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  • Femina : The instant Sunday Times bestseller - A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It-9780753558263

    Femina : The instant Sunday Times bestseller - A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

    By: Janina RamirezBinding: Paperback / softbackTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Revelatory' GUARDIAN'A firecracker somehow captured between two covers' LUCY WORSLEYAn instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the year, Femina reveals the power and influence of...
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  • The History of Magic : From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present-9780241979662

    The History of Magic : From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

    By: Chris GosdenBinding: Paperback / softbackA Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern -- from the first known horoscope to the power of tattoos. 'Fascinating, original, excellent' Simon Sebag Montefiore______________________Three great...
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  • La Serenissima : The Story of Venice

    La Serenissima : The Story of Venice

    Format :Paperback / softback 448 pages, 3x8pp colPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: ApolloISBN:9781789545067Published: 9 Nov 2023Weight:336gDimensions:215 x 356 x 35 (mm) Everything about Venice, observed Lord Byron, is, or was, extraordinary. Her aspect is like a dream, and her history is like a romance. Dream and...
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  • The Land Where Lemons Grow : The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit

    The Land Where Lemons Grow : The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit

    By Helena Attlee (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 272 pagesPublisher: Penguin Books LtdImprint: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241952573Weight:240gDimensions:196 x 132 x 21 (mm) Image for The Land Where Lemons Grow : The Story of Italy and its Citrus FruitClick to enlargeThe Land Where Lemons Grow :...
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  • The Path of Peace : Walking the Western Front Way-9781838957421

    The Path of Peace : Walking the Western Front Way

    By: Anthony SeldonBinding: Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month'A formidable achievement... a moving enactment of a modern pilgrimage' Rory Stewart'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' Observer'Profound [and] compelling' Spectator'A noble endeavour' New Statesman***A WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2022 PICK***Without a permanent home, a wife or a job,...
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  • River Kings : The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads

    River Kings : The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads

    By Cat Jarman (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 352 pagesPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersImprint: William CollinsISBN: 9780008353117Published: 2 Sep 2021Classifications: United Kingdom, Great Britain, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, c 500 CE to c 1000 CE, c 1000 CE to c 1500, British & Irish history, Medieval European archaeologyWeight:...
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  • Venice-9780571168972

    Venice

    By: Jan MorrisBinding: Paperback / softbackOften hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing...
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  • The Children of Ash and Elm : A History of the Vikings

    The Children of Ash and Elm : A History of the Vikings

    By Neil Price (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 624 pagesPublisher: Penguin Books LtdImprint: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141984445Published: 7 Apr 2022Classifications: Northern Europe, Scandinavia, c 500 CE to c 1000 CE, European history, Medieval history, Social & cultural history, Maritime history, Medieval European archaeology, Material cultureWeight:...
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  • Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee : An Indian History of the American West-9780099526407

    Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee : An Indian History of the American West

    By: Dee BrownBinding: Paperback / softbackThe American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost...
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  • Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter

    Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter

    By Ian Mortimer (Author)Format: Paperback 256 pagesPublisher: Vintage PublishingImprint: VintageISBN: 9781529920802Published: 22 Feb 2024Weight: 194gDimensions:197 x 128 x 17 (mm) The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe tend to think of the...
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  • A Village in the Third Reich : How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism

    A Village in the Third Reich : How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism

    by Julia Boyd (Author) & Angelika Patel (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 464 pagesPublisher: Elliott & Thompson LimitedImprint: Elliott & Thompson LimitedISBN: 9781783966639Published: 6 Oct 2022Classifications: HistoryReadership: General (US: Trade)Weight: 444gDimensions: 129 x 199 x 37 (mm) Hidden deep in the Bavarian mountains lies the...
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  • The Ruin of All Witches : Life and Death in the New World

    The Ruin of All Witches : Life and Death in the New World

    By Malcolm Gaskill (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 336 pagesPublisher: Penguin Books LtdImprint: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141991481Published: 6 Oct 2022Weight: 250gDimensions:129 x 196 x 22 (mm) A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A bona fide historical classic' Sunday Times' 'Simply...
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  • The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

    The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

    Format: Paperback / softback 736 pagesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781526622556Published: 28 Mar 2024Classifications: History, Climate change, Natural disastersWeight: 558g From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the...
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  • The Silk Roads : A New History of the World

    The Silk Roads : A New History of the World

    By Professor Peter Frankopan (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 656 pages, 2 x 8pp colour platesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781408839997Published: 1 Jun 2016Classifications: General & world historyWeight: 476gDimensions: 197 x 130 x 42 (mm) For centuries, fame and fortune was to be...
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  • The Guns of August

    The Guns of August

    By Barbara Tuchman (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 608 pagesPublisher: Penguin Books LtdImprint: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241968215Published: 5 Jun 2014Classifications: Europe, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) , European history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, First World War, War & defence...
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  • East West Street : Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize

