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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...
The Tournament
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Middlesex
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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 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...
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...
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...
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.'...
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920
The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World War Eugene Rogan's remarkable book recreates one of the most important but poorly...
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...
Gallipoli: from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty
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Turquoise: A Chef's Travels in Turkiye
Greg and Lucy Malouf's classic cookbook Turquoise is now available as a new edition. In Turquoise Greg and Lucy Malouf delight us by bringing their own inimitable blend of food...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
The Parisian
A sumptuous historical novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, from 'an enormous talent' (Zadie Smith) 'A sublime reading experience- delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly...
Crescent Dawn: Dirk Pitt #21
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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...
The Great Siege of Malta
A major new history of the epic siege of the island fortress of Malta Even as the great siege began it was understood by both sides to be an epic...
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern
An exciting, iconoclastic history of the final years of the Ottoman Empire, published for the centenaries of many significant WW1 events The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume...
Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore
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Birds Without Wings
'Captivating and compelling. A masterpiece' Independent on Sunday Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia...
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453
In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed,...
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....
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 ....
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...
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,...
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'...
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 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....
Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean - shortlisted for
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 "A brilliant exploration of Cyprus's long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." -- Guardian "Poetic...Compelling" -- New Statesman One of National Geographic 's...
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...
Venice: A New History
An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost...
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....
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 Enchantress of Florence
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The Crown's Game
"Gorgeous and richly imagined."-Sara Raasch, New York Times bestselling author of the Snow Like Ashes series "Teeming with hidden magic and fiery romance."-Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author...
Confrontation at Lepanto
Like an angry lion, the Turkish menace growled at the frontiers of Europe. In 1453, the last remnant of the mighty Roman Empire was obliterated when Turkish forces overran Constantinople....
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...
An Ottoman Traveller
'Evliya Celebi was the widest-eyed, most intensely curious ... and prolific travel writer the Ottoman world ever produced. A learned and perceptive gentleman-observer from courtly Istanbul at the height of...
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...
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...
Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in
A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the present Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, complex and controversial history. Captives and...
Ottoman Architecture
This is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging survey of Ottoman Architecture ever produced. It extends to over 700 pages and is illustrated with over 1000 fabulous illustrations, plans of buildings,...
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...