The Seventh Circle

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A harrowing account of Afghanistan’s notorious Pul-e-Charkhi prison, written by its longest-serving western inmate.Former soldier Rob Langdon was working as a security contractor in Afghanistan when h …

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 …

Bomber Boys

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March 1942. Singapore is about to fall. In Java, a Dutch civilian pilot and an Australian military dispatch rider embark on a frightening escape from the advancing Japanese that takes them from Bandun …

Mail Men

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Mail Men is the gripping, unofficial story of an institution that has become the self-proclaimed voice of middle England, and the adversary of liberals everywhere. Journalist Adrian Addison investigat …

Manderley Forever

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Bestselling novelist Tatiana de Rosnay pays homage to Daphne du Maurier, the writer who influenced her deeply, in this startling and immersive new biography. A portrait of one writer by another, Mande …

Blitzkrieg

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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 …

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 …

The Forgotten Children

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In 1959 David Hill’s mother – a poor single parent living in Sussex – reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in Australia where, she was led to believe, they would have a good …

Hue 1968

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Times September 2018 paperbacks A New York Times bestsellerBowden’s most ambitious work yet, Hue 1968 is the story of the centrepiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American war in Vi …

Daughter of the Territory

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Daughter of the Territory is the amazing life story of Jacqueline Hammar. Born in Darwin in 1929, Jacqueline’s childhood was spent in a succession of bush towns before she was sent to school in Darwin …

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 …

The Convict's Daughter

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One wet autumn evening in 1848, fifteen-year-old Mary Ann Gill stole out of a bedroom window in her father’s Sydney hotel and took a coach to a local racecourse. There she was to elope with James Butl …

Their Promised Land

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Ian Buruma’s maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at school …

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 …

Paris Undressed

French women seem inherently more confident in their bodies, able to embrace the sensuality of life and love. What’s their secret? Lingerie.Yet, despite an insatiable curiosity for all things French, …

The Memory Code

RRP: £20.00

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 …