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The race to the future
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The world of 1907 is poised between the old and the new: communist regimes will replace imperial ones in China and Russia; the telegraph is transforming modern communication and the car will soon d...
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Keir Starmer
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THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

** INCLUDES THE INSIDE STORY OF THE ELECTOIN **

‘Required reading for anyon...
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Isle of Dogs
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There’s nothing the British love quite as much as their dogs. From hunting to our hearths, and from herding sheep to guiding humans, our dogs have accompanied us through centuries of change, ...
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Witchcraft
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A lively and immersive global history of witchcraft which shows its evolution from the Middle Ages to the present day and shines a light on the stories of the victims, told in thirteen trials.Â...
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Embers of the hands
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Imagine a Viking, and a certain image springs to mind: a nameless, faceless warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorise the hapless local population of a northern European count...
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Goddess with a thousand faces
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Steeped in ancient magic, dark divinity and wild ways, ‘Goddess with a Thousand Faces’ takes you on a historical journey like no other. Blending mythological retellings with historical ...
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Hubris
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On the 24th of February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukraine conflict that began eight years earlier. But the roots of the conflict began long before that historic dat...
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Jerusalem
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The wider history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City, from King David to today. The story of Jerusalem is the story of the world.Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of tw...
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One fine day
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On Saturday 29 September 1923, the Palestine Mandate became law and the British Empire reached what would prove to be its maximum territorial extent, covering a scarcely credible quarter of the wor...
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Pax
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‘Pax’ is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with ‘Rubicon’, and continued with ‘Dynasty’, now arriv...
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The lost city of Z
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A blockbuster adventure about life, death and obsession in the Amazon
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The traitor of Arnhem
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The end of the Second World War is in sight. Following the Western Allies’ overwhelming victory on D-Day, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin are all prepared to shape the future, and Operation M...
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Divine might
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The scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar from bestselling author Natalie Haynes.
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Queen of codes
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When the history of British codebreaking is told, the story is often a men-only preserve. That perception completely ignores the fact that the vast majority of codebreakers were in fact women. And ...
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1923
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The astonishing story of the critical year 1923 – the year when the French illegally and brutally occupied Germany’s economic heartland, the Ruhr; when hyperinflation wrought havoc with...
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The world
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‘The World’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore is a fresh and original history of humanity, unlike any previous world history: it uses family, the one thing all humans have in common, to tell th...
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The western kingdom
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The first book to deal with the facts about the Early Medieval kingdom that inspired Arthurian legend
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Ancestors
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An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Rob...
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Seaside 100: A History of the British Seaside in 100 Objects
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Sandcastles, donkeys, piers and sticks of rock. Beach huts, paddle steamers, promenade shelters and ice cream cones. Our modern seaside is the sum of its parts and all those parts have their histor...
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Spitfire: A Very British Love Story
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Spitfire: A remarkable aircraft flown by very brave men. This is their story.
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A line in the sand
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The untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East
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Levelling Sea
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The story of Britain’s colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth.
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The Plimsoll sensation
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The story of a Victorian philanthropist who reformed shipping laws, saved thousands of sailors’ lives and became a national hero.
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White Gold
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In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and 52 of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs. Thousands of Europeans had been snatched from their homes and tak...
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The race to the future

Keir Starmer

Isle of Dogs

Witchcraft

Embers of the hands

Goddess with a thousand faces

Hubris

Jerusalem

One fine day

Pax

The lost city of Z

The traitor of Arnhem

Divine might

Queen of codes

1923

The world

The western kingdom

Ancestors

Seaside 100: A History of the British Seaside in 100 Objects

Spitfire: A Very British Love Story

A line in the sand

Levelling Sea

The Plimsoll sensation

White Gold

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