Hamburger Hill 1969
A highly illustrated, authoritative exploration of Operation Apache Snow, including the infamous Battle of Hamburger Hill (Ap Bia Mountain), one of the most significant and well-known actions in the Vietnam War. Operation Apache Snow was the result of a renewed Allied effort in early 1969 to neutralize the North Vietnamese forces in the A Shau, a 45km-long valley located in...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Groundbreakers
As well as showing a particular region and historical situation, an old map endlessly provokes new questions. In Groundbreakers, map historian Anne-Rieke van Schaik delves into the stories behind various maps, prints, atlases, globes, and instruments from the Phoebus Foundation's world-famous collection. The objects tell of the glory days of the history of cartography, but also of darker matters, from...Hardback$550Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
God's Library
A provocative book from a highly original scholar, challenging much of what we know about early Christian manuscripts In this bold and groundbreaking book, God's Library, Brent Nongbri provides an up-to-date introduction to the major collections of early Christian manuscripts and demonstrates that much of what we thought we knew about these books and fragments is mistaken. While biblical scholars...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Fighting Proud
In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort. Fighting Proud weaves together the remarkable lives of these men, from RAF hero Ian Gleed—a Flying Ace twice...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Fanatical Military Recruiting
Military Recruiting is a war. It’s just a different kind of war than what you were prepared and trained to fight for. Recruiting is a war for talent. Smart, competent, and capable people are rare and in high demand. Every organisation, from commercial enterprises, healthcare, non-profit, sports, and education, to the military, is in an outright battle to recruit and...Hardback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Elizabeth, the Queen
A brilliant book about one of England's most famous queens, from one of our bestselling historians. Elizabeth, the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign. Both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age. From Elizabeth's intriguing, long-standing affair with Robert Dudley,...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Eleanor Of Aquitaine
A fascinating account of one of the most alluring figures of the Middle Ages by one of Britain's most respected historians. Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful, intelligent and wilful, and in her lifetime there were rumours about her that were not...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Egypt on the Brink
A lively and informed account of Egypt’s recent history and current situation In this immensely readable and thoroughly researched book, Tarek Osman explores what has happened to the biggest Arab nation since President Nasser took control of the country in 1954. This new edition takes events up to summer 2013, looking at how Egypt has become increasingly divided under its...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Dancing Down the Barricades
A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business—from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV—Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
By More Than Providence
Soon after the American Revolution, certain of the founders began to recognise the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and whether to partner with China, at the centre of the continent,...Hardback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Britain's Royal Families
A unique book on the perennially fascinating subject of Britain's royal families by this well-established popular historian. New updated edition to coincide with the Queen's Golden Jubilee. Fascinating and authoritative exploration of Britain's royal families from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I to Queen Victoria, by leading popular historian Alison Weir. Britain's Royal Families provides in one volume, complete genealogical details...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Boy Jesus
Enlightening and engaging, this is a must read for everyone interested in the historical Jesus and the birth of Christianity. Nick Holmes, author of The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome As a boy, Jesus was a refugee, an outsider, an immigrant in the Galilee in which he grew up, and a witness to horrific atrocities by the...Hardback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Boundaries of the International
It is commonly believed that international law originated in relations among European states that respected one another as free and equal. In fact, as Jennifer Pitts shows, international law was forged at least as much through Europeans' domineering relations with non-European states and empires, leaving a legacy still visible in the unequal structures of today's international order. Pitts focuses on...Hardback$10499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric
For more than two thousand years, Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric (deliberative, judicial, and epideictic), the three rhetorical modes of persuasion, and the diction, style, and necessary parts of a...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
A Journey Travelled
This is a pivotal story long overdue for the telling: how Aboriginal and European people interacted with each other following the British territorial invasion of 1826 for the next hundred years. There has always been a wealth of documentary and oral history available to researchers prepared to write from a local history perspective, yet very few Australian historians have accepted...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A Dangerous Mind
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and disturbing critics of liberalism. He was also one of the most important intellectuals to offer his services to the Nazis, for which he was dubbed the "crown jurist of the Third Reich." Despite this fateful alliance, Schmitt has exercised a profound influence on post-war European political and legal...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
