Wings
Patrick BishopRRP: £12.99
The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill’s ‘famous few’ – the Hurricane and Spitfire pilots of RAF Fighter Command – held Goering’s …
Genre: History
A Splendid Exchange
William L BernsteinRRP: £20.00
A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. It travels from the sugar rush that brought the British to Jamaica …
And Man Created God
Selina O'GradyRRP: £30.00
And Man Created God is a sweeping exploration of the changing religions of the empires and peoples of the world at the time of Jesus: a work of extraordinary richness and ambition, this is popular his …
Infernal Triangle
Paul McGeoughRRP: £12.99
It’s been more than ten years since Al-Qaeda demolished the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001. One of the most pivotal events in the last fifty years, it was a dramatic moment in whi …
Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia
James BellOn 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel to Adelaide, an infant colony half a world away and not yet two year …
Some Remarks
Neal StephensonRRP: £9.99
In this definitive collection of Stephenson’s writings, journalism and meditations, the great American polymath puts the 20th Century – mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history …
A Japanese Mirror
Ian BurumaRRP: £12.99
In this scintillating book, Ian Buruma peels away the myths that surround Japanese culture. With piercing analysis of cinema, theatre, television, art and legend, he shows the Japanese both ‘as they i …
Abandoned Women
Lucy FrostRRP: £12.99
In the early nineteenth century, crofters and villagers streamed into the burgeoning cities of Scotland, and families splintered. Orphan girls, single mothers and women on their own all struggled to f …
Above the Law
Ross Coulthart and Duncan McNabRRP: £8.99
One of the astonishing revelations in Dead Man Running was the difficulty faced by the Australian police in tackling the burgeoning crime empire that outlaw motorcycle gangs were developing. The news …
Chinese Whispers
Jan WongRRP: £20.00
In 1972, Jan Wong became one of only two Westerners admitted to Beijing University at the height of the Cultural Revolution. One day, a student, Yin Luoyi, sought Jan’s assistance in going to the Unit …
Invictus
John CarlinRRP: £6.99
This uplifting true story is now a major film, starring Oscar nominees Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, directed by Clint Eastwood.Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2008As the day …
Not Me
Joachim FestFrom the author of Inside Hitler’s Bunker, the critically acclaimed book that inspired the equally acclaimed 2005 film Downfall.Few other historians have shaped our understanding of the Third Reich as …
The Battle of Hastings
Harriet Harvey WoodRRP: £20.00
Harriet Harvey Wood’s original and fascinating book shows that, rather than bringing culture and enlightenment to England, the Normans’ aggressive and illegal invasion destroyed a long-established and …
Tom Wills
Greg de MooreRRP: £8.99
This is the story of Tom Wills – flawed genius, sporting libertine, fearless leader and agitator, and the man most often credited with creating the game we now know as Australian Rules football. Sent …
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
Stephen R. PlattRRP: £17.99
In the early 1850s, during the waning years of the Qing dynasty, word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces. The leader of the this movement – who called themselves the Taiping – was H …
The Honoured Society
Petra ReskiRRP: £9.99
In the early hours of an August morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both victims and …
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