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Graham Robb's new book will change the way you see European civilization. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of...
View full detailsWinner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, p...
View full details** A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ** 'Fascinating . . . The history of the world through the eye of a needle . . . I recommend this book to anyone' TH...
View full details"The most graceful English translation of this masterpiece of world literature - prepared with the participation of the Dalai Lama and eminent cont...
View full details'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die f...
View full detailsIt is the night of 28 March 1942. Royal Navy and British commandos are poised to assault the German-held port of Saint-Nazaire in what will be one ...
View full detailsTHE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration c...
View full details'Danny Goldberg is probably one of the purest, most reasonable guides you could ask for to 1967.' Ex-Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham. ...
View full details'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific le...
View full detailsUntil the late 1930s, Singapore was noted as a popular stop-off point for wealthy European travelers on their way to countries such as Australia an...
View full detailsFor over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhel...
View full detailsThe dramatic story of Scotland - by charismatic television historian, Neil Oliver. Scotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivi...
View full detailsA translation of one of the most important texts of Western philosophy. Few ancient works have been as influential as the MEDITATIONS of Marcus Au...
View full details'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd 'Rick Stroud writes brilliantly ab...
View full detailsBeginning in the broken aftermath of the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles that made German recovery almost impossible, Whittock tells n...
View full detailsIn 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fic...
View full detailsReview Charming, magical and life-affirming, Antonia Barber's clever and moving tale has become a much-loved favourite. The Wheel of Time spin...
View full detailsLondon's streets have always worn a variety of influences, reflecting the diverse crowds who live and work on them. Take a walk down any number of ...
View full details'Informed, impeccably researched and written' Neil Oliver The Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling acco...
View full detailsThis wide-ranging book explores the diversity of esoteric and occult beliefs. Neo-Paganism is one of the fastest-growing new religions in the weste...
View full detailsNeal Donald Walsch was experiencing a low period in his life when he decided to write a letter to God, venting his frustrations. What he did not ex...
View full detailsAlistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Brid...
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View full detailsFrom a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior. The Samurai emerg...
View full detailsIntroducing the Octavia E. Butler Collection, a set of three powerful and thought-provoking books that will captivate readers from start to finish...
View full details'An extraordinary book . . . It will shake up your most fundamental beliefs about everyday experience, and it just might change your life.' Paul Bl...
View full details'The English Civil War' is one of the most hotly contested areas of English History and John Miller is one of the experts on the period. Amid drama...
View full details***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** 'Hancock's books provide a fascinating, alternative version of prehistory. America Before, detailed an...
View full detailsStarting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey Hindley shows...
View full detailsGeorge Armstrong Custer was one of the most flamboyant and controversial officers ever to have served in the United States Army. This superbly illu...
View full detailsWhat might a 'theory of everything' look like? Is science an ideology? Who were Adorno, Horkheimer or the Frankfurt School? The decades since the 1...
View full detailsA masterful introduction to world mythology, shedding light on the impact it has had on cultures past and present and untangling the complex web of...
View full details'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.' Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland ...
View full detailsThe stoics lived a long time ago, but they had some startling insights into the human condition - insights which endure to this day. The philosophi...
View full detailsThe bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spa...
View full detailsWhy has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the ...
View full detailsAbout the Author Louise Cooling is curator of paintings at Royal Collection Trust. She was previously assistant curator of paintings at the Victor...
View full detailsThere is Britain before 1965 and Britain after 1965 - and they are not the same thing. 1965 was the year Britain democratised education, it was the...
View full detailsPhilosophers certainly like to make life sound awfully complicated, whether they're wondering if a falling tree still makes a sound if there's no...
View full detailsAs the Nazi madness swept across Europe, a quiet watchmaker's family in Holland risked everything for the sake of others, and for the love of Chris...
View full detailsThe Holocaust is an attempt to explain the inexplicable - the systematic murder of millions of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators d...
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View full detailsFor centuries the Celts held sway in Europe. Even after their conquest by the Romans, their culture remained vigorous, ensuring that much of it end...
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View full detailsGraham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the ...
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View full detailsA Sunday Times bestseller (May 2023) - the incredible story of courage, resilience and survival. 'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's ...
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