All the Shah's Men
With a thrilling narrative that sheds much light on recent events, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country's elected prime minister, ushered in a quarter-century of brutal rule under the Shah, and stimulated the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and anti-Americanism in the Middle East. Selected as one of the best books...Paperback$6100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THEIR FRIENDS
The most engaging, surprising and revealing look at the Beatles story you’ll read. Everyone knows a Beatles tune. But their story goes beyond the omnipresent songs and iconic albums. Theirs is a tale that has become one of the core stories we tell about ourselves as a nation. The Beatles narrative has both shaped and reflected the country we live...Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Uprising
Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi cross on each wing. Before the bombs hit the ground, Lidia realises her life is about to change forever. Poland has fallen under German occupation, and her father makes the brave decision to join the Polish army to fight against the Nazis. Lidia wants to follow...Hardback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Slowworm's Song
ANDREW MILLER'S WRITING IS A SOURCE OF WONDER AND DELIGHT – Hilary Mantel ONE OF OUR MOST SKILFUL CHRONICLERS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND MIND – Sunday Times 'Sublime' – Independent 'Masterful' – Sunday Times 'Beautiful' – Spectator A profound and tender tale of guilt, the search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work of loving from the critically acclaimed...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Last Tiger
Inspired by true stories from the authors' grandparents' lives during one of the darkest periods in Korean history, The Last Tiger is a debut young adult fantasy novel about the power of love to give voice to a broken people. In a colonised land where tigers are being hunted to extinction and ancient magic stirs, two star-crossed teens - Lee...Paperback$2799Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Naples 1944
An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year ‘A rigorous, myth-busting look at the city’s chaotic recovery in the wake of war and fascism’ Financial Times This is the first major history of wartime Naples to appear in the English language. It fills a glaring gap in the British and American...Paperback$3900Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Tokyo Noir
A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that is equal parts history lesson, true-crime expose, and memoir. It's 2008, and it's been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking clove cigarettes, and Tadamasa Goto, the most powerful...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance
Long before The Brothers Grimm, there was a sisterhood of writers who defied the patriarchy and launched a literary craze with their feminist fairy tales—these are their stories. In 17th century Paris, a group of women who called themselves conteuses (female storytellers) came together to weave the very first fairy tales. One of them, Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, actually coined the term...Hardback$5300Elsewhere:$6000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The CIA
'Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times 'Fascinating . . . Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail' The Spectator 'A spectacular achievement . . . I loved it' Dominic Sandbrook How the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas. In 1947, the United States created the CIA...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Power and the Palace
When Sir Keir Starmer visited Donald Trump in the White House and produced a letter from King Charles inviting the president for a second state visit, it was a gesture that spoke volumes about the continuing importance of the monarchy for Britain's international relations. It was also a vivid illustration of the relationship between Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street....Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Borneo: The Last Campaign
From bestselling author Michael Veitch (Australia's Secret Army, Turning Point) comes the story of the brilliant, yet controversial campaign which ended Australia's involvement in World War II. Borneo: The Last Campaign tells the story of Operation OBOE, the massive, three-pronged assault on the vast Japanese-held island of Borneo in 1945. It was one of the largest amphibious invasions of the...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
We Are Your Soldiers
‘A gripping account. Essential reading to understand the roots of the 2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts that have devastated so much of the region' EUGENE ROGAN, author of The Arabs: A History President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who ruled Egypt for eighteen years from the coup d'état of 1952, is best known in the West for wresting the Suez Canal...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Vertigo
Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author Harald Jähner (Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich) presents a staggering new assessment of the short life of the Weimar Republic between the wars in Germany. An Observer Book of the Year, 2024 'This is one of the most gripping accounts of an era spanning war defeat, humiliation and failed revolution in 1918 to...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Prequel
Journalist Rachel Maddow's runaway #1 bestseller, with over 400,000 copies sold. This is the startling story of America's homegrown fascist movement in the run-up to WWII - and crucially how the good guys won (eventually...) As Hitler's ascendancy began to make a Second World War inevitable, a clandestine network flooded the United States with disinformation aimed at sapping the strength...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Painted People
In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing ‘an art without a history’. ‘No-one’, it went on, ‘has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.’ Until now. Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an untold history of humanity. The earliest tattoos yet identified belonged to Ötzi, the ‘iceman’, whose...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
