The Union Jack
Nick GroomRRP: £11.99
Known the world over as a symbol of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack is an intricate construction based on the crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick. Nick Groom traces its long and fascinat …
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Bright Particular Stars
David McKieIn Bright Particular Stars, David McKie examines the impact of twenty-six remarkable British eccentrics on twenty-six unremarkable British locations. From Broadway in the Cotswolds, where the Victoria …
Dubai
Jim KraneRRP: £10.99
Today, Dubai is a city of shimmering skyscrapers attracting thousands of tourists every year. Yet just sixty years ago Dubai’s population scraped a living by picking dates, diving for pearls, or saili …
Too Many Mothers
Roberta TaylorRRP: £7.99
‘I was born in a sideboard.’ So begins Roberta Taylor’s bittersweet memoir of her early years, a book that proves beyond doubt that real life is stranger than any soap opera.It’s Boxing Day, 1956 in E …
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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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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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The Philosophy Steamer
Lesley ChamberlainRRP: £22.50
‘Compelling, laudably unsentimental and deeply significant.’ — Frances Stonar Saunders, GuardianIn 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 220 ‘undesirable’ intellectuals to be deported in prep …
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Cobra II
Bernard TrainorRRP: £12.99
The definitive account of the war against Saddam: ‘By far the most authoritative and convincing account thus far of 2003’s military events… a shocking indictment.’ — Max Hastings, Sunday TelegraphT …
The Great Wall
Julia LovellRRP: £9.99
Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, China’s Great Wall seems to be a confident physical statement made by an advanced civilization, anxious to draw a line between itself and the ‘barbari …
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Judgement Day
Chris StephenJudgement Day exposes how the actions of one man led to the birth of the world’s first war crimes court.The Hague Tribunal began the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in February 2002, after a long battle t …
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