History
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Left Bank
Agnes Poirier
Read more ▸ Order ▸A captivating portrait of those who lived, loved, fought, played and flourished in Paris between...
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Fallout
Fred Pearce
Read more ▸ Order ▸At a moment when a new generation of power stations and weapons are being developed,...
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The Story of Sex: From Apes to Robots
Philippe Brenot, Laetitia Coryn & Will McMorran
Read more ▸ Order ▸A history of sex, sexuality and human intimacy through the ages, from our primate pasts...
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Imperium
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Imperium’ is a classic of reportage and a literary masterwork by one of the great...
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Nobody Leaves
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Read more ▸ Order ▸When the great traveller-reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was a young journalist in the early 1960s, he...
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Last Days in Old Europe
Richard Bassett
Read more ▸ Order ▸In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central...
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Daughters of the Winter Queen
Nancy Goldstone
Read more ▸ Order ▸Valentine’s Day, 1613. Elizabeth Stuart, the sixteen-year-old granddaughter of Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Frederick...
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Chernobyl
Serhii Plokhy
Read more ▸ Order ▸On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in...
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Island on the Edge of the World
Charles Maclean
Read more ▸ Order ▸For more than two thousand years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the...
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Samurai Tales
Romulus Hillsborough
Read more ▸ Order ▸Samurai Tales is about the legendary men from the samurai class who fought for the...
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Book of Tea
Okakura Kakuzo
Read more ▸ Order ▸Written over a century ago when Japan was abandoning its rich traditions to embrace the...
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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...
