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The World
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1344 From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told...
A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel-Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It didn't start in 1967 either, when...
Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
Rivers are the great natural arteries that run through our lives . We have navigated them, dammed them and worshipped at them. From the ancient ecosystems of Egypt to the...
The Tournament
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Middlesex
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To The City: Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics...
Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from the Eastern Mediterranean
A Finalist for the 2022 James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award (International) Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Award Longlisted for the 2022 Art of Eating Prize A New York Times Best...
A Very Dangerous Pursuit (The Richard Hannay Adventures, Book 1)
Adventure can be a deadly business. 'A marvelous, rollicking tale of derring-do' Peter James 'A beautifully written masterclass' Janice Hallett '007 meets Tintin meets Sharpe' Damien Lewis 'A delight!' Fern...
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEA SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR'Magnificent . . . Important and hugely readable' William Dalrymple, Financial Times'A wildly ambitious and entertainingly lurid history' James...
Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
Rivers are the great natural arteries that run through our lives . We have navigated them, dammed them and worshipped at them. From the ancient ecosystems of Egypt to the...
The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks
Author: Emma Marriott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book... until now....
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
In 1506, Michelangelo - a young but already renowned sculptor - is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered,...
Risible Rhymes
Author: Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-Sanhuri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Written in mid-seventeenth-century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on "rural" verse, mocking the pretensions...
Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of Cyprus - shortlisted for the London
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2025 "A brilliant exploration of Cyprus's long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." -- Guardian One of National Geographic 's Summer Reads 2024...
Armenian Review: Armenia And Armenians In International Treaties
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: none. **A landmark scholarly publication, Armenian Review: Armenia and Armenians in International Treaties...
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
Lords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling history; dramatic, detailed and alive - a journey, and a world all in one. 'Perhaps the most readable history ever written'...
Syria: An Historical Appreciation
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The Traitor's Niche
A surreal, chilling tale of rebellion and tyranny in the Ottoman Empire, by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize. A surreal, chilling tale of rebellion and tyranny in...
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism
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A page-turning collection of essays and literary criticism on topics ranging from books, writers, poker, cars, faith, and the American libido-from one of the most gifted American writers of the...
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway
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Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world's most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia,...
Nights of Plague: 'A masterpiece of evocation' Sunday Times
'Orhan Pamuk is the sort of writer for whom the Nobel Prize was invented.' Daily Telegraph 'Pamuk is the real thing.' Observer ' One of the world's finest living writers.'...
My Name Is Red: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
In the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day -...
Black Book
The Black Book is Orhan Pamuk's tour de force, a stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture which confirmed his reputation as a writer of international stature. Richly atmospheric...
The White Castle (SIGNED)
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Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Yellowed Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Appears unread. A landmark work of postmodern historical fiction, The White Castle chronicles...
Death on Bloody Ridge: Chunuk Bair - the battle that decided the fate of the Gallipoli Campaign
Author: David W. Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The August Offensive or 'Anzac Breakout' at Gallipoli was an attempt to break the stalemate of the campaign. It saw...
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
A Spectator Book of the Year 'Sweeping . . . Poetic . . . Not only readable but also vital' Literary Review 'A terrific storyteller' New York Times 'Exceptional ....
Nights of Plague: 'A masterpiece of evocation' Sunday Times
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'Orhan Pamuk is the sort of writer for whom the Nobel Prize was invented.' Daily Telegraph 'Pamuk is the real thing.' Observer ' One of the world's finest living writers.'...
And I Darken
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Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic
Author: Claudia Swan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A vivid account of the exoticism of the Dutch Republic at a critical moment in its cultural and political history. The...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance
Author: Mikhail Zygar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the...
The North African Cookbook
Author: Jeff Koehler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 468 A collection of 445 exciting and accessible recipes that celebrate North Africa's vibrant and diverse food culture Life in North Africa...
Constellation of Genius: 1922: Modernism and All That Jazz
Gloriously entertaining, supremely erudite and delightfully idiosyncractic - this is the diary of the spectacular year of 1922 1922. The spectacular year that F. Scott Fitzgerald chose as a backdrop...
Image and Exploration: Early Travel Photography from 1850 to 1914
Rediscover the world through some of the earliest travel photographs ever taken in this unrivaled collection of images that capture the excitement of travel and chart the evolution of photography....
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary
'A fascinating study of historical mythmaking . . . concise and absorbing' Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East 'Lively, original and fascinating' David Abulafia, Literary Review 'An enthralling...
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East
'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory Stewart'Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating'...
Nights of Plague: 'A masterpiece of evocation' Sunday Times
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Author: Orhan Pamuk Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 'Orhan Pamuk is the sort of writer for whom the Nobel Prize was invented.' Daily Telegraph 'Pamuk is the real thing.'...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One
Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural "types"-peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion,...
Gallipoli: from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty
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The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Author: Margalit Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly...
The Caliphate
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Sir Thomas Arnold was a renowned Islamic scholar and historian whose first book, The preaching of Islam (1896), was influential in disseminating a fuller understanding of Islam in the West....
The Enchantress of Florence
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The Lion House: The Coming of a King
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Author: Christopher de Bellaigue Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two
Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...
Crescent Dawn: Dirk Pitt #21
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A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know
Author: Richard Firth-Godbehere Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions...
Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore
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Istanbul: A Travellers' Companion
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew cities in the world have inspired as much wonder, intrigue, and literary fascination as Istanbul — the...
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East
Bernard Lewis is internationally recognised as an outstanding scholar and historian of Middle Eastern and Islamic history, who has charted the great centuries of Islamic power and civilisation but also,...