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The Art of War

The Art of War

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Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare...
Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

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Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...
The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

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Author: Lan Yan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th...
Walden

Walden

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Author: Henry David Thoreau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: In Walden, Thoreau offers apositive and insightful look at human solitude and the natural world. Detailing his experiences of...
Egyptomania

Egyptomania

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Author: Emma Guiliani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 20 Find out all about Ancient Egypt in this beautifully illustrated and innovative Lift The Flap book. Learn what Ancient Egyptians wore,...
A Brief History of Spain: Indispensable for Travellers

A Brief History of Spain: Indispensable for Travellers

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Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and is very open...
Living with Leonardo: Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond

Living with Leonardo: Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond

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Author: Martin Kemp Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Living with Leonardo is a set of highly focused memoirs, a personal journey interwoven with historical research that encapsulates the author's...
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

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Author: Frances Stonor Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises...
A Brief History of London

A Brief History of London

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Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a...
The Best of Me

The Best of Me

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Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself?...
Operation Swallow- EXPORT EDITION: American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp

Operation Swallow- EXPORT EDITION: American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp

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Author: Mark Felton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Operation Swallow is the true story of how a small group of American soldiers, inspired by a charismatic but...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater

The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater

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Author: Jeff Maynard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean...
George: A Magpie Memoir

George: A Magpie Memoir

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Author: Frieda Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Times Best Book to Watch out for in 2023 A Guardian '2023 in books: highlights for the year ahead' Book...
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

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Author: Lucy Adlington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 *** The New York Times Bestseller *** 'Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps...
Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

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Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI 'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRIS Why is Italy called Italy? How...
Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut

Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut

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Author: Elsa Richardson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times most anticipated read for 2024'A brilliant new cultural history of the gut' Daily Mail'A fascinating, erudite and entertaining...
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

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Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 "Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New Yorker Now in paperback with a new epilogue In this...
1916: The Easter Rising

1916: The Easter Rising

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Author: Tim Pat Coogan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Easter Rising began at 12 noon, 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days,...
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary

The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary

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'A dream! I learnt something new and fascinating on every page' - Lucy Mangan'If you love words, the weird and the wild, I guarantee you'll crouch over this book like...
Fear: An Alternative History of the World

Fear: An Alternative History of the World

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Author: Robert Peckham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From the internationally renowned bestselling author ofDiana: Her True Story and Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, comes the sensational and captivating biography...
Prince: Purple Reign

Prince: Purple Reign

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Author: Mick Wall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 This is the powerful, detailed and enlightening biography of the iconic composer, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist - the inimitable Prince. Prince...
The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis

The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis

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Author: Robert Verkaik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 THE GRIPPING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday...
Three Napoleonic Battles

Three Napoleonic Battles

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Author: Harold T. Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 258 This narrative account of three Napoleonic battles adheres rather closely to the Aristotelian configuration of evolving tragedy. The historian succeeds...
The World

The World

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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...
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world

On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world

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Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 An immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora 'A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history' Sunday Times 'Impressive, provocative and...
My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.

My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.

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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...
The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin's Disinformation War

The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin's Disinformation War

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Author: Alan Philps Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review) 'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' Washington...
The Forbidden Daughter

The Forbidden Daughter

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Author: Zipora Klein Jakob Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan's survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and...
Shoemaker of Dreams: The Autobiography of Salvatore Ferragamo

Shoemaker of Dreams: The Autobiography of Salvatore Ferragamo

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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 Boys

The Boys

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In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible...
The Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord

The Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord

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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...
Natural and Moral History of the Indies

Natural and Moral History of the Indies

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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...
The Artist: Being Iniesta

The Artist: Being Iniesta

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Author: Andres Iniesta Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Andres Iniesta is the Barcelona and Spain legend, rated by the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez...
It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree

It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree

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Author: A J Jacobs (East Carolina University USA) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs...
The Darkest Days: The Truth Behind Britain's Rush to War, 1914

The Darkest Days: The Truth Behind Britain's Rush to War, 1914

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Author: Douglas Newton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Darkest Days shows how the war-hungry leaders and the right-wing press hustled the nation into war, making only the barest...
Tender: The Imperfect Art of Caring - 'profoundly important' Clover Stroud

Tender: The Imperfect Art of Caring - 'profoundly important' Clover Stroud

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Author: Penny Wincer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A beautiful and important book that is both deeply engaging and usefully practical. I loved it.' CATHY RENTZENBRINK 'An insightful and...