History
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The Secret Twenties
Timothy Phillips
Read more ▸ Order ▸In the 1920s, many in the British establishment became convinced that their way of life...
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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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A Field Guide to the English Clergy
The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie
Read more ▸ Order ▸Judge not, lest ye be judged.
This timeless wisdom has guided the Anglican Church for hundreds...
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The Billion Dollar Spy
David E. Hoffman
Read more ▸ Order ▸Rodric Braithwaite, British Ambassador in Moscow, 1988-1992 `One of the best spy stories to come...
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The Origins of Creativity
Edward O. Wilson
Read more ▸ Order ▸The legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson offers his most philosophically probing work to date ‘Creativity...
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Mary Queen of Scots
Stefan Zweig
Read more ▸ Order ▸From the moment of her birth to her death on the scaffold, Mary Stuart spent...
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A Short History of Europe
Simon Jenkins
Read more ▸ Order ▸Europe has for two millennia been a remarkably successful continent. In this dazzling new history,...
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The New Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
Read more ▸ Order ▸When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major...
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The Livery Halls of the City of London
Anya Lucas
Read more ▸ Order ▸For more than 600 years the Livery Companies have played a leading role in commercial...
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Aethelred the Unready: The Failed King
Richard Abels
Read more ▸ Order ▸A major new title in the Penguin Monarchs series In his fascinating new book in...
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Vintage Classic Europeans
Various
The Vintage Classics Europeans series – with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell,…Read more ▸ Order ▸ -
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
Claire Breay & Dr. Joanna Story
Read more ▸ Order ▸The Anglo-Saxon period stretches from the arrival of Germanic groups on British shores in the...
