Being Carlos Alcaraz
A deeply researched biography of the new (smiley) face of tennis. A global star who has achieved more than Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer did by this stage of their careers. At just 19 years old, Carlos Alcaraz won the US Open and became the youngest ever men's world number one. At only 21, he already had four...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Journal Under the Wave off Kanagawa, Lined Paperback
Celebrate the timeless beauty of Japanese art with this lined journal, featuring a masterpiece by a renowned ukiyo-e artist. This lined, paperback journal from Tuttle Publishing features Under the Wave off Kanagawa also known as The Great Wave (1830-1832) by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji." This art has influenced Western artists and musicians like...Paperback$1599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Basilisks and Beowulf
This book addresses a simple question: why were the Anglo-Saxons obsessed with monsters, many of which did not exist? Drawing on literature and art, theology and a wealth of first-hand evidence, Basilisks and Beowulf reveals a people huddled at the edge of the known map, using the fantastic and the grotesque as a way of understanding the world around them...Paperback$4900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Andrew Carnegie
A New York Times bestseller! Beautifully crafted and fun to read. - Louis Galambos, The Wall Street Journal Nasaw's research is extraordinary. - San Francisco Chronicle Make no mistake - David Nasaw has produced the most thorough, accurate and authoritative biography of Carnegie to date. - Salon.com The definitive account of the life of Andrew Carnegie. Celebrated historian David Nasaw,...Paperback$6200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
World War II: Infographics
The mass of available data about World War II has never been as large as it is now, yet it has become increasingly complicated to interpret it in a meaningful way. Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts, and diagrams, World War II: Infographics offers a new approach by telling the story of the conflict visually. Encompassing the conflict from its...Paperback$4899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Journals of Captain Cook
This is a substantial selection from the Journals of Captain Cook's voyages, drawn from the four-volume Beaglehole edition. It represents not only Cook's own accounts of his various voyages, but those of his companions, notably the naturalist, Joseph Banks.Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Honourable Schoolboy
The Honourable Schoolboy, the second book in John le Carré's revered 'Karla Trilogy' and a distinguished addition to Penguin Modern Classics, delves deep into the shadowy world of espionage with its gripping and intricate narrative. In the aftermath of a shocking betrayal, the once-mighty British Secret Service is left in shambles, and the responsibility of reviving it falls to George...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid August
Iron and Blood
A powerful account of German-speaking Europe through five centuries of fighting. Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change to tell the story of the German-speaking lands, from the Rhine to the Balkan frontier, from Switzerland to the North Sea. Wilson's narrative considers everything from weapons development to...Paperback$4800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
God's Chinese Son
Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of a great historian at his best, God's Chinese Son must be read. At the center of this history of China's Taiping rebellion (1845-64) stands Hong Xiuquan, a failed student...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
1177 B.C.
1177 B.C. by Eric Cline recounts one of history's greatest mysteries: what caused the ancient civilisations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean to collapse over three thousand years ago, bringing the Late Bronze Age to an abrupt halt? In this vivid and captivating full-colour graphic adaptation of the landmark book, author-illustrator Glynnis Fawkes invites us to follow two young friends...Paperback$6200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
ClearanceVickers-Maxim Machine Gun Enthusiasts' Manual
The Maxim gun was the first fully automated machine gun to be introduced into military service at the end of the 19th century. Gradually refined to become the Vickers 0.303in medium machine-gun, it was used widely by British and Commonwealth forces in both world wars. Operated by a three-man crew, it was popularly known as ‘the Vickers’. Firearms expert and...Hardback$4699Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
The Western Front
The Western Front by Nick Lloyd offers a transformative view of one of the most infamous battlegrounds in military history, the Western Front during World War I. Spanning from August 1914 to November 1918, Lloyd's narrative illuminates the strategic evolution and the human experiences that defined the Great War's main theatre of conflict. This volume, marking the first instalment of...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Lost Pianos of Siberia
The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts is an extraordinary journey through the vast and unforgiving landscape of Siberia, revealing a hidden history of music, culture, and human resilience. This captivating narrative takes readers on a quest to uncover the story of pianos scattered across Siberia, once the prized possessions of Russian nobility and now relics of an era...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Hunting the Nazi Bomb
'You couldn't make these stories up: yet they're true, and Lewis does the memory of these extraordinary men full justice in a tale that is both heart-stopping and moving' Evening Standard 'Suicidal bravery, untold moral courage and awe-inspiring survival. An utterly compelling read' Bear Grylls From the bestselling author of true military classics ZERO SIX BRAVO, THE NAZI HUNTERS and...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
1666
1666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions. Shedding light on these dramatic events, historian Rebecca Rideal reveals an unprecedented period of terror and triumph. Based on original archival research and...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Catherine The Great
