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.
Genre: History
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 …
The Prime Ministers We Never Had
Steve RichardsRRP: £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 …
The Good Doctor
Damon GalgutRRP: £10.99
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEWinner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betr …
A Child of the East End
Jean FullertonRRP: £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 …
Gilligan
Paul WilliamsRRP: £9.99
John Gilligan is one of the most notorious and hated criminal figures in Irish history. His name is indelibly etched in the national psyche a quarter of a century after he crossed the line to organise …
The Year of Chaos
Malachi O'DohertyRRP: £14.99
‘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 KeneallyRRP: £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, …
Four Weeks in May
David Hart-DykeRRP: £12.99
Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War.A Sunday Times Bestseller’Electric… Outstanding.’ GuardianIn March 1982 the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron o …
Looking for Theophrastus
Laura BeattyRRP: £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 DentonRRP: £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 Florentines
Paul StrathernRRP: £14.99
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly chan …
The Hidden Horticulturists
Fiona DavisonRRP: £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’ __ …
Boy on Fire
Mark MordueRRP: £12.99
An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock ‘n’ roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave’s creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, th …
False Prophets
Nigel AshtonRRP: £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 …
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