA TODAY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ( ) "Little and Often is a beautiful memoir of grief, love, the...
The Wood Age: How Wood Shaped the Whole of Human History
Author: Roland Ennos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A...
The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England
Author: Dan Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country...
Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do
Author: Tracy Dawson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In this entertaining and eye-opening collection, writer, actor, and feminist Tracy Dawson showcases trailblazers throughout history who disguised themselves as men...
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
Author: Alberto Angela Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of...
Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI
Author: The RNLI Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending...
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine
Author: Owen Matthews Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer...
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York...
Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL 'Bravely revealing.' Bernardine Evaristo 'Funny, moving, helpful and...
Cold-Water Eden
Author: Richie Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An immersive memoir about a groundbreaking surfing career, and a stunning portrait of Ireland as one of the world's...
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
Author: Anna Wiener Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit 'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino 'This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years...
Reckless
Author: Marele Day Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'utterly compelling.' - The Guardian Jean Kay, my skipper, fellow adventurer, my friend. My brother. Jean Kay, soldier of fortune, opportunist,...
The Art of War (Collins Classics)
Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The ancient Chinese art of warfare written...
Bert Hinkler: The Most Daring Man In The World
Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 454 The thrilling life of aviation pioneer Bert Hinkler, dubbed 'the most daring man in the world' Grantlee Kieza tells...
I Have a Dream
Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Introducing the Martin Luther King Jr Library With a New Foreword by Amanda Gorman A beautiful collectible edition...
Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of...
Open: An Autobiography
Author: Andre Agassi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to...