A Cotton Mather Reader
An authoritative selection of the writings of one of the most important early American writers “A brilliant collection that reveals the extraordinary range of Cotton Mather’s interests and contributions—by far the best introduction to the mind of the Puritan divine.”—Francis J. Bremer, author of Lay Empowerment and the Development of Puritanism Cotton Mather (1663–1728) has a wide presence in American...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Pre-orderWe 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 de Erauso writes a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the convent he escaped as a young girl....Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableOut 13 Oct 2026Pre-order
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A bold, revisionist study which challenges modern misconceptions about the creation of power and the operations of war, from a Professor of Strategic Studies. War and power are two of the most-widely discussed issues in all of human history, and yet they are, time and again, misunderstood—often disastrously so. Whilst we might think the outcome of war is determined by...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 27 Oct 2026Pre-order
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The first complete history of Britain's mountains, capturing their beauty, tragedy and the pivotal role of these dramatic landscapes in the nation's past and future. Britain's mountains are our grandest and wildest places, their vast openness providing inspiration and escape. But they are now so revered that we overlook the many peoples who long inhabited them and the dramatic history...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableOut 27 Oct 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderThe Uses of Utopia
A beguiling tour of utopian ideas and the pursuit of thinking differently. Utopia is not somewhere you can go. But neither is it an idle fantasy. It runs through history and literature from Plato to Thomas More, Margaret Cavendish to Ursula Le Guin. Utopia, this book shows, was for them a tool for exploring the horizons of thought, asking the...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order
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New York Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the Year A True West Magazine Best Historical Non-Fiction Book and Best Author of the Year Western Heritage Award for "Outstanding Nonfiction Book" Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Historical Nonfiction From the author of The Apache Wars, the true story of the American...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableOut 25 Aug 2026Pre-order-
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The Trembling Hand
Bracing and essential, a radical reframing of British Romanticism through the lens of Black experience - for fans of David Olusoga, Gretchen Gerzina, Saidiya Hartman, and Emma Dabiri. Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats - the Romantic poets are titans of English literature, taught and celebrated around the world. Their writings are associated with the sublime power of nature and revolutionary politics....Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 27 Oct 2026Pre-order 
Pre-orderThe Shortest History of Rome
No city tells the story of human ambition, folly, and resilience quite like Rome. Few cities wear their history so openly as Rome: walking its streets, you step between millennia, from ancient forums to Renaissance piazzas, Baroque fountains to the bleak constructions of Mussolini's Fascist regime. Nowhere else do we have such a continuous picture of how a city evolved...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order-
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The Shortest History of Madrid
Madrid's story is one of the most unlikely of any European capital. The only European capital founded as a Muslim settlement, Madrid has a story as diverse as its population today. From the grandeur of the Habsburg and Bourbon dynasties to the chaos and trauma of civil war and dictatorship, Madrid has survived it all with defiant spirit. It has...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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The Shortest History of Dublin
Dublin is a city steeped in its past. Dublin has never been a place easily reduced to a single story. Developed as a Viking settlement, it became the difficult second city of the British Empire – a colonial capital that served empire rather than nation. For centuries it strained to rival London; later it struggled to define itself apart from...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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The Shortest History of Delhi
The essential introduction to a city that has captivated imaginations for millennia. Delhi, with its stories of intrigue and empire, decadence and artistry, destruction and rebirth, has been exhilarating travellers for centuries. Its history stretches back thousands of years, through invasions, empires and the struggle for independence. This many-layered history can be seen on the streets of Delhi today -...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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The Shortest History of Berlin
Berlin's story is one of constant reinvention. 'Yesterday echoes along today's streets, and the ideas conjured up by Berlin's dreamers, dictators, liars and artists seem as solid as its bricks and mortar.' Shaped by waves of death and war, and all but obliterated in both the Hundred Years and Second World Wars, Berlin is not an ancient city. Founded in...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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The Scrapbook
