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Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor
RRP: $52.50$46.26***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew... -
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain by James Bloodworth
RRP: $20.98$14.07Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018For many in modern Britain, careers are low-paid and high-risk, a series of... -
Canary Islands: A Cultural History by Peter Stone 9781908493996
RRP: $31.50$28.67The seven volcanic Canary Islands that bask in the Atlantic off shore from the north-west African coast have long had legendary connotations. To the Greeks they were the Gardens of the Hesperides, blessed with a perennial spring-like climate, while the... -
The Wars of the Roses: The Key Players in the Struggle for Supremacy by Matthew Lewis
RRP: $23.08$14.95In the second half of the fifteenth century, for over thirty years, civil war tore England apart. However, its roots were deeper and its thorns were felt for longer than this time frame suggests. The Wars of the Roses were not a coherent period of... -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire by Nigel Dalziel
RRP: $35.68$25.79The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire traces the emergence of the world's greatest empire from its earliest beginnings in the British Isles, through its ascendancy in Victorian times, to its ultimate collapse in the mid-20th century. It... -
Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada by Elizabeth Drayson
RRP: $25.20$17.72The essential history of an iconic European city, by Cambridge academic Elizabeth Drayson. 'An admirable achievement... [Drayson has] expertise as a scholar and command as a storyteller' BBC History Magazine 'A glittering homage to one of the... -
The The Slow Downfall of Margaret Thatcher: The Diaries of Bernard Ingham by Bernard Ingham 9781785904783
RRP: $42.00$26.52Branded `the rough-spoken Yorkshire Rasputin', Bernard Ingham served as Margaret Thatcher's press secretary for virtually all of her eleven-year premiership, adroitly steering the government's relationship with the media - and the Prime Minister's... -
Cider Country: In Search of a Forgotten History by James Crowden
RRP: $39.88$27.53'James Crowden is Britain's best cider writer ... Cider Country is the book we've all been waiting for.' Oz Clarke Join James Crowden as he embarks on a journey to distil the ancient origins of cider,... -
The Last Rising: The Newport Chartist Insurrection of 1839 by David J. V. Jones 9781783160099
RRP: $27.28$20.37The Chartist movement is a core area of study in many history syllabuses. This new edition of a book first published in 1999, details the last of the Chartist insurrections in 1839. It looks at the full story of the rising, its origins and its aftermath,... -
The London Nobody Knows by Geoffrey Fletcher
RRP: $27.28$20.20Geoffrey Fletcher's London was not the big landmarks, but rather 'the tawdry, extravagant and eccentric'. He wrote about parts of the city no-one ever had before. This could be an art nouveau pub, a Victorian music hall, a Hawksmoor church or even a... -
Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel
RRP: $27.28$17.81From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost... -
Long Range Desert Group: Reconnaissance and Raiding Behind Enemy Lines by Shaw, W B Kennedy 9781399092050
RRP: $62.90$39.04During the two-and-a-half years fighting in the Western Desert of North Africa, which began with the Italian declaration of war in June 1940 and ended in 1943, the Long Range Desert Group became the acknowledged master of the vast desert. This small,... -
Europe in the High Middle Ages: The Penguin History of Europe by William Chester Jordan
RRP: $27.28$19.09'The most accessible, up-to-date introduction to its subject ... does full justice to the multifarious forces at work in high gothic Europe' Daily TelegraphThe years from AD 1000 to the beginning of the fourteenth century were the most formative... -
Spain by Jan Morris 9780571241767
RRP: $23.08$15.94Spain is one of the absolutes. Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills - the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of Spain's pride and misery, the adventurous glory of a... -
Bayern: Creating a Global Superclub by Uli Hesse
RRP: $27.28$19.09'MASTERFUL' Raphael HonigsteinThe story of superclub Bayern Munich by the critically acclaimed author of Tor!Bayern Munich is a team of extremes. They are the most passionately supported club in Germany and the most hated. There is no doubt that they are... -
The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler's Valkyries by Clare Mulley
RRP: $23.08$16.32A riveting double biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women test pilots - Hitler's personal Valkyries.Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their... -
Isaac Newton by James Gleick 9780007163182
RRP: $23.08$15.23From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith. Isaac Newton was the chief architect of the modern world. He answered the ancient... -
Letters on England by Francois Voltaire
RRP: $27.28$19.09Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture. Perceiving them as a veiled attack against the ancien regime, however, the French... -
Haunted Whitby by Alan Brooke 9780752449258
RRP: $27.28$20.20The ruins of Whitby Abbey provide an ideal setting for ghost stories. Many ghostly experiences in the abbey grounds feature here, including an account of treasure hunters who were in search of rich pickings and were disturbed by an unimpressed spectre... -
Architects of Death: The Family Who Engineered the Holocaust by Karen Bartlett 9781785900426
RRP: $42.00$30.41Topf and Sons designed and built the crematoria at the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Belzec, Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen. At its height sixty-six Topf triple muffle ovens were in operation - forty-six of which were at Auschwitz... -
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport by Deborah Oppenheimer
