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Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children

Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children

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Author: Patrick Hutchinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'The best of England' The New Statesman 'A powerful open letter about racism' The Sun 'I just want equality,...
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World - From Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai

We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World - From Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai

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Author: Malala Yousafzai Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news...
Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History

Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History

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Author: Saul David Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 453 The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military...
Voices of Snipers: Eyewitness Accounts from the World Wars

Voices of Snipers: Eyewitness Accounts from the World Wars

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Author: John Walter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 Based on an incredible breadth of first-hand testimony, this is a unique collection of eyewitness accounts from World War I and...
Hitler's Hangmen: The Secret German Plot to Kill Churchill

Hitler's Hangmen: The Secret German Plot to Kill Churchill

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Author: Brian Lett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Before and after the outbreak of the Second World War there were sizeable Fascist groups active in Britain, working to overthrow...
My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

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Author: Ash Barty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where...
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings

The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings

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Author: Geoff Dyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain' - Daily Telegraph Much attention has been paid to so-called late style -...
Letters of Note: Grief

Letters of Note: Grief

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Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In Letters of Note: Grief, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about grief, from the...
Funny Man: Mel Brooks

Funny Man: Mel Brooks

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Author: Patrick McGilligan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films,...
The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature

The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature

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Author: Viv Groskop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian...
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History

Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History

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Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An Economist Best Book of the Year In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the...
Bat, Ball and Field: The Elements of Cricket

Bat, Ball and Field: The Elements of Cricket

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Author: Jon Hotten Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Bat, Ball and Field is a wonderful foray into the history and culture of cricket. 'Hotten is not just...
Debussy: A Painter in Sound

Debussy: A Painter in Sound

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Author: Stephen Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 One of the most revered composers of the twentieth century, Claude Debussy (1862-1918) achieved the unheard of: he reinvented the language...
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984

The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984

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Author: Dorian Lynskey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey's account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory." --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and...
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier

The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier

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Author: Max Egremont Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Max Egremont, author of Some Desperate Glory, tells stories from the Glass Wall between Europe and Asia. Few countries have suffered...
MacArthur's Air Force: American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941-51

MacArthur's Air Force: American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941-51

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Author: Bill Yenne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his...
A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues

A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues

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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....
The Last Giants: The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant

The Last Giants: The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant

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Author: Levison Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 This book comes at a critical time. Thirty years ago, Africa was home to a million elephants, today the...
Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature

Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature

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Author: Patrick Barkham (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From climbing trees and making dens, to building sandcastles and pond-dipping, many of the activities we associate with a happy...
Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World

Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World

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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...
Sharp Suits: A celebration of men's tailoring

Sharp Suits: A celebration of men's tailoring

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Author: Eric Musgrave Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 This book contains everything you need to know about suits, from the traditional designs of the early 1900s, to innovative contemporary...
American Airline's Secret War in China: Project Seven Alpha, WWII

American Airline's Secret War in China: Project Seven Alpha, WWII

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Author: Leland Shanle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 244 In late 1941, President Roosevelt agonised over the rapid advances of the Japanese forces in Asia; they seemed unstoppable....
Behind the Lens: My Life

Behind the Lens: My Life

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Author: David Suchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the early days of my career, I didn't think I stood a hope in hell. Look at me: I'm short,...
The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition

The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Sunil Khilnani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical study that...
God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath

God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath

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Author: Malcolm Lambert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Crusade and jihad are often reckoned to have represented two sides of the same coin: each resonated on the...
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found

Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found

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Author: Frances Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set...
Hitler's Boy Soldiers: How My Father's Generation Was Trained to Kill and Sent to Die for Germany

Hitler's Boy Soldiers: How My Father's Generation Was Trained to Kill and Sent to Die for Germany

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Author: Helene Munson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker's, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This...
The Dragon Throne

The Dragon Throne

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Author: Jonathan Fenby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 388 They were the most powerful rulers on earth. The mighty Qin Shi Huangdu (r. 221-210 BC), who began the construction of...
Of Living Valour: The Story of the Soldiers of Waterloo

Of Living Valour: The Story of the Soldiers of Waterloo

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Author: Barney White-Spunner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 For the first time a modern British historian tells the story of the against-the-odds triumph through the accounts of the regimental...
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

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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...
Pathfinder, 'Kriegie' and Gumboot Governor: The Adventurous Life of Sir James Rowland AC, KBE, DFC, AFC

Pathfinder, 'Kriegie' and Gumboot Governor: The Adventurous Life of Sir James Rowland AC, KBE, DFC, AFC

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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...
Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

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Author: Nicholas Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 A New Yorker "Best Books of 2022" selection "Need to Know is the most thorough and detailed history available on the...
Face It: A Memoir

Face It: A Memoir

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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...
Cities: The First 6,000 Years

Cities: The First 6,000 Years

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Author: Monica L Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "A revelation of the drive and creative flux of the metropolis over time."--Nature "This is a must-read book for any...
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir

The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir

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Author: Justus Rosenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the...
Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe

Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe

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Author: John Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send...
I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

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Author: Stephanie Grisham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler...
Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney

Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney

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Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Artists' Letters is a treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing the reader with a unique insight...
Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet

Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet

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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 General vs. the President: Macarthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

The General vs. the President: Macarthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

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Author: H.W. Brands Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world....
Garbo

Garbo

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Author: David Robinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Greta Garbo's uniquely photogenic beauty belies her great talent as an actress, as her performances in "Queen Christina" and...
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

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Author: Stephen Kinzer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the...
Histories of the Unexpected: The Tudors

Histories of the Unexpected: The Tudors

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Author: Dr Sam Willis (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 At Histories of the Unexpected, we believe that everything has a history - even the most unexpected of subjects...
Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Author: Oliver Stone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 *** "I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux "A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless." - Chris...
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

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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:...
Things I Learned from Falling

Things I Learned from Falling

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Author: Claire Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An inspirational and gripping first-person account of determination, adversity and survival against the odds. Last year, Claire Nelson made...
The Battle for Isurava: Fighting in the clouds of the Owen Stanley 1942

The Battle for Isurava: Fighting in the clouds of the Owen Stanley 1942

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Author: David W. Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 364 Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of...
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

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Author: John Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young...