The CIA book club
£25.00‘Entertaining and vivid? This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment’ OBSERVER
The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
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Intrepid Women
£25.00Meet the pioneering female anthropologists who coped with illness, shipwreck, loneliness and misogyny to document the remarkable lives of people in distant parts of the world where ‘ladies’ were not meant to travel.
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The Strand
£25.00This deeply researched book offers a unique history of London’s most famous street, from the Roman era to the present day.
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Mining men
£22.00Featuring accounts from Ayrshire to the South Wales Valleys, each chapter offers a different perspective of the industry. Britain’s last deep coalmine closed in 2015, yet just 50 years ago the mining industry was a juggernaut, employing over 250,000 workers. Combining interviews with extensive archival research, the author illuminates the extraordinary history of the industry once considered the backbone of Britain. By situating the miners’ strike of 1984-85 in a longer history of the coalfields, we can understand why miners and their families fought so hard against pit closures, and what happened after the pit wheels stopped turning. Vivid, evocative and richly alive with minute detail, ‘Mining Men’ explores what the mining industry once meant to its workers and their communities, and what Britain lost when it was gone.
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To the city
£12.99‘An enthralling guide to one of the world’s great cities – that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics of Istanbul’ PETER FRANKOPAN
‘A love letter to this ancient capital’ THE TIMES
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Love and marriage in the age of Jane Austen
£12.99What happened when Jane Austen’s heroines and heroes were finally wed? Marriage is at the centre of Jane Austen’s novels. The pursuit of husbands and wives, advantageous matches, and, of course, love itself, motivate her characters and continue to fascinate readers today. But what were love and marriage like in reality for ladies and gentlemen in Regency England? Rory Muir uncovers the excitements and disappointments of courtship and the pains and pleasures of marriage, drawing on fascinating first-hand accounts, as well as novels of the period.
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Vietdamned
£22.00Guilty – the conclusion of many trials. But this verdict was unusual, delivered by a jury of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, among them Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin and Stokely Carmichael; and in the chair, legendary philosopher-mathematician Bertrand Russell. The defendant was unusual, too – the United States government. Award-winning historian Clive Webb lays bare the extraordinary true story of the 1967 Russell Tribunal and its attempt to hold the US government to account for atrocities in the Vietnam War. The revelations that came out of the tribunal shocked the world. Vietdamned is an eye-opening account of the anti-war movement, of cover-ups and abuses of government, and of the power (and limits) of celebrity.
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Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries
£10.99A journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot. From No. 1 bestselling author, Kate Mosse.
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The stories old towns tell
£11.99A fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them – but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history.
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The wild men
£10.99The incredible story of the first Labour administration and the ‘wild men’ who shook up the British establishment, with a fully updated new Preface.
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Impossible city
£10.99Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city’s notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on his family’s neighbourhood. Over two decades of becoming something of a cantankerous Parisian himself, Kuper has watched the city change. This century, Paris has globalised, gentrified, and been shocked into realising its role as the crucible of civilisational conflict. Sometimes it’s a multicultural paradise, and sometimes it isn’t. This decade, Parisians have lived through a sequence of shocks: terrorist attacks, record floods and heatwaves, the burning of Notre Dame, the storming of the city by gilets jaunes, and the pandemic.