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Devotion

Adam Makos

RRP: £10.99

***NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING JONATHAN MAJORS AND GLEN POWELL***’This is aerial drama at its best. Fast, powerful, and moving.’ Erik Larson’A must read.’ New York Post Devotion is the gripping story o …

The Struggle for Sea Power

Sam Willis

RRP: £14.99

LONGLISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE MEDIA MARITIME AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDWith a cast of swaggering swashbuckling characters, …

Lost Relations

Graeme Davison

RRP: £14.99

In 1839, Hampshire yeoman John Hewett died prematurely and left his wife and eight children to manage on their own. Times were tough, and after their landlord put their farm up for sale, Jane Hewett e …

Reel History

Alex von Tunzelmann

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

Cat Thao Nguyen

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

George Crile

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

Kevin Jefferys

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

Bernard Trainor

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

Tim Bowden

RRP: £12.99

‘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

Patrick Bishop

RRP: £8.99

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

Judith Flanders

RRP: £14.99

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

Peter Brune

RRP: £16.99

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

Mike Coward

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!

Peter Jones

RRP: £10.99

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

Dr Munjed Al Muderis

RRP: £12.99

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 …

Great Australian Horse Stories

Anne Crawford

RRP: £12.99

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 …

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