New Zealand's Great War
This book is a collection of essays arising out of the Zealandia's Great War conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New Zealand's involvement in World War One are discussed. Subjects include the Pioneer Maori Battalion, women who...Hardback$8100Elsewhere:$8999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt
From the pyramids in the north to the temples in the south, ancient artisans left their marks all over Egypt, unique marks that reveal craftsmanship we would be hard pressed to duplicate today. Drawing together the results of more than 30 years of research and nine field study journeys to Egypt, Christopher Dunn presents a stunning stone-by-stone analysis of key...Paperback$3900Elsewhere:$4299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Seiðr Magic
Seiðr Magic is a practical guide to the Norse shamanic techniques of seiðr. This comprehensive book explains the techniques used to achieve trance in seiðr, how to journey in the Nine Realms, and the different gods and spirits you may encounter. It discusses the tools of seiðr, such as the seiðr staff and hood, and provides guidance on how to...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Runes and Astrology
Runes and Astrology explores how runes relate to the cycles of time. Nigel Pennick details the significance of natural time cycles in the Northern Tradition by examining how the stars, planets, seasons, months, and the precessional year relate to the runes. The author explains how the runes are more than just an ancient European alphabet. They encapsulate particular spiritual and...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Ancient Goddess Magic
Connect with the celestial powers of ancient goddesses Explores beliefs and myths from Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, and around the Mediterranean, revealing how ancient goddesses were powerful Queens of the Heavens and Guardians of the Underworld, not passive fertility symbols. Looks at creator goddesses, sun goddesses, lunar goddesses, warrior maiden goddesses, and night goddesses, including Hathor, Asherah, Inanna, Hekate, Athena, Astarte,...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Petroglyphs of Mu
Shows how the archetypal symbols of the Pohnpaid petroglyphs have exact counterparts in other ancient cultures throughout the world. Provides evidence that Pohnpaid is closely related to—yet predates—neighbouring Nan Madol. Includes hundreds of Pohnpaid petroglyphs and stone circle photos, many never before seen. While residing on the small Pacific island of Pohnpei in the 1990s, Carole Nervig discovered that a...Paperback$3900Elsewhere:$4299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz
The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the brakes. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the chaos inside. Sara Leibovitz, a 16-year-old Jewish girl, was a passenger on the train with her family. They spent their final moments...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Beverly Hills Spy
Beverly Hills Spy is a captivating tale in the spirit of Ben Macintyre’s greatest spy nonfiction. This truly unbelievable and previously untold story covers the life of Frederick Rutland—a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, a fixture of Los Angeles society, and a friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars—who turned into a spy for Japan during the lead-up to the...Hardback$5900Elsewhere:$6500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Nexus
The phenomenal global and Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Sapiens. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. International and political tensions are rising. And we are rushing headlong into...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
A Sense of Balance
On how our sense of balance has defined us as a nation and will safeguard our future. In the years that John Howard served in the national parliament, he came to understand the special character of Australia; to appreciate its strengths and weaknesses; and most importantly, to respect the sense of balance in the formulation of public policy that has...Hardback$3200Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Rest is History Returns
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller The second bestselling book from 'the most joyous and brain-enhancing podcast out there' (The Times) - also including puzzles and a quiz! Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on some of history’s best and most bizarre moments. Charge forth against the traitors of the American Revolution, journey through Baghdad to...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Year of the Rat
Follows HOPE not hate researcher and reporter Harry Shukman on a year undercover infiltrating far-right groups in the UK. 'Anyone who wants to understand British politics has to read this book.' - Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism 'Important and courageous' - James O'Brien The British far right is working to dismantle our democracy. This shocking, eye-opening first-hand account reveals...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Sceptred Isle
A thrilling new history of the fourteenth century—a time of catastrophe and conflict that shaped England for centuries to come—by the highly acclaimed author of The Red Prince. 'A sparkling popular history'—Dan Jones 'Tells the story of the 14th-century Plantagenets with verve'—The Times 'Informative, anecdotal and entertaining'—Financial Times THE TIMES BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025 The death of...Hardback$4500Elsewhere:$6000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Endgame 1944
A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historian. June 1944: In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 German soldiers, finally avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. The same month saw the Allies triumph on the beaches of Normandy, but, despite the myths...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
We Are Green and Trembling
The new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Adventures of China Iron—a sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South America's best-known trans men, Antonio de Erauso. From deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio writes a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the same Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since...Hardback$4000Elsewhere:$5000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Warriors, Witches, Women
