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DK Eyewitness Belgium and Luxembourg by DK
RRP: $29.23$22.13The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring these historic countries.Appreciate the architectural splendour of Brussels, wander through picture-postcard Bruges,... -
Peep Inside a Castle by Anna Milbourne
RRP: $17.53$10.67Young children can explore a bustling medieval castle in this charming, lift-the-flap non-fiction book. Flaps and peep-through holes in the pages reveal a knight putting on his armour, castle guards counting the king's treasure and a grand feast with the... -
The Little Book of the Tudors by Annie Bullen 9780750993388
RRP: $25.33$16.69The five Tudor monarchs - Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I - were some of the most influential rulers in British history. This volume explores all aspects of life in the Tudor age, from life at court (and at the grand country... -
A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic by W. Jeffrey Tatum 9780197694909
RRP: $52.63$45.24A complex and captivating portrait of Mark Antony that offers a fresh perspective on the fall of the Roman Republic In his lifetime, Mark Antony was a famous man. Ally and avenger of Julius Caesar, rhetorical target of Cicero, lover of Cleopatra, and... -
Behind the Curtain: Football in Eastern Europe Jonathan Wilson 9780752879451
RRP: $21.43$14.84'Epic... Wilson writes captivatingly with humour...anyone with an interest in eastern European sport will be consulting this book for years to come' FINANCIAL TIMES'This fascinating and perceptive travelogue includes a fine collection of anecdotes too... -
Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain by Charlotte Lydia Riley 9781847926432
RRP: $48.75$32.74Imperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined Britain over the last seventy years.'Masterful ... you won't look at Britain in the same way ever again' OWEN JONESAfter the Second World War, Britain's overseas... -
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth
RRP: $21.43$15.58The Danes are the happiest people in the world, and pay the highest taxes.'Neutral' Sweden is one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world.Finns have the largest per capita gun ownership after the US and Yemen.54 per cent of Icelanders believe in... -
The Madman's Gallery by Edward Brooke-Hitching
RRP: $58.50$38.63Enter The Madman's Gallery - the perfect gift book for any art lover. Discover an eccentric exploration through the curious history of art, to find the strangest paintings, sculptures, drawings and other artistic oddities ever made. From the author of... -
The Labyrinth of the Spirits: From the bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon 9781474606219
RRP: $19.48$14.43THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Magnificent: a dizzying tale of drama, intrigue and passion' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A colossal, genre-crossing achievement' GUARDIANAs a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an... -
In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story by John Stockwell 9780393009262
RRP: $39.00$34.14In Search of Enemies is much more than the story of the only war to be found when the CIA sought to recoup its prestige after the Vietnam debacle. Though no American troops were committed to Angola, only "advisors," many millions were spent, many... -
The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War by Tom Whipple
RRP: $39.00$28.29'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable characters and written with all the drama and pace of a Robert Harris thriller' Rowland White, author of... -
The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties by James Riley
RRP: $19.48$13.46'A history that makes perfect sense when the sky is falling down.' - The Sunday TimesBeneath the psychedelic utopianism of the sixties lay a dark seam of apocalyptic thinking that seemed to rupture into violence and despair by 1969.Literary and cultural... -
Cars We Loved in the 1960s by Giles Chapman
RRP: $19.48$15.15If you owned a car in 1960s Britain, then you'll love this blast back in time to when driving was still fun, highway speed limits were unheard-of (well, until 1965 anyway), and buying a new car was a thrilling family event. It was a golden period for... -
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard 9780520401495
RRP: $29.23$24.06"Superbly acute and unashamedly complex."-The Telegraph "Rich and provocative."-Times Literary Supplement "An engaging exploration."-The New Yorker"The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another cracking book, one of her best."-The Independent What made... -
Emperor of Rome by Robert Fabbri 9781782397106
RRP: $19.48$13.46The final, thrilling instalment in the epic Vespasian series from the bestselling author, Robert Fabbri.Rome, AD 68. Vespasian is tasked with the impossible. Should he quell the revolt in Judaea, as Nero the emperor has instructed, or resort to the... -
Phoenix Squadron: HMS Ark Royal, Britain's last Topguns and the untold story of their most dramatic mission by Rowland White 9780552152907
RRP: $25.33$18.21January 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroops. Britain's response must be immediate and decisive. But there is only one deterrent the government can offer: HMS... -
Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story by Rob Dinnis 9780565093372
RRP: $29.23$19.60When did the first humans arrive in Britain? Where did they come from? And what did they look like? This is the amazing story of human life in Britain. It begins nearly one million years ago, during the earliest known human occupation, and reveals how... -
Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine by Aiden Aslin 9780857505293
RRP: $39.00$28.29Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at... -
The Pirates’ Code: The Laws and Life Aboard Ship by Rebecca Simon
RRP: $31.18$22.99Pirates have long captured peoples' imaginations with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye-patches and buried treasure. But what was life really like on a pirate ship? Piracy was a risky, sometimes deadly occupation, and strict orders were... -