The fascinating true story behind HBO's Catherine the Great starring Dame Helen Mirren as Catherine the Great awaits readers in Robert K. Massie's masterful biography. Born into a minor noble family, young Sophia transformed herself into Catherine, Empress of Russia, through sheer determination and political acumen. Her ascent to power is nothing short of extraordinary, marked by strategic marriages, cunning...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Habsburgs
The definitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuries. In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century, before their possessions...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid August -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernised text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers. Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilisations over...Paperback$4500Elsewhere:$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Churchill's Spearhead
Churchill's Spearhead covers the inception, growth, and employment of Britain's airborne forces (parachute and glider-borne formations) between June 1940 and March 1945. It takes a comparative approach and follows tailored lines of development. Each of these lines—politics and policy, equipment and technology, personnel and training, command and control, and concepts and doctrine—influence each other. The contents include: Politics and Policy:...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
The Keeper of Happy Endings
An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls. Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations, her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread. It’s said that the...Paperback$4400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Myths & Legends
Explore global mythology with this comprehensive visual guide. Discover the world's greatest myths and legends—from Greek mythology to Norse mythology—in this comprehensive guide. What did Japanese mythology say about the beginning of the Universe? How did Oedipus become the classic tragic hero in Greek mythology? Who brought about the origin of death in Maori mythology? Combining vivid retellings of famous...Hardback$4400Elsewhere:$4800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Anarchy
The Anarchy by William Dalrymple meticulously charts the rise of the East India Company from a modest enterprise to a formidable colonial force. Set against the backdrop of a crumbling Mughal Empire and a burgeoning British dominance, the book provides a captivating narrative of power, ambition, and historical upheaval. In August 1765, a pivotal moment in history occurred as the...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Great Sea
The acclaimed history of the Mediterranean, from the ancient world to the present. For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean, from the erection of temples on Malta around 3500 BC to modern tourism. Ranging across time and...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Sleepwalkers
The astounding history that masterfully and decisively rewrites the causes of the First World War as we know them. The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The 1619 Project
A dramatic expansion of one of the definitive journalistic events of recent years, The 1619 Project, The New York Times Magazine's award-winning reframing of the American founding and its contemporary echoes, places slavery and resistance at the centre of the American story. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
SAS
In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, conceived a plan that was radically unconventional and entirely against the rules: a small, undercover unit that would wreak havoc behind enemy lines. Thus began the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world - the...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Underworld
An irresistible mix of splendid scholarship, heart-stopping adventure writing, and vivid, visceral prose. — Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets. Fantastical and forbidding — Washington Post...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Butchering Art
The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever. In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe, vaunted profession we know today. Victorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Fitzharris reminds us, since...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Earth Transformed
THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMES A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times 'Vast, learned and timely work' Sunday Times...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
On Tyranny
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times). “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can...Paperback$4200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Night
A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. In...Paperback$4100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pre-orderMy Long War
Six deployments. Twenty-six years. A soldier’s account of Australia’s long wars. For more than a quarter of a century, Major General Roger Noble stood at the centre of Australia’s contribution to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor. His career spans the evolution of Coalition warfare from the immediate aftermath of the Cold War to the brutal fight against...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableOut 11 Aug 2026Pre-order-
Autocracy, Inc
The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world in this Sunday Times bestseller. All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not...Paperback$2499Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Operation Pedestal
The Sunday Times bestseller ‘One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings’ DAILY MAIL In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed. Churchill made a personal decision that at all costs, the ‘island...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Alexandria