Warriors, Witches, Women is a guide to awe-inspiring mythic female creatures worldwide; from feminist fairies to bloodsucking, seductive succubae, half-human half-bird harpies created from the wind, or protective and seductive voodoo goddesses who still impact on African-American cultural feminism. With 50 entries, it profiles global examples of fierce females from mythology and folklore, retelling these wonderful stories by placing women...Hardback$4100Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Shipwreck Hunter
The underwater worlds of past and present collide in the depths of the ocean in this gripping and suspenseful narrative by David Mearns, a true expert on the mysteries of the deep sea. CLIVE CUSSLER David Mearns has found some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. His deep-water searches have solved the 66-year mystery of HMAS Sydney, discovered...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Palace
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts’ PHILIPPA GREGORY For centuries, Hampton Court has been a place of power, scandal and intrigue: a stage for events that shaped the nation. The Palace raises...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Earl and the Pharaoh
Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography. Between November 1922 and spring 1923, a door to the ancient Egyptian world was opened. The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun would be the most astonishing archaeological find of the century, revealing not only the boy pharaoh’s preserved...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Shadowlands
The Times Top 10 Bestseller Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages: our shadowlands. 'A beautiful book, truly original . . . It is a marvellous achievement.' - IAN MORTIMER, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
No Escape
’Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it’ Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy Shortlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Literature A devastating account of China’s genocide of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur activist and Time #100 nominee Nury Turkel was born in a ‘re-education’ camp in China at the height of the Cultural...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Michael Palin in Venezuela
A richly illustrated account of Michael Palin's latest travel adventure. In February 2025, Michael Palin travelled to Venezuela to get a sense of what life is like in one of South America's most culturally rich, vibrant but also troubled nations. In the journal he kept during his trip, he gives a vivid account of the towns and cities he visited,...Hardback$3599Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Four Points of the Compass
North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are. In Four Points of the Compass, Jerry Brotton takes the reader on a journey of directional discovery. He reveals why Hebrew culture privileges east; why Renaissance Europeans began drawing north at the top of...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Carthage
A landmark new history of the ancient kingdom of Carthage, told through its iconic figures from Dido to Hannibal, drawing on brand new archaeological evidence to provide the definitive story of a legendary empire by a rising star in the field. 'This is not only history reclaimed, this is history at its best!' - Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, author of Persians-...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Young Hawke
From Rhodes Scholar to union leader to political powerhouse: how Bobbie became Bob, the iconic PM. The new biography from award-winning historian David Day sheds fresh light on the formative years of Australia's most charismatic leader, who became a political legend. David Day's biography of the young Bob Hawke takes readers on a journey, from his humble beginnings as the...Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
While There is Tea, There is Hope
During the long years of the Second World War, tea remained the cornerstone of British hospitality, drunk and enjoyed by civilians and members of the armed forces alike. But on July 9, 1940, Britons learnt that their beloved national drink was to go ‘on the ration’. Even worse – tea was the one rationed foodstuff that could not be grown...Hardback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
America Day by Day
Intimate, warm, and compulsively readable, this is Simone de Beauvoir's captivating account of her road trip across America in 1947. In 1947, Simone de Beauvoir took a road trip across America. She travelled from coast to coast, from New York to Hollywood, taking in New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, and Washington DC. She rode a pony through the Grand Canyon, listened...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Parallel Lives
This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but straightforward. Larissa was born in northern Russia, the daughter of a Soviet army officer from a noble family who survived the siege of Leningrad by...Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Nature’s Ghosts
Winner of the 2024 Richard Jefferies Award for nature writing Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation A Times Science Book of the Year ‘Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.’ Chris Packham For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the natural world. Our activities have permanently altered the...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Hawke PM
The companion volume to Young Hawke: The Making of a Larrikin from the award-winning historian and author of Curtin and Chifley. Hawke PM details the life of Bob Hawke, who was one of the most influential Australians of the twentieth century. Initially, he was Australia's most powerful trade union leader in the 1970s, before becoming the longest-serving Labor prime minister...Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Guts and Glory