A story of a consuming first love haunted by European history and family memory, and inspired by real events. An exhilarating debut novel about a life-changing romance in the long shadow of European history, inspired by the author's real discovery. Stunningly good Julia Boyd You won't be able to put it down Samantha Rose Hill Worthy of reading and rereading...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Oct 2026Pre-order 
Pre-orderThe Last Best Place on the Internet
A playful and provocative exploration of mighty Wikipedia: how it was built, why it thrived and what we lose as its ideals disintegrate. One of the keystone inventions of the twenty-first century, Wikipedia is the largest repository of human knowledge ever made, with editions in 343 languages read by millions every day—all created by unpaid, mainly amateur and mostly anonymous...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableOut 13 Oct 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderThe Heretic of Cacheu
A unique, startling book that gives a rich and detailed sense of life in an African port some 360 years ago. In 1665 Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in the West African slave trafficking port of Cacheu, was arrested by the Inquisition. Her enemies had conspired to denounce her for taking treatments prescribed by Senegambian healers: the djabak s....Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderThe Genius Myth
The Sunday Times bestselling take-down of the genius myth, exploring the surprising history of invention, inspiration and distortion by which some lives are elevated to 'greatness' - and the unexpected consequences for us all. 'This is the book we need right now' CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ 'Lucid, funny and fascinating' ADAM BUXTON The tech disruptor. The tortured poet. The rebellious scientist....Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Oct 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderThe Fifteen
The revelatory true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown. In the pantheon of American history, it's very hard to find compelling, original stories, and even harder to find authors worthy of...Paperback$5800Unit price /UnavailableOut 27 Oct 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderThe Country Schoolmaster
'I stood there holding the hundred-year-old letter with a feeling that was familiar from other archives, other bulging files of dog-eared paper. It was a blood-running-fast, itchy-palm, eyes-wide-open feeling of stumbling on something. A story ...' Rummaging around in the Archives one afternoon, Kate Grenville comes across an innocuous-looking file full of letters about a schoolteacher in country New South...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderThe Big Hop
The powerful true story of the first flight across the Atlantic - and of the ordinary heroes who risked their lives to race in pursuit of progress. A non-stop flight across the Atlantic might seem routine today. But it is only possible because of those who went first. Vivid and compelling - John Lancaster A delectable serving of escapist nostalgia...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderRoman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts
Channel 4 TV tie-in with Alice Roberts exploring and explaining the Roman Empire as she travels across it by train. Explore the Ancient Roman Empire with the acclaimed anthropologist and Sunday Times bestselling author of Domination, Professor Alice Roberts. 'Great series. Has inspired me to look at a train tour to trace your steps. The book will be a helpful...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order-
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Requiem for Gaza
A profound and unflinching work of investigative journalism that presents the testimony of displaced Palestinians who are living through genocide, from the acclaimed author of Palestine. In the spring of 2025, the comics journalist Joe Sacco and reporter Chris Hedges travelled to Cairo where they interviewed 29 Palestinian families who had recently left Gaza. In Requiem for Gaza, their experiences...Hardback$6000Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order -
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Queer Georgians
For pride month, Dr Anthony Delaney (After Dark podcast) shows us the real people that inspired Gentleman Jack and the gay romances in Bridgerton, long written out of the nation's story and now lovingly restored. 'In this moving and revelatory book, Anthony Delaney gives a voice to women and men whose lives have been written out of history. At heart,...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order 
Pre-orderNumbers Tell Stories
From the internationally bestselling author, a revealing look at the surprising numbers that uncover the hidden forces shaping our world. What do marriage, milk and the black market tell us about the state of humanity? Most people would say, not much at all. But the numbers reveal startling truths about who we are, how we live, and where we're headed....Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableOut 27 Oct 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderNinety-Three
A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by France's greatest novelist. In the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence. Victor Hugo plunges into this tumultuous period with a story of courage and betrayal across the political classes. As the revolution rages, three characters—a nobleman turned revolutionary, a...Hardback$4500Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderNatives of My Person
A profound exploration of colonialism, from one of the Caribbean's most powerful literary voices. A powerful reimagining of the age of European exploration, Natives of My Person tells the story of a nameless Commandant who sets sail under imperial orders—somewhere between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries—to locate the fabled island of San Cristobal, a place shrouded in myth and promise....Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Oct 2026Pre-order-
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Napoleon and his Marshals