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf 9781848310308
RRP: $19.48$8.21'Everything about [this] book, which combines a healthy dose of lucid neuroscience with a dash of sensitive personal narrative, delights ... a beautifully balanced piece of popular-science writing' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'For people interested in... -
Meet the Ancient Egyptians by James Davies
RRP: $17.53$12.52There's so much to digest when it comes to History - how do you know where to begin? These incredible short introductions are just the thing for readers who are beginning to explore ancient history. Get to know the basics on Ancient Egypt from gods and... -
The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso by Elizabeth Prettejohn 9781848859036
$51.54What can modern art have to do with ancient sculpture? Surely the excitement of modern art lies in its utter repudiation of classical example? Elizabeth Prettejohn's important and revisionist new book argues otherwise: that ancient sculpture and modern... -
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
RRP: $33.13$22.37The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants - from Mountbatten to the... -
One on One by Craig Brown
RRP: $25.33$16.98101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, told by Britain's funniest writer. Life is made up of humans meeting one another. They... -
McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime Misha Glenny 9781784706746
RRP: $21.43$15.58The extraordinary real stories that inspired the major BBC series Have you ever illegally downloaded a DVD? Taken drugs? Fallen for a phishing scam?Organised crime is part of all our worlds - often without us even knowing. McMafia is a journey through... -
Space Below My Feet by Gwen Moffat
RRP: $25.33$15.05A classic mountaineering memoir by one of the UK's foremost female climbers.'A story of climbing and compulsive love of mountains ... magnificent' OBSERVERIn 1945, when Gwen Moffat was in her twenties, she deserted from her post as a driver and dispatch... -
Sherpa: Stories of Life and Death from the Guardians of Everest by Ankit Babu Adhikari
RRP: $25.33$17.22Changing the narrative of mountaineering books, Sherpa focuses on the people who live and work on the roof of the world.Amid all the foreign adventurers that throng to Nepal to scale the world's highest peaks there exists a small community of mountain... -
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities by Violet Moller
RRP: $21.43$15.07'A lovely debut from a gifted young author. Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledge reached us from antiquity to the present day in a book that is as delightful as it is readable.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsIn The Map of... -
The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present by Nigel Townson
RRP: $58.50$42.80A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different,' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world has agreed. From the end of its... -
Sunnyside: A Sociolinguistic History of British House Names by Laura Wright
$128.08This book discusses developments in the history of British house names from the earliest written evidence (Beowulf's Heorot) to the twentieth century. Chapters 1 and 2 track changes from medieval naming practices such as Ceolmundingchaga and... -
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
RRP: $29.23$20.36Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizesIn 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With... -
From Darkness To Light: Class, Consciousness, & Salvation In Revolutionary by Igal Halfin
$109.67In this interdisciplinary and controversial work, Igal Halfin takes an original and provocative stance on Marxist theory, and attempts to break down the divisions between history, philosophy, and literary theory.About the AuthorIgal Halfin is senior... -
A History of Wales by John Davies
RRP: $37.03$26.54Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales. Spanning prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial... -
The Second Jim Corbett Omnibus: `My India', `Jungle Lore', `Tree Tops' by Jim Corbett
RRP: $21.43$15.58Jim Corbett is world famous for his classic man-eater stories. However, the three volumes collected here show a very different side to this remarkable man. In My India, he describes the villages of the Kumaon Hills, and the customs and lifestyles of... -
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream by Charles Spencer
RRP: $21.43$13.10THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this' BILL BRYSON 'A brilliant read ... Game of Thrones but in the real world' ANTHONY HOROWITZ ... -
The Complete Roman Army by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $38.98$26.81The Complete Roman Army draws on archaeology, ancient art and original documentary sources to present the most convincing picture ever published of the world's most famous fighting machine. Every aspect of the Roman army, from the daily lives of... -
This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe by Robert Tombs
RRP: $21.43$14.29THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERGeography comes before history. Islands cannot have the same history as continental plains. The United Kingdom is a European country, but not the same kind of European country as Germany, Poland or Hungary. For most of... -
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: $15.58$11.66Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and... -
London: A History in Maps Peter Barber 9780712358798
RRP: $87.75$58.85Over the past 2000 years London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book illustrates and helps to explain the transformation. Side-by-side with the great,... -
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition by Eugene Rogan
RRP: $37.03$26.54THE THIRD EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, REVISED AND UPDATED'A rich, galloping narrative that spans the Arab world...outstanding, gripping and exuberant...full of flamboyant character sketches, witty asides and magisterial scholarship, that...