The Twelve Caesars
Matthew DennisonRRP: £12.99
One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, and five of them were elevated to the status of …
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The Last Crusade
Nigel CliffRRP: £16.99
NEW YORK TIMES’ NOTABLE BOOK OF 2011LONGLISTED FOR THE MARITIME MEDIA AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZEIn 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, cross …
The Limit
Michael CannellRRP: £12.99
10 September 1961: at the boomerang-shaped racetrack at Monza, in northern Italy, half a dozen teams are preparing for the Italian Grand Prix. It is the biggest race anyone can remember. Phil Hill – t …
Britannia
Graham StewartIn Britannia Graham Stewart traces two thousand years of an island’s story – from Roman province to twenty-first century European nation-state – through one hundred historic documents. From the eighth …
Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves
Jacqueline YallopRRP: £8.99
During the Victorian age, British collectors were among the most active, passionate and eccentric in the world. Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves tells the stories of some of the nineteenth century’s mos …
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
Christopher HitchensRRP: £9.99
‘Christopher Hitchens… at his characteristically incisive best.’ –The TimesThomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1 …
The Rose
Jennifer PotterThis vividly written and lavishly illustrated book challenges many cherished beliefs about the rose. It looks set to establish itself as the definitive history of the Queen of Flowers.Ever since Sapph …
Engines of War
Christian WolmarRRP: £20.00
Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which wars were fought on a previously unimaginable s …
The Second World War
Gordon CorriganRRP: £30.00
In this major new history, Gordon Corrigan argues that what we call the Second World War was in fact two separate conflicts: one against Germany (and, for a while, Italy) in Western Europe, Soviet Rus …
The Good Soldiers
David FinkelRRP: £27.50
In January 2007, the young and optimistic soldiers of the 2-16, the American infantry battalion known as the Rangers, were sent to Iraq as part of the surge. Their job would be to patrol one of the mo …
The Pattern in the Carpet
Margaret DrabbleRRP: £22.50
A beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw puzzle and the part it has played in its distinguished author’s life. Weaving together memoir, jigsaw history and the strange delights of p …
The Subterranean Railway
Christian WolmarRRP: £14.99
Since the Victorian era, London’s Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. In The Subterranean Railway, Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determi …
The Other Anzacs
Peter ReesWe know the story of the ANZACs-but what about the nurses who travelled with them to the front and cared for the injured and the dying? They were there for Gallipoli and the horror of the Western Fron …
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City of Laughter
Vic GatrellRRP: £19.99
Between 1770 and 1830, London was the world’s largest and richest city, the centre of hectic social ferment and of spectacular sexual liberation. It prompted revolutionary modes of thought, novel sens …
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Motherland
Lesley ChamberlainRRP: £14.99
In this “lucid primer of Russian thought” (The Times Literary Supplement), Lesley Chamberlain finds that during the last two centuries Russian intellectuals have asked two fundamental questions, “what …
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