Keeping Mum
Brian ThompsonRRP: £7.99
‘The prefect antidote to the ‘misery memior’.’ — The Judges, Costa Book Award 2006 for BiographyMum and Dad – Squibs and Bert – were a complete mystery to Brian Thompson, as he grew up in Cambridge a …
Genre: History
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Once in a Lifetime (film tie-in)
Gavin NewshamRRP: £8.99
In 1971, Warner Brothers bought a local football team, the New York Cosmos. In 1975 the club signed a three-year deal with Pele, the greatest player the game had ever known. More big name signings wou …
The Magic Spring
Richard LewisRRP: £8.99
City-dweller Richard Lewis has been having a problem with roots. His, he means. It would have been so much more romantic if he had been born in Dublin or Marseille. But what if you’re simply from Croy …
The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Kang Chol-HwanRRP: £10.99
‘I beseech you to read this account’ – Christopher HitchensA magnificent, harrowing testimony to the voiceless victims of North Korea.Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of a North Korean concentrati …
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Motherland
Lesley ChamberlainRRP: £14.99
In this “lucid primer of Russian thought” (The Times Literary Supplement), Lesley Chamberlain finds that during the last two centuries Russian intellectuals have asked two fundamental questions, “what …
Voltaire in Exile
Ian DavidsonRRP: £20.00
In 1753, Voltaire – playwright, poet, philosopher, and one of the most feted figures in Europe – was forced into exile by King Louis XV, where he would remain for the last 25 years of his life. This p …
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My Father's Rifle
Hiner SaleemMy Father’s Rifle is a beautiful narrative about the life of boy named Azad and his coming-of-age in Iraq during the 1960s and 1970s. Azad is born into a vibrant village culture, to a family that is p …
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Love for Sale
Nils RingdalThe exchange of sex for money is often cited as the first profession, and is certainly the most controversial: from Lilith and Mary Magdalene to Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, the prostitute has been …
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Allies
William ShawcrossRRP: £8.99
‘Allies is an account of the Iraq crisis, its causes and consequences. Writing in persuasive prose… Shawcross lets the record speak for itself… With cogency and passion, Allies makes the case that …
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Our Shadowed Present
Jonathan ClarkRRP: £14.99
‘An excoricating and enormously satisfying assault on historical postmodernism.’ New Statesman Books of the Year 2003At a time of resurgent popular interest in history, Jonathan Clark’s new book is a …
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Judgement Day
Chris StephenJudgement Day exposes how the actions of one man led to the birth of the world’s first war crimes court.The Hague Tribunal began the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in February 2002, after a long battle t …
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Essential Militaria
Nicholas HobbesA riotous collection of military facts and figures. Includes such categories as ‘The Eight Wounds Sustained by Alexander the Great’ and ‘The Worst Reasons for Starting a War’.Essential Militaria is an …
Stories I Stole
Wendell SteavensonRRP: £8.99
Shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Book Award 2003Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2002Fed up with working for Time magazine in London, Steavenson moved to Georgia on a whim. Stories I Stole …
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Broken Promises
Igal Sarna‘Clever, mischievous and humane, this is literary journalism in the proud tradition of Ryszard Kapúscinski and Joseph Roth’Amos Elon, author of A Blood-Dimmed Tide.A Holocaust survivor’s tortured son, …
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The Lion's Grave
Jon Lee AndersonRRP: £8.99
Two weeks after the terrorist attacks of 11 September, Jon Lee Anderson became one of the first Western journalists to gain access to Afghanistan. Even for a seasoned reporter, the situation was unexp …
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Death at the Priory
James RuddickRRP: £7.99
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