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Isle of Dogs
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Every dog must have his day. 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 ...
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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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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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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 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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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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Isle of Dogs

Witchcraft

Embers of the hands

Goddess with a thousand faces

Hubris

Pax

The lost city of Z

The traitor of Arnhem

1923

The western kingdom

Ancestors

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

A line in the sand

Levelling Sea

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