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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 Engel

RRP: £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 Gorman

RRP: £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 …

The Prime Ministers We Never Had

Steve Richards

RRP: £12.99

BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and ProspectWas Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Healey? Was John Major more ‘prime ministerial’ than Michael Heseltine? Would David Miliband have become …

A Child of the East End

Jean Fullerton

RRP: £8.99

‘Funny, stark, fascinating’ THE INDEPENDENT’An extraordinary celebration of a bygone era’ KATE THOMPSON, author of The Stepney Doorstep Society’A vivid portrait of the post-war years, but also a uniqu …

The Year of Chaos

Malachi O'Doherty

RRP: £12.99

‘Frank and incisive – an insightful look at the most tumultuous period of the Troubles.’ Ian Cobain’This is the Belfast I grew up in. Malachi writes from first-hand experience and brings back memories …

A Bloody Good Rant

Thomas Keneally

RRP: £18.99

‘When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The Utopian strain was very strong . . . if we weren’t to be a better society, …

How To Stage A Coup

Rory Cormac

RRP: £10.99

‘A compelling history of the dark arts of statecraft… Fascinating’ Jonathan Rugman’Rich in anecdote and detail.’ The TimesToday’s world is in flux. Competition between the great powers is back on th …

Looking for Theophrastus

Laura Beatty

RRP: £12.99

Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he invented Botany. The character of the Wife of Bath is hi …

The Platinum Queen

Jennie Bond

***Published in honour of our late Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, The Platinum Queen presents seven decades of world history through the words of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch: over 256 e …

All Along the Echo

Danny Denton

RRP: £8.99

‘A cyclone of a novel’ GuardianAn absolute marvel’ Max Porter, bestselling author of Lanny’Dancing and dodging, surprising and poignant’ Lisa McInerney, bestselling author of The Rules of RevelationFI …

The Hidden Horticulturists

Fiona Davison

RRP: £12.99

‘Delightful… The Hidden Horticulturists pulsates with the extraordinary energy and excitement of the time.’ Daily MailChosen as one of the Sunday Telegraph’s ‘Top Ten Gardening Books of the Year’ __ …

False Prophets

Nigel Ashton

RRP: £12.99

‘Fascinating’ Guardian, ‘Book of the Day”A truly masterly book… A tour de force that will be read for a very long time.’ Peter HennessySelected by the New Statesman as an essential read for 2022Bri …

The Hundred Years' War

Jamie Wall

RRP: £14.99

The Hundred Years’ War is the story of the intense competition between the All Blacks and the Springboks over the past 100 years, the games they’ve played and the battles that have raged from parliame …

The Irish Difference

Richard Killen

For hundreds of years, the islands and their constituent tribes that make up the British Isles have lived next door to each other in a manner that, over time, suggested some movement towards political …

American Prometheus

Kai Bird

RRP: £12.99

***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 thrill …

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