White Trash
Nancy IsenbergRRP: £14.99
The New York Times BestsellerA ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular myths about equality in the land of opportunity.In this landmark book, Nancy Isenberg ar …
Genre: History
Golden Boy
Christian RyanRRP: £11.99
**Voted Wisden Cricket Monthly’s best cricket book ever in 2019**WINNER, BEST CRICKET BOOK, BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2010_________________Golden Boy is a blistering exposé of the tumultuous Lillee/M …
Hunter Killer
T. Mark McCurleyRRP: £8.99
We are too close. We know too much, and when it is time to shoot, we can zoom in until the target fills the screen.Drones, or remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), are a mysterious and headline-making tool …
Sheila
Robert WainwrightRRP: £14.99
Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord Loughborough, in Egypt during the First World War. Arriving in London as a young married woman, she quic …
The Emperor's Shadow
Anne WhiteheadRRP: £9.99
After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, he was sent into exile on St Helena, arriving in October 1815. For the six years until his death, he was an ‘eagle in a cage’, reduced from the m …
The Amazing Mrs Livesey
Freda Marnie NichollsRRP: £14.99
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 …
Call of the Outback
Marianne van VelzenRRP: £14.99
Long before Robyn Davidson wrote Tracks, the extraordinary Ernestine Hill was renowned for her intrepid travels across Australia’s vast outback.After the birth of her illegitimate son, Ernestine Hill …
England
Nicholas HobbesRRP: £25.00
Despite a thousand years of glorious history, the people of England know surprisingly little of the facts and fables, people and places and events and emblems that have shaped their country and its he …
Scotland
Edwin MooreRRP: £9.99
A compact cornucopia of fascinating and hilarious revelations about all things Scottish – from monarchs and malts to tartans and Taggart.As the proud possessors of a fiercely independent creative heri …
Stone Cold
Andrew FaulknerRRP: £14.99
‘If I’d have been a Vietcong you’d be dead.’ Len OpieThrough three wars across thirty years, Len Opie carved a reputation as one of Australia’s greatest infantrymen. A cold-eyed killer who drank nothi …
The Earth is Weeping
Peter CozzensRRP: £14.99
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 …
Quid Pro Quo
Peter JonesRRP: £10.99
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 Age of the Horse
Susanna ForrestRRP: £14.99
Man has always been fascinated by Equus caballus, recasting horse power into many forms: a hunk of meat, an industrial and agricultural machine, a luxury good, a cherished dancer, a comrade in arms an …
The Crash Detectives
Christine NegroniRRP: £12.99
A fascinating exploration of how humans and machines fail – leading to air disasters from Amelia Earhart to MH370 – and how the lessons learned from these accidents have made flying safer.In The Crash …
Blitzkrieg
Lloyd ClarkRRP: £12.99
The German campaign in France during the summer of 1940 was pivotal to Hitler’s ambitions and fundamentally affected the course of the Second World War. Having squabbled about fighting methods right u …
Noah's Child
Eric-Emmanuel SchmittRRP: £9.99
From one of the world’s biggest selling authors comes another million-copy worldwide bestseller: A beautiful and tender fable seen through the eyes of a Jewish child living in Belgium under the Nazi o …
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