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Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The original bestselling autobiography by the comedian, novelist and national treasure, Stephen Fry. ______________________________ The original bestselling autobiography by...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
Author: Matthew Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full...
Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War
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Author: Joseph Weisberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A former CIA officer and the creator of the hit TV series The Americans makes the case that America's policy towards...
Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
Author: Christian Parenti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis,...
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
Author: Jonathan D Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's...
America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
Author: Hugh Wilford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 "An absorbing account of romantics enchanted by Kiplingesque myths and the Lawrence of Arabia legend, who cynically harboured the self-contradictory ambition...
Agent M
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Author: Henry Hemming Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The fascinating, improbable true story of Maxwell Knight -- the great MI5 spymaster and inspiration for the James Bond character M....
Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
Author: Joe Pappalardo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 There's no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action...
Natural and Moral History of the Indies
Author: Jose de Acosta Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 568 The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, the classic work of New World history originally published by Jose de...
Special Ops Heroes
Author: Michael Ashcroft Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Special Ops Heroes tells the extraordinary stories behind Lord Ashcroft's collection of SAS and other Special Forces medals - the largest of...
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
Author: Rebecca Donner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Berlin and witnessed the...
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage
Author: Eileen Atkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Will She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in 1934 to...
Anatomy of a Massacre: How the SS Got Away with War Crimes in Italy
Author: Christian Jennings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 The first account in English of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre and the last hunt for Nazi war criminals. On 12...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles...
Breathing: An Inspired History
Author: Edgar Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history, and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status to the...
The Queen's Speeches: Poignant and Inspirational Speeches from Queen Elizabeth II's 70-Year Reign
Author: Lucy York Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 During her 70-year reign she delivered many poignant, touching and inspirational speeches, always with a warmth and sincerity, many of which...
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
Author: Daniel Finkelstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS 'A modern classic' OBSERVER...
Japan Triumphant: The Far East Campaign 1941-1942
Author: Philip Jowett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 184 The Japanese offensive in the Far East in 1941-2 was extraordinary in its ambition for their aim was to advance across...
Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
Author: John C. McManus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the...
Strategist in Exile
Author: Rainer Nickel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Thucydides was the chronicler of the almost 30-year long Peloponnesian war, which came to a close with Sparta's victory over Athens...
On to Rome: Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Jon Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of...
Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga
Author: Bettina Bradbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History Caroline Kearney faced a heart-breaking dilemma. Caroline was a 31-year-old mother of...
Agent Sniper: The Cold War Superagent and the Ruthless Head of the CIA
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Author: Tim Tate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The thrilling never-before-told story of Agent Sniper, one of the Cold War's most effective counter-agents Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was...
City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
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Author: Rupert Christiansen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French...
Henry Viii Revealed: the Legacy of Holbein's Portraits
Author: Xanthe Brooke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Hans Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII perished in fire in 1698, yet has remained the definitive image of the English monarch,...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
Author: Simu Liu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story...
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Author: Natasha Trethewey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 CARNEGIE...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case
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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...
Seeing into the Future: A Short History of Prediction
Author: Martin van Creveld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 If there is anything that distinguishes us from animals, it is our ability to understand that such a thing as...
North Pole: Nature and Culture
Author: Michael Bravo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In North Pole, Michael Bravo explains how visions of the North Pole have been supremely important to the world's...
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South
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Author: Brandon Presser Format: Paperback 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...
Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo
Author: Teasel Muir-Harmony Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 On July 20th, 1969, over half of the world's population tuned in to witness the first lunar landing, waiting with bated...
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Five: From the fall of Rome to the end of the war 1944-1945
Author: Christopher Shores Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 526 During the final year of World War II, the defending Axis forces were steadily driven from southern skies by burgeoning Anglo-American...
Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz
Author: Mark Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 High in the Tuscan hills above Florence, the menacing Vincigliata Castle - a very special prisoner-of-war camp converted on Mussolini's personal...
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir
Author: Marina Warner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave,...
The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin
Author: Andrei Soldatov Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 From the time of the tsars to the waning days of Communist regime, Russian leaders tried to control the flow of...
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
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Author: Nicholas Morton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages For centuries, the...
UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation
Author: Yaroslav Hrytsak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy...
The Cutting Edge: The Story of the Beatles' Hairdresser Who Defined an Era
Author: Leslie Cavendish Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set...
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
Author: Patrick Wyman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, THE VERGE tells the story of a period that marked...
My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.
Author: Evie Meg - This Trippy Hippie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 *Order now to read the long-awaited debut book from the huge TikTok sensation Evie Meg | This...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a...
Carnation
Author: Twigs Way Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Carnations permeate our culture from the wedding bed to the funeral wreath. Derided in Shakespeare as 'nature's bastards', they challenged the...
The Orange Balloon Dog: Bubbles, Turmoil and Avarice in the Contemporary Art Market
Author: Erik Hornung Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects...
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery
Author: Thomas Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an...