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The game changers
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Drawing on Roman anti-cheating devices, organised crime card syndicates and the combative domestic bonding ritual of Monopoly, ‘The Game Changers’ explains why games are more popular no...
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A Short History of British Architecture
£26.99

The architecture of Britain is an art gallery all around us. From our streets to squares, through our cities, suburbs and villages, we are surrounded by magnificent buildings of eclectic styles. &#...
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Patria
£25.00

‘Lost Countries of South America’ is an adventurous, ambitious and dazzlingly original study of South America’s past that bridges travel writing, history and rich literary narrati...
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El Cid
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Rodrigo DÃaz lived a violently colourful life in eleventh-century Spain. By turns an ambitious military leader, exile and brutal mercenary, he served Christian kings, fought against Christian pr...
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Collared
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Dogs are our constant companions: models of loyalty and unconditional love for millions around the world. But these beloved animals are much more than just our pets – and our shared history i...
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The Politics of Time
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The ancient Greeks divided time into five types: labour, work, leisure, play and aergia (contemplation). But labour was separated from work, as painful, onerous work undertaken for survival, wherea...
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Cornwall’s literary heritage
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The fascinating history of Cornwall’s remarkable literary heritage as well as being a guide to the locations where that heritage can still be found.
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The Gucci Style Principles
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Bring the defining principles of Gucci’s style to your own wardrobe with this celebration of one of the world’s most renowned fashion houses. From channelling the super brand with your ...
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The Power and the Glory
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In the decades before the First World War, the owners of the nation’s stately homes revelled in a golden age of glory and glamour. Nothing lay beyond their reach in a world where privilege an...
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Normal women
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A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023

?’A lasting work of social history’ THE TIMES

‘A genuinely new hist...
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The strangers
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In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger. Outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien. One who remains associated with their origins irrespective of how far they have travelled from th...
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Britain’s ghosts
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Discover the stories of Britain’s greatest ghosts and ghouls with this spooky supernatural page turner, the perfect gift this Halloween.

Supported by the National Trust, who look...
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Money
£25.00

Money. The object of our desires. The engine of our genius. Humanity’s greatest invention. Whether we like it or not, our world revolves around money, but we rarely stop to think about it. Wh...
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Black history for every day of the year
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With an entry for each day of the year, this is an inclusive, accessible and empowering celebration of Black history by David Olusoga.
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Nexus
£28.00

For the last 100,000 years, humans have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the ve...
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The notebook
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The notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled the intellectual artistic advances of the Renaissance. At...
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The dictionary people
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What do three murderers, Karl Marx’s daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the ‘Oxford English Dictionary’. The ‘Oxford English Dictionary&#...
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Trelawny’s Cornwall
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It would be hard to think of a more thoroughly Cornish name than Petroc Trelawny. His first name is shared with one of Cornwall’s most celebrated saints, his second is the name of its unoffic...
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How to be a Renaissance woman
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Plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics, and discover how, for centuries, women have turned to make up as a rich source of creativity, community and resistance. The Renaissance was an era obs...
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A travel guide to the Middle Ages
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From the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in ‘A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’...
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The Britannias
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This is the story of Britain’s islands and how they are woven into its culture, history and collective psyche. From Neolithic Orkney and druidical Anglesey to the joys and strangeness of mode...
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Eve
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How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should h...
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The rest is history
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Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys – there’s a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past R...
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The granite kingdom
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Few regions of Britain are as holidayed in, as well-loved or as mythologised as Cornwall. From the woodlands of the Tamar Valley to the remote peninsula of Penwith – via the wilderness of Bod...
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Illustrated tales of Cornwall
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The beautiful county of Cornwall is one of the most popular of English counties. Here is a collection of strange tales and local legends from the county.
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The lost paths
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Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into, and connect, communities across England and Wales. By 2026, 10,000 miles of undiscovered footpaths around Britain stand to be lost. Jack Cornish ...
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Storm’s edge
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‘A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details’ THE TIMES

‘If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky...
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Killing Thatcher
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The Sunday Times Bestseller and Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024

A Sunday Times History Book of the Year

A Spe...
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A brief history of the countryside in 100 objects
£22.00

The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts

?‘A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived straight into this clever, joyo...
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Medieval horizons
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We tend to think about the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress is the consequence of science a...
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