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Our Moon: A Human History by Rebecca Boyle 9781529342789
RRP: $42.90$29.17'Passionate and absorbing'SUNDAY TIMES'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study'CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth'Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of... -
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
RRP: $19.48$13.34THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World... -
Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600 by Judith M. Bennett 9780195126501
RRP: $76.03$52.47Women brewed and sold most of the ale drunk in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London-as well as in many towns and villages-were male, not female. Drawing on a wide variety of sources-such as... -
Fife in History and Legend by Raymond Lamont-Brown 9781839830105
RRP: $25.33$17.90Fife has always been one of Scotland's most distinctive counties. Though never a 'kingdom' in its own right, its geographical position as a peninsular county between the firths of Tay and Forth has helped maintain its self-contained identity through the... -
When I Dare to Be Powerful by Audre Lorde
RRP: $15.58$11.66'Women so empowered are dangerous'Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength and solidarity, and a cry to speak out against those... -
Churches of Suffolk by Sarah E. Doig
RRP: $31.18$22.64Suffolk boasts by far the greatest number of Domesday churches of any county surveyed by William the Conqueror in 1086. Over the centuries, many of these buildings have been renewed, enlarged and altered, whilst others have sadly disappeared either... -
Secrets of the Homefront Girls Kate Thompson 9781473698116
RRP: $17.53$12.29A new series from bestselling author Kate Thompson.'Kate Thompson's wartime novels always strike a chord and Secrets of the Homefront Girls is no exception. You can almost smell the Yardley violets drifting over the factory as the girls live lives... -
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century by Joel F. Harrington
RRP: $25.33$18.21Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist.Following in his father's footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner's trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his... -
The Father: A Revenge by Niklas Frank 9781785906794
RRP: $25.33$18.25Niklas Frank was just seven years old when his father, Hans Frank, Hitler's legal adviser and Governor General of occupied Poland, was executed at Nuremberg as a Nazi war criminal. Throughout his life, Niklas has attempted to come to terms with the... -
The Romans: Gods, Emperors and Dormice by Marcia Williams 9781406354553
RRP: $17.53$12.75With her signature comic-strip style, Marcia WIlliams takes us behind the scenes at some of ancient Rome's most famous moments.Meet Dormeo: gladiator, dormouse, berry-nibbler, and guide to ancient Rome. He'll take you on a tour of Rome's most famous... -
Low Level Hell by Hugh Mills
RRP: $19.48$13.46'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today ... Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission' R.S. Maxham, Director, US Army Aviation MuseumThe aeroscouts of the... -
The Routledge History of Medieval Magic Sophie Page 9781032093994
RRP: $85.78$75.54The Routledge History of Medieval Magic brings together the work of scholars from across Europe and North America to provide extensive insights into recent developments in the study of medieval magic between c.1100 and c.1500. This book covers a wide... -
Modern Spain: 1808 to the Present Pamela Beth Radcliff 9781405186803
RRP: $46.70$40.89Modern Spain: 1808 to the Present is a comprehensive overview of Spanish history from the Napoleonic era to the present day. Places a large emphasis on Spain's place within broader European and global historyThe chronological political narrative is... -
The Sistine Chapel: History of a Masterpiece by Antonio Forcellino
RRP: $48.75$32.72The Sistine Chapel is one of the world's most magnificent buildings, and the frescos that decorate its ceiling and walls are a testimony to the creative genius of the Renaissance. Two generations of artists worked at the heart of Christianity, over the... -
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt
RRP: $40.93$36.74In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by... -
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco 9781910702581
RRP: $42.90$34.16In his first full-length work of journalism in a decade, the 'heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman' (Economist) brings his comics mastery to a story of indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world*A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE... -
The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria by Max Adams
RRP: $25.33$17.92'A triumph - a Game of Thrones in the Dark Ages' TOM HOLLAND. The magisterial biography of Oswald Whiteblade, exiled prince of Northumbria, who returned in blood and glory to reclaim his birthright. A charismatic leader, a warrior whose prowess in... -
Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen by Linda M. Heywood
RRP: $36.95$29.97"The fascinating story of arguably the greatest queen in sub-Saharan African history, who surely deserves a place in the pantheon of revolutionary world leaders."-Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Though largely unknown in the West, the seventeenth-century African... -
Sutton Hoo: The Excavation of a Royal Ship-Burial by Charles Green 9781574093537
RRP: $23.38$17.59Charles Green tells here the dramatic story of the initial excavation of Sutton Hoo, one of the richest archaeological finds of all time. In the Sutton Hoo burial grounds scientists unearthed a ship containing the treasures of a king who was most likely... -
The Sun King by Nancy Mitford
RRP: $21.43$15.58This gossipy account of Louis XIV is a clear and fascinating historical biography from Nancy Mitford. ... -
Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement and the British Road to War by Frank McDonough 9780719048326
