Five Days at Memorial
Sheri FinkRRP: £14.99
In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans’ Memorial Medical Center duri …
Genre: History
A History of Western Thought
Stephen TrombleyRRP: £23.00
Stephen Trombley’s A History of Western Thought, outlines the 2,500-year history of European ideas from the philosophers of Classical Antiquity to the thinkers of today.No major representative of any …
Gaddafi's Harem
Annick CojeanRRP: £12.99
Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, “the Guide,” on a visit he was making the following week. Thi …
Seven Flowers
Jennifer PotterRRP: £12.99
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GARDEN MEDIA AWARDS, INSPIRATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR**The lotus, lily, sunflower, opium poppy, rose, tulip and orchid. Seven flowers: seven stories full of surprise and secrets. W …
Waging Peace
Anne DevesonRRP: £12.99
Looking back on a long and active life, Anne Deveson draws on a rich vein of public and private experiences to reflect on what made her the bold social commentator she became. Central among her lifelo …
The Golden Thread
Ewan ClaytonRRP: £14.99
The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and …
Band of Angels
Kate CooperRRP: £12.99
In Band of Angels, Kate Cooper tells the surprising story of early Christianity from the woman’s point of view. Though they are often forgotten, women from all walks of life played an invaluable role …
The Victorian City
Judith FlandersRRP: £16.99
The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the bigge …
Vulnerable in Hearts
Sandy BalfourRRP: £8.99
Sandy Balfour’s father and the game of contract bridge were both conceived in 1925. Vulnerable in Hearts spans the eight decades of Tom Balfour’s life and the same period in the epic story of bridge’s …
Blood, Class and Empire
Christopher HitchensRRP: £12.99
Christopher Hitchens’ iconclastic collection is the perfect companion to US-UK relations by the greatest Anglo-American writer of his generation.Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have be …
A Great and Glorious Adventure
Gordon CorriganRRP: £20.00
The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both the throne of France by right of inheritance and large parts of the country that had been at one time Norman or, late …
The Garments of Court and Palace
Philip BobbittRRP: £20.00
The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the most important exploration of politics – and in particular the p …
Unholy Joy: 50 Years On – A Short History of the Profumo Affair
John LawtonNamed after John Profumo, Secretary of State for War, the Profumo Affair was the biggest British political scandal of 1963. His affair with Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alleged Soviet …
Inside Private Equity
Bill FerrisBill Ferris has led the field in Australian venture capital and private equity for over forty years. He has seen his share of successful floats, fly-by-night wonders and companies gone wrong. In his b …
The Crossing
Ben FogleRRP: £17.99
‘Read this… Two very different men fight, play games and nearly lose their lives.’ The TimesWhen James Cracknell and Ben Fogle decided to compete in the Atlantic Rowing Race, they thought they knew …
Masters of the Word
William L BernsteinRRP: £30.00
From the author of A Splendid Exchange comes a remarkable history of media – from the alphabet to the internet – that examines how it has shaped human society over millennia.
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