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A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women

A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women

Because when you asked your boyfriend how often he thinks about the Roman Empire, it turned out to be never....
€24,95*
American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin Paperback 736 pages Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Pro...
€17,95*
Simon Sebag Montefiore The World : A Family History

Simon Sebag Montefiore

The World : A Family History

Simon Sebag Montefiore Paperback 1344 pages From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thi...
€19,95*
The Peking Express

The Peking Express

James M. Zimmerman Hardback 352 pages, 26 B/W illustrations In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the Peking Express, he pictur...
€32,95*
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Katherine Rundell Paperback 352 pages John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable o...
€14,95*
David Graeber The Dawn of Everything (Paperback)

David Graeber

The Dawn of Everything (Paperback)

David Graeber - David Wengrow Paperback 720 pages For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilizatio...
€16,95*
David Van Reybrouck Congo: The Epic History of a People

David Van Reybrouck

Congo: The Epic History of a People

David van Reybrouck Paperback 656 pages Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad),David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Rob...
€16,95*
Shakespeare’s Book : The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio

Shakespeare’s Book : The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio

Chris Laoutaris Paperback 560 pages The year 2023 marks the 400th anniversary of Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, known today simply as the First Folio. It is diff...
€17,95*
Wifedom : Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life

Wifedom : Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life

Anna Funder Hardback 464 pages Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she...
€26,95*
Normal Women

Normal Women

Philippa Gregory Paperback Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry?That the Peasant's Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women?Or th...
€19,95*
Eyeliner : A Cultural History

Eyeliner : A Cultural History

What do nomads in Chad, geishas in Japan, dancers in India, and drag queens in New York all have in common? This book is number one on their Christmas list....
€24,95*
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid I. Khalidi Paperback / softback 336 pages, Maps and b&w photos The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of natio...
€14,95*
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

Anthony Bale Hardback 448 pages A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across itFrom the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the ...
€24,95*
Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened (Hardback)

Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened (Hardback)

Jo Teeuwisse Hardback 416 pages Fake news about the past is fake history. Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms?Did medieval people think the world was flat?Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the ...
€22,95*
Witchcraft : A History in Thirteen Trials

Witchcraft : A History in Thirteen Trials

Marion Gibson Paperback 320 pages Salem, King James VI, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch hunts and witch trials sounds antiquated, relics of an unenlightened and brutal age. However, 'wit...
€19,95*
Jonathan Holslag World Politics Since 1989

Jonathan Holslag

World Politics Since 1989

Jonathan Holslag Paperback 432 pages 1989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization - of growin...
€23,95*
Fake Heroes

Fake Heroes

Otto English Paperback From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idol...
€18,95*
Palo Alto

Palo Alto

Malcolm Harris Paperback Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technol...
€25,95*
Conspiracy

Conspiracy

Tom Phillips Paperback 384 pages From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been human nature to believe we're being lied to by the powers that ...
€13,95*
The Celts

The Celts

Simon Jenkins Paperback 304 pages Who were the Celts? Were they a people, a civilisation, an empire, or a fiction of historical imagination? They flit as ghosts through Europe's ancient past, p...
€14,95*
Forgotten Women

Forgotten Women

Zing Tsjeng Hardback 592 pages Forgotten Women reaches around the world and its history to rediscover, retell and reinstate the lives of over 190 important and significant women. From Neolithic ...
€39,95*
Magisteria : The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion

Magisteria : The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion

Nicholas Spencer Hardback 480 pages Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread tod...
€32,95*
Woman's Lore: 4000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi

Woman's Lore: 4000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi

Sarah Clegg Paperback 368 pages The history of a demonic tradition that was stolen from women - and then won back again. Demonic temptresses - from siren-mermaids to Lilith - are well known today...
€22,95*
Putin's Wars : From Chechnya to Ukraine

Putin's Wars : From Chechnya to Ukraine

Mark Galeotti Hardback 384 pages The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right book at the right time. - The TimesA new history of how Putin and his c...
€32,95*
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