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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford 9780141014135 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Sarah Bradford's Lucrezia Bogia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy is the first biography of Lucrezia Borgia for over sixty years.Lucrezia Borgia - an infamous murderess or simply the victim of bad press? Lucrezia Borgia's name has echoed through... -
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford
RRP: £16.99£12.28Sarah Bradford's Lucrezia Bogia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy is the first biography of Lucrezia Borgia for over sixty years.Lucrezia Borgia - an infamous murderess or simply the victim of bad press? Lucrezia Borgia's name has echoed through... -
The Interpreter's Daughter by Teresa Lim
RRP: £20.00£13.10Discover one family's fascinating story in this beautiful, sweeping, multigenerational memoir, spanning 19th century south China to modern day Singapore'A captivating, compelling story of history, family loyalty, and personal sacrifice. A fascinating and... -
Ace of Spies: The True Story of Sidney Reilly by Andrew Cook
RRP: £15.99£12.43Ace of Spies reveals for the first time the true story of Sidney Reilly, the real-life inspiration behind fictional hero James Bond. Andrew Cook's startling biography cuts through the myths to tell the full story of the greatest spy the world has ever... -
The Devil's Disciples by Anthony Read 9780712664165 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult, relying on the hypnotic personality of one man, Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen... -
The Devil's Disciples Anthony Read 9780712664165
RRP: £20.00£14.69The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult, relying on the hypnotic personality of one man, Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen... -
The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill by Dominique Enright 9781843175650
RRP: £9.99£7.05Sir Winston Churchill remains a British hero, lauded for his oratorical skill. He wrote histories, biographies, memoirs, and even a novel, while his journalism, speeches and broadcasts run to millions of words. From 1940 he inspired and united the... -
The Wife's Tale: A Personal History by Aida Edemariam
RRP: £12.99£8.71WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A CBC BOOK OF THE YEAR The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old... -
Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life by Eve MacDonald
RRP: £12.99£11.46If history is written by the victors, can we really know Hannibal, whose portrait we see through the eyes of his Roman conquerors? Hannibal lived a life of incredible feats of daring and survival, massive military engagements, and ultimate defeat. A... -
Testament of Youth Vera Brittain 9781780226590
RRP: £20.00£13.75This classic memoir of the First World War is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. Includes an afterword by Kate Mosse OBE.In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four... -
Roman Emperors: A Guide to the Men Who Ruled the Empire by Mario Bartolini
RRP: £20.00£14.51Roman Emperors is a concise chronological guide to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire. It covers the period from the establishment of the Empire by Augustus in 27 BCE to the abdication of Romulus Augustus in 476 CE, an event that marks the official... -
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story by Justine Cowan 9780349013183 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65A gripping memoir and revelatory investigation into the history of the Foundling Hospital and one girl who grew up in its care - the author's own mother.'Extraordinary ... A fascinating, moving book: part history of the Foundling Hospital and the... -
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story by Justine Cowan 9780349013183
RRP: £20.00£14.29A gripping memoir and revelatory investigation into the history of the Foundling Hospital and one girl who grew up in its care - the author's own mother.'Extraordinary ... A fascinating, moving book: part history of the Foundling Hospital and the... -
The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City Iris Origo 9780241293928
RRP: £10.99£7.99This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest historical portraits written in the twentieth century.Drawing on an astonishing cache of letters unearthed centuries after... -
Mengele: Unmasking the ?Angel of Death? by David G. Marwell
RRP: £14.99£12.54Josef Mengele has come to symbolise both the evil of the Nazi regime and the failure of justice. Drawing on new scholarship and sources, David G. Marwell examines Mengele's life, chronicling his university studies, which led to two PhDs; his wartime... -
Jesse Livermore: World's Greatest Stock Trader by Richard Smitten 9780471023265
RRP: £24.00£15.77"An excellent read." -Ace Greenberg, Chairman, Bear Stearns Richard Smitten's Jesse Livermore is the first full biography of the legendary trader profiled in the bestselling Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Wiley: 0-471-05970-6). Although he died more... -
Morozov: The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection by Natalya Semenova 9780300267037
RRP: £11.99£10.41The first English-language account of Ivan Morozov and his ambition to build one of the world's greatest collections of modern art"A century of Russian culture distilled in the story of the life, family and collection of the lavish, lazy, kindly,... -
Chaucer: Brief Lives by Peter Ackroyd 9780099287483
RRP: £12.99£5.65Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self-depreciating and ironic, leaving only the breath of his comedy behind. In truth a great deal is known of him... -
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France by Leonie Frieda
RRP: £12.99£8.83'A captivating biography ... This rollicking story is packed with anecdotes' The Times'I can't suppose that there has been a better English biography of Francis, or indeed is likely to be one' Catholic HeraldFrancis I was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed... -
Warrior Queens Lady Antonia Fraser 9781842126363
