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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 Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal
Author: Simon Parkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups he had...
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...
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world
Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ON EVERY TIDE is a wide-ranging and challenging reassessment of the Irish diaspora. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research, and his...
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...
Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany
Author: Jonathan Petropoulos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose...
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...
Stalag XXA and the Enforced March from Poland
Author: Stephen Wynn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 Stalag XXA was a Second World War German POW camp for non-commissioned officers located in Nazi occupied Torun, in northern Poland....
Hitler's Spies: Lena and the Prelude to Operation Sealion
Author: Mel Kavanagh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 September 1940: Britain stands alone against the might of the advancing German Army and the spectre of invasion looms. Using a...
In Search of Our Ancient Ancestors
Author: Anthony Adolph Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 What a fine long pedigree you have given the human race. Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1863. How is the Royal...
Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science
Author: Professor John Marra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for...
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Author: Mary Jo Nye (Oregon State University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 708 A narrative and interpretative history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to...
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family
Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 For 45 years I've chronicled the Royal Family for the Sun newspaper with my camera. I've witnessed their triumphs and disasters,...
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...
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
Glass: The life and art of Klaus Moje
Author: Nola Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'It is always based on what I see, what is touching me.' For more than fifty years, Klaus Moje devoted his...
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,...
Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving
Author: Julia Samuel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Grief Works is a compassionate guide that will inform and engage anyone who is grieving, from the 'expected' death of a parent...
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century
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Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society. When it...
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
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Author: Judy Batalion Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and...
Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains
Author: Vitalik Buterin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 At only nineteen years old Vitalik Buterin published a visionary paper outlining the ideas behind what would become Ethereum....
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
Author: Cleve Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was part of the last generation of gay people who grew up not knowing if there...
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...
The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters
Author: Joanna Gaines Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In her first solo memoir, New York Times bestselling author Joanna Gaines invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey...
The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within
Author: Richard Breitman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Raymond Geist was sent to Berlin as a consul in 1929. He was not from the right social class to become...
Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
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Author: Charles Emmerson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 The gripping story of the years that ended the Great War and launched Europe and America onto the roller coaster of...
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020
Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY 'As gripping as...
Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler
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Author: David McKean Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A gripping and groundbreaking account of how all but one of FDR's ambassadors in Europe misjudged Hitler and his intentions As...
Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech
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Author: Geoffrey Cain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 An explosive expose of Samsung that "reads like a dynastic thriller, rolling through three generations of family intrigue, embezzlement, bribery, corruption,...
Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions
Author: Trevor Norton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Laszlo Biro (the ballpoint pen)...
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...
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...
The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Centre of WWII's Greatest Battle
Author: Iain MacGregor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Stunning. History at its very best: a blend of impeccably researched scholarship, genuinely revelatory primary sources, and a beautifully written narrative'...
How to be Champion: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography
Author: Sarah Millican Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'The naughtiest, helpiest, laughieoutloudiest and goodest book I've ever done reading on. Give that girl a banana!' DAWN FRENCH THE NO.1...
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...
Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future
Author: Tom Bullough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Sarn Helen - Helen's Causeway - is the old Roman Road that runs from the south of Wales to the north....
Shoemaker of Dreams: The Autobiography of Salvatore Ferragamo
Author: Salvatore Ferragamo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Ladies and gentlemen, the least important part of this book is the life story of an Italian shoemaker. We can all...
The Violence of Empire: The Tragedy of the Congo-Ocean Railroad
Author: J. P. Daughton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 The gruesome history of the Congo-Ocean Railway, a forgotten chapter in the story of colonial Africa. In September 1927, a...
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...
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon
Author: Simon Fenwick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator -...
Migrants: The Story of Us All
Author: Sam Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move. 'Fascinating... Miller's perspective...
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
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Author: Charles J. Hanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a highly consequential and deeply...
Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West
Author: Katie Hickman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there...
Every Human Intention: Japan in the New Century
Author: Dreux Richard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A thoughtful, illuminating exploration of modern Japanese politics and culture through the eyes of an investigative reporter A stunning blend of...
Inside Out
Author: Demi Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Daily Mail Book of the Year. A Mail on Sunday Book of the...
The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980
Author: Nicholas Griffin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 In the tradition of The Wire, the "utterly absorbing" (The New York Times) story of the cinematic transformation of Miami, one...
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...