End times
£25.00A brilliant new theory of how society works from one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time.
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The Russo-Ukrainian war
£25.00‘The Russo-Ukrainian War’ is the comprehensive history of a conflict that has burned since 2014, and that, with Russia’s attempt to seize Kyiv, exploded a geo-political order that had been cemented since the end of the Cold War. With an eye for the gripping detail on the ground, both in the halls of power and down in the trenches, as well as a keen sense of the grander sweep of history, Serhii Plokhy traces the origins and the evolution of the conflict, from the collapse of the Russian empire to the rise and fall of the USSR and on to the development in Ukraine of a democratic politics. Based on decades of research and his unique insight into the region, he argues that Ukraine’s defiance of Russia, and the West’s demonstration of unity and strength, has presented a profound challenge to Putin’s Great Power ambition, and further polarized the world along a new axis.
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Once upon a time world
£22.00In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an exclusive dream. In the 185 years between, the stretch of seaboard from the red mountains of the Esterel to the Italian border hosted a cultural phenomenon well in excess of its tiny size. A mere handful of towns and resorts created by foreign visitors – notably English, Russian and American – attracted the talented, rich and famous as well as those who wanted to be. For nearly two centuries of creativity, luxury, excess, scandal, war and corruption, the dark and sparkling world of the Riviera was a temptation for everybody who was anybody. Jonathan Miles presents the remarkable story of the small strip of French coast that lured the world to its shores.
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The worst in the world
£7.99The Worst in the World is packed full of the foulest gold, silver and bronze medal winning entries in horrible categories such as diseases, battles, emperors, punishments, schools and more. Read all about the most horrible top threes across history (in one man’s opinion), they’re the absolute worst!
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Who are we now?
£10.99A riveting narrative account of an England poised on the brink of enormous change from one of our finest journalists and writers.
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The betrayal of Anne Frank
£9.99THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
‘Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation’ New York Times
Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept
The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?
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Bloodbath nation
£25.00‘Bloodbath Nation’ is about the epidemic that is tearing apart the fabric of American society. An epidemic caused – not by Covid – but by guns. Among its victims are men, women, teenagers, children, and even babies. The massacres have taken place in churches, schools, movie theatres, and at rock concerts. Auster establishes how America’s love affair with guns goes all the way back to the arrival of the first British settlers – guns in hand – who used these guns to eradicate the Native Americans who occupied the country. This history of carnage continues to this day. Guns have become one of the issues dividing America today, but Auster doesn’t take sides. The book is a plea for both sides to find a way of avoiding more death and grief. Accompanying Auster’s text is a series of photographs of the locations of these mass killings.
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Mao and markets
£20.00A thoroughly researched assessment of how China’s economic success continues to be shaped by the communist ideology of Chairman Mao
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The Reign Part I The Way It Was, 1952-79
£25.00She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, sweets were rationed, mums stayed home and kids played on bombsites. 70 years on, everything has changed utterly – except the Queen herself, aging far more gracefully than the fractious nation over which she so lightly presides. How did we get from there to here in a single reign? To cancel culture, anti-vaxxers and Twitter feeds? Matthew Engel tells the story – starting with the years from Churchill to Thatcher – with his own light touch and a wealth of fascinating, forgotten, often funny detail.
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Queen Elizabeth II
£22.00A lavish photographic tribute to the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, as seen through the lens of the BBC.
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Day of the Assassins
£10.99A forensic account of political assassinations from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
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The Passengers
£14.99Between October 2018 and March 2021, Will Ashon collected voices – people talking about their lives, needs, dreams, loves, hopes and fears – all of them with some connection to the British Isles. He used a range of methods including letters sent to random addresses, hitchhiking, referrals from strangers and so on. He conducted the interviews in person, on the phone, over the internet or asked people to record themselves. Interview techniques ranged from asking people to tell him a secret to choosing an arbitrary question from a list. The resulting testimonies tell the collective story of what it feels like to be alive in a particular time and place – here and now.