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 …
Genre: History
A Brutal Reckoning
Peter CozzensRRP: £12.99
‘Cozzens is a master storyteller’ The Times’Extremely well researched’ Times Literary SupplementFrom the devastating invasion by Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century to the relentless pressu …
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 …
How to Fix Northern Ireland
Malachi O'DohertyRRP: £12.99
‘Deeply researched and often revelatory… variegated and sensitive’ Literary ReviewIt is twenty-five years since the Good Friday Agreement brought an end to the terrible violence that rocked Northern …
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 …
The Bridge
Peter LalorNinety years on from its opening in 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge remains the most recognisable symbol of Australia. The iconic arch took almost nine years to complete – at a cost of sixteen lives a …
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 Irish Difference
Fergal TobinRRP: £10.99
An Irish TImes Book of the Year’The beauty of this book is in the telling: The Irish Difference lays out its themes and chronologies with impeccable clarity, and is full of fascinating detail… Exemp …
Babylon
Robert FabbriRRP: £10.99
‘This may be the greatest tale of the ancient world. Hugely enjoyable’ CONN IGGULDEN’Excellent . . . scintillating’ THE TIMESWho will conquer the greatest city in the ancient world?Alexander the Great …
The Commanders
Lloyd ClarkRRP: £12.99
A fascinating biography of Patton, Montgomery and Rommel which reveals how these three unique personalities rose to the highest ranks.
On This Day in Politics
Iain DaleRRP: £12.99
Who became Britain’s first Prime Minister on 3 April 1721?When was Karl Marx born?Where and when was the first battle of the Wars of the Roses?When did Big Ben first bong?When did the first British wo …
The Reign
Matthew EngelShe came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, sweets were rationed, mums stayed home and kids played on bombsites. Seventy years on, everything has changed utterly – except the Q …
The Reign – Life in Elizabeth's Britain
Matthew Engel***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman’A powerful illumination of a lost world that is nevertheless part of living memory.’ Si …
The Way It Was
Matthew EngelRRP: £12.99
A wonderfully witty and illuminating social history of post-war Britain, by the author of Engel’s England and Eleven Minutes Late.
Never Better
Tommie GormanRRP: £10.99
The warm, rich and fascinating memoir of beloved broadcaster Tommie Gorman.When Tommie Gorman was growing up in Sligo in the 1960s, struggle was never far away but his household had a surplus of love …
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