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Author: 0 Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister' Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman Jack Female Fortune is the...

Author: Robert E. Blobaum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From the Middle Ages until World War II, Poland was host to Europe's largest and most vibrant Jewish population. By...

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...

Author: David Gibbins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author...

Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 FULLY UPDATED 'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture' INDEPENDENT Flat, fertile, and...

Author: Robert Verkaik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In this startling new perspective on the Battle of Britain, Robert Verkaik reveals the surprising truth about the battle's forgotten fighter,...

Author: Charles Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...

Author: Christopher Hitchens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award The acid, hilarious, confessional, provocative bestselling memoirs of our greatest contrarian, and the...

Author: Samuel Huntington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 Since its initial publication nearly fifteen years ago The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become a...

Author: Matthew Reilly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 THE BRAND NEW JACK WEST THRILLER AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Spectacular...Part-Jack Reacher, part-Indiana Jones' SMH THE END IS HERE Jack West...

Author: Chris Salewicz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 What was it about Bob Marley that made him so popular in a world dominated by rock'n'roll? How is that he...

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...

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...

Author: Laurence Bergreen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 "FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely." -New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice In this grand and thrilling narrative, the...

Author: Kate Heartfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 *The Embroidered Book shortlisted for the Aurora Award for Best Novel* From SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Kate Heartfield comes a glorious,...

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,...

Author: Anthony R. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one...

Author: Alice Sherwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun' Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly...

Author: Jeremy Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Jeremy Wade has caught an unparalleled array of outsize and outlandish fish from challenging locations all over the world - goliath...

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...

Author: Geert Mak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America,...

Author: Kei Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so...

Author: Richard Mead Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'The Men Behind Monty' examines the role played by the personal staff in the victorious campaigns of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery,...

Author: Simon Murray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Vintage glasses of all shapes, styles and sizes - the very best of 20th- and 21st-century spectacle design for fashion designers,...

Author: Chas Newkey-Burden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With only two albums to her name, Adele is one of the biggest singer-songwriters on the planet. Her last...

Author: Robert Lyman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The thrilling and true story of the development and operational deployment of human torpedoes - 'Chariots' - and 'X-craft' midget submarines...

Author: Monty Halls Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Some of the great untold stories of the Second World War concern the freedom trails, the highly dangerous escape routes out...

Author: Paul Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in...

Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Funny, moving, insightful, vulnerable. A brave book and a brilliant read.' - Miranda Hart Multi-award-winning television writer and producer...

Author: Dr Gregory Bryan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Henry Lawson gave voice to a uniquely Australian identity and much of the Australian ethos of mateship was...

Author: Nuria Jimenez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 35 All animals and plants require clean air. In this book, children learn about why we need air, the value...

Author: James Bowen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he...

Author: Michael Gross (Oxford UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an...

Author: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The second book by the bestselling author of Extraordinary Insects Trees clean air and water; hoverflies and bees pollinate...

Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Explorer, sailor and navigator, Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail all the way around the world. He encountered lands...

Author: Rudolf Hoess Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis murdered some three...

Author: Martin Marix Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 1918 examines both the Germans' tactics and the Allies' preferred solution to fighting this war, the combination of...