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Eighteen : A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives

Eighteen : A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives

Alice Loxton Hardback 336 pages At eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots. You have everything to look forward to – unless you've got the plague . . . From a young Elizabeth Tu...
€28,95*
The Wide Wide Sea

The Wide Wide Sea

Hampton Sides Paperback On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years l...
€22,95*
This Earthly Globe : A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World

This Earthly Globe : A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World

Andrea di Robilant Paperback DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans was published in V...
€22,95*
A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women (Softback)

A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women (Softback)

Softback Emma Southon Rome as you’ve never seen it before – brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine. ‘Hugely entertaining and illuminating’ —Elodie Harper, author of...
€14,95*
Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936

Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936

Softback Volker Weidermann It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time. Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a cote...
€14,95*
The Zone : An Alternative History of Paris

The Zone : An Alternative History of Paris

Justinien Tribillon Hardback 208 pages In The Zone, Justinien Tribillon takes the reader on a tour of an eponymous Parisian hinterland. The site of dreams and nightmares, from Van Gogh's painting...
€24,95*
Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

Elaine Farrell - Leanne McCormick Paperback 336 pages Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to N...
€14,95*
Mary Beard Emperor of Rome (Paperback)

Mary Beard

Emperor of Rome (Paperback)

Mary Beard Paperback 512 pages What was it really like to rule and be ruled in the Ancient Roman world?In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Ro...
€16,95*
The Rise of Devils : Fear and the Origins of Modern Terrorism

The Rise of Devils : Fear and the Origins of Modern Terrorism

James Crossland Paperback 376 pages, 12 black & white illustrations In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Like today, this was a time of progre...
€16,95*
Spycraft : Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration

Spycraft : Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration

Nadine Akkerman - Pete Langman Hardback 368 pages, 60 color illus. +1 map A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to cou...
€26,95*
Florian Illies Love in a Time of Hate

Florian Illies

Love in a Time of Hate

Florian Illies Paperback 336 pages 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anx...
€14,95*
Killers of the Flower Moon : Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI

Killers of the Flower Moon : Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann Paperback 352 pages From the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland, and the Number One in...
€14,95*
All That She Carried : The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

All That She Carried : The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles Paperback 416 pages In 1850s South Carolina, Rose, an enslaved woman, faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag with a few ite...
€17,95*
The Invention of Prehistory : Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

The Invention of Prehistory : Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

Stefanos Geroulanos Hardback 512 pages ooks about the origins of humanity dominate best-seller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and spe...
€29,95*
Ignorance : A Global History

Ignorance : A Global History

Peter Burke Paperback 336 pages A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowle...
€16,95*
The Penguin History of Modern Spain : 1898 to the Present

The Penguin History of Modern Spain : 1898 to the Present

Nigel Townson Paperback 608 pages SA revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different,' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to...
€19,95*
Mary Beard Laughter in Ancient Rome : On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up

Mary Beard

Laughter in Ancient Rome : On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up

Mary Beard Paperback 336 pages What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the unco...
€19,95*
Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990

Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990

Katja Hoyer Paperback 496 pages Well-researched, well-written and profoundly insightful, Beyond the Wall explodes many of the lazy Western cliches about East Germany' Andrew RobertsIn 1990, a ...
€17,95*
The West: A New History of an Old Idea

The West: A New History of an Old Idea

Naoise Mac Sweeney Paperback 448 pages A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives. We tend to imagine W...
€17,95*
Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened (Softback)

Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened (Softback)

Jo Teeuwisse Paperback 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 Sp...
€19,95*
George Orwell Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell Paperback 272 pages Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I und...
€12,95*
David Van Reybrouck Revolusi : Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World

David Van Reybrouck

Revolusi : Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World

David Van Reybrouck Paperback On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and on behalf of 68 million compatriots announced the birth of a new...
€22,95*
The Tame and the Wild : People and Animals after 1492

The Tame and the Wild : People and Animals after 1492

Marcy Norton Hardback 448 pages A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. When t...
€41,95*
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Bettany Hughes Paperback Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of ...
€22,95*
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