Not all lost cities are real, but this one was. The extraordinary story of Alexander the Great's lost city, and a quest to unravel one of the most captivating mysteries in ancient history. ‘Superb … impeccably researched, but with the pace and deftly woven plot complexity of a John le Carré novel... utterly brilliant’ William Dalrymple, Guardian ‘[An] exceptional biography...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Jewel House
Not just a few elite scientists, but Londoners from all walks of life—lawyers, prisoners, midwives, merchants—participated in the scientific community of Elizabethan times. Bestselling author Deborah Harkness (A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night) explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Remembering Katyn
Remembering Katyn explores the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940, remembered today as Stalin’s emblematic mass murder, shrouded in one of history's most extensive cover-ups. Paradoxically, the majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that lends its name to this tragedy, with their remains buried in killing fields scattered across Russia, Ukraine,...Paperback$7700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Campaigns of Alexander
Although written over 400 years after Alexander's death, Arrian's The Campaigns of Alexander is our best source of knowledge of the man and his deeds. Arrian had himself been a military commander, and his record of the exploits of the world's greatest conqueror reveals sympathy for his subject, without the adulation or contempt which so often mar other histories of...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Ten Days That Shook the World
The first-person chronicle of a legendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution. Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he provides a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
London Match
London Match by Len Deighton sees Bernard Samson becoming a pawn in a game played by the Kremlin in the final instalment of the Game, Set and Match trilogy. Long-suffering spy Bernard Samson has, against all the odds, enticed a Soviet agent to defect to London—but this proves to be the start of something even bigger. He learns that there...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Queer Georgians
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. Based on original archival research by History Hit podcast presenter Dr Anthony Delaney, Queer Georgians transforms our conventional understanding of history. Mother Clap's Holborn coffee house is open to all comers, a place of companionship and...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Our World in Pictures: Countries, Cultures, People & Places
Take a fascinating round-the-globe tour, with a stopover in every nation on every continent, in this picture-packed children's book. Get set for a journey across the globe, visiting every country — from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe — to find out what makes each one unique. Along the way, you'll explore mountains, deserts, forests, and rivers, and spot some wildlife. You'll discover,...Hardback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Children of Ash and Elm
An acclaimed history of the Vikings and The Times and Sunday Times History Book of the Year The 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in September 1066, when King Harald Hardrada of Norway died leading the charge against the English line at the...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Here Where We Live Is Our Country
A vivid, human and radical history of one of the most powerful revolutionary movements of the twentieth century - told through the lives and in the voices of countless forgotten men and women. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Lush, high-tempo, strikingly poignant ... The relevance for our present moment is impossible to ignore’ Guardian ‘Thrillingly energetic, delightful, vivid’ New...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid September-
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Empire at the Edge of the World
One man's lust for empire sent fifteen people into the Arctic - only one came back. 1913, the Arctic circle. Charismatic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson is obsessed with a frozen speck of land in the Siberian Arctic: Wrangel Island. Believing that whoever possesses it would control the future - air routes, resources, even the balance of power in the northern hemisphere,...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableOut 22 Sep 2026Pre-order 
Pillar of Salt
As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Anna Salton Eisen's memoir, Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, breaks down the barrier of silence that was intended as a protective shield for her parents and their children. From early childhood, Anna, as a second-hand witness to the Holocaust, felt overwhelmed by the unspoken but ever-present trauma...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Afro-Decolonial Manifesto
Offering a compelling call to arms while challenging the pervasive grip of colonialism on the Black psyche, this manifesto charts a course toward a future defined by autonomy, dignity, and radical liberation. Delving into the historical currents of resistance—from Negritude to Black nationalism to pan-Africanism—this manifesto unapologetically confronts the insidious nature of modern colonialism. In a world where the very...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Billy Wilder on Assignment
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard 'A revelation.' - Marc Weingarten, Washington Post Acclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings - brilliantly translated into English for the first time. Before Billy Wilder became the screenwriter and director of iconic films like Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot, he worked as a freelance reporter,...Paperback$6700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Struggle for Sea Power
For the first time, Sam Willis offers a fascinating naval perspective to one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, who, in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth? The American Revolution was a naval war of immense...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Battle on 42nd Street
