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  • The Ottomans : Khans, Caesars and Caliphs by Marc David Baer 9781473695740
    Marc David Baer

    The Ottomans : Khans, Caesars and Caliphs

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEA SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR'Magnificent . . . Important and hugely readable' William Dalrymple, Financial Times'A wildly ambitious and entertainingly lurid history' James Barr, The Times'A panoramic and thought-provoking account' Guardian'A winning portrait of seven centuries of...
    £14.99 GBP
    £14.99 GBP
  • The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity by David Graeber 9212949725482
    David Graeber

    The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian For generations, our remote ancestors have...
    £16.99 GBP
    £16.99 GBP
  • Sapiens : THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER by Yuval Noah Harari 9780099590088
    Yuval Noah Harari

    Sapiens : THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER

    Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about...
    £12.99 GBP
    £12.99 GBP
  • Russia : Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor 9781474610162
    Antony Beevor

    Russia : Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

    A masterpiece of history'DAILY TELEGRAPHBetween 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists...
    £10.99 GBP
    £10.99 GBP
  • River of the Gods : Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard 9781800752634
    Candice Millard

    River of the Gods : Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

    In the 19th century, the search for the source of the mighty Nile River gripped the imagination of the Western world. "River of the Gods" by Candice Millard plunges you into this thrilling tale of exploration, brimming with genius, courage, and betrayal. Join intrepid...
    £12.99 GBP
    £12.99 GBP
  • Return of a King : The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple 9781408831595
    William Dalrymple

    Return of a King : The Battle for Afghanistan

    In the annals of military history, few campaigns stand as a stark reminder of the perils of imperial overreach quite like the First Anglo-Afghan War. William Dalrymple's "Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan" is a gripping account that transports readers to the...
    £12.99 GBP
    £12.99 GBP
  • Red Memory : The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan 9781783352661
    Tania Branigan

    Red Memory : The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKAn indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how...
    £9.99 GBP
    £9.99 GBP
  • Persians : The Age of The Great Kings by Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 9781472277329
    Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

    Persians : The Age of The Great Kings

    THE PERSIANS is a definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower. The Great Kings of Persia ruled over the largest Empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the Steppes of Asia, and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. At the heart of...
    £12.99 GBP
    £12.99 GBP
  • Guns, Germs and Steel : The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition) by Jared Diamond 9780099302780
    Jared Diamond

    Guns, Germs and Steel : The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition)

    **WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis? Jared Diamond puts the...
    £12.99 GBP
    £12.99 GBP
  • Enemies and Neighbours : Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black 9780141979144
    Ian Black

    Enemies and Neighbours : Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017

    ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians' Justin Marozzi, The TimesA century after Britain's Balfour Declaration promised a Jewish 'national home'...
    £16.99 GBP
    £16.99 GBP
  • Bloodlands : THE book to help you understand today's Eastern Europe by Timothy Snyder 9780099551799
    Timothy Snyder

    Bloodlands : THE book to help you understand today's Eastern Europe

    A powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944. In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth...
    £12.99 GBP
    £12.99 GBP
  • All That She Carried : The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles 9781800818217
    Tiya Miles

    All That She Carried : The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

    Woven into the fabric of a simple cotton sack is a powerful story of resilience, love, and the unbreakable bonds of family. In "All That She Carried," Tiya Miles masterfully traces the journey of this humble keepsake across three generations of Black women, beginning...
    £12.99 GBP
    £12.99 GBP
  • Salt-9780099281993
    Mark Kurlansky

    Salt

    Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind. Wars...
    £12.99 GBP
    £12.99 GBP
  • The History of Money by Jack Weatherford 9780609801727
    Jack Weatherford

    The History of Money

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    £12.99 GBP
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  • The Black Church : This is Our Story, This is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates 9781984880352
    Henry Louis Gates

    The Black Church : This is Our Story, This is Our Song

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    £17.99 GBP
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  • Rivers of Power : How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World by Laurence C. Smith 9780141987231
    Laurence C. Smith

    Rivers of Power : How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World

    Rivers have carved the landscapes we inhabit and channeled the course of human civilization. In "Rivers of Power," geographer Laurence C. Smith takes readers on an enthralling journey through history, exploring how these mighty arteries of the natural world have nurtured the rise of...
    £12.99 GBP
    £12.99 GBP
  • Migrants : The Story of Us All by Sam Miller 9780349144443
    Sam Miller

    Migrants : The Story of Us All

    Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph'Enjoyable, provocative and timely' Spectator'Timely and empathetic: a rare combination on this most controversial issue' Remi Adekoya'Tremendous:...
    £12.99 GBP
    £12.99 GBP
  • Last Days in Old Europe : Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 by Richard Bassett 9780141979991
    Richard Bassett

    Last Days in Old Europe : Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89

    With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis - and shows how some of the things those writers loved persisted as late as 1989.' (Economist)Selected as a Book of the Year in...
    £10.99 GBP
    £10.99 GBP
  • Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex Von Tunzelmann 9781471166440
    Alex Von Tunzelmann

    Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire

    `This is history bursting at the seams with English eccentrics and Indian gentry.the charm of Tunzelmann's approach is to restore her cast to full and vital life' Observer`A compelling narrative, sometimes controversial, occasionally perverse, never boring or unintelligent' SpectatorFully revised and updated for the...
    £9.99 GBP
    £9.99 GBP
  • If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi 9780349100135
    Primo Levi

    If This Is A Man/The Truce

    With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was...
    £12.99 GBP
    £12.99 GBP
  • Blood Legacy : Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery by Alex Renton 9781786898890
    Alex Renton

    Blood Legacy : Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'An incredible work of scholarship' Sathnam SangheraThrough the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When British...
    £10.99 GBP
    £10.99 GBP
  • A People's Tragedy : The Russian Revolution - centenary edition with new introduction by Orlando Figes 9781847924513
    Orlando Figes

    A People's Tragedy : The Russian Revolution - centenary edition with new introduction

    Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today. 'A modern masterpiece' Andrew MarrOpening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to...
    £25.00 GBP
    £25.00 GBP
  • A History of Ancient Egypt : From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid by John Romer 9780141399713
    John Romer

    A History of Ancient Egypt : From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid

    A stunning, clear-sighted history of ancient Egypt' Sunday TimesThe extraordinary history of Ancient Egyptian civilization - from its earliest origins to the creation of its greatest monument - from specialist John RomerThis exceptional book draws on a lifetime of research and thought to recreate...
    £14.99 GBP
    £14.99 GBP