Great Convict Stories

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Graham Seal takes us back to Australia’s ignominious beginnings, when a hungry child could be transported to the other side of the globe for the theft of a handkerchief. It was a time when men were fl …

New World, Inc.

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The thrilling story of the English merchant adventurers who changed the world.In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it …

Imperial Twilight

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA Financial Times Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year ________________________________________’Entertaining and well-paced… Platt’s compelli …

The Weight of a Mustard Seed

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This is the account of one family’s struggle to survive the iniquities of Saddam Hussein’s savage dictatorship. A proud man, father and soldier struggles to protect himself, and his family, from tyran …

Rome: A History in Seven Sackings

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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWaterstone’s Book of the Month, 2018Nominated for the 2017 Pen Hessell-TiltmanDaily Telegraph’s Best History Books of 2017Sunday Times’ Best History Books of 2017A sweeping hi …

Africa: A Modern History

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A magisterial and sweeping history of modern Africa.The end of the Second World War signalled the rapid end of the European African empires. In 1945, only four African countries were independent; by 1 …

Red Star Over China

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The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorised account of Mao’s life, as well as a history of the famous Long March …

Quid Pro Quo

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Did you know that the word ‘prestige’ derives from the Latin word for ‘illusion’? Or that ‘infantry’ stems from a Latin word meaning one who could not speak? In this original and highly entertaining b …

The Convict's Daughter

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One wet autumn evening in 1848, fifteen-year-old Mary Ann Gill stole out of a bedroom window in her father’s Sydney hotel and took a coach to a local racecourse. There she was to elope with James Butl …

The Ambitions of Jane Franklin

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In a period when most ladies sat at home with their embroidery, Jane Franklin achieved fame throughout the western world.Alison Alexander traces the life of this inimitable woman, from her birth in la …

The Amazing Mrs Livesey

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An attractive young woman from a respectable middle-class family in Manchester, Ethel Livesey had over forty aliases, eight official marriages, four children and five divorces at a time when divorce w …

The Earth is Weeping

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Sunday Times’ Best History Books of 2017Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military HistoryWinner of the 2017 Caroline Bancroft History PrizeShortlisted for the Military History Magazine Book of t …

The Protest Years

By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests over women’s rights, Abori …

Tamil Tigress

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How was it that this well-educated, mixed-race, middle-class girl from a respectable family came to be fighting with the Tamil Tigers? Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of seventeen, Nirom …

Anglomania

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With its distinctive history of civil liberties and the delicate balance between social order and the free pursuit of self-interest, England has always fascinated its continental neighbours. Buruma ex …

Finest and Darkest Hours

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‘This survey of British political crises is invaluable for anyone concerned with politics today, and it reinforces George Santayana’s dictum that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.. …