This is Not America
Tomiwa OwoladeRRP: £10.99
*A TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR*'[Owolade’s] argument has needed saying for years’ Janan Ganesh, Financial Times’Compelling and admirable’ Sunday Times’Passionate and timely’ Observer’Excellen …
Genre: History
Johnson at 10
Anthony SeldonRRP: £12.99
***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****A FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*’Excellent… first class… both fair and damning.’ Daniel Finkelstein, The Times ‘Aut …
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert KaganRRP: £30.00
An NPR Book of the YearAt the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was one of the world’s richest, most populous, most technologically advanced nations. It was also a nation divided along …
Language City
Ross PerlinRRP: £12.99
WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2024Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and – because many have never been recorded – when they’re gone, it will be fore …
The Other Renaissance
Paul StrathernRRP: £12.99
‘Enlightening and fascinating’ John Banville, Wall Street JournalThrough the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine …
The Collaborators
Ian BurumaRRP: £10.99
‘A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnificently.’ Ben Macintyre, The TimesOn the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in c …
A City Runs Through Them
Fergal TobinRRP: £10.99
An original and fascinating history of Dublin that tells the story of the city through its bridges.Dublin started life on the south bank of the River Liffey and for six or seven centuries that is more …
Stuffed
Pen VoglerRRP: £10.99
‘Delicious… Wonderful’ Guardian’Fascinating… Full of incident and food for thought’ Mail on Sunday’Delightful… Vogler offers up a feast of tales about popular British foods’ Financial TimesA SUN …
The Hard Road Will Take You Home
Anthony StazickerRRP: £9.99
‘Read this book, it will only serve you well’ Ant Middleton’Incredible … Staz is an inspiration’ Nims Purja ‘A must read for anyone who wants to succeed and thrive under pressure’ Dylan Hartley ‘Sta …
The Path of Peace
Anthony SeldonRRP: £12.99
Blackwell’s Non-Fiction Book of the Month’A formidable achievement’ Rory Stewart’Thoughtful [and] heartfelt’ Observer’Profound [and] compelling’ Spectator’A noble endeavour’ New StatesmanWithout a per …
Graveyard of the Pacific
Randall SullivanOff the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it’s nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific.T …
The Monk
Paul WilliamsRRP: £9.99
**THE EXPLOSIVE BESTSELLER, NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE GANGLAND TRIAL OF THE CENTURY**On the streets of the tough Dublin inner-city neighbourhood where he grew up, Gerry Hutch was perceived as an ordi …
American Prometheus
Kai BirdRRP: £14.99
***THE INSPIRATION FOR OPPENHEIMER, WINNER OF 7 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST ACTOR***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION’Reads like a thril …
An Uneasy Inheritance
Polly ToynbeeRRP: £10.99
‘Fascinating’ Spectator’Entertaining’ Sunday Times’Enthralling’ Guardian’Beautiful, funny and moving’ Daily Mail’Compelling and moving’ Observer’Replete with vivid – often hilarious, often shocking – …
Once Upon a Time World
Jonathan MilesRRP: £12.99
‘Phenomenal… Utterly absorbing’ Sunday Times, ‘Book of the Week”[A] fabulous romp of a book’***** Mail on Sunday A Financial Times ‘Book to Read in 2023’In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, intro …
Everest 1922
Mick ConefreyRRP: £12.99
The dramatic and compelling account of the first attempt to climb Mount Everest
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