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Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87
Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy...
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...
Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November): The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks
Author: Judy Parkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of...
Notorious RBG: Young Readers' Edition: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Author: Irin Carmon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 "A tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that does more than catalog her achievements; it conveys her spirit, one that will...
First Man In: Leading from the Front
Author: Ant Middleton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life's...
Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England
Author: James Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A Tudor voyage of exploration - an extraordinary story of daring, discovery, tragedy and pioneering achievement. In the spring...
Emigrants: Why the English Sailed to the New World
Author: James Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Marvellously engaging' The Times 'Brisk, informative and eye-opening' Daily Telegraph In the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England...
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged
Author: Andrew Marr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Sunday Times bestseller Now a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan Morris....
The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets
Author: Bart Moore-Gilbert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 When a letter from an Indian historian arrives out of the blue and informs leading academic Bart Moore-Gilbert that his beloved...
It's Never Too Late: The Joe Biden Effect - Stories of People Who Changed the World in Later Life - Foreword by Michael Whitehall
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Joe Biden has shown us all, the best is yet to come. Here are the stories of the inspiring, inventive,...
The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914
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Author: Malcolm Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'The sky was lit by burning villages and houses . . . Rivers and seas of flame leaping up...
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...
Guiding Lights: The Extraordinary Lives of Lighthouse Women
Author: Shona Riddell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames or bonfires to modern-day lighthouse keeping....
Gentlemen and Blackguards: Gambling Mania and the Plot to Steal the Derby of 1844
Author: Nicholas Foulkes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This is a tale of money, gambling and sporting obsession; of rogues and rascals, outrageous criminality, aristocratic complacency and...
Iron Horses: America's Race to Bring the Railroads West
Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 After the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for...
Escaping Hitler: Stories Of Courage And Endurance On The Freedom Trails
Author: Monty Halls Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Some of the great untold stories of the Second World War concern the freedom trails, the highly dangerous escape...
Al Dente: Madness, Beauty and the Food of Rome
Author: David Winner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Imagine the River Tiber as an alimentary tract. Picture a hungry saint. Think of erotic Renaissance fruit paintings, transubstantiation...
Fatal Rivalry, Flodden 1513: Henry VIII, James IV and the battle for Renaissance Britain
Author: George Goodwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The relationship of England and Scotland became defined by events on 9 September 1513 in a battle of great...
The House Party: A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend
Author: Adrian Tinniswood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 The House Party explores privilege and leisure from the viewpoint of the guest and the host, showing us what it was...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
Far From Home: Refugees and migrants fleeing war, persecution and poverty
Author: Cath Senker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 What if you had to leave your home and you could never go back? What do you think that...
The Battle of the Somme The First and Second Phase
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Author: John Buchan
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The Fat Boy with the Bomb and 299 of the Worlds Craziest Politicians
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Author: Brian O'Connell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A completely original illustrated international dossier of lunatic statesmen and insane leaders! This first attempt to catalogue the world...
Damn Few Making the Modern Seal Warrior
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Author: Rorke Denver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, "American Grit" feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL's Call to...
Rome A History in Seven Sackings
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Author: Matthew Kneale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 "Kneale's account is a masterpiece of pacing and suspense. Characters from the city's history spring to life in his hands." --The...
How Compassion Made Us Human An Archaeology of Stone Age Sentiment
Author: Penny Spikins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Our capacity to care about the wellbeing of others, whether they are close family or strangers, can appear to be unimportant...
Postcard From The Past
Author: Tom Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARK HADDON In Postcard From The Past, Tom Jackson has gathered a collection of the...