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Genre: History

Braver New World

John Kampfner

RRP: £12.99

***THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER ***’Refreshing… A rare example of a Broken Britain book with answers’ New Statesman’Engaging and informative, imploring us not to lose hope’ Observer’A ray of sunshine’ Sta …

Fatal Monsters

Jane Draycott

‘Fascinating, brilliantly researched, this sweeping, wonderful book brings Cleopatra and her sister queens to vibrant life’ KATE WILLIAMSToday, Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt is the most famous woman of …

For the Sun After Long Nights

Nilo Tabrizy

RRP: £12.99

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION******A 2026 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST******LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING***IN SEPTEMBER …

Plebs Romana

Peter Jones

RRP: £10.99

‘A deftly written, colourful little tour of plebeian Rome’ Dan Jones, Sunday TimesThe untold story of the real people who built an empireThe plebs were the backbone of Roman civilization. They were th …

Saving Elli

Doug Gold

RRP: £16.99

In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, near Anne Frank’s house, another Jewish girl is hidden. Her name is Elli. Her father has been executed at Mauthausen concentration camp. Her mother is fleeing for her life. …

Stay Alive

Ian Buruma

RRP: £12.99

‘A captivating mosaic of wartime Berlin’ Katja Hoyer, Financial Times’Brilliant and beautifully written’ Anne Applebaum ‘Brings to life Berlin during World War II so vividly that you can imagine yours …

The Flight Nurses’ War

Leah Garrett

The Pacific Theatre was the setting for some of World War II’s bloodiest battles, and yet much of its history remains untold. As the war in Europe was winding down, fierce Japanese resistance and moun …

All the Queen’s Men

Sophie Shorland

The throne of England hung in the balance, and every prince in Europe wanted to claim it.When Elizabeth I ascended the throne in 1558 she became the most eligible woman in Europe. All saw the same pri …

Shadow Before the Flame

Catherine Grace Katz

In the 1930s, the airship was viewed as the future of transatlantic travel and a brave new era of global connectedness. Germany’s safe, fast and efficient airships brought it back into the internation …

Don't Say Palestine

Assal Rad

RRP: £14.99

‘Vital’ Omar El-Akkad’Superb’ Raja Shehadeh’Poignant’ Yanis VaroufakisIf you’re not writing the truth about crimes against humanity, you’re culpable in them.Human rights activist and Middle East schol …

53 Days

Timothy Ryback

A chilling chronicle of how Adolf Hitler overturned a constitutional democracy in less than eight weeks.It took just 53 days – one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and forty minutes – from th …

A Very British Midlife Crisis

Rob Temple

From the bestselling creator of Very British Problems comes a survival guide every middle-aged Brit has been waiting for…The midlife crisis is coming for you, whether you like it or not. Early sympt …

Deadwood

Peter Cozzens

RRP: £12.99

‘What Peter Cozzens has done with this remarkable book is to show us that the truth about Deadwood is, in fact, even more interesting than the myth.’ S. C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author of …

Rhyme and Reason

Mark Forsyth

RRP: £10.99

‘Enchanting’ Stephen Fry’Unconventional, surprising and provocative from the first page’ Times Literary SupplementDid you know:- Lord Byron sold more books in a day than Jane Austen did in her lifetim …

Turncoat

Dennis Sewell

RRP: £14.99

The remarkable story of George Downing: savvy soldier, politician, diplomat and spy… or the biggest scoundrel in Stuart England?

Sunak at 10

Anthony Seldon

‘The leading authority on our contemporary prime ministers’ Dominic Grieve, GuardianThe 2024 General Election was the Conservatives’ worst ever defeat: their lowest vote share in modern history and sm …

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