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The Tablet of Destinies

The Tablet of Destinies

Roberto Calasso Paperback 128 pages An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great FloodA long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to s...
€14,95*
Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924

Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924

Robert Service Hardback 496 pages Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service,...
€39,95*
The Penguin History of Economics

The Penguin History of Economics

Roger E Backhouse Paperback 496 pages The definitive guide to the history of economic thought, fully revised twenty years after first publicationRoger Backhouse's definitive guide takes the st...
€17,95*
Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Fein

Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Fein

Mairia Cahill Paperback 464 pages Roddy DoyleRough Beast is Mairia Cahill's harrowing story of her life and of what she went through at the hands of what is now Ireland's largest and richest ...
€22,95*
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Softback Zeke Faux In 2021, cryptocurrency goes mainstream. Giant investment funds are buying it. Politicians endorse it. TV ads hail it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knows how it works...
€22,95*
Cleopatra's Daughter : Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen

Cleopatra's Daughter : Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen

Jane Draycott Paperback / softback 336 pages Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony, was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to survive after her parents were ...
€17,95*
The Mad Emperor : Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome

The Mad Emperor : Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome

Harry Sidebottom Paperback 352 pages On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was...
€14,95*
The Stories Old Towns Tell : A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe

The Stories Old Towns Tell : A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe

Marek Kohn Hardback 344 pages, 11 b-w illus. + 1 map Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War-some, like those of Warsaw and ...
€26,95*
The Week : A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are

The Week : A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are

David M. Henkin Paperback / softback 288 pages, 8 b-w illus. An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live "[Henkin] scou...
€19,95*
In Search Of Berlin : The Story of A Reinvented City

In Search Of Berlin : The Story of A Reinvented City

John Kampfer Paperback 400 pages Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past...
€22,95*
Scotland : The Global History: 1603 to the Present

Scotland : The Global History: 1603 to the Present

Murray Pittock Paperback / softback 528 pages, 64 b-w illus. An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years' War to...
€17,95*
Dickensland : The Curious History of Dickens's London

Dickensland : The Curious History of Dickens's London

Lee Jackson Hardback 288 pages, 24 b-w illus. The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years To...
€26,95*
Winston Churchill : His Times, His Crimes

Winston Churchill : His Times, His Crimes

Tariq Ali Paperback 448 pages, 8pp b&w plate section The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Ev...
€17,95*
The Gate to China : A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong

The Gate to China : A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong

Michael Sheridan Paperback 480 pages A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule a...
€14,95*
The Curtain and the Wall : A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border

The Curtain and the Wall : A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border

Timothy Phillips Paperback 480 pages An epic journey across 5,000 kilometres and through eight decades, to tell a new story about the old Cold War faultlinesWith the fall of the Berlin Wall, it ...
€14,95*
The Story of Scandinavia : From the Vikings to Social Democracy

The Story of Scandinavia : From the Vikings to Social Democracy

Stein Ringen Paperback 480 pages In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peac...
€22,95*
Papyrus : The Invention of Books in the Ancient World (Softback)

Papyrus : The Invention of Books in the Ancient World (Softback)

Irene Vallejo Softback 464 pages An enthralling 2,000-year journey through the history of books and readingLong before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile ...
€17,95*
Spies : The epic intelligence war between East and West

Spies : The epic intelligence war between East and West

Calder Walton Paperback 625 pages Espionage, election meddling, disinformation, assassinations, subversion, and sabotage - all attract headlines today about Putin's dictatorship. But they are fa...
€22,95*
Rogues : True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Rogues : True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Patrick Radden Keefe Paperback 368 pages From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by on...
€14,95*
The Escape Artist : The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

The Escape Artist : The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

Jonathan Freedland Paperback 416 pages April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became two of the very first Jews to successfully escape Auschwitz. Evading the th...
€13,95*
Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson

Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson

Ferdinand Mount Hardback 304 pages Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it's become a ...
€26,95*
Goodbye Eastern Europe : An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Goodbye Eastern Europe : An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Jacob Mikanowski Hardback 400 pages Eastern Europe is more than the sum total of its annexations, invasions and independence declarations. From the Baltics to the Balkans, from Prague to Kiev, t...
€28,95*
Footmarks : A Journey Into our Restless Past

Footmarks : A Journey Into our Restless Past

Jim Leary Hardback 288 pages On paths, roads, seas, in the air, and in space - there has never been so much human movement. In contrast we think of the past as static, 'frozen in time'. But archa...
€24,95*
The Poisonous Solicitor

The Poisonous Solicitor

Stephen Bates Paperback 336 pages A brilliant narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham. On a bleak Tuesday morning in Februa...
€16,95*
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