From one of Australia's leading military historians and biographers, Peter Rees, comes Guts and Glory, an enthralling history of the way in which sport is ever present in the wars fought by, or involving, our Australian defence forces. The spirit of Australia can be seen so clearly in how we play and how we fight. From the famous cricket match...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Blamey
From Gallipoli to Kokoda and beyond - the story of our greatest general and the power, politics and tragedy of command. General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander-in-Chief of Australian Military Forces during World War II, was our highest-ranking soldier and arguably our most controversial. Blamey was an abrasive and shrewd commander, who could act both decisively and brutally, creating enemies within...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Genghis Khan
The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller' (Guardian). Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East, and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power, eclipsing Alexander the Great,...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Gaza Faces History
Is the destruction of Gaza only a consequence of the October 7, 2023 attack, or is it also the outcome of a long process of dispossession and eradication? Do Palestinians have the right to resist the occupation? Is talking about genocide anti-Semitism? Enzo Traverso goes to the root of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by calling history into question and offers a...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Burma Sahib
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes a fascinating, atmospheric novel inspired by George Orwell's years in Burma. There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever . . . ' George Orwell Eric Blair stood out amongst his fellow police trainees in 1920s Burma. Nineteen years old, unusually tall, a diffident loner fresh from Eton,...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Atlas of Improbable Places
Inspiring urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in, this unique atlas shows you the modern world from surprising new vantage points. Hidden lairs beneath layers of rock, forgotten cities rising out of deserted lands, and even mankind's own feats of engineering eccentricity lie in the most unusual of destinations....Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Note Through the Wire
'An unforgettable love story set in perilous circumstances. It is a reminder that even in the most horrific times love will find a way and ultimately conquer. I can't recommend it enough.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One is an underground resistance fighter;...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Land Before Avocado
The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be—and just how far we have come. 'It was a simpler time'. 'We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
On The Map
Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. With a historical sweep ranging from Ptolemy to Twitter, Garfield explores the legendary,...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
One Woman's War
One of BookBub's Best Historical Fiction Books of the Fall From the author of Sisters of the Resistance comes the story of WWII British Naval Intelligence officer Victoire Bennett, the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character Miss Moneypenny, whose international covert operation is put in jeopardy when a volatile socialite and Austrian double agent threatens to expose the mission...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Nine Pints
Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells nine different stories about the liquid that sustains us, discovering what it reveals about who we are. In Nepal, she meets girls challenging the taboos surrounding menstruation; in the Canadian prairies, she visits a controversial plasma clinic; in Wales, she gets...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Hitler's Daughter
A special anniversary edition of a modern classic. Winner of the CBCA Book of the Year for Young Readers. The bombs were falling, the smoke was rising from the concentration camps, but Hitler's daughter knew nothing of this. All she knew was the world of lessons with Fraulein Gelber, the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold, and the exciting visits...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
First Lady
From the personal and political upheavals of the Great War, through the Churchills' 'wilderness years' in the 1930s, to Clementine's desperate efforts to preserve her husband's health during the struggle against Hitler, this is the inspiring but often ignored story of one of the most important women in modern history. Without Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Eliza Hamilton
From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena’s Children comes a “vivid, compelling, and unputdownable new biography” (Christopher Andersen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) about the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America’s early days. Fans fell in love with Eliza Hamilton—Alexander Hamilton’s devoted...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Confronting the Classics
Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists — a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both through her books and TV presenting. In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical heritage — from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history, such as Alexander the...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
China
Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume. Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast narrative of appalling loss, superhuman endeavour, and incredible invention that has made China the superpower it is today. From the...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Afgantsy
As a former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet War in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from high politics of the Kremlin to the lonely Russian conscripts in isolated mountain outposts. The parallels with Afghanistan...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
Profoundly personal as well as historically significant ... In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi - Hisham Matar, New York Times Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and searingly personal...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
