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Warhol
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Author: Blake Gopnik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his--or any--age To this day,...
Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: How a British Civil Servant Helped Cause the Second World War
Author: Adrian Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 No one doubts that appeasement failed, but Phillips shows that it caused active harm - even sabotaging Britain's preparations for war....
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un
Author: Anna Fifield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 THE GREAT SUCCESSOR is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of...
The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean
Author: Peter Burness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 644 Australia's official First World War correspondent, Charles Bean, saw more of the Australian Imperial Force's actions and battles on the Western...
If This Is A Man/The Truce
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out...
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
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Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man
Author: Sean Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Fascinating and authoritative' The Daily Express Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern...
Devices and Desires Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England
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Author: Kate Hubbard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The critically acclaimed author of Serving Victoria brilliantly illuminates the life of the little-known Bess of Hardwick--next to Queen Elizabeth I,...
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World
Author: Michelle Scott Tucker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A groundbreaking portrait of an ordinary English gentlewoman who would go on to become one of Australia's most...
Boom and Bust: The rise and fall of the mining industry, greed and the impact on everyday Australians
Author: Royce Kurmelovs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 This is a cautionary tale. About greed, irresponsibility and failing to learn from the past. Australia's mining boom is...
A Brief History of the Knights Templar
Author: Professor in Medieval History Helen Nicholson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history...
The Finch in My Brain: How I forgot how to read but found how to live
Author: Martino Sclavi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Whenever I see Martino I am reminded of how little I know about life and death compared to him....
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
Author: Alberto Angela Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 "The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and...
Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.
Author: Craig Stockings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 The South African War - or Boer War - running from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 -was the largest...
Michaelangelo's Notebooks: The Poetry, Letters and Art of the Great Master
Author: Carolyn Vaughan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Michelangelo is considered one of the greatest poets of the sixteenth century. He also filled hundreds of sheets of paper with...
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
Author: Jeremy D. Popkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 The French Revolution was the "big bang" out of which all the elements of modern politics and social conflicts were...
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
Author: Brian Switek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our...
Mercenaries to Conquerors
Author: Paul Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in...
Magnum Artists: When Great Photographers Meet Great Artists
Author: Magnum Photos Ltd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Matisse and Picasso by Robert Capa, Takashi Murakami by Olivia Arthur, Warhol and de Kooning by Thomas Hoepker, Bonnard by...
Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean
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Author: Brett Archibald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Solitude is terrifying and awe-inspiring in Alone. --The Wall Street Journal In April 2013, fifty-year-old Brett Archibald was on board a...
Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker
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Author: A N Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life. With the publication of On the...
The Science That Changed the World: Remarkable Discoveries and Breakthroughs
Author: Stuart Kumar-Terry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 72 History is full of men and women who asked big questions and found exciting answers. People are still making incredible discoveries...
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
Author: Joe Posnanski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted...
Rebel in the Ranks
Author: Brad S Gregory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very...
Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling
Author: Normandi Ellis (Normandi Ellis) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Tools to powerfully write about and manifest your life using the power found in the sacred sites...
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
Author: Earl Swift Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." -The Times (London) A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
Author: John Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler,...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ' The...
Age of Transition: Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World
Author: Helen C. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, a groundbreaking exhibition that...
The Art of Looking Up
Author: Catherine McCormack Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 From the floating women and lotus flowers of the Senso-ji Temple in Japan, first painted in the year 645, through to...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
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Author: Robert Dallek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR "We come to see in FDR the magisterial,...
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
Author: Mark Piesing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest...
All Quiet on the Western Front
Author: Erich Maria Remarque Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914...
Malice Aforethought: A History of Booby Traps from the First World War to Vietnam
Author: Ian Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 286 War has always provided a stimulus to technological development, and throughout the twentieth century this new technology was harnessed...
Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after...
Figuring Out The Past: The 3,495 Vital Statistics that Explain World History
Author: Peter Turchin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval...
Iron Sea: How the Allies Hunted and Destroyed Hitler's Warships
Author: Simon Read Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The sea had become a mass grave by 1941 as Hitler's four capital warships -- Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Tirpitz, and Bismarck, the...
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...
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
Author: Peter Fritzsche Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilian men, women, and children...
Maiden Voyages: women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel
Author: Sian Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 HOW THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL BETWEEN THE WARS TRANSFORMED WOMEN'S LIVES ACROSS ALL CLASSES - A VIVID...
The Cold Wars Killing Fields
Author: Paul Thomas Chamberlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the...
You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals
Author: Elizabeth Foley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why settle for mere mortal excellence when you could be living like a goddess? You Goddess! takes us on a colourful...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme
Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally...
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Author: Margot Lee Shetterly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The #1 New York Times Bestseller Set amid the civil rights movement,...
The Choice: A true story of hope
Author: Edith Eger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The incredible, bestselling memoir of survival, hope and empowerment THE AWARD-WINNING SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Even...
A Life Lost: Jackson Is Haunted by a Secret from His Past
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Jackson is aggressive, confrontational and often volatile. His mother, Kayla, is crippled with grief after tragically losing her husband...
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Author: Dan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 720 Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be...