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£10.99Bestselling author and social media sensation Alice Loxton brings us a scintillating new history of Britain, told through eighteen figures in British history at the age of eighteen.
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A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000
£12.99A brisk, concise and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the 21st century. Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland’s modern period and continues through to virtually the present day, offering an integrated overview of the island nation’s cultural, political and socioeconomic history.
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A history of Britain in ten enemies
£10.99Ah, Britain. So special. The greatest nation on Earth, some say. And we did it all on our own. Didn’t we? Well, as it happens Britannia got its name from the Romans, and for the past two centuries we have been ruled by Germans. But then, as ‘Horrible Histories’ author Terry Deary argues, nations and their leaders are defined by the enemies they make. The surprisingly sadistic Boudica would be forgotten if it weren’t for the Ninth Legion, Elizabeth I a minor royal without the Spanish Armada, and Churchill an opposition windbag without the Nazis. Britain loves its heroes so much we have been known to pickle them in brandy to keep them fresh. This book is an entertaining gallop through history that will have you laughing as you find out what they didn’t teach you in school.
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Unruly
£11.99Think you know the Kings and Queens of England? Think again. In ‘Unruly’, David Mitchell explores how early England’s monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects’ destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear to us today in their portraits.
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The rest is history
£10.99Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys – there’s a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past – from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation’s favourite historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn’t even think to ask: Did the Trojan War actually happen? What was the most disastrous party in history? Was Richard Nixon more like Caligula or Claudius? How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill’s cover? Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from Atlantis?
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Eichmann in Jerusalem
£12.99This report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in ‘The New Yorker’ in 1963. This edition contains further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript commenting on the controversy that arose over her book.
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Ireland’s Forgotten Past
£9.99An original and irreverent retelling of overlooked stories from Irish history, hailed by Sebastian Barry as ‘a stirring atlas of Irishness’
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Say nothing
£10.99THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Now an FX TV series streaming on DISNEY+
‘Unquestionably one of the greatest literary achievements of the 21st century’ Nick Hornby
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Long Weekend
£20.00There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. Real life in the country house during the 1920s and 1930s was not always so sunny. By turns opulent and ordinary, noble and vicious, its shadows were darker. In ‘The Long Weekend’, Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the truth about a world half-forgotten, draped in myth and hidden behind stiff upper lips and film-star smiles.
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
£14.99Hannah Arendt’s chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, exploring how propaganda, scapegoats, terror and political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination.
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
£16.99The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller: 10th Anniversary Edition, with a new introduction and conclusion.