How to Win an Information War
Pomerantsev is emerging as the pre-eminent war reporter of our time - Observer From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today. In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea....Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Devotion
'This is aerial drama at its best. Fast, powerful, and moving.' - Erik Larson 'A must read.' - New York Post Devotion is the gripping story of the US Navy's most famous aviator duo - Tom Hudner, a white, blue-blooded New Englander, and Jesse Brown, a black sharecropper's son from Mississippi. Against all odds, Jesse beat back racism to become...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Norman Conquest
The definitive account for our times of a pivotal moment in English history. An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This riveting book explains why the...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Young and Damned and Fair
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 Born into nobility and married into the royal family, Catherine Howard was attended every waking hour – secrets were impossible to keep. In this thrilling reappraisal of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Gareth Russell’s history unfurls as if in real time to explain how the queen’s career ended with one of...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
On Tyranny Graphic Edition
A graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny, the New York Times bestselling guide to protect democracy and resist modern-day authoritarianism. A captivating graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting the arc toward authoritarianism. Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is one of the essential books of recent years, using the darkest moments in twentieth-century history...Hardback$4400Elsewhere:$4800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
On the Horizon
From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner Kenard Pak. Lois Lowry looks back at history through a personal lens as she draws from her own memories as a child...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
JFK and the Unspeakable
The acclaimed book Oliver Stone called “the best account I have read of this tragedy and its significance,” JFK and the Unspeakable details not just how the conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy was carried out, but WHY it was done…and why it still matters today. At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime...Paperback$4500Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Fall of the Roman Republic
This revised edition features a new introduction by Robin Seager, putting the lives in the context of Plutarch's biography and literary career, discussing and comparing the individual lives, and analysing Plutarch's approach to his subject matter. Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Culture and Imperialism
From the author of Orientalism, a searching examination of Western culture and the roots of imperialism, now with a foreword by Hari Kunzru. 'Readers accustomed to the precision and elegance of Edward Said's analytical prowess will not be disappointed . . . Those discovering Said for the first time will be profoundly impressed' - Toni Morrison Following his profoundly influential...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Civilized to Death
The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die—in this “engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking” (Booklist) book. Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Beyond the Trees
National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greatest living explorer." In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off on an unprecedented solo journey across North America's greatest wilderness. A place where, in our increasingly interconnected, digital world, it's still possible to wander for months without crossing a single road, or even...Paperback$3600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The German House
As seen in the New York Times Book Review. A December 2019 Indie Next Pick! Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess's international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator—caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power—as she fights to expose the dark...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
No Logo
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come. When No Logo was first published, it became an instant bestseller and international phenomenon. Its riveting exposé of the branded and corporate world in which we...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
First They Killed My Father
Until age five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, the youngest of seven children of an educated, high-ranking government official. When the Khmer Rouge stormed the city in 1975, the young girl and her family fled from village to village. Fighting to hide their identity, the Ungs were eventually forced to separate to survive. Loung was trained as a child...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
American Sniper
SIX MILLION COPIES SOLD. THE SOURCE FOR THE HIGHEST-GROSSING WAR MOVIE OF ALL TIME. The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of the Iraq War by U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy Award-winning movie starring Bradley Cooper. From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
A Short History of the World in 50 Failures
Explore the failures, mistakes and missed opportunities that shaped history in this new entry in the bestselling series. From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder, to the unsuccessful stint in medical school which led to a career in naturalism for Charles Darwin, to the missile detection system malfunction that almost sparked a nuclear war, the...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf
The moving story of the life and work of novelist Virginia Woolf, revealed through her own letters to those closest to her. Virginia Woolf is considered by many to be one of the greatest British writers and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. As well as writing her novels, Woolf was a tireless correspondent, penning as many...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
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