History
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A Man on the Moon
Andrew Chaikin
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This chronicle of the Apollo missions is a genuine epic. Exhaustive but never exhausting,...
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The Spy Who Changed History
Svetlana Lokhova
Read more ▸ Order ▸On a sunny September day in 1931, a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of...
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On the End of the World
Joseph Roth
Read more ▸ Order ▸In January 1933, on the very day Hitler seized power in Germany, Joseph Roth fled...
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William II: The Red King
John Gillingham
Read more ▸ Order ▸William II, or William Rufus, son and successor to William the Conqueror, is most famous...
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Stephen: The Reign of Anarchy
Carl Watkins
Read more ▸ Order ▸Remembered as a time in which ‘Christ and his saints slept’, Stephen’s troubled reign plunged...
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Richard I: The Crusader King
Thomas Asbridge
Read more ▸ Order ▸Even within his own lifetime Richard I, dubbed the ‘Lionheart’, attained a kind of semi-mythical...
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James I: The Phoenix King
Thomas Cogswell
Read more ▸ Order ▸James’s reign marked one of the rare breaks in England’s monarchy. Already James VI of...
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George I: The Lucky King
Tim Blanning
Read more ▸ Order ▸George I was probably the most important of the Hanoverian monarchs to have reigned in...
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A Brief History of Spain
Jeremy Black
Read more ▸ Order ▸Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and...
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A History of Tokyo 1867-1989
Edward Seidensticker
Read more ▸ Order ▸From EDO to SHOWA: The Emergence of the World’s Greatest City.
Edward Seidensticker’s ‘A History of...
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So Much Longing in So Little Space: The art of Edvard Munch
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Read more ▸ Order ▸In ‘So Much Longing in So Little Space’, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and...
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Conran/Quant: Swinging London – A Lifestyle Revolution
Geoffrey Rayner & Richard Chamberlain
Read more ▸ Order ▸Pays homage to ‘the Chelsea Set’, a bohemian, progressive clique that would change the course...