The story of the elite generals who built up - and ultimately ruined - one of the greatest warriors in history, from the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon. In 1804, immediately after his coronation as Emperor, Napoleon created the Marshalate, the supreme martial rank of the empire. Over the next decade, he elevated to it some...Hardback$10000Unit price /UnavailableOut 13 Oct 2026Pre-order 
Pre-orderLetters
A bestseller in France, this is the first English translation of Albert Camus and Maria Casarès' fascinating, impassioned letters. You and I met and fell in love passionately, impatiently, dangerously. I regret nothing and I feel that these last days I've lived are enough to justify a life. - Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, 1st July 1944 Their affair began...Hardback$11500Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order-
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Jump Jet
The fascinating and unexpected story of the iconic Harrier jump jet, and the British engineer who built it. Pre-order the fascinating and unexpected story of the iconic Harrier jump jet, and the British engineer who built it. Victory in the Falklands War made the Harrier's name as a world-beating British icon, as capable of giving the enemy a bloody nose...Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order -
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Heirs and Graces
The fascinating inside story of the British aristocracy since the Second World War. There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We're fascinated by their houses and estates, their lives and loves, their foibles and eccentricities. And we entertain the strong suspicion...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order -
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Fast Track
Fast Track provides a global history of high-speed rail from the railways' "wisest, most detailed historian" (The Observer). Sleek, comfortable, accessible, and sustainable, high-speed rail is the future. Japan's Bullet Train has become a global icon. The French TGV established a template that soon followed across Europe. However, China has become the world leader. With lines built or planned in...Hardback$8500Unit price /UnavailableOut 27 Oct 2026Pre-order -
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Dianaworld
A brilliant, kaleidoscopic cultural history of Diana, her many lives and the world she created In February 1981 a 19-year-old nursery teacher's assistant overnight became globally famous. In a frenzy of excitement, jumping every barrier of language and class, a new, overwhelming icon was conjured up. This is a guide to Dianaworld - the extraordinary hall-of-mirrors through which one young...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order 
Pre-orderDesert Heist
The first in a globe-trotting adventure thriller series about a team of former special forces operators' mission to find the lost city of Ubar, the legendary 'Atlantis of the Sands'. Perfect for fans of Cussler and Jack Carr. Former Green Beret, Nate Wilde, knows it will take something special to get ahead in his new civilian academic career. Like locating...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableOut 27 Oct 2026Pre-order-
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Collapse
The first volume of a ground-breaking and truly global trilogy on the Second World War, from an exciting, prize-winning young academic, based on new sources. The first volume of a ground-breaking and truly global trilogy on the Second World War, from an exciting, prize-winning academic. Between 1931 and 1949, a series of crises threatened world order and the very functioning...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order -
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Captives and Companions
A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the present. Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history. Captives and Companions is a brilliant synthesis of history and contemporary reportage that brings to life the voices of the enslaved in stories of eighth-century concubines and ninth-century revolts, thirteenth-century slave soldiers...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Breakneck
From an indispensable voice on China (Evan Osnos) comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress. America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China has been busy building the future. Over the past six years, technology analyst Dan Wang lived through China's astonishing, messy progress and the dissolution of its relationship to the West....Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order 
Pre-orderAmerica, América
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes the first definitive history of the Western hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both continents. 'Dazzling. Sweeping. Mind-altering. World-changing. This is a once-in-a-generation contribution' Naomi Klein 'America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.' Irish...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order-
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A History of The World in Ten Wars
What can we learn from ten wars that have changed world history? A ridiculously funny new popular history from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of A History of Britain in Ten Enemies (150k+ sold). War: what is it good for? Absolutely something, or presumably we wouldn't keep doing it. In A History of the World in Ten Wars, we...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order -
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A Day in the Life of a Gladiator
Bestselling author Harry Sidebottom takes readers on a thrilling journey through a day in the life of the most iconic figure of the ancient world: the Roman gladiator. Wonderfully panoramic ... endlessly informative, rich with unexpected detail but never heavy to read - Literary Review Blends extensive research with a talent for vivid storytelling to distil 700 years of gladiator...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order 
A Divine Fury
