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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...
Advent - Non-Fiction Book Box 2025
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THE Book Advent Calendar for lovers of Non-Fiction books - now available only at bookgrocer.com! This is our Book Advent Calendar Non-Fiction Book Box for 2025. It will contain non-fiction books...
Gurawul the Whale: An ancient story for our time
Author: Max Dulumunmun Harrison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 'When I was 10 years old, I was given Gurawul's story by my grandfather Muns...in the dirt...they made me promise...
The New Socialist Handbook: Everything You Need to Know About Why It Matters Now
Author: Dan Tucker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 From Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, the U.S. is witnessing a leftward shift that hasn't been...
True Crime Mini Bargain Book Box
True Crime Mini Bargain Book Box Plunge into the shadowy depths of human depravity and the relentless pursuit of justice with our 'True Crime Mini Bargain Book Box'! This gripping...
Seeing into the Future: A Short History of Prediction
Author: Martin van Creveld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 If there is anything that distinguishes us from animals, it is our ability to understand that such a thing as...
Blood Rush: The Dark History of a Vital Fluid
Author: Jan Verplaetse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 As a young man Jan Verplaetse saw a hare suspended from a meat hook, skinned and gutted. What struck him so...
The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America
Author: Lisa Z. Sigel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The first history of American handmade and homemade pornography, The People's Porn offers the backstory to the explosion of amateur...
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology
Author: Dr Frances Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma...
100 Letters that Changed the World
Author: Colin Salter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A collection of the most inspiring and powerful letters of all time. The written word has the power to inspire, astonish...
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
Author: Curtis Bunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific eight minutes and...
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
Author: Curtis Bunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific eight minutes and...
Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022
Author: Andrea Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Andrea Elliott, comes the unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty...
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...
100 Books that Changed the World
Author: Scott Christianson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A chronological survey of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but how...
A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 This fascinating book tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a...
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History
Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world
Author: Brett Mason Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 ** Shortlisted, 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award ** Two Australian scientists played a vital yet largely unknown role in...
The Secret Life of John le Carre
Author: Adam Sisman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive...
The Secret Life of John le Carre
Author: Adam Sisman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive...
A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
Author: Eric D. Weitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 **Finalist for the PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers** Once dominated by vast empires, the world is...
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world
Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ON EVERY TIDE is a wide-ranging and challenging reassessment of the Irish diaspora. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research, and his...
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Author: Gareth Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with...
Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia
Author: Natalie Koch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 The iconic deserts of the American southwest could not have been colonized and settled without the help of desert experts from...
Whatever Happened to Tradition?: History, Belonging and the Future of the West
Author: Tim Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best...
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty
Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet it's too often dismissed as something which only...
The Museum of the Wood Age
Author: Max Adams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood - the material that shaped human history. As a material, wood has no equal...
The Best Australian Science Writing 2012
Author: Elizabeth Finkel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 How were Ned Kelly's bones finally identified? What makes cockroaches some of the most successful creatures on the planet? Could some...
Viva la Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America
Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew...
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
Author: Roger Crowley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the...
In Our Time: Celebrating Twenty Years of Essential Conversation
Author: Melvyn Bragg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Melvyn not only makes you think ... he makes it enjoyable too. He's brilliant.' - John Humphrys, the Today Programme. 'In...
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...
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
Author: Richard Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 784 MAKING HISTORY is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether...
Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution
Author: John Eidinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten...
The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin
Author: Andrei Soldatov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with...
Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People
Author: Dan Cruickshank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 SOHO - ILLICIT, GLAMOROUS, SORDID, LOUCHE, POVERTY-STRICKEN, SQUALID, EXHILARATING. One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank grants us an intimacy with...
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History
Author: Ian Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Ian Morris has established himself as a leader in making big history interesting and understandable' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...