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The Messenger

The Messenger

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Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...
My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.

My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.

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Author: Evie Meg - This Trippy Hippie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 *Order now to read the long-awaited debut book from the huge TikTok sensation Evie Meg | This...
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage

Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage

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Author: Eileen Atkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Will She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in 1934 to...
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

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Author: Natasha Trethewey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 CARNEGIE...
Mama's Boy: A Memoir

Mama's Boy: A Memoir

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Author: Dustin Lance Black Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'A magnificent achievement . . . I cannot remember a book where I cried so often. Brave, insightful,...
War and Peace: Fdr's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945

War and Peace: Fdr's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945

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Author: Nigel Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war--proof that he...
Managing Expectations: A Memoir

Managing Expectations: A Memoir

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Author: Minnie Driver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When I was six, I wrote my first short essay. The title given by the teacher was: 'When I grow up,...
Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions

Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions

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Author: Trevor Norton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Laszlo Biro (the ballpoint pen)...
The Orange Balloon Dog: Bubbles, Turmoil and Avarice in the Contemporary Art Market

The Orange Balloon Dog: Bubbles, Turmoil and Avarice in the Contemporary Art Market

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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...
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

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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...
The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah

The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah

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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....
Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

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Author: John C. McManus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the...
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

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Author: Luis J Rodriguez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East...
The Sisters of Auschwitz: The true story of two Jewish sisters' resistance in the heart of Nazi territory

The Sisters of Auschwitz: The true story of two Jewish sisters' resistance in the heart of Nazi territory

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Author: Roxane van Iperen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Choice and The Librarian of Auschwitz - this is the international...
Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City

Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City

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Author: Haydon Cherry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A moving portrait of the lives of six poor city-dwellers, set in early twentieth century colonial Saigon Historian Haydon Cherry offers...
The Astrologer: How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind

The Astrologer: How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind

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Author: James Parris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Were British Intelligence chiefs gullible or sensible to recruit an astrologer to assist in the war effort against Nazi Germany? And...
Anatomy of a Massacre: How the SS Got Away with War Crimes in Italy

Anatomy of a Massacre: How the SS Got Away with War Crimes in Italy

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Author: Christian Jennings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 The first account in English of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre and the last hunt for Nazi war criminals. On 12...
Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China

Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China

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Author: Jin Xu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with "white metal" held China back from...
With Napoleon's Guns: The Military Memoirs of an Officer of the First Empire

With Napoleon's Guns: The Military Memoirs of an Officer of the First Empire

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Author: Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In 1795 the year Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French army in Italy the seventeen-year-old Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel entered the...
The World

The World

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Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1344 From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told...
Victory in Europe: From D-Day to the Destruction of the Third Reich, 1944-1945

Victory in Europe: From D-Day to the Destruction of the Third Reich, 1944-1945

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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

The Celts: First Masters of Europe

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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...
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter

Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter

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Author: Emma Soames Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of...
A Brief History of the Atlantic

A Brief History of the Atlantic

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Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In...
The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story

The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story

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Author: Gwen Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A compelling, beautifully written story of resilience, friendship and survival.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz As the Second...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

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Author: Mikhail Zygar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the...
Paths of Fire: The Gun and the World It Made

Paths of Fire: The Gun and the World It Made

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Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 If you squeeze the trigger of a Kalashnikov a bullet is kicked up the barrel by an archaic chemical explosion that...
The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America

The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America

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Author: Lisa Z. Sigel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The first history of American handmade and homemade pornography, The People's Porn offers the backstory to the explosion of amateur...
The Salient: Ypres, 1914-18

The Salient: Ypres, 1914-18

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Author: Alan Palmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace', but in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the...
ISIS: A History

ISIS: A History

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Author: Fawaz A. Gerges Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Islamic State stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. However, its most striking and...
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House

The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House

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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown

The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown

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Author: Anna Keay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR...
The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin

The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin

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Author: Andrei Soldatov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with...
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

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Author: Daniel Finkelstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS 'A modern classic' OBSERVER...
In the Heat of Battle: A History of Those Who Rose to the Occasion and Those Who Didn't

In the Heat of Battle: A History of Those Who Rose to the Occasion and Those Who Didn't

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Author: Donough O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Out of the last 3,500 years of our 'civilised' world, only for 230 have we been at peace. In "The Heat...
Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, 136-132 and 105-100 BC

Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, 136-132 and 105-100 BC

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Author: Natale Barca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their...
Into the Valley of Death: The Light Cavalry at Balaclava

Into the Valley of Death: The Light Cavalry at Balaclava

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Author: Nick Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "Into the Valley of Death" tells the thrilling story of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the words of the...
The Great Abolition Sham: The True Story of the End of the British Slave Trade

The Great Abolition Sham: The True Story of the End of the British Slave Trade

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Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Slavery and the trade that fuelled it underpinned Britain's economic position throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unsurprisingly, when the abolition...
Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and Discovery of the New World

Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and Discovery of the New World

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Author: Brian Fagan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? What persuaded the king and queen of...
Crusaders and Revolutionaries of the Thirteenth Century: De Montfort

Crusaders and Revolutionaries of the Thirteenth Century: De Montfort

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Author: Darren Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 One of the families that dominated the thirteenth century were the de Montforts. They arose in France, in a hamlet close...
The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe

The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe

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Author: Forrest McGill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A huge number of artworks relating to the Rama legends have been made over the course of 1500 years in a...
Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say

Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say

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Author: Harriet Shawcross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the...
The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That

The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That

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Author: Al Murray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'I squealed laughing at this but now worry that my knowledge of history has been dangerously ruined' Matt Forde A fascinating...
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

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Author: Greg Jenner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 During these extraordinary times Greg Jenner is able to sign you a personalised bookplate for your hardback. Please email info@gregjenner.com with...
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century

Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century

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Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society. When it...
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land

Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land

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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...
14-18: Understanding the Great War

14-18: Understanding the Great War

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Author: Catherine Temerson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 With this brilliantly innovative book, reissued for the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette...
Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence

Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence

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Author: Frances Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his...