Sort by:
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
Author: Joe Posnanski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted...
Macarthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II
Author: Peter Eisner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in the exotic landscape of occupied Manila during World War...
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An...
A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue
Author: John Aldridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Film in development with The Weinstein Company In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was...
Sharks: A History of Fear in Australia
Author: Callum Denness Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 For as long as people have lived in Australia, the shark has loomed large in our fears. From the...
Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
Author: Yasha Levine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, private corporations consider it their right to use our data (and by...
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
Pathfinder, 'Kriegie' and Gumboot Governor: The Adventurous Life of Sir James Rowland AC, KBE, DFC, AFC
Author: Sir James Rowland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 520 A descendant of early pioneers of New South Wales, James Rowland combined a thirst for adventure with a strong sense...
David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS
Author: Gavin Mortimer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special...
Face It: A Memoir
Author: Debbie Harry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'I was saying things in songs that female singers didn't really say back then. I wasn't submissive or begging him to...
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
Author: Dr Neil MacGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The panoramic new history of belief from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects. No...
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
Author: Norman Ohler (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony Beevor Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out...
A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939
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...
The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The untold story of the shadowy international spy network, through its targets, traitors and spies
Author: Richard Kerbaj Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Puts Richard Kerbaj in the front rank of modern authors on espionage. It is, by turns, gripping and shocking and sheds...
Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard
Author: Richard Greene Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told...
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague
Author: Timothy Garton Ash Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who...
Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation's Cultural Heritage
Author: Andrey Kurkov Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A celebration of Ukraine's rich cultural heritage, drawing on over 100 of the country's most important works of art and architectural...
The Sisters of Auschwitz: The true story of two Jewish sisters' resistance in the heart of Nazi territory
Author: Roxane van Iperen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and The Librarian of Auschwitz - this is the international...
The Scandalous Freddie McEvoy: The true story of the swashbuckling Australian rogue
Author: Frank Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected spy - this is the fascinating story...
100 Curiosities & Inventions from the Collections of the National Trust
Author: Katie Knowles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The National Trust looks after one of the largest and most significant holdings of fine-art and heritage objects in the world....
Women Who Love Too Much
Author: Robin Norwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Is having 'somebody to love' the most important thing in your life? Do you constantly believe that with ?the right man? you...
War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
$10.00
Author: David Patrikarakos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A leading foreign correspondent looks at how social media has transformed the modern battlefield, and how wars are fought Modern warfare...
Footsloggers: An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45
Author: Peter Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to...
Russia of the Tsars
Author: Peter Waldron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Between the 17th century and the 1917 revolution, the Russian Tsars became absolute rulers of the largest and most diverse empire...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England
Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...
White Nights: A Colombian Odyssey
Author: Austin Galt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'God made Colombia the most beautiful country in the world so he had to balance it by inhabiting it...
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe...
The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah
$15.00
Author: Kenneth C Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in The Hidden History of America at War....
Victory in Europe: From D-Day to the Destruction of the Third Reich, 1944-1945
Author: Julian Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This book, published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day the last to be commemorated by significant numbers of surviving...
The Celts: First Masters of Europe
Author: Christiane Eluere Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Lovers of gold, wine and war, the Celts have no voice because they left no written records. Much of what we...
Fleet Air Arm Boys: Volume Two: Strike, Anti-Submarine, Early Warning and Support Aircraft since 1945 True Tales from Royal Navy Men and Women Air and Ground Crew
Author: Steve Bond Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Since the end of World War 2 the primary role of the Royal Navys Fleet Air Arm has been airborne power...
The Two Lost Mountains: An Action-Packed Jack West Thriller
$12.00
Author: Matthew Reilly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'THE HOTTEST ACTION WRITER AROUND' EVENING TELEGRAPH THE LATEST ADVENTURE IN THE WILDLY ENTERTAINING, ACTION-PACKED JACK WEST SERIES Against all the...
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....
Dangerous Days on the Victorian Railways: Feuds, Frauds, Robberies and Riots
Author: Terry Deary Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Victorians risked more than just delays when boarding a steam train . . . Victorian inventors certainly didn't lack steam,...
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
Author: Rachel Hewitt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions ... a revolution in...
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...
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
Author: Chun Han Wong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary Review From one of the most admired...
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Author: Margalit Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly...
Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard
Author: Stephen Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society, yet was never fully part of it. The Prince of Wales...
The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller
$15.00
Author: Sam Knight Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 **A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** ** Chosen as a Book of the Year in the Times, Observer, Telegraph, Irish Times, Stylist and...