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Author: David Cannadine (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians. "An evocative account ....

Author: John Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send...

Author: Giles Milton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World...

Author: Nigel Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war--proof that he...

Author: David Polfeldt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 At Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio, a key division of one of the largest, most influential companies in gaming, Managing Director...

Author: Antony Beevor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The prizewinning historian and internationally bestselling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping new account....

Author: Ha Jin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting- a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the 8th century poet, Li Bai--also...

Author: Brad Ricca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full...

Author: Sue Roe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed." -...

Author: Dorian Lynskey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey's account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory." --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and...

Author: Max Egremont Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Max Egremont, author of Some Desperate Glory, tells stories from the Glass Wall between Europe and Asia. Few countries have suffered...

Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Multiple copy pack Number of Pages: 0 Six-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-one of the world's most admired and...

Author: Amity Shlaes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period...

Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic'...

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Author: Esther Safran Foer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that...

Author: Douglas Century Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Bestselling author Douglas Century reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of Boris Nayfeld, also known as Biba,...

Author: Keith Lowe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and how they...

Author: Dr Alister E McGrath Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In what he anticipates will be his final book, respected scientist and theologian Professor Alister McGrath shares the story...

Author: Catherine Clinton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 A lively, comprehensive account of the struggle for women's rights at a vital time in our national history. The American women...

Author: Professor of History Camilla Townsend Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in...

Author: Evelyn Juers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In 1933, the author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner, Nelly Kroeger, fled Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in...

Author: Mark Roseman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help...

Author: Charles Postel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality-in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women's rights activists,...

Author: Diana Athill (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains...

Author: Jami Attenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 As the bookish daughter of a travelling salesman, Jami Attenberg was drawn to the road. Her wanderlust led her to drive...

Author: Danielle Friedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Author of The Cut's viral article shared thousands of times unearthing the little-known origins of barre workouts, Danielle Friedman explores the...

Author: Nick Blackburn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 I tore the arse of my pyjamas one morning, about a year before he died, and my father sewed it up...

Author: Anna Della Subin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 How does a man become a God? It can happen by accident, or by prophesy, or through an article found...

Author: Andrew Lownie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 December 1936. The King of England, Edward VIII, has given up his Crown, foregoing his duty for the love of Wallis...

Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four year old Sybil Andrews. They...

Author: W.B. Marsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 In a treasure trove for history buffs, W. B. Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day...

Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...

Author: Freddie Foreman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law...

Author: Ramita Navai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Lying in Tehran is about survival. Welcome to Tehran, a city where survival depends on a network of subterfuge. Here is...

Author: Roger Lytollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022 You dreamed of being a journalist and the dream has come...

Author: Stephanie Hickey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 In Running from the Shadows Stephanie Hickey tells, in her own words, how she survived abuse at the hands of a...

Author: Rupert Everett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose' The Times 'Everett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no one escapes...

Author: Jon T Coleman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The true story behind The Revenant. In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled mountain man Hugh Glass in...

Author: Robert Crawford (University of St Andrews) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century's most important poets On the fiftieth anniversary...

Author: Geoffrey Cain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 An explosive expose of Samsung that "reads like a dynastic thriller, rolling through three generations of family intrigue, embezzlement, bribery, corruption,...

Author: Emily Bingham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 346 An Intimate Portrait of a Jewish American Family in America's First Century Mordecai is a brilliant multigenerational history at the forefront...

Author: C Berkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Carol Berkin's multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native...

Author: Henry Hitchings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year In 1746, Samuel Johnson undertook the Herculean task of writing the first...

Author: University Louis P Masur (City College of the City University of NY) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years...

Author: Aatish Taseer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where...

Author: Hector Tobar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Deep Down Dark is the novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio...

Author: Martha Saxton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father The Widow Washington is the first life of...