A Divine Fury by D. V. Bishop The Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger Winning Author A religious serial killer is haunting Florence and only Cesare Aldo can stop them. A Divine Fury is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Italy. 'Full of dash and atmosphere' - The Times Florence. Autumn, 1539. Cesare Aldo was once...Paperback$2499Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Ritual of Fire
Ceremonial murder has returned to Florence. Only two men can end the destruction. Featuring Officer Cesare Aldo, Ritual of Fire is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Italy. 'Fast becoming a serious rival to C. J. Sansom and S. J. Parris' - Historical Novel Society Florence. Summer, 1538. A night patrol finds a wealthy merchant...Paperback$2499Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Darkest Sin
He is fast becoming a serious rival to C. J. Sansom and S. J. Parris . . . Highly recommended - Historical Novel Society Florence. Spring, 1537. When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the Renaissance city's northern quarter, he enters a community divided by bitter rivalries and harbouring dark secrets. When a man's body...Paperback$2299Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
City of Vengeance
Shortlisted for the 2021 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 'An impressive and immersive debut set in a beautifully realized sixteenth-century Florence' – Antonia Hodgson 'A first-class historical thriller . . . Bishop's spirited and richly detailed story is a tour-de-force' – David Baldacci 'Richly atmospheric . . . transports you to another time and place' – Ambrose Parry, author of...Paperback$2499Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Pre-order100 Years of Australian Songwriting
100 Years of Australian Songwriting is a landmark anthology exploring how songs have shaped Australia’s identity, culture, and history over the past century. With a foreword by music luminary Jenny Morris, the book showcases 20 essays by leading Australian writers, critics and artists, tapping into the transformative power of songwriting as a cultural force.From First Nations songlines to modern pop,...Hardback$6000Unit price /UnavailableOut 23 Sep 2026Pre-order
The Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars by Alexander Mikaberidze, winner of the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, presents the first global history of what is often considered the world's first world war. Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these locations are most closely associated with the Napoleonic Wars. However, how did this period of nearly continuous conflict affect regions beyond Europe? The immense...Paperback$8000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Crusades
From a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume military history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land. Nine hundred years ago, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a city revered by...Paperback$6100Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips early August
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This book tells the surprising history of our most intimate gesture: the kiss. Richly illustrated, it explores a millennium of kisses, asking how and why the kiss has retained its power over the centuries, and what it might mean today. From the furtive kisses of fated lovers Heloise and Abelard to The Godfather's 'kiss of death', Katie Barclay shows how...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableOut 1 Nov 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderGreat Hearts
From the 1870s, a generation of bold women made mountaineering history around Aoraki Mount Cook. They claimed space in the mountains, defying conventions and forging a legacy that shaped every woman who followed. Then their stories were quietly erased. Drawing on scattered records, oral histories and forgotten stories, Great Hearts resurrects their extraordinary achievements, blending nonfiction with reimagined fiction in...Paperback$3999Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableOut 10 Sep 2026Pre-order
The Masquerade
The first full history of an extraordinary eighteenth-century British entertainment Glittering masquerades, held at the most fashionable London venues, dominated the calendars of the Georgian elite. A thrilling opportunity to gather, flirt, and consume, hosts such as "Empress of Pleasure" Teresa Cornelys welcomed the great and the good in elaborate costumes—including bear suits, harlequin outfits, or, in the case of...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
华闻视野 Developing Advanced Proficiency in Chinese through Modern Issues Volume 2
Developing Advanced Proficiency in Chinese through Modern Issues serves as a solid foundational textbook for the intermediate and advanced levels in two volumes, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of language and concepts. The 24 units include a wide range of topics, including popular culture, e-commerce, green energy, and telecommunications fraud, reflecting the dynamic nature of China’s evolving social landscape....Paperback$17100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
华闻视野 Developing Advanced Proficiency in Chinese through Modern Issues Volume 2
Developing Advanced Proficiency in Chinese through Modern Issues serves as a solid foundational textbook for the intermediate and advanced levels in two volumes, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of language and concepts. The 24 units include a wide range of topics, such as popular culture, e-commerce, green energy, and telecommunications fraud, reflecting the dynamic nature of China’s evolving social...Hardback$54800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
قبيلة اللواتية في عُمان
قبيلة اللواتية في عُمان by Dr Ahmed Hussain Al-Saffar offers a historical and linguistic analytical study of the Lawati tribe, presenting it as a historical and cultural phenomenon that transcends conventional genealogical narratives. The book critically re-examines the name, origin, and linguistic structure through a multi-disciplinary critique. The work begins by deconstructing the historical connotations of the name "Lawati," exploring...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Zeus and Hera
