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 Hidden Horticulturalists

In 2012, whilst working at the Royal Horticultural Society’s library, Fiona Davison unearthed a collection of handwritten letters that dated back to 1822. The letters, each carefully set out in neat c …

Histories of the Unexpected

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‘History as you’ve never seen it before.’ Dan Snow’A wonderful, eclectic and entertaining history of everything, full of fascinating, surprising stories.’ Suzannah LipscombDid you know that the histor …

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-TiltmanMail on Sunday’s the Best Paperback, 2018A sweeping history of the city of Rome, seen through the …

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 …

A Sacred Storm

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Book II of the Wanderer Chronicles’A masterly debut… If Bernard Cornwall and George RR Martin had a lovechild, it would look like A Mighty Dawn. I devoured it late into the night, and eagerly await …

The Road to Sparta

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In 490 BCE Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion. He was hailed as a hero and his run stands enduringly as one of greate …

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 …

Fracture

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When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. She …

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 …

1941

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In 1941: Fighting the Shadow War, Marc Wortman thrillingly explores the little-known history of America’s clandestine involvement in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Prior to that infam …

The Memory Code

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In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky and recite the …

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 …

God's Wolf

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In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what …

Dangerous Games

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Shortlisted for the 2015 William Hill Australian Sports Book of the Year AwardThis is a tale of innocents abroad. Thirty-three athletes left Australia in May 1936 to compete in the Hitler Olympics in …

The Invention of Russia

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The definitive and award-winning history of Vladimir Putin’s rise to power following the collapse of the Soviet Union, by The Economist’s Russia editor.’Fast-paced and excellently written’ New York Ti …