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In the past months Mrs Fingal’s legs had grown very weak. She could move from the bed to the chair only if she held on to the furniture. ‘Be carefu...

THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION C...

Spring, 1941. Britain is losing the war. Paris is occupied by the Nazis, dark and silent at night. But when the clouds part, and moonlight floods ...

Empower children to stand up for what is right with this powerful picture book inspired by the real-life events surrounding the toppling of a slave...

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1919. The Derbyshire village of Wenfield is still reeling from four terrible years of war, and now, just when the village is coming to terms with t...

Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old p...

In dark, wintry Lochdubh, Christmas Cheer is about as welcome as a flat tyre on a deserted road. The Calvinist element in town has always resisted ...

Continues Neil's landmark exploration of how our land and its people came to be, which began with the acclaimed A HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. Who were th...

The political leaders, writers, artists and philosophers of ancient Greece turned a small group of city states into a pan-Mediterranean civilizatio...

Discover the lives of the ancient Romans, pieced together from inscriptions, discarded letters, biographies and myth over two thousand years of his...

Art history has been given a fun feline makeover. Discover the basics of important art movements through a host of beautifully illustrated cats, ...

From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 21 Women They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblaz...

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From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, acclaimed historian John Julius Norwich t...

A History of European Football in 100 Objects: The Alternative Football Museum reveals the shocking hidden history of European football. In this fa...

Anglicanism can be seen as irredeemably English. In this book Kevin Ward questions that assumption. He explores the character of the African, Asian...

Product Description A History of Interior Design tells the story of 6,000 years of domestic and public space. This fully updated fourth edition in...

This is the epic story of life on Earth, uniquely retold through someof the most significant fossils ever found. The book travels through 3.5 bill...

Why is it easy to hate and difficult to love? When societies fracture into warring tribes, we demonise those who oppose us. We tear down our statue...

Following on from the success of the award-winning A History of Pictures for Children comes this introduction to the history of music that takes ch...

Explore the history of ocean liners through the objects that bring them to life. Liners represented the ambitions of their nations in peace and war...

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A History of Pictures for Children takes readers on a journey through art history, from early art drawn on cave walls to the images we make today o...

Product Description Winner of the prestigious BolognaRagazzi New Horizons Award 2019 A History of Pictures for Children takes readers on a journe...

About the Author David Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. He has produced work in almost every...

Product Description A new, compact edition of David Hockney and Martin Gayford’s brilliantly original book, with a revised final chapter and three...

Over 1000 years of royal history told through 100 fascinating objects. From the glory of coronation regalia to coins, from imposing statues to stam...

Book of the Year in the Irish Times 'A wonderful storyteller' Joseph O'Connor On the quays of Dublin, Jasmine is running, training for a fight sh...

The dramatic story of Scotland - by charismatic television historian, Neil Oliver. Scotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivi...

This is the first book on the general history of US sociological research. It provides systematic archival, documentary, and interview data which q...

In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh ...

'Roberts boldly dons Churchill's own mantle, setting out to continue where Churchill's four volumes left off, which was in 1901. The mantle fits .....

Volume five of this monumental series�commences with coverage of the final fierce air-sea battles over the Aegean which preceded the advance northw...

Product Description The first volume of this series dealt with the initial 19 months of the air war over the Western Desert of North Africa. This ...

The fourth volume in this momentous series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria, which led to its surrender and...

From the Big Bang to the Gaia Mission, this is a very personal history of the universe through the author's favourite 100 stars. Astronomer Floria...

Beautifully illustrated, A History of the Universe in 21 Stars provides a key to the cosmos for the curious, the busy and the bewildered. It offers...

Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the o...

'In this book, we travel back in time and across the globe, to see how we humans have shaped our world and been shaped by it over the past two mill...