RRP: $31.48$23.00___________________ BASED ON THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY ___________________ 'Wonderfully moving ... a noble story, beautifully told' - Daily Mail With a preface by Lord Richard Attenborough, this is a moving collection of... -
Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints by Johanna Kramer
RRP: $62.90$50.53From the first centuries of Christianity, believers turned to the perfection modeled by saints for inspiration, and a tradition of recounting saints' Lives flourished. The Latin narratives followed specific forms, dramatizing a virgin's heroic resolve or... -
The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson by Anna Pasternak
RRP: $27.28$17.81'Draws startling parallels with Meghan ... Both were 34 when they met their princes, both are adored children of strong, single mothers, both have a pared-down style and an electric presence and both are evidently worshipped by their Royal partners.' S... -
King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV by Philip Mansel 9780226690896
$88.94Louis XIV was a man in pursuit of glory. Not content to be the ruler of a world power, he wanted the power to rule the world. And, for a time, he came tantalizingly close. Philip Mansel's King of the World is the most comprehensive and up-to-date... -
Cork Folk Tales by Kate Corkery 9781845885182
RRP: $27.28$20.20As the home of the famous Blarney Stone it is perhaps not surprising that the stories of County Cork could fill many libraries. Among its vast archive of myth and legend are tales of the Goddess Cliona, The Hag of Beara and the Giant Mac Mahon and the... -
Europe Since 1945 by Mary Fulbrook 9780198731788
RRP: $88.18$63.32Bringing home the extraordinary waves of transformation that washed across Europe in the second half of the twentieth century, this book interprets the trends, developments, and issues which were of major importance in East and West Europe in the latter... -
Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP by Ronan McGreevy 9780571372829
RRP: $23.08$15.37THE IRISH TOP 10 BESTSELLERA gripping investigation into one of Irish history's greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of the most significant political assassinations to ever have been committed on British soil... -
The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989 by Frederick Taylor 9781408802564
RRP: $35.68$25.79The appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise... -
Urmston, Flixton and Davyhulme by Cliff 9780752421629
RRP: $31.48$24.26This fascinating collection of almost 200 photographs explores the areas of Urmston, Flixton and Davyhulme. One rural, isolated farming settlements, the growth and expansion of these areas has largest been the result of two daring schemes, the Bridgwater... -
The Secret Queen: Eleanor Talbot, the Woman Who Put Richard III on the Throne by John Ashdown-Hill 9780750968461
RRP: $27.28$20.20When Edward IV died in 1483, the Yorkist succession was called into question by doubts about the legitimacy of his sons (the 'Princes in the Tower'). The crown therefore passed to Edward IV's undoubtedly legitimate younger brother, Richard, Duke of... -
Jumpin' Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock'n'Roll Underworld by Keiron Pim
RRP: $23.08$16.32'REVELATORY' - DAILY TELEGRAPH *****'FASCINATING' - OBSERVER'ENGROSSING' - DAILY MAIL'You'll worry at your hunger to keep on reading, but you won't be able to stop' - GUARDIAN, Book of the Year David Litvinoff was one of the great mythic characters of... -
Rational Choice and British Politics: An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair by Iain McLean 9780198295297
$118.21This engaging and original study, by one of Britain's leading scholars of rational choice theory, explores the course of British parliamentary politics over the last 150 years. McLean marries an appealing combination of social science and analytical... -
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 by David Howarth 9780300276497
RRP: $27.28$24.07"Overflowing with surprises."-William Dalrymple, The Spectator "Essential reading."-Dan Jones, Times (UK) "Fascinating and authoritative."-Jerry BrottonThe unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior... -
Hereward: The Definitive Biography of the Famous English Outlaw Who Rebelled Against William the Conqueror by Peter Rex
RRP: $27.28$17.81After the Norman victory in Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror's oppression of the English led to widespread famine, death and destruction, culminating in the brutal Harrying of the North and the deaths of 100,000 people. Did the English submit to... -
Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 by Robert C. Davis 9781403945518
RRP: $58.78$53.87This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored... -
High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain by Simon Heffer
RRP: $42.00$30.85Simon Heffer's new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind.Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest and uncertainty, where there were attempts to assassinate the Queen and her... -
A Brief History of Paris by Cecil Jenkins
RRP: $27.28$18.06Paris: city of love, food and fashion. Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas. Paris: a modern metropolis. Paris is all of these, all at once, all the time. There is a unique fusion of past and present in this... -
Independence or Union: Scotland's Past and Scotland's Present by T. M. Devine
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Deserves to be read by everyone interested in the future of the United Kingdom' Andrew Marr, The Sunday TimesThere can be no relationship in Europe's history more creative, significant, vexed and uneasy than that between Scotland and England. From the... -
An Italian Girl in Brooklyn by Santa Montefiore
RRP: $35.68$23.27Dark secrets and hidden sorrows abound in Santa Montefiore's spellbinding novel set in war-torn Italy and the streets of New York. 'Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore' JOJO MOYES 'A wonderful story, beautifully told. I absolutely tore through... -
The Anglo-Saxons by James Campbell
RRP: $42.00$32.11This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Throughout the book the authors make use of original sources such as chronicles,...