Outlaws
Adam ShandRRP: £9.99
What’s it like to be an outlaw biker? ‘We’re dickhead magnets,’ one of them tells Adam Shand. ‘Drunks in bars like to test themselves against a so-called outlaw.’Once seen as a free-wheeling, brawling …
Genre: History
The Baby Farmers
Annie CossinsRRP: £12.99
‘The book’s power stems from its devastating details; Cossins establishes a tone so vivid it’s reminiscent of Dickens.’ Publishers Weekly starred reviewIn October 1892, a one-month-old baby boy was fo …
The Boy Who Wouldn't Die
David Nyuol VincentRRP: £9.99
David Nyuol Vincent was a little boy when he fled southern Sudan with his father, as war raged in their country. He left behind his distraught mother and sisters, his village and his childhood. For mo …
The Reporter and the Warlords
Craig CollieRRP: £14.99
Set against the turbulent background of China in the first half of the 20th Century, this reads like a romantic novel; but it’s a true story. The reporter is the intrepid Australian journalist Will Do …
The Sea and Civilization
Lincoln PaineRRP: £30.00
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARITIME MEDIA AWARDS 2014A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind’s relationship with the sea.An accomplishment …
Tunnel Rats
Jimmy ThomsonRRP: £9.99
‘All I could do was prod the earth with my bayonet and shine the light to see if I could find anything. It doesn’t matter how small the tunnel is you never know what’s around the bend … You don’t kn …
The Baby Boom
P. J. O'RourkeRRP: £9.99
A hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled ‘what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men’.The Baby Boom – over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and al …
Colossus
Alexander ColeRRP: £14.99
Alexander the Great rests in Babylon as he decides which should be his next world to conquer. A war elephant, Colossus, disturbs the peace of the camp when he is provoked to a killing rampage. Only on …
The Bone Woman
Clea KoffRRP: £20.00
In the Spring of 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since the Second World War to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, …
Empty Mansions
Paul Clark Newell JrRRP: £20.00
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 SPEARS BOOK AWARDS – FAMILY HISTORY CATEGORYEmpty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of nineteenth-century America with a twenty …
Our Church
Roger ScrutonRRP: £10.99
For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of theroad, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives w …
To the Edge of the World
Christian WolmarRRP: £16.99
Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the northern extension ordered by Brezhnev and its current suc …
The Life of the Automobile
Steven ParissienRRP: £25.00
In this book Steven Parissien examines the impact, development and significance of the automobile over its turbulent and colourful 130-year history. He tells the story of the auto, and of its creators …
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 …
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 …
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