The Price of Victory
The final instalment of N.A.M. Rodger's authoritative trilogy on Britain's naval history. At the end of the French and Napoleonic wars, British sea-power was at its apogee. But by 1840, as one contemporary commentator put it, the Admiralty was full of 'intellects becalmed in the smoke of Trafalgar'. How the Royal Navy reformed and reinvigorated itself in the course of...HardbackSold Out
38 Londres Street
In the heart of Santiago, the infamous 38 Londres Street becomes the haunting backdrop for a riveting tale that intertwines the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in London, the post-war life of senior SS officer Walther Rauff in Chilean Patagonia, and the sinister connections between the two men. Rauff, responsible for the wartime horrors of mobile gas vans, flees justice after...PaperbackSold Out-
The Age of Diagnosis
Slices through the confusion and the contradictions with grace and compassion. I cannot say good enough things about it. - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN Be prepared for compassionate and bracingly independent thinking - THE TIMES, best books of 2025 From autism to allergies, ADHD to long Covid, more people are being labelled with medical conditions than ever before. But can a...PaperbackSold Out 
John and Paul
'The first new Beatles story in decades - and the one that will make your heart burst.' CAITLIN MORAN 'Ian Leslie has done the impossible, and breathed new life into one of the world's most studied bands.' GQ 'The most moving and revelatory book on Lennon and McCartney I have ever read. So joyful, so sad.' TOM HOLLAND 'This thoughtful,...PaperbackSold Out
The CIA Book Club
The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe was divided by the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. The Iron Curtain, a near-impenetrable barrier of wire and wall, tank traps, minefields, watchtowers and men with dogs, stretched...PaperbackSold Out-
The Illegals
The Cold War had been over for two decades when, in 2010, ten Russian agents were arrested in the United States after a decade-long FBI operation. Among the spies were three couples who had lived as Americans for years, and one agent who had lived undercover for so long that he could barely even speak Russian. They had hidden their...HardbackSold Out
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