History

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...

Author: Mark Roseman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help...

Author: Alex Halberstadt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In this "urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history" (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a...

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...

Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...

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,...

Author: Lauren Collins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to...

Author: Amity Shlaes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period...

Author: Nury Turkel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it' Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy **Shortlisted for the Moore...

Author: Sean Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Fascinating and authoritative' The Daily Express Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern cultural icon:...

Author: Tripp Mickle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following...

Author: Alessandro Barbero Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An international bestseller. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over 700 years....

Author: Johan Norberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas...

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,...

Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback 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?...

Author: Peter Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A timely history of the world spanning every continent, religion and era, told through the creation and destruction of 21 Statues....

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...

Author: Inazo Nitobe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This classic text by InazoNitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a hugeimpact both...

Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare interpretation. This condensed...

Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Written around the time that Aristotle (384_322 BCE) established his own school in Athens, this is a guide to what was...

Author: Karl Marx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one...

Author: Michael Ashcroft Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Special Ops Heroes tells the extraordinary stories behind Lord Ashcroft's collection of SAS and other Special Forces medals - the largest of...

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...

Author: Erik Hornung Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects...

Author: Susie Hodge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when...

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: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The original bestselling autobiography by the comedian, novelist and national treasure, Stephen Fry. ______________________________ The original bestselling autobiography by...

Author: Nick Frost Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'No life can really be all black, right? Even during the darkest times, what got me through that bleakness...

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...

Author: Cleve Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was part of the last generation of gay people who grew up not knowing if there...

Author: Laura Jane Grace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 "If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman / My mother once told me she would...

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....

Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...

Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique...

Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 'The Lost Homestead is a memoir of Wheeler's mother and her family, which...

Author: Nev Schulman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 If there's anyone who knows about the darker side of online dating, it's Nev Schulman. The 29-year-old rose to...

Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...

Author: Jeff Madrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the former economics columnist for Harper's and The New York Times, a bold indictment of some of our...

Author: James Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in...

Author: Matt Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Forest celebrates the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting today as they...

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: Amber Jane Butchart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From Chanel's coastal couture to McLaren and Westwood's punk-fuelled pirates, from Jean Paul Gaultier's beefcake camp to Tommy Hilfiger's preppy...

Author: Sarah Aspinall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 For readers of Hideous Kinky, Dadland and Bad Blood; the astonishing, beguiling story of Sarah Aspinall's harum scarum childhood,...

Author: Simon Tyler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Graphic illustrator Simon Tyler explores the extremes of our planet - and the people who venture there - in his bold...

Author: Walter Rodney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of...

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,...

Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...