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The Joy of Chocolate: Recipes and Stories from the Wonderful World of the Cacao Bean
Author: Paul A. Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Bring the joy of chocolate into your home with fascinating stories, tantalising treats and irresistible creations devised by a world-class...
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON)
Author: Mr Richard King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 There is no present in Wales, / And no future; / There is only the past, / Brittle with relics...
Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon
Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Seminary Co-Op, Notable books for 2020 The Federalist, Notable Books for 2020 A vivid portrait of the early years of...
Mr Horniman's Walrus: Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family
Author: Clare Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Family patriarch John Horniman established the tea company that bore his name in 1826, which went on to become one of...
It Happens With Gurkhas: Tales from an English Nepali, 1944-2015
Author: J P Cross Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Gurkhas have served with the British for almost 200 years, first with the army of the East India Company, then...
Golden Harvest
Author: Jan T. Gross (Professor of Politics and European Studies, Professor of Politics and European Studies, New York University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 It seems at first commonplace:...
Great Society: A New History
$15.00
Author: Amity Shlaes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last...
A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich
Author: Matthew Hammett Knott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A hilarious account of life with the children of the super rich...well written...and very funny indeed' - BOOK OF THE...
The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so...
Benghazi!: A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and its World to the Brink
Author: Ethan Chorin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Ten years after an attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, cries...
National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II
Author: Caroline Shenton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Geeks triumph over the forces of darkness: nothing could have given me greater pleasure. Combining an exciting story with scrupulous research,...
Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Nomad is a philosophical memoir, telling how Ayaan Hirsi Ali came to America in search of a new life, and the...
All Consuming: The instant Sunday Times bestseller: Why We Eat the Way
Author: Ruby Tandoh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The iconic New Yorker and Vittles food writer asks: Why do we eat the way we eat now? Being into food...
The Woman's Hour
Author: Elaine Weiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one...
Blow! Air
$6.00
Author: Nuria Jimenez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 35 All animals and plants require clean air. In this book, children learn about why we need air, the value...
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of
Author: Richard Davenport-Hines Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book...
Burgoyne Diaries
Author: Gerald Achilles Burgoyne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 These are the diaries of Gerald Achilles Burgoyne, wrote from the trenches just south of Ypres while he was with...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go
Author: Jeff Maynard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and...
Berlin
Author: Joseph Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe's youth capital, and its guilty war conscience. It is a disputed...
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative
Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black [...]
Author: Tiya Miles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE...
London: Immigrant City
Author: Nazneen Khan-Ostrem Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the...
Harriet Quimby: Flying Fair Lady
Author: Leslie Kerr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 One of the first women to fly, the fashionable Harriet Quimby (1875-1912) came of age in the fading years of a...
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom
Author: Preeti Dhillon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 ** Eastern Eye's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023 ** The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality and...
Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
Author: Vaudine England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two
Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
The Excellence of the Arabs
Author: Ibn Qutaybah Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identity-its merits, values, and origins-at a time of political unrest...
Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World
Author: Mark Denny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances-the bow...
Open Book
Author: Jessica Simpson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 New York Times Bestseller Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by...
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific
$25.00
Author: Brandon Presser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at...
Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The...
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture
Author: Alice Sherwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun' Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
Author: Audrey Osler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries....
The Light of Day: the moving true story of the first man to come out as gay
Author: Christopher Stephens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 * A Guardian Audiobook of the Week * 'Your book is the "really good book. Just one" that Roger Butler would...
Motherland: A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and Identity
Author: Luke Pepera Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'A wonderful debut by a talented and exciting young historian' Peter Frankopan 'Simultaneously capacious and personal...a masterful achievement' Tom Holland 'Elegant...
Me and My Mate Jeffrey: A story of big dreams, tough realities and facing my demons head on
Author: Niall Breslin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In his book, Niall Breslin speaks openly about living with depression and anxiety, and his crippling journey to finally...
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
Author: Rachel Devlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education The struggle...
Sum of Us: A History of the UK in Data
Author: Georgina Sturge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 What has data ever done for us? Georgina Sturge, House of Commons Library statistician and author of the critically acclaimed Bad...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
Author: Matthew Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach--and the moment...
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
Author: Professor Aaron Sachs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 472 Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history-the novelist and...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Author: Glory Edim Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Required reading.' - Cosmopolitan 'This should be read as a sacred text. Here, you will bear witness to a perpetual salvation...
Fight the Good Fight
Author: John Broom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Whilst a toxic mixture of nationalism and militarism tore Europe and the wider world apart from 1914 to 1919, there was...
Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton
$20.00
Author: Joe Moshenska Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for...
Great Society: A New History
$15.00
Author: Amity Shlaes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period...
