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Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant
Author: Michael Vatikiotis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of the Suez Canal that united the Mediterranean with...
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...
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Author: Ernest Freeberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs...
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...
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 Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists
Author: Tracy Walder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink...
Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture Viceroy's House
Author: Larry Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account by two fine journalists who conducted...
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...
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most
Author: Marcel Gauchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy. Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory...
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land
Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read...
Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
Author: Anna Della Subin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 How does a man become a God? It can happen by accident, or by prophesy, or through an article found...
Uhtred's Feast: Inside the world of the Last Kingdom
Author: Bernard Cornwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 WELCOME TO UHTRED'S FEAST . . . Over the course of writing the Last Kingdom series, Bernard Cornwell discovered an increasing...
In the Heat of Battle: A History of Those Who Rose to the Occasion and Those Who Didn't
Author: Donough O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Out of the last 3,500 years of our 'civilised' world, only for 230 have we been at peace. In "The Heat...
A Castle in Wartime: One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis
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Author: Catherine Bailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 "I was gripped by A Castle in Wartime--it contained more tension, more plot in fact--than any thriller."--Kate Atkinson, author of Big...
Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and Discovery of the New World
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Author: Brian Fagan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? What persuaded the king and queen of...
Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity
Author: Gregory J. W. Urwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following...
Fate of War: Fredericksburg, 1862
Author: Duane Schultz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Union assault on the critical Confederate stronghold of Fredericksburg, Virginia, along the Rappahannock River in December 1862 was one of...
MacArthur
Author: Richard B. Frank Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 16 Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his ability to adapt, a quality that catalyzed his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability...
Liberation Through Hearing
Author: Richard Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'If sound is the fifth element, then Richard has nurtured and enhanced some of the most important soundwaves of our time'...
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...
Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence
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Author: Frances Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his...
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut
Author: James Hanning Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A brilliantly researched and revelatory book, written with compelling authority and great narrative drive. Completely fascinating' William Boyd Love & Deception...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon
Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...
Yearbook
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Author: Seth Rogen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Hi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the...
The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication
Author: Alexander Larman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the...
Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century
Author: Christopher Capozzola Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Ever since US troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the US armed forces....
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering...
Sunnis and Shi'A: A Political History
Author: Laurence Louer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Mohammed died in 632...
Our History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters
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Author: Travis Elborough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first...
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Scientifica Historica is a unique, essay-based review of those books that marked the development of science from classical times to the...
Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
Author: Linda Porter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known,...
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)
Author: Beryl Gilroy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Fresh and vital ... Full of wit, perceptiveness, humour and compassion ... A remarkable pioneer ... A hugely important memoir from...
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love
Author: Kate Mosse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A deeply moving story of what it means to care for those we love, a celebration of older people and ageing,...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
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Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 688 One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly...
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
Author: Francesca Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Outstanding. I'll be recommending this all year.' - Sarah Bakewell 'A beautiful and deeply moving book.' - Sally Rooney 'I like...
Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
Author: Jay Gallentine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With...
SAS Band of Brothers: The Last Stand of the SAS and Their Hunt for the Nazi Killers
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The new SAS epic from bestselling military historian Damien Lewis We share the triumphs and tragedies of a group of elite...
White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler
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Author: Tom Dunkel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 They were a small group of conspirators who risked their lives by plotting relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich...
Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
Author: Les Standiford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories...
A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the 'Forgotten Holocaust'
Author: Otto Rosenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained....
The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine's Daughters
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Author: Dr Rachel Trethewey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship...
Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade
Author: Sophie Hayes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at...
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
Author: Noa Tishby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A "fascinating and very moving" (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social...
George: A Magpie Memoir
Author: Frieda Hughes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 An Oprah Magazine Book of the Year 2023 'A magical, endearing memoir ... the literary romance of the year' Oprah 'This...
Reckless
Author: Marele Day Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'utterly compelling.' - The Guardian Jean Kay, my skipper, fellow adventurer, my friend. My brother. Jean Kay, soldier of fortune, opportunist,...
The Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord
Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for the first...
The Hidden Perspective: The Military Conversations 1906-1914
Author: David Owen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 273 In 1905, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey agreed to speak secretly with his French counterparts about sending a British expeditionary force...
Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Tobias Buck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 '[A] gripping and fascinating book' JAMES HOLLAND, DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5* review 'A brilliant book . . . timely . . ....