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One of the last volumes in the Penguin Monarchs series.

Henry VII (Penguin Monarchs)

Sean Cunningham

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Failed ventures in the Dakota Badlands and Indochina brought this sinister figure (and classmate of Pétain) back to France, where his rabble-rousing and foaming antisemitism gave a proto-id... read more

The First Fascist: The Life and Legacy of the Marquis de Morès

Sergio Luzzatto

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An immense continental sweep, from Ancient Greece to the present. The author's Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation was excellent and we think this will be too.

Europe: A New History

Roderick Beaton

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Since its borders were drawn after the Ottoman collapse, Syria's history has often been violent. This substantial book endeavours to make sense of this complex, culturally rich place.

A History of Modern Syria

Daniel Neep

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By looking at the daily lives of its citizens, Smith shows how progressive the USSR was felt to be by many, and further argues that for us now to understand the USSR, one must understand how... read more

Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991

Mark B. Smith

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One of the great historians of the Cold War looks at lessons that we could usefully learn fron the late C19th and early C20th.

The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and Warnings from History

Odd Arne Westad

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An informed and skilful account of liberalism's history.

Centrists of the World Unite! The Lost Genius of Liberalism

Adrian Wooldridge

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From brain labs to Buddhism, Pollan the boffin has turned his braininess upon itself, to a study of our understandings of consciousness. Wise, lucid and surprisingly therapeutic.

A World Appears

Michael Pollan

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Feiling's long acquaintance with Japan allows him to observe societal and cultural changes as people increasingly choose to remain single.

Alone in Japan: A Journey to the Future

Tom Feiling

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Gaskill knew that his uncle had been a POW in Italy, and had cut his way out of a train with a knife and fork. A chance conversation leads him to discover that his uncle's story was both m... read more

The Glass Mountain

Malcolm Gaskill

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Ypi follows her prize-winning memoir of growing up in Hoxha's Albania - Free: Coming of Age at the End of History - with an investigation of her aristocratic Ottoman grandmother, filling in... read more

Indignity: A Life Reimagined

Lea Ypi

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A lively, slim account of the moral upheavals that rocked the Biedermeier sensibilities of Kant's birthplace (later the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad).

A Scandal in Königsberg

Christopher Clark

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Pivotal moments that illuminate our history, avoiding the canon in favour of intimate glimpses of private experience.

A History of England in 25 Poems

Catherine Clarke

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From the shipwreck of two Spanish sailors in Yucatan in 1511 to the multicultural modern state.

Mexico: A History

Paul Gillingham

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A dazzling work of scholarship that brings together firsthand accounts from myriad sources to show that the primary driver for the abolition of slavery was the enslaved themselves. By the au... read more

Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World

Sudhir Hazareesingh

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A careful and even study of modern antisemitism by a leading historian, sensitive to the changing definitions of the term.

On Antisemitism: A Word in History

Mark Mazower

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With an apt nod to Vasily Grossman in its subtitle, this offbeat memoir doubles as a treatise on the dangers of totalitarianism. From the annexation of Crimea in 2014, when Alyokhina was re... read more

Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia

Maria Alyokhina

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Undoing our preconceptions about the world's dominant economic system, Beckert proposes a novel argument for how capitalism is as much a product of merchant societies in the Far East and Glo... read more

Capitalism: A Global History

Sven Beckert

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Hitherto buried data and lost documents contribute to this tale of political and economic hubris. The circularity of history is sadly manifest.

1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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A memoir by the well-known curator.

Life in Progress

Hans Ulrich Obrist

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A skillful, absorbing and deeply researched biography of this astonishing painter. AGD's excavations of archives in Delft and Rotterdam have borne fruit and his new book is a wonder!

Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found

Andrew Graham-Dixon

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An immense invitation to a dance through the canon of Western classical music, all 1400 years of it. The author, a Cambridge don, taught - amongst others - Judith Weir and Thomas Adés.

Music’s Odyssey

Robin Holloway

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The vicissitudes of the Amur tiger and the successes of the bilateral conservation efforts, by the expert on endangered species in northern Asia and author of Owls of the Eastern Ice.

Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Extinction

Jonathan C. Slaght

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The cognitive scientist explores the centrality of 'common knowledge' to all human interactions, from awkward first dates to the toppling of regimes. Highly illuminating.

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…

Steven Pinker

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From the end of the Middle Ages to the rise of mass media: a magisterial history of how news was communicated and experienced.

The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe

Joad Raymond Wren

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This is the result of many years of research (including DNA testing), and will undoubtedly set oenophile pulses racing.

Wine Grapes: A Complete Guide To 1,368 Vine Varieties, Including Their Origins And Flavours

Jancis Robinson

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A remarkable memoir of the environmentalist's journey from China, where she looked in vain for her ancestral tombs, Canada, Scotland and post-industrial England.

Red Pockets: An Offering

Alice Mah

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A hefty, authoritative tome on the great writer whose earliest career was as a pilot on the Mississippi. Chernow is the author of several substantial North American pillars including Hamilto... read more

Mark Twain

Ron Chernow

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The story of the pursuit of nuclear power, charting the lives and struggles of the scientists who dedicated their careers to advancing our knowledge, with unforeseen consequences.

Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965

F. E. Close

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Lewis (of Liar's Poker fame and many others) asked several writers for pieces on different aspects of government, cogs great and small. Contributors include John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks... read more

Who is government? The Untold Story of Public Service

Michael Lewis

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Thoughts on different kinds of love in contemporary society: why are we so fixated on it and why do so many feel it to be out of reach? Drawing on personal experience, cultural touchstones, ... read more

Love in Exile

Shon Faye

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A brilliantly told story of political folly and personal extravagance. This gem-encrusted Elector converted to Catholicism and bribed his way onto the Polish throne only to find himself at t... read more

Augustus The Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco

Tim Blanning

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Human folly and the aspiration to conquer nature and one another: the author - a Yale professor - makes a compelling exposition of the relationship between empire and environmental destructi... read more

The Burning Earth: A Material History of the Last 500 Years

Sunil Amrith

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A meeting with an elderly woman tending eider ducks on a remote Norwegian island is tinder, spark and fuel for this remarkable book. Rebanks is a thoughtful story-teller and a very congenial... read more

The Place of Tides

James Rebanks

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Charman, a fellow at Clare College Cambridge, argues that motherhood is an inherently political state of being, one that should be considered in terms of collective responsibilities as well ... read more

Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood

Helen Charman

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The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

Edward Chancellor

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