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Who Lost Russia?: From the Collapse of the USSR to Putin's War on Ukraine
Author: Peter Conradi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 appeared to usher in a remarkable new era of peace...
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific
Author: Nicholas Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books...
Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves
Author: Lucy Lethbridge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 *FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH* 'I really can't recommend this enough - especially if you are going on holiday' Tom...
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty
Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet it's too often dismissed as something which only...
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty
Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'One of the most important books to be written about the Tudors in a generation.' Tracy Borman 'A riveting, pacy page-turner......
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth - A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'
Author: Michael Spitzer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read'...
The Museum of the Wood Age
Author: Max Adams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood - the material that shaped human history. As a material, wood has no equal...
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A story of science, sex and psychoanalysis
Author: Seamus O'Mahony Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A brilliantly witty book about the intertwined lives of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis, Sigmund...
The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria
Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From Dr Annie Gray, presenter of BBC2's Victorian Bakers What does it mean to eat like a queen? Elizabeth gorged on...
The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler
Author: Chris Bryant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY 'Superb' Stephen Fry 'Thrillingly told' Dan Jones 'Fascinating' Neil...
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan
Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (University of Notre Dame, USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 _______________...
Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women
Author: Kristen Ghodsee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Through a series of lively and accessible biographical essays, Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism century Eastern Europe. By...
Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald
Author: Flora Fraser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A SPECTATOR AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'So well researched, pacily written and sympathetic to the Auld Cause that it...
Inheritance: The tragedy of Mary Davies: Property & madness in eighteenth-century London
Author: Leo Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "In June 1701, a young widow, Mary Grosvenor wakes up in a hotel room in Paris and finds a man in...
Espana: a Brief History of Spain
Author: Giles Tremlett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible...
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis
Author: Charles Spicer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It's one of the great 'what ifs' of history. What if Britain had stood up to Hitler much earlier? Coffee with...
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume One:The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985
Author: Martin Bernal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 Winner of the American Book Award and a Socialist Review Book Award. What is classical about Classical Civilization? In one of...
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
Author: Huw Lemmey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past...
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City
Author: Dr Edmund Richardson (Lecturer in Classics, Durham University, UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Not all lost cities are real, but this one was.' The extraordinary story of...
A Spy Among Friends: Now a major ITV series starring Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce
Author: Ben Macintyre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **NOW A MAJOR SIX-PART SERIES ON ITVX, STARRING DAMIAN LEWIS AND GUY PEARCE** A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN...
A Short History of Queer Women
Author: Kirsty Loehr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Female same-sex desire has been written out of history since, well, forever. Not anymore! From the first women's football team in...
In The Line of Duty: A tribute to Australia's fallen police officers
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Gardens of Britain
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Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
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Immortal Words: History's Most Memorable Quotations and the Stories Behind Them
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Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November): The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks
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Lennox Legacy: the History of the Csiro Laboratory At 343 Royal Parade Parkville
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Admirals
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The Civil War: A History
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The Discovery of the Bismarck: Germany's Greatest Battleship Surrenders
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Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation
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The Invitation-Only Zone
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Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps
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The History of Spain
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Escape from the Deep: A True Story of Courage and Survival During World War II
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Mere Christianity
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Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma
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The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
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The Penguin Encyclopedia of Classical Civilizations
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The People's Force: a History of the Victoria Police
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The Age of Discovery
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This Precious Earth
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Influential Gardeners: Shaping Today's Style
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The Story of Gardening
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Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Author: Professor Peter Frankopan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY...