Now Then

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‘An enlightening, enjoyable and frequently very funny journey into what makes Yorkshire stand out from the crowd … a fascinating insight into our wonderful region and the people that make it what it …

Graveyard of the Pacific

Off 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 …

A Brutal Reckoning

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‘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

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‘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

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‘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

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The dramatic and compelling account of the first attempt to climb Mount Everest

How to Fix Northern Ireland

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‘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 …

In Search of Us

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***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they disc …

The Collaborators

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‘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

Ninety 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 Irish Difference

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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

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‘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

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A fascinating biography of Patton, Montgomery and Rommel which reveals how these three unique personalities rose to the highest ranks.

The Queen

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In this original and vibrant examination of the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II, biographer and novelist A.N. Wilson paints a vivid portrait of ‘Lilibet’ the woman, and of her reign. He also cons …

On This Day in Politics

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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

She 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 …