RRP: $38.98$35.30Re-examines the controversial policy of appeasement. The text suggests that the mood of the age in British society served to support appeasement, by analyzing the cluster of military, strategic, imperial and economic forces which served to justify it... -
In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine by Tim Judah
RRP: $21.43$15.58An urgent, insightful account of the human side of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine by seasoned war reporter Tim Judah Making his way from the Polish border in the west, through the capital city and the heart of the 2014 revolution, to the eastern... -
History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
RRP: $39.00$29.82'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. JamesRegarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in... -
The A-Z of Curious Wales: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Mark Rees 9780750990073
RRP: $29.23$22.85Wales' history is packed with peculiar customs and curious characters. Here you will discover alien landscapes, ancient druids and a Victorian ghost hunter. Find out why revellers would carry a decorated horse's skull on a pole door to door at... -
The Haunting of Borley Rectory: The Story of a Ghost Story by Sean O'Connor 9781471194795
RRP: $21.43$14.06Marianne Foyster, Harry Price and the most haunted house in England - the perfect read for Halloween. 'Borley Rectory is perhaps the definition of an old haunt, still exerting an extraordinary grip on the popular imagination... Balanced, surprising and... -
Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism by Thomas Levenson
RRP: $19.48$14.06A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year A brilliant narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 - and paradoxically led to the birth of modern... -
Better Brand Health: Brand Measurement and Metrics for a How Brands Grow World by Jenni Romaniuk 9780190340902
RRP: $40.93$38.40The book is about brand health tracking, one of the biggest (and most costly) sources of insights about brand performance and inputs into brand strategy that marketers engage in. But yet most trackers were designed pre-How Brands Grow, and so suffer from... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 Hitler and Nazi Germany, 1919-1939 Ella Richardson 9781398345423
$40.64Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together... -
Secret War Heroes by Marcus Binney
RRP: $21.43$14.84Founded by Churchill, Special Operations Executive (SOE) was the forerunner of the SAS, and during WWII they sent many hundreds of specially-trained agents deep undercover in Nazi-occupied Europe. Here Marcus Binney explores the extraordinary stories and... -
The Club on the Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir by Alan Lane 9781914228414
RRP: $25.33$19.11'There are children in Holbeck without crayons. Living in a city with an opera company. An opera company paid for with money from all of us. Until everyone has crayons no one gets opera. That's what I believe.' A deeply moving memoir of how a group of... -
Reporting the Troubles: Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict by Deric Henderson
RRP: $29.23$24.47In some ways, I didn't - don't - want to remember any of it. Which is not to say that one ever forgets. I don't know any journalist who worked through the Troubles, with its relentless cycle of murders and doorstepping the homes of the dead and funerals... -
A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707: The Double Crown by David Lee Smith 9780631194026
RRP: $68.15$61.37This is a survey of a seminal and intensely controversial period in British history, from the union of the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1603 to the union of the Kingdoms in 1707. The book explores the intersecting histories of the Stuart monarchies... -
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition by Jonathan Fenby
RRP: $37.03$26.54In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim of oppression, war and famine... -
When I Come Home Again: A beautiful and heartbreaking WWI novel, based on true events by Caroline Scott
RRP: $17.53$11.72'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020 From the highly acclaimed author of The Photographer of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a beautiful and compelling story based on true events, perfect for fans of Maggie O'Farrell... -
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay
RRP: $25.33$17.92'Subtle, compendious and rich' - James McConnachie, The Sunday Times 'Dazzling ... Finlay's adventures, vividly recounted, make enthralling reading ... This book is equally an inspiration and an education' - Bel Mooney, Daily Mail 'A gorgeous... -
Betrayal: The Murder of Robert Nairac GC by Alistair Kerr 9781903499900
RRP: $33.05$27.89The second edition covering the murder of Grenadier Guardsman Robert Nairac GC by the Provisional IRA in 1977.Book InformationISBN 9781903499900Author Alistair KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint Cambridge AcademicPublisher Cambridge Media Group -
Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: $29.23$19.62The real story of how Winston Churchill and the British mastered deception to defeat the Nazis - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using brains to outwit brawn. By June 1940, most of Europe had fallen to the Nazis and Britain stood alone. So,... -
The Great Tapestry of Scotland by Alistair Moffat
RRP: $58.50$44.44The Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep and Andy Murry's Wimbledon victory of 2013. More than 1000 stitchers spent a total... -
The Souls of Black Folk: The Unabridged Classic by W. E. B. Dubois
RRP: $5.83$5.03One of the Most Important Books on Civil Rights, Race, and Freedom Ever Written. "A groundbreaking challenge to white supremacy." -The New York Times A classic work of American literature, African-American history, and sociology by W. E. B. Du Bois, The... -
The Piano Shop On The Left Bank by T.E. Carhart
RRP: $19.48$14.27T. E. Carhart, an American living in Paris, is intrigued by a piano repair shop hidden down a street near his apartment. When he finally gains admittance to the secretive world of the atelier, he finds himself in an enormous glass-roofed workshop filled...