A landmark study of the archetypal father, husband, and wife in Greek religion and myth. What did Zeus mean to the Greeks of antiquity? Who was Hera, archetypally united with Zeus as if they were a human couple? Examining the word Zeus and its Greek synonyms theos and daimon, acclaimed mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerényi traces the origins...Hardback$63000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Writing the Noncolonial Self
How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests a new way of thinking about the connections between politics, subjectivity, and literary practice. In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Fyfe reveals how African writers have used literary forms to reimagine subjectivity in new terms, a category of practices he calls the "noncolonial." Examining...Hardback$34700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Writing St Guthlac
The first radically longitudinal study of a saint who had a significant cultural presence in early medieval England. What happens when the Life of a medieval Fenland hermit is read (and rewritten) over a broad span of time? Which elements do writers keep returning to, what additions are made, and which aspects are translated into new and curious forms? Writing...Hardback$35200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Writing Matters
The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BCE Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on the languages encoded in the inscriptions and their semantic meanings. This book takes a more holistic approach that looks not only at content, but also the archaeological contexts of the inscriptions and the materiality of their 'supports': the artefacts and monuments on...Paperback$13500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Working at the Margins in Interwar Yugoslavia
Prostitutes, beggars, folk healers, peddlers, wandering artists, and bear-leaders: Working at the Margins in Interwar Yugoslavia shows how work shaped their relations with the state and the rest of their world. The protagonists of the book's story lived on the fringes of society and engaged in activities that were only partially recognized, from a legal and social point of view,...Paperback$17900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Pre-orderWomen, Wealth and the State in Early Colonial India
Few polities were more instrumental to the rise of the East India Company and the advent of British colonial rule in South Asia than the Mughal successor state of Awadh (c. 1722–1856). And few individuals influenced the making of the Awadh regime and its pivotal relationship with the Company more than the chief consorts, the begams. Women, Wealth and the...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order
Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic
In the Roman Republic, elite women were legally permitted to control substantial assets – and many demonstrably were in direct control of their wealth. They were also the mothers, wives and daughters of the politicians who built Rome's empire and, in a time of high mortality, could find themselves running households that did not contain adult men. This volume explores...Hardback$38000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Women of the Empire
This book offers a comprehensive examination of the status and roles of women within the socio-economic framework of the Achaemenid Empire. Drawing primarily on the Persepolis Fortification and Treasury Archives, it foregrounds the documentary evidence as a lens through which the lives, labour, and agency of women—both within royal institutions and beyond—can be critically assessed. Women of the Empire explores...Hardback$53400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Women in Allied Naval Intelligence in the Second World War
Closely examining the work of women in the US and British naval services towards Allied naval intelligence during the Second World War, Women in Allied Naval Intelligence in the Second World War focuses on their contributions during the Battle of the Atlantic and Pacific Naval War. This book aims to shed new light on arenas of war from which women’s...Paperback$13400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Women and Resistance in the "Annals" of Tacitus
Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Throughout his Annals, women discover ways to resist without relying on traditional forms of power. Women engage in political protests, legal disputes, public processions, and subversive religious rituals. They demonstrate resistance in...Hardback$16400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Women and Partisan Art
The resistance by partisan women in Yugoslavia and Carinthia (Austria), and particularly their artistic production, have not been acknowledged in the historical accounts of World War II. Their art was both a form of resistance and a culturally subversive practice, ranging from avant-garde aesthetics to traditional forms of folk art and handicraft. The cultural production by and subsequently about the...Paperback$19100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Women and Gender in Modern Europe
Women and Gender in Modern Europe introduces students to the key concepts of women’s history, gender as a category of analysis, and the history of feminism. Spanning the late 19th century to the present day, each chapter highlights major themes of the particular time period across Europe, concluding with a short bibliography. Whilst covering some familiar narratives in a broadly...Hardback$31300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Woman, African, Other
In their literary works, African diasporic women articulate how the lived experience and subjugated status of women of African descent within local and global contexts are shaped by colonial and patriarchal networks of power. Using Black feminism as the overarching theory, Woman, African, Other unpacks how interlocking (lethal) structures of white supremacy, slavery, colonialism, cultural patriarchy, misogynoir, as well as...Paperback$19600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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