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Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.Traditionally, the Tudors have been understood in a straightfor …
Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.Traditionally, the Vikings have been understood in a straightfo …
Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.Traditionally, World War II has been understood in a straightfo …
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A New York Times Book of the Year, 2018A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICKA dazzling love letter to a beloved institution – our libraries.After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean beca …
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One journey will change their lives forever__________________________________To follow her dreams, she must sacrifice everything…Sisters Nora and Delia have been given the chance of a lifetime – to …
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In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential toda …
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Chosen as a Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail’A masterpiece’ Frederick Forsyth ‘Beautifully written… unlikely to be surpassed’ Simon Heffer’Superb’ Daily Mail, Book of the Week’ …
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In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were a …
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In 1900 Vienna was one of the most exciting places to live in the world. Its glamorous high society was the envy of Europe, and it was the centre of an exploding arts movement that set the tone for th …
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In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a public defender in Milwaukee to join a program that helped train lawyers in war-torn Afghanistan. She was thirty-two at the time, a mother of t …
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Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times and the Daily Mail’Highly entertaining’ Sunday Times’Enthralling’ Daily TelegraphFor more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height …
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‘Fascinating, revealing and entertaining.’ John Humphrys’A pure pleasure to read.’ Polly Toynbee’Extraordinary.’ Kirsty WarkA landmark history of the men and women who have defined the UK’s role in th …
For reasons of language and history, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, America has much old …
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In 1969, an eruption of armed violence traumatized Northern Ireland and transformed a period of street protest over civil rights into decades of paramilitary warfare by republicans and loyalists. In t …
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Updated with a new introduction by the author for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, For All Mankind is both an extraordinary adventure story and an important historical document.Betw …
At Histories of the Unexpected, we believe that everything has a history – even the most unexpected of subjects – and that everything links together in unexpected ways.We believe that the history of t …
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