Year Zero
Ian BurumaRRP: £14.99
Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few bo …
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The Golden Thread
Ewan ClaytonRRP: £14.99
The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and …
Band of Angels
Kate CooperRRP: £12.99
In Band of Angels, Kate Cooper tells the surprising story of early Christianity from the woman’s point of view. Though they are often forgotten, women from all walks of life played an invaluable role …
The Victorian City
Judith FlandersRRP: £16.99
The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the bigge …
A Great and Glorious Adventure
Gordon CorriganRRP: £20.00
The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both the throne of France by right of inheritance and large parts of the country that had been at one time Norman or, late …
Unholy Joy: 50 Years On – A Short History of the Profumo Affair
John LawtonNamed after John Profumo, Secretary of State for War, the Profumo Affair was the biggest British political scandal of 1963. His affair with Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alleged Soviet …
An Edible History of Humanity
Tom StandageRRP: £12.99
Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, milita …
Biggest Estate on Earth
Bill GammageRRP: £18.99
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country esta …
Songs of Innocence
Fran AbramsAs recently as one hundred years ago British children existed in ways now unthinkable; boys as young as eight worked gruelling hours in unlit factories; girls were sold into sexual slavery with dolls …
Fire and Song
Anna LanyonRRP: £12.99
It is 1596 and in Mexico the Inquisition is at its most efficient. A young man trembles in his cell as he prays for salvation, torn between the Christianity he was schooled in and his ancestral faith. …
History's Daybook
Peter FurtadoEvery day of the year carries the memory of great and terrible events…From the founding of Rome to the twenty-first century’s war on terror, History’s Daybook presents a vivid, day-by-day perspectiv …
Wings
Patrick BishopRRP: £12.99
The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill’s ‘famous few’ – the Hurricane and Spitfire pilots of RAF Fighter Command – held Goering’s …
And Man Created God
Selina O'GradyRRP: £30.00
And Man Created God is a sweeping exploration of the changing religions of the empires and peoples of the world at the time of Jesus: a work of extraordinary richness and ambition, this is popular his …
Abandoned Women
Lucy FrostRRP: £12.99
In the early nineteenth century, crofters and villagers streamed into the burgeoning cities of Scotland, and families splintered. Orphan girls, single mothers and women on their own all struggled to f …
Chinese Whispers
Jan WongRRP: £20.00
In 1972, Jan Wong became one of only two Westerners admitted to Beijing University at the height of the Cultural Revolution. One day, a student, Yin Luoyi, sought Jan’s assistance in going to the Unit …
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
Stephen R. PlattRRP: £17.99
In the early 1850s, during the waning years of the Qing dynasty, word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces. The leader of the this movement – who called themselves the Taiping – was H …
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