History

Gyles Brandreth Hardback 576 pages Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968, when he was twenty. Over the next fifty years he met her many times, both at public and at private events. Thro...

John Goodlad Hardback 272 pages This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers ...

Keiron Pim Hardback 544 pages The first English language biography of the great European writer Joseph Roth, exploring his genius and his tragic life story, lived in the shadow of war. The brill...

Tom Standage Paperback 272 pages The product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose . . . It is rare that I encounter a non-fiction author whose prose is so elegant that it ...

Kate Lister Paperback 464 pages, Color illustrations throughout An eye-opening exploration of the weird and wonderful things human beings have done in pursuit (and denial) of the mighty orgasm, b...

SoftbackValerie Hansen When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1...

SoftbackFrancesca Wade 'I like this London life...the street-sauntering and square-haunting.' Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925 Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of interwar Bloomsbury, was ho...

Frank DikötterPaperback A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR'Moving and perceptive' NE...

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Author: Patrick Radden Keefe, Cover: Softback, Pages: 448...

Author: Peter K. Andersson, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 352...

Author: Tharik Hussain, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 432...

Author: Vaclav Smil, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 368...

Author: James Hannam, Cover: Softback, Pages: 384...

Author: Serhii Plokhy, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 432...