Jumbo
£14.99Using the heartwrenching story of Jumbo’s celebrity life, tragic death in Canada in 1885,and his enduring cultural legacy, John Sutherland writes the first comprehensive ‘biography’ of the animal who gave us one of our favourite words.
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Life Of The Automobile
£25.00Steven Parissien examines the impact, development and significance of the automobile over its turbulent and colourful 130-year history. He tells the story of the auto, and of its creators, from its earliest appearance in the late nineteenth century to the global mergers of the 1990s and the bail-outs of the early twenty-first century.
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What Should We Tell Our Daughters
£20.00We have reached a crossroads in modern women’s lives and our collective daughters are bearing the brunt of some intolerable pressures. Although feminism has made great strides forward, many of the key issues – equality of pay, equality in the home, representation at senior level in the private, public and political sectors – remain to be tackled. Casual sexism in the media and in everyday life is still rife and our daughters face a host of new difficulties as they are bombarded by images of unrealistically skinny airbrushed supermodels and celebrities who depend on their looks and partners for status. This is a manifesto for every mother who has ever had to comfort a daughter who doesn’t feel ‘pretty’, for every young woman who out-performs her male peers professionally and wonders why she is still not taken seriously, and for anyone interested in the world we are making for the next generation.
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Women Of The Cousins War
£9.99The fascinating companion volume to the first three novels in Philippa Gregory’s bestselling Cousins’ War series
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First Class
£16.99This delightfully playful history uses 36 of our most expressive, quirky, beautiful and sometimes baffling stamps to tell us the story of Britain, through Dickens and the potato famine to Thatcher and the punk movement.
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Events Dear Boy Events
£25.00Ruth Winstone retells Britain’s history through the great diarists of the last century, drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes, their doubts, ambitions, and emotions.
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My Old Man Personal History Music Hall
£20.00Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall.
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Bright Young Things
£9.99Step into a time of hot jazz and even hotter all-night dance halls, as Alison Maloney shares the gossip about life in the roaring twenties. Read all about high society’s scandalous exploits, fresh new fashions, the Charleston dance craze, costume parties, talking movies and, of course, the feisty flapper.
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Line In The Sand
£10.99The untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East
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City Of Sin
£8.99A vivid historical portrait of London as a city of vice and sexual exuberance from Roman times to the present day.
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A History of Philosophy, from Thales to the Present Time
£23.99This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected…