All Along the Echo
Danny Denton‘A boisterous chorus, brimming with humanity. All Along the Echo feels like a living thing, dancing and dodging, surprising and poignant.’ Lisa McInerney Tony Cooney, a middle-aged radio talk-show hos …
Genre: History
Everest 1922
Mick ConefreyThough it remains by far the world’s most famous mountain, in recent years Everest’s reputation has changed radically, with long queues of climbers on the Lhotse Face, lurid tales of frozen corpses an …
Let's Pretend
Laura VaughanWhen you fake it for a living, the truth is hard to find…Former child star Lily Thane is now a struggling thirty-something actress. Her old stage-school buddy, Adam Harker, is on the brink of making …
The Rebel's Mark
S. W. PerryElizabeth’s reign is reaching its winter and England’s old adversaries are fading. But in a world on the brink of change, showing any weakness can be fatal…1598. Nicholas Shelby, unorthodox physicia …
Boy on Fire
Mark MordueRRP: £9.99
An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock ‘n’ roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave’s creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, th …
False Prophets
Nigel AshtonBritain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War and through the League of Nation mandates over the fledgling states which followed. Since the …
The Delusions of Crowds
William L BernsteinRRP: £12.99
Inspired by Charles Mackay’s 19th-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, William Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and passion …
The Warrior and the Prophet
Peter CozzensRRP: £10.99
‘Cozzens is a master storyteller; his books weave a wealth of intricate detail into gripping historical narrative.’ The Times’Marvellous… One of the best pieces of Native American history I have rea …
The Favour
Laura VaughanRRP: £8.99
‘Absorbing, intelligent and atmospheric… Genius’ Elizabeth Haynes_________________________Fortune favours the fraud…When she was thirteen years old, Ada Howell lost not just her father, but the li …
The Irish Difference
Richard KillenFor hundreds of years, the islands and their constituent tribes that make up the British Isles have lived next door to each other in a manner that, over time, suggested some movement towards political …
The Irish Difference
Fergal TobinFor hundreds of years, the islands and their constituent tribes that make up the British Isles have lived next door to each other in a manner that, over time, suggested some movement towards political …
Bastard Behind the Lines
Tom GillingRRP: £14.99
‘The way I look at it is this…When you’re behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you’ve got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That’s why I like it.’Scottish-born but …
Cathedrals of Steam
Christian WolmarRRP: £10.99
‘Fascinating’ ‘Books of the Year’, Financial Times’London’s twelve great rail termini are the epic survivors of the Victorian age… Wolmar brings them to life with the knowledge of an expert and the …
The Louvre
James GardnerRRP: £12.99
Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that location …
Treasured
Christina RiggsWhen it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into a household name overnight and kickstarting an international media obsessi …
Gilligan
Paul WilliamsRRP: £14.99
John Gilligan is one of the most notorious and hated criminal figures in Irish history. His name is indelibly etched in the national psyche a quarter of a century after he crossed the line to organise …
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