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By Sea & Stars: The story of the First Fleet, from the bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and LOLA IN THE MIRROR

By Sea & Stars: The story of the First Fleet, from the bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and LOLA IN THE MIRROR

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White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations

White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations

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Strictly Ann: The Autobiography

Strictly Ann: The Autobiography

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In this life story of one of our most outspoken and celebrated politicians, Ann Widdecombe offers a unique insight into her time as a minister in three government departments and...
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979

Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One [...]

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'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary ReviewKenneth Rose was one of the...
Harold Wilson: The Winner

Harold Wilson: The Winner

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Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight...
Robin Ellis's Mediterranean Vegetarian Cooking: Delicious Seasonal Dishes for Living Well with Diabetes

Robin Ellis's Mediterranean Vegetarian Cooking: Delicious [...]

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A food lover's guide to eating well with diabetes. Poldark star Robin Ellis's Mediterranean-inspired vegetarian recipes are delicious and suitable for the entire family and for entertaining friends, with no...
Nicholas & Alexandra: Nicholas & Alexandra

Nicholas & Alexandra: Nicholas & Alexandra

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Nicholas & Alexandra is the internationally famous biography from Pulitzer prize-winner Robert Massie. Massie shows conclusively how the personal curse of the young heir's haemophilia, and the decisive influence it...
The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

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During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns...Conradin Muller was an unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg in June...
The Windsors at War - As seen on Channel 4's Edward vs George: The Nazi Threat to the Crown

The Windsors at War - As seen on Channel 4's Edward vs George: [...]

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'This riotous and engaging biography has it all'GUARDIAN'As much fun to read as a good political thriller'WALL STREET JOURNALThe book that inspired the major documentary Edward vs George: The Windsors...
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine history" of the world's most successful military alliance

Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly [...]

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'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAILThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir...
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization [...]

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOTNAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADSAt the turn of the twentieth century, emboldened...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial [...]

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FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and author of EAST WEST STREETTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Should be read by anyone who cares about justice, humanity and human...
The Graces: The captivating historical novel for fans of Stacey Halls

The Graces: The captivating historical novel for fans of Stacey Halls

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'A haunting, gripping, deeply atmospheric novel' - Emma Stonex'What a storyteller . . . masterful' - Donal Ryan'Beautiful, compelling and exquisitely told. This story will haunt me' - Ruth Hogan'To...
Darling Days: A New York City Childhood

Darling Days: A New York City Childhood

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I was born, September 1985, in the vortex of the Lower East Side of New York: there were few rules of life and zero constraints on behaviour. If you were...
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization [...]

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOTNAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADSAt the turn of the twentieth century, emboldened...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story

Finding Home: A Windrush Story

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On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them...
The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it

The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it

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Antisemitism: What It Is. What It Isn't. Why It Matters

Antisemitism: What It Is. What It Isn't. Why It Matters

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Understand The Cold War: Teach Yourself

Understand The Cold War: Teach Yourself

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This book will help you understand how the superpowers grew and vied for dominance, and how the balance was lost. All the important aspects of the war are covered, from...
Trump/Russia: a definitive history

Trump/Russia: a definitive history

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Nothing For Tears

Nothing For Tears

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Towards the end of the Second World War, Lali Horstmann and her husband Freddy, a retired diplomat and art collector, were living at Kerzendorf, an elegant eighteenth-century house with a...
Marx and Marxism

Marx and Marxism

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A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his work Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in...
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins

Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary [...]

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From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units.Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish...
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901

Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, [...]

