Reel History

RRP: £16.99

‘Reel History is a hoot! Alex von Tunzelmann writes with a blend of playful wit and delicious snark’ Greg JennerFrom ancient Egypt to the Tudors to the Nazis, the film industry has often defined how w …

We Are Here

RRP: £12.99

Told through the bright and unflinching eyes of Cat Thao, a daughter born in a refugee camp, We Are Here is a memoir that begins in 1975 with her family’s gripping exodus by foot out of post-war Vietn …

Charlie Wilson's War

RRP: £8.99

Two recent events have transformed the world: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of militant Islam. This is the first book to explain the link between these two occurrences. George Crile sp …

Finest and Darkest Hours

RRP: £20.00

‘This survey of British political crises is invaluable for anyone concerned with politics today, and it reinforces George Santayana’s dictum that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.. …

The Endgame

The Endgame is the gripping and authoritative account of the secret military and political effort to pull Iraq from the precipice of full-scale civil war. The book fuses unrivalled access to the in-fi …

Stubborn Buggers

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‘It made Changi seem like heaven.’There was a place far worse than Changi – Singapore’s Outram Road Gaol. For the POWs who endured it, deprivation was so extreme that it really was a fate worse than d …

The Cooler King

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A thrilling tale of incredible courage and resilience, a true wartime story of William Ash.The Cooler King is at once uplifting and inspirational, and stands as a testament to the durability of decent …

The Making of Home

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The idea that ‘home’ is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in t …

Descent Into Hell

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Descent into Hell is a scrupulously researched and groundbreaking account of one of the most traumatic calamities in Australian history – the Malayan Campaign, the fall of Singapore and the subsequent …

The Bradman Museum's World of Cricket

During the 2014-15 season Australia stages the eleventh ICC World Cup of Cricket, with fourteen nations competing in 49 fifty-over matches. At the same time the Bradman Museum, a monument to the great …

Eureka!

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The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of …

Walking Free

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Dr Munjed Al Muderis grew up in Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s reign. He went to school with Saddam’s sons, then started his medical training at Basra University just as the Iran-Iraq War began. One day …

Blue Mauritius

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In September 1847 coloured squares of paper were stuck to envelopes and used to send out admission cards to a fancy-dress ball on the tropical island of Mauritius. No-one at the party would have guess …

Great Australian Horse Stories

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Great Australian Horse Stories brings to life the exploits–funny, poignant and sometimes dramatic–of horses from all over the nation. Outback legends, loyal carthorses, spectacular high jumpers and …

Havel

RRP: £20.00

This startling biography explores the remarkable life of an iconic figure of the twentieth century, Václav Havel, author and dissident, who became the first president of the Czech Republic.Vaclav Have …

Victoria

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The first comprehensively researched biography of Queen Victoria ever, by one of Britain’s best biographers. This magnificent biography sheds new light on Victoria not just as a queen, but as a woman.