Social Sciences

The most famous living rock musician on the planet, Paul McCartney is now regarded as a slightly cosy figure, an (inter)national treasure. Back in the 1970s, however, McCartney cut a...

Letters to the Midwife is a wonderful collection of correspondence received by Jennifer Worth, offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost world. Along with readers' responses and personal histories, it...

**Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian** A Times Political Book of the Year 'An entertaining, thorough and informative canter through the characters...

'Erudite, clever, brilliant' KATE MOSSE 'A crowning achievement' LUCY WORSLEY 'Fascinating and excellent' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Stories about royal women form some of our most foundational myths about femininity, yet...

THE LETTERS FROM THE SUITCASE reveals the vivid, poignant and hugely detailed wartime correspondence between David and Mary Francis from 1938 to 1943, and a unique love story, sure to...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST SPORTS WRITING OF THE YEAR AWARD AT THE 2026 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS A GUARDIAN...

Explore the lives of over forty men and women - great and otherwise - whose pioneering journeys beyond the Irish shore played a profound role in world history. The Irish...

A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over...

Far removed from the picture of Tehran we glimpse in news stories, there is another, hidden city, where survival depends on an intricate network of lies and falsehoods. It is...

This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects such as coffins, tombs, masks, jewellery, papyri, sarcophagi and...

This overview of the financial history of St John's College, Oxford from the College's foundation in 1555 up until 1980 documents in detail how the richest college in Oxford very...

It tells of times when 'the air between people seems to alter' as art achieves profound change, across the globe and across history. Dominic Dromgoole has created a radical and...

Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands...

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Britain had eased its problem of crowded jails and surplus criminals by packing them into ships and sending them off to the American colonies...

At the height of the postcard boom, when there were several deliveries of the post every day, you could send a postcard in the morning to arrange a meeting for...

Award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle the issue of the effects of children on their parents, isolating and analysing the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the family you grew up with turns out to be a house of mirrors...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the dawn of a new nation, a people grappled with the monumental task of forging laws, institutions, and an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn post-war Tokyo, a bumbling, oversized Frenchman named Gaston Bonaparte arrives in Japan — the great-great-nephew of Napoleon...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedHigh above the sweltering lowlands of New Guinea, where mist-shrouded peaks pierce the sky and isolated tribes have remained untouched by...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the heart of one of the twentieth century's most enduring novels lies a single, explosive incident —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom one of the twentieth century's most commanding literary voices comes The Burnt Ones, a searing collection of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the frozen depths of a Soviet labour camp, a single day becomes a microcosm of human endurance,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of East and West, one of the twentieth century's most revered spiritual masters poses a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most intimate and unflinching memoirs of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA Nobel Prize-winning author strips back the mythology of his own legend — and what remains is raw,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the mid-fourteenth century, a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions swept across the known world, killing between...

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Edition: 2nd aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen the guns fell silent and the men came home, the real battle...

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedFrom the first sparks of life on a cooling planet to the complex civilisations of the modern age, Geoffrey Blainey's A Short...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Signed,Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: author's inscription on fep; flat signed on the title page. A vivid portrait of humanity...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: YellowedIn the summer of 1845, a young writer walked into the woods near Concord, Massachusetts, built himself a small cabin, and began one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedAt the heart of a struggling British manufacturing firm, loyalties fracture and ambitions collide in Nigel Balchin's razor-sharp industrial novel, Sundry Creditors....

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedGrace Tame's The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner is a searingly honest memoir from one of Australia's most courageous...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSix guests. One week. A lifetime of secrets waiting to be unravelled. Cathy Kelly's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCricket is more than a sport in New Zealand — it is a summer ritual, a collective memory, and a measure of national identity,...

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'Provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material about five centuries of court life' New York Times 'Naughty Knickers version of our island story' Daily Mail --------------------------------------------- Ladies in Waiting chronicles...

The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction--its rules, its pleasures, its secrets France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its...