    East West Street : Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize

    By Philippe QC Sands (Author)Format Paperback / softback 496 pages, 80 B&W, integratedPublisher: Orion Publishing CoImprint: Weidenfeld & NicolsonISBN: 9781474601917Published: 31 Mar 2017Classifications: Memoirs, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Second World War, War crimes, International human rights lawWeight: 370gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 28 (mm)...
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  • Blue Machine : How the Ocean Shapes Our World-9781911709107

    Blue Machine : How the Ocean Shapes Our World

    By: Helen CzerskiBinding: HardbackAll of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine. Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told - that of our ocean. Not the fish...
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  • Another Kyoto by Alex Kerr 9780141988337

    Another Kyoto

    Step into the ancient heart of Japan with Another Kyoto, an intimate exploration of the hidden wonders of Kyoto, the country's former imperial capital. Through vivid conversations between authors Alex Kerr and Kathy Arlyn Sokol, readers are granted an insider's view into the city's...
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  • Free : Coming of Age at the End of History-9780141995106

    Free : Coming of Age at the End of History

    By: Lea YpiBinding: Paperback / softbackTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times, Best Summer Books'Wonderfully funny and poignant. ....
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  • Goodbye Eastern Europe : An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski 9780861547326

    Goodbye Eastern Europe : An Intimate History of a Divided Land

    An epic history of the `other' Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore. `Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very personal story of the place that one...
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  • Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World

    Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World

    By Patrick Joyce (Author)Format: Hardback 400 pagesPublisher: Penguin Books LtdImprint: Allen LaneISBN: 9780241543023Published: 15 Feb 2024Weight: 616gDimensions: 240 x 160 x 35 (mm) A way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time:...
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  • Smoke And Ashes : Opium's Hidden Histories

    Smoke And Ashes : Opium's Hidden Histories

    By Amitav Ghosh (Author)Format: Hardback 416 pagesPublisher: John Murray PressISBN: 9781529349245Published: 15 Feb 2024Classifications: China, Asian history, Maritime historyWeight: 678gDimensions: 240 x 162 x 35 (mm) When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled...
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  • The House Divided : Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East

    The House Divided : Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East

    By Barnaby Rogerson (Author)Format: Hardback 432 pages, 4 MapsPublisher: Profile Books LtdISBN: 9781781257258Published: 4 Jan 2024Weight: 654g Recommended on The Rest is Politics and Empire 'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare...
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  • The Fatal Shore

    The Fatal Shore

    By Robert Hughes (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 720 pages, 16Publisher: Vintage PublishingImprint: VintageISBN: 9780099448549Published: 2 Jan 2003Classifications: United Kingdom, Great Britain, Australia, c 1700 to c 1800, Australasian & Pacific history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Penology & punishmentWeight:...
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  • The Warmth of Other Suns : The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    The Warmth of Other Suns : The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    By Isabel Wilkerson (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 640 pagesPublisher: Penguin Books LtdImprint: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141995151Published: 4 Aug 2020Classifications: USA, 20th century, Biography: historical, political & military, History of the Americas, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Social & cultural history, Migration,...
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  • Courting India : England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire

    Courting India : England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire

    By Nandini Das (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 480 pagesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781526615664Published: 15 Feb 2024Classifications: India, British Empire, History, General & world history, DiplomacyWeight: 364gDimensions: 129 x 198 x 33 (mm)   When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616...
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  • Parisian Days : The Rediscovered Classic Memoir by Banine 9781782278030

    Parisian Days : The Rediscovered Classic Memoir

    Banine's captivating memoir "Parisian Days" transports readers to the vibrant streets of 1920s Paris, where a young Azerbaijani woman embarks on a courageous journey to forge her own path. Fleeing the ravages of her war-torn homeland, she finds herself immersed in the alluring charm...
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  • Notes from Deep Time : A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds by Helen Gordon 9781788161640

    Notes from Deep Time : A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds

    Embark on a mesmerizing odyssey through the vast expanse of deep time with Helen Gordon's "Notes from Deep Time." This captivating book invites you to decipher the geological tapestry woven into the contours, hues, and flora of the landscape, revealing the Earth's epic saga...
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  • Parisians : An Adventure History of Paris

    Parisians : An Adventure History of Paris

    By Graham Robb (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 512 pagesPublisher: Pan MacmillanImprint: PicadorISBN: 9780330452458Published: 15 Apr 2011Classifications: France, European historyWeight: 358gDimensions: 197 x 130 x 35 (mm) No one knows a city like the people who live there so who better to relate the history...
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  • Let Us Now Praise Famous Men-9780141188492

    Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

    By: James Agee, Walker Evans, Blake MorrisonBinding: Paperback / softbackIn the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed...
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