Liquid Memory
Jonathan NossiterJonathan Nossiter had his first taste of wine at the age of three in Paris, from his father’s finger. For him, wine is ‘memory in its most liquid and dynamic form,’ as essential an expression of cultu …
Genre: History
The Gilded Stage
Daniel SnowmanRRP: £30.00
The Gilded Stage is a comprehensive tour of the world of opera. From its origins in the courts of northern Italy, to its internationally recognised position in modern culture, Snowman explores the soc …
The Rose
Jennifer PotterThis vividly written and lavishly illustrated book challenges many cherished beliefs about the rose. It looks set to establish itself as the definitive history of the Queen of Flowers.Ever since Sapph …
Two Tribes
Gavin NewshamIn 1979, after 20 years of thrashings of British and Irish teams by America’s seemingly unbeatable golfers, the representation of the British and Irish Ryder Cup team was extended to include continent …
Engines of War
Christian WolmarRRP: £20.00
Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which wars were fought on a previously unimaginable s …
In Defence of the Enlightenment
Tzvetan TodorovRRP: £9.99
Tzvetan Todorov argues that although our liberal democracies are the offspring of the Enlightenment, they also illustrate the ways in which its ideas have been distorted and perverted. People living i …
Splendour and Squalor
Marcus ScrivenRRP: £14.99
They were the black sheep of aristocracy and this is their story.From stately homes to the prisons of wartime Britain; from the House of Lords to Edwardian asylums; from the Ritz and the Dorchester to …
The Second World War
Gordon CorriganRRP: £30.00
In this major new history, Gordon Corrigan argues that what we call the Second World War was in fact two separate conflicts: one against Germany (and, for a while, Italy) in Western Europe, Soviet Rus …
Anne Frank
Francine ProseAnne Frank received a red-and-white-checked diary for her thirteenth birthday in June 1942, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two yea …
Golden Boy
Christian RyanRRP: £14.99
**Voted Wisden Cricket Monthly’s best cricket book ever in 2019**WINNER, BEST CRICKET BOOK, BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2010_________________Golden Boy is a blistering exposé of the tumultuous Lillee/M …
Hype and Glory
Gavin NewshamThere have been twenty major international football tournaments since that Saturday in July 1966 when Bobby Moore lifted the World Cup trophy for England. As each of these competitions has come around …
Smack Express
Clive SmallRRP: £7.99
Corruption, drugs and organised crime in Australia.From Robert Trimbole’s dominance of the cannabis trade in the 70s and Sydney’s gang wars in the 80s, to the rise of Cabramatta as the heroin capital …
The Good Soldiers
David FinkelRRP: £27.50
In January 2007, the young and optimistic soldiers of the 2-16, the American infantry battalion known as the Rangers, were sent to Iraq as part of the surge. Their job would be to patrol one of the mo …
London Calling
Barry MilesRRP: £12.99
London has long been a magnet for aspiring artists and writers, musicians and fashion designers seeking inspiration and success. In London Calling, Barry Miles explores the counter-culture – creative, …
Where Men Win Glory
Jon KrakauerRRP: £12.99
Pat Tillman was well-known to American sports fans: a chisel-jawed and talented young professional football star, he was on the brink of signing a million dollar contract when, in 2001, al-Qaeda launc …
Blood, Iron and Gold
Christian WolmarRRP: £25.00
The birth of the railways and their rapid spread across the world triggered economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab, Tasmania to Turin, Blood, Iron and G …
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