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Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years reconstructs the life of Emma Goldman through significant texts and documents. These two volumes - part of a projected four-volume series...
Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change

Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change

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The surprise election of Hasan Rouhani in 2013 has refocused attention on the dynamics between Islam and democracy in Iran after the hiatus of the Ahmadinejad presidency. With comparisons being...
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent

The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent

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An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in...
Songs from the Kitchen Table: Lyrics and Stories

Songs from the Kitchen Table: Lyrics and Stories

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The ultimate illustrated commemoration of iconic Australian musicians Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter in songs, stories, photographs and tributes.Longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2024 Since he left us, Archie...
Vita and the Birds

Vita and the Birds

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A haunting mystery for fans of Eve Chase, Dinah Jefferies and Kate Mosse.'A poignant page-turning story, beautifully written' Leonora Nattrass, author of Blue Water'Hugely evocative and beautifully written' Anna Mazzola,...
The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine

The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine

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The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
The Dissident Mullah: Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for Reform in Revolutionary Iran

The Dissident Mullah: Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for [...]

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The Iranian cleric Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) played an integral role in the founding of the Islamic Republic in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9. Yet at the time...
Pilgrims to the Northland: The Archdiocese of St. Paul, 1840-1962

Pilgrims to the Northland: The Archdiocese of St. Paul, 1840-1962

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This is the first narrative history of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, from 1840 to 1962. Historian Marvin R. O'Connell brings to life the extraordinary labors and accomplishments of the...
Lemay

Lemay

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LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and was in charge when Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and...
Espionage in the Divided Stuart Dynasty: 1685-1715

Espionage in the Divided Stuart Dynasty: 1685-1715

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King James II was the Catholic king of a Protestant nation, but he had inherited a secure crown and was able to put down the rebellion by his nephew the...
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

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This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to...
Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, 136-132 and 105-100 BC

Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, [...]

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In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the city of Henna with much...
James Moore: Photographs 1962 - 2006

James Moore: Photographs 1962 - 2006

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American fashion photographer James Moore (1936-2006) was an influential voice in mid-20th-century fashion photography, working for Harper's Bazaar during its 1960s heyday under the leadership of legendary editor Carmel Snow....
Franz Marc and August Macke, 1909-1014

Franz Marc and August Macke, 1909-1014

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This generously illustrated volume focuses on the poignant friendship of Franz Marc and August Macke, two innovative members of the Blue Rider group. During the five years Franz Marc and...
James Ensor

James Ensor

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(Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Deutsch / Englisch)Der belgische Maler und Grafiker James Ensor (1860-1949) nimmt in der Kunstgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts einen besonderen Rang ein. Als "Maler der Masken" kategorisiert, stilisierte er...
Picasso and the Model: Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette

Picasso and the Model: Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette

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She was known as "the girl with the ponytail" and her image has become one of the art world's most iconic. Sylvette David was a shy girl when she met...
Broken Arrow: How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb

Broken Arrow: How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb

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The extraordinary story of the loss of a U.S. plane with a live nuclear bomb on it during the Vietnam War in 1965, and the subsequent cover-up. On 5 December...
Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Early Years, 1926-1966

Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The [...]

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George Martin - the man, the mind, the music. This is the story of the legendary Beatles producer. The first of two volumes, MAXIMUM VOLUME traces Martin's early life, from...
Design in Italia: The Making of an Industry / Dietro Le Quinte Dell'Industria

Design in Italia: The Making of an Industry / Dietro Le Quinte [...]

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The modern and contemporary furnishing industry of Italy represents a unique paradigm, on account of its industrial design production created by the most important international architects and designers of the...
Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman and Habsburg Rivalries in Eastern Europe

Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman and Habsburg [...]

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From the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia, Eastern Europe has been a battleground between the East and the West and a region of...
Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America

Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America

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How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on creditEven before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America...
A History of the Royal Navy: World War I

A History of the Royal Navy: World War I

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World War I is one of the iconic conflicts of the modern era. For many years the war at sea has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of that...
The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet: From Mutiny to Scapa Flow

The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet: From Mutiny to Scapa Flow

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On 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet - interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice - began to founder, taking their British custodians completely by...
Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?: The unputdownable new thriller from the bestselling author

Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?: The unputdownable new [...]

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She's loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone . . .1990 When beautiful and vivacious Charlotte Salter fails to turn up to her husband Alec's 50th...