Parisian Lives
Deirdre BairIn 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never havi …
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Histories of the Unexpected: World War II
Sam WillisHistories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.Traditionally, World War II has been understood in a straightfo …
Autumn in Venice
Andrea di RobilantRRP: £9.99
National Geographic Traveller’s the best books on European cities, 2019In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn’t published a novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the first …
Histories of the Unexpected: The Second World War
Sam WillisAt Histories of the Unexpected, we believe that everything has a history – even the most unexpected of subjects – and that everything links together in unexpected ways.We believe that the history of t …
Australia's First Spies
John FaheyRRP: £16.99
Australia was born with its eyes wide open. Although politicians spoke publicly of loyalty to Britain and the empire, in secret they immediately set about protecting Australia’s interests from the Ger …
Crew
Mike ColmanRRP: £14.99
On the evening of 24 February 1944, RAAF Lancaster bomber J for Jig took off from an airfield in Lincolnshire. On board was a crew of seven young men-five Australians, two Scots-whose mission was to b …
On the Blue Train
Kristel ThornellRRP: £12.99
What did happen to Agatha Christie during her mysterious eleven-day disappearance just as she was on the cusp of fame?Yes, she said, finally. Breaks are important. There are times when it’s wiser to g …
Their Promised Land
Ian BurumaRRP: £9.99
Ian Buruma’s maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at school …
Anzac Girls
Peter ReesRRP: £9.99
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for advent …
A Higher Call
Adam MakosRRP: £9.99
This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during the Second World War became the stuff of legend.Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly da …
Bang!
Graham StewartRRP: £12.99
Britain in the 1980s was a polarized nation. Determined to take the country in a radically different direction was the most dominant, commanding and controversial leader of her age, Margaret Thatcher. …
Noah's Child
Eric-Emmanuel SchmittRRP: £7.99
From one of the world’s biggest selling authors comes another million-copy worldwide bestseller: A beautiful and tender fable seen through the eyes of a Jewish child living in Belgium under the Nazi o …
The Industrial Revolutionaries
Gavin WeightmanRRP: £30.00
International in its sweep, vivid in its execution and original in its argument, this ‘meticulous and fascinating’ (Guardian) account of the worldwide industrial revolution.The ‘industrial revolution’ …
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The Diary of Petr Ginz
Petr GinzRRP: £9.99
Not since Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl has such an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny come to light. In 1941, Petr Ginz was a young teenag …
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American Gangster
Mark JacobsonRRP: £8.99
In 1970s New York, the ruthless Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in more than a million dollars a day. At the height of his power there were so many heroin addicts buying fr …
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Clever Girl
Brian ThompsonRRP: £7.99
Brian Thompson groped his way to being a grown up. He excelled at school and met a girl – the girl of the title – who recognised his ambition to escape the miserable lives his parents had made for eac …
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