The ticket collector from Belarus
£9.99The remarkable true story behind Britain’s only war crimes trial
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Coronation
£25.00The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong.
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Servants of the Damned
£20.00A key player in the legal battles surrounding the Trump administration, Jones Day has also for decades represented Big Tobacco, defended opioid manufacturers, and worked tirelessly to minimise the sexual-abuse scandals of the Catholic Church. Like many of its peers, it has fought time and again for those who want nothing more than to act without constraint or scrutiny – including the Russian oligarchs as they have sought to expand internationally. In this gripping and revealing new work of narrative nonfiction, New York Times Business Investigations Editor and bestselling author David Enrich at last tells the story of ‘Big Law’ and the nearly unchecked influence these firms wield to shield the wealthy and powerful – and bury their secrets.
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The Ticket Collector from Belarus
£20.00The remarkable true story behind Britain’s only war crimes trial
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
£6.99Offers the full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights following a foreword by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and a general introduction which explores the Declaration’s origins in the ‘Four Freedoms’ described by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take it B
£10.99‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane
Who owns England?
Behind this simple question lies this country’s oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England’s elite came to own our land, and an inspiring manifesto for how to open up our countryside once more.
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East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
£12.99When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg Trials. Part historical detective story, part family history, part legal thriller, Philippe Sands guides us between past and present as several interconnected stories unfold in parallel.
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Plantagenets The Kings Who Made England
£10.99This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country has ever seen, and the worst. The Plantagenets – their story is the story of Britain.