At what point does the will to survive on the battlefield give way to bloodlust? The battle for Crete was at once the most modern and the most ancient of wars. For a week, Australian and New Zealand forces were relentlessly hammered from the skies by the Luftwaffe and pursued across Crete by some of the most accomplished and best...Paperback$9600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Forged in Fire
'Prepare to be riveted by this extraordinary account from one of Australia's elite warriors. His firsthand experiences vividly recounted offer an unparalleled glimpse into the courage, strategy, and sacrifice required to be the best.' - Daniel Keighran VC Garry made a report on the radio: 'I see around 200 women and children heading north up the valley.' Less than 400...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Invasion Of Waikato The Te Riri ki Tainui
The Waikato War is a pivotal event in the history of Aotearoa. In this accessible introduction, Vincent O’Malley explains the enduring impact of these conflicts, continuing his remarkable work on the New Zealand Wars. The book begins with the 1863 crossing of the Mangatāwhiri River by British troops. This act marked the Crown’s declaration of war against the Waikato tribes,...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Israel
Israel by Noa Tishby is a captivating and modern exploration of one of the world's most debated nations. This New York Times bestseller offers not just a history lesson but a dynamic, multi-faceted portrait of the country. In Israel, Noa Tishby guides readers through an engaging and comprehensive timeline, starting from Biblical times to today’s headlines. Tishby seamlessly interweaves historical...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
Imagine stepping into the vibrant, complex world of fourteenth-century England—a world that simultaneously feels foreign yet fascinating, familiar yet mysterious. In The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer, readers are given an unprecedented passport to journey back in time and explore the daily lives of people from a bygone era. Far from being a dry recitation of...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Hood Feminism
'It is absolutely brilliant, I think every woman should read it' PANDORA SYKES, THE HIGH LOW ‘My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist will read this book in a state of hushed and humble respect ... Essential reading' ELIZABETH GILBERT All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Alchemist Deluxe Edition
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • OVER 80 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE “Translated into 80 languages, the allegory teaches us about dreams, destiny, and the reason we are all here.”—Oprah Daily, “Best Self-Help Books of a Generation” “It’s a brilliant, magical, life-changing book that continues to blow my mind with its lessons. [...] A remarkable tome.”—Neil Patrick Harris, actor A special deluxe...Hardback$3900Elsewhere:$4400Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips late August
Chrome Dome 1960–68
In 1960, SAC’s B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold War’s most challenging operations was conceived and flown. Operation Chrome Dome was Strategic Air Command's unprecedented nuclear deterrence operation, a hugely elaborate and costly response to the perceived nuclear missile threat from the Soviet Union. In this book, Cold War...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Republic
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's Republic has influenced Western philosophers for centuries, with its main focus on what makes a well-balanced society and individual.Paperback$1299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife
A fascinating book about four women - it tells us so much about their world, and about our own… What jumps off the page is the liveliness of the women, their passion, their courage, and their own way of being... PHILIPPA GREGORY, author of The Other Boleyn Girl and Normal Women Brilliantly revealing Observer A celebration of female ambition and...Paperback$3899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Hidden Figures
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as ‘Human Computers’, calculating the flight paths that would enable these...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley’s marriage to Sir Clifford, an aristocratic and intellectual who is paralysed from the waist down after the First World War. Desperate for an heir and embarrassed by...Paperback$1099Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Cultural Revolution
Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of ‘The People’s Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. The Cultural Revolution by Frank Dikötter meticulously examines one of the most turbulent and destructive periods in modern Chinese history. Taking place between 1966 and 1976, the Cultural Revolution was an attempt by...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Terra Incognita
Identifying gaps in knowledge is the first duty of any historian who sets out to understand the past. It is impossible fully to understand our forebears without some idea of what they did not know: the history of ignorance is an indispensable part of history itself. Here Alain Corbin focuses on our planet, exploring its mysteries past and present, and...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Father Alberto and the Flying Girl
Exhilarating and wildly original debut novel set in the Middle Ages exploring mental illness, intolerance and outsiders. For readers of GLORIOUS EXPLOITS by Ferdia Lennon, THE PRETENDER by Jo Harkin, and PIRANESI by Susanna Clarke. 'Hilarious, moving, and delightfully weird .... I thought it was brilliant' - JO HARKIN, author of THE PRETENDER 'Profound and strange and utterly original ......Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Twelve Caesars
The Twelve Caesars, written by Suetonius and masterfully translated by Robert Graves, offers an unparalleled glimpse into the lives of the Roman emperors from Julius Caesar to Domitian. This revised edition (9780140449211) retains the classic translation that has long been celebrated for its vividness and precision, but comes with entirely new editorial material, providing fresh insights into these historical figures....Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Ghetto Diary
Janusz Korczak (1879-1942) is one of the legendary figures to emerge from the Holocaust. A successful paediatrician and well-known author in his native Warsaw, he gave up a brilliant medical career to devote himself to the care of orphans. Like so many other Jews, Korczak was sent into the Warsaw Ghetto after the Nazi occupation of Poland. He immediately set...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
A History of Japan
In this newly revised edition of their classic work, Mason and Caiger trace the enthralling evolution of modern Japan from its early pre-history through the post-Cold War period to the collapse of the Bubble Economy in the early 1990s. New findings shed additional light on the origins of Japanese civilisation and the birth of Japanese culture. Not merely a chronology...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
The Tinpot Navy
Just months before the start of World War I, Winston Churchill withdrew the Royal Navy's most formidable ships from the Pacific. With powerful German cruisers in its northern waters, Australia's fledgling navy needed to step up. Seasoned foreign correspondent and RAN veteran Anthony Delano has uncovered surprising stories from those days and earlier. The rogue captain ready to bombard Brisbane....Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Great Australian Volunteer Surf Life Saving Stories
After I'd got him out of harm's way, I dived back in yet again and swam out past the surf-break, out to where the other two lads were floundering. Then, one at a time, I took them back onto the rocks - all done against the raging rip and wild surf. By then an hour or so had passed. Still,...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Island of the Lost
Island of the Lost by Joan Druett is an enthralling true story of survival, leadership, and the stark contrast in human nature when faced with dire circumstances. Set in 1864, this gripping narrative unfolds on Auckland Island, a remote and forbidding landmass located 285 miles south of New Zealand. Subjected to year-round freezing rain and relentless winds, it is one...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
My Family Tree
Every family has its own story, and an increasing number of us are taking the time to search out these histories and record them for this and future generations. My Family Tree is a beautifully designed book to record your unique family story, with space for family and individual records, census records, ancestry charts, family traditions and achievements, events, and...Diary or journal$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Battle of the Atlantic (1)
The first in a series of illustrated books exploring the longest and best-known naval campaign of World War II, focusing on the struggle between Allied naval and air forces and Hitler's U-boats. When fighting broke out in September 1939, neither the British Royal Navy nor the German Kriegsmarine were prepared for another war in the North Atlantic. Having defeated the...Paperback$6200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Boudicca's Daughter
PRE-ORDER THE EPIC NEW STANDALONE NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WOLF DEN TRILOGY Boudicca’s Daughter is Elodie Harper’s masterpiece. — Costanza Casati, bestselling author of Babylonia A beautiful, breathtaking novel... pre-order it immediately! — Jennifer Saint, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ariadne One of the best books I have ever read. — Bea Fitzgerald, Sunday Times bestselling author...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid September
Protest!
A selected history of the protests in New Zealand that shape modern day Aotearoa, starting with the early 1800s, through to anti-nuclear and land rights. Mandy Hager looks at the background, the structure of the protest and how it affected attitudes. Includes a brief look at the Pacific Islands claims for independence.Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Fascist Yoga
The practice of yoga promises peace, self-realisation and release, thanks to the power of its 'mystic' Indian origins. But what if this is just hype? In Fascist Yoga, Stewart Home sweeps away the half-truths to tell a new origin story of modern postural practice. Starting with the world's first modern yogi – a Californian escapologist who added Hindu fairy dust...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Library
A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library - Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge under Attack Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with bean bags and children's...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
A Short History of the Gaza Strip
The Gaza Strip is one of the most widely-reported regions in the world—yet misinformation about its history and its people abounds. In this vital book, historian Anne Irfan explains Gaza’s outsized political significance through six pivotal moments in its modern history, beginning with Israel’s expulsion of the Palestinian people upon its establishment in 1948, when the Gaza region was truncated...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
An Atlas of Extinct Countries
Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated – and timely – history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. ‘Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once you get up close’ Countries die. Sometimes it’s murder, sometimes it’s by accident, and sometimes it’s because they...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Drunk
While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround our notions of intoxication to provide the first...Paperback$5700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Victoria's Secret
A stunning new story of Queen Victoria's secret love for her servant John Brown, by the acclaimed historian Fern Riddell. 'Weep with me for we all have lost the best, the truest heart that ever beat!' From the moment John Brown arrived as a servant to Queen Victoria's household, he became known across the land as her loyal companion, her...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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