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