RRP: £14.99£10.05An inspired evaluation of women leaders in war by a bestselling historian.Antonia Fraser's Warrior Queens are those women who have both ruled and led in war. They include Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I, Isabella of Spain, the Rani of Jhansi, and the... -
Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot by Helmut Mahlke 9781526760784
RRP: £16.99£12.87After recounting his early days as a naval cadet, including a voyage to the Far East aboard the cruiser _K ln_, and as the navigator/observer of the floatplane carried by the pocket battleship _Admiral Scheer_ during the Spanish Civil War, the author... -
Pride and Perjury: An Autobiography Jonathan Aitken 9780826472748
£17.13When Jonathan Aitken stepped from Number 10 Downing Street on July 20th 1994, he was soon tipped as next Leader of the Conservative Party. John Major had just appointed him First Secretary to the Treasury and his future could not have been brighter. What... -
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
RRP: £12.99£12.43Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal)-a summation of three and a half centuries of the... -
Alexander Hamilton: The Illustrated Biography by Richard Sylla 9781454922759
RRP: £25.00£18.23Find out who lived and who died in the incredible story of the founding father who made America modern and became the toast of Broadway. This richly illustrated biography portrays Alexander Hamilton's fascinating life alongside his key contributions to... -
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank 9780241952443
RRP: £9.99£7.32A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women SelectionOne of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold... -
Livingstone by Tim Jeal
RRP: £18.99£16.58An extensively revised edition of Tim Jeal's classic biography of the great explorer David Livingstone David Livingstone (1813-1873) is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to... -
Hell's Half Acre by Susan Jonusas 9781471190308
RRP: £16.99£11.08A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier-shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from war.'A carefully researched and horribly compelling... -
Constance Villiers Stuart and the Pursuit of Paradise by Mary Ann Prior
RRP: £30.00£20.88In 1903, after a fire completely destroyed her family home in Norfolk, UK, the 27- year-old Constance helped her mother redesign their house and recreate the garden. It was an experience from which she never looked back, going on to become an... -
Sister Queens: Katherine of Aragon and Juana Queen of Castile Julia Fox 9780753826829
RRP: £10.99£7.61Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first bride, has become an icon: the betrayed wife, the revered Queen, the devoted mother, a woman callously cast aside by a selfish husband besotted by his strumpet of a mistress. Her sister, Juana of Castile, wife of... -
Diana Mosley by Anne De Courcy 9780099470274 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.65Diana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. For some, she was a cult; for many, anathema. Born in 1910 Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters. She was eighteen when she... -
Diana Mosley by Anne De Courcy
RRP: £16.99£12.28Diana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. For some, she was a cult; for many, anathema. Born in 1910 Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters. She was eighteen when she... -
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson 9781783783397
RRP: £8.99£6.28'Jefferson's eye for details yields some devastatingly honest and painful insights' The Times 'Captivating... Charm is this book's watchword' Colin Grant, Guardian The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo... -
Secrets of Royal Women: Fascinating Vignettes of Phenomenal Women by Marlene Wagman-Geller 9781642509434
RRP: £13.99£10.95Fascinating Portraits of the Secret Lives of Royals"...offers deep insight into those who were power players in the world's past. I'm even adding some of them to my personal list of sheroes and anti-sheroes...!" -Becca Anderson, author of The Book of... -
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
RRP: £12.99£8.71The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant... -
The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society by Anna Neima 9781529023107
RRP: £10.99£7.73'Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' - Sunday TimesSantiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man... -
Locke: A Biography by Roger Woolhouse
RRP: £30.99£24.20This is the first comprehensive biography of John Locke to be published in nearly a half century. Setting Locke's life within exciting historical and intellectual contexts, which included the English Civil War, religious persecution, and the Glorious... -
Scratches: The Rules of the Game, Volume 1 by Michel Leiris
RRP: £16.99£16.66A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris's masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century Michel Leiris, a French intellectual whose literary works inspired high praise... -
A Venetian Affair: A true story of impossible love in the eighteenth century by Andrea di Robilant 9781841155425 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99£2.29The true story of forbidden love in eighteenth-century Venice between an Italian noble and the brilliant, illegitimate daughter of an English baronet. In 1754 Andrea Memmo, the dashing and gifted scion of a distinguished catholic family, fell... -
Heart: A History: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019 Sandeep Jauhar 9781786075734
RRP: £9.99£6.61'Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart...very effectively... This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful history of cardiology.' -Henry Marsh, New... -
Peiper's War: The Wartime Years of SS Leader Jochen Peiper, 1941-44 Danny S Parker 9781526743428
RRP: £35.00£25.68A bad reputation has its commitments.' So wrote home Jochen Peiper from the fighting front in the East in 1943, characterizing his battle-hardened command during the Second World War. Peiper's War is a new serious work of military history by the...