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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...
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....
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...
A History of British Baking: From Blood Bread to Bake-Off
Author: Emma Kay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The British have been baking for centuries. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how our relationship with...
Kidnapped by the Junta: Inside Argentina's Wars with Britain and Itself
Author: Julian Manyon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 On 12 May 1982 as the Falklands conflict became a shooting war, ITN journalist Julian Manyon and his TV crew were...
The Dream Architects: Adventures in the Video Game Industry
Author: David Polfeldt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 At Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio, a key division of one of the largest, most influential companies in gaming, Managing Director...
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,...
My Generation: Collected Nonfiction
Author: William Styron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of...
Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896
Author: Charles Postel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality-in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women's rights activists,...
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,...
The Waterless Sea: A Curious History of Mirages
Author: Christopher Pinney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Mirages have long astonished travellers and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Chinese and Japanese poetry and images depicted mirages as the exhalations...
Portland Place: Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary
Author: Sarah Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Portland Place is the diary of Sarah Shaw for the year of 1971, which she recently uncovered whilst clearing out her...
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...
Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age
Author: Ysenda Maxtone Graham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins 'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers
Author: Maria Smilios Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...
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...
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...
One Hundred Saturdays: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2024: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes
Author: Michael Frank Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Having the last word can be very lonely.' Nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never shared the...
How Compassion Made Us Human: An Archaeology of Stone Age Sentiment
Author: Penny Spikins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Our capacity to care about the wellbeing of others, whether they are close family or strangers, can appear to be unimportant...
Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence
Author: Joanna Bourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual violence varies widely across time and...
Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control over the World's Diamonds Throughout History
Author: Tijl Vanneste Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical expos of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the...
Broken Dreams: An Intimate History of the Midlife Crisis
Author: Mark Jackson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The midlife crisis has become a cliche in modern society. Since the mid-twentieth century, the term has been used to explain...
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...
Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love
Author: Joanna Bourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Renowned historian Joanna Bourke explores the modern history of bestiality Sex with animals is one of the last taboos but, for...
Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal
Author: John Beck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant garde, abandoned places and things - decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested...
London: City of Cities
Author: Phil Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 City of cities, the modern world's first great metropolis, London has shaped everything from clothing to youth culture. It has a...
Blood Rush: The Dark History of a Vital Fluid
Author: Jan Verplaetse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 As a young man Jan Verplaetse saw a hare suspended from a meat hook, skinned and gutted. What struck him so...
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...
The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment
Author: Julian E. Zelizer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 488 Leading historians provide perspective on Trump's four turbulent years in the White House The Presidency of Donald J. Trump presents...
The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
Author: Jim Sciutto Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Are we losing a war few of us realize we're fighting Jim Sciutto, CNN's Chief National Security Correspondent, reveals the invisible...
This Day in History: A 365-Day Tour of History's Most Fascinating, Important and Strange Facts and Figures
Author: Cider Mill Press Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Have you ever wondered what happened on your birthday hundreds of years ago This Day in History is perfect for...
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...
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...
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 -...
Hell Week and Beyond: The Making of a Navy Seal
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Author: Scott McEwen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 HELL WEEK AND BEYOND will take the reader to the sands of Coronado Beach in San Diego, where Navy SEALS are...
Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator
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Author: Jean Findlay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The thrilling first-ever biography of Proust translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, penned by his great-great-niece "And suddenly the memory returns. The...
The Times Queen Elizabeth II: A portrait of her 70-year reign
Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The ideal gift for royal fans. This is the story of a life dedicated to public service, reported by The Times...
The Unnamable Present
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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
Author: Durba Mitra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 302 How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the...
Diaries 1907-1914: Prodigious Youth
Author: Sergey Prokofiev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 Sergey Prokofiev, a compulsive diarist and gifted and idiosyncratic writer, possessed an incorrigibly sardonic curiosity about individuals and events. When he...
Dawn of the Horse Warriors
Author: Duncan Noble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 The domestication of the horse revolutionised warfare, granting unprecedented strategic and tactical mobility, allowing armies to strike with terrifying speed. The...
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...
Clan Fabius, Defenders of Rome: A History of the Republic's Most Illustrious Family
Author: McCall, Jeremiah Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The history of the Fabii Maximii is in many ways that of the Roman Republic. In the legends and historical scraps...
Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life
Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'When I write I think deeply about my friends, I pray for them, I tell them my emotions and...
Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
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Author: Derek Leebaert (Georgetown University Washington DC) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire...
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...
A Writer's House in Wales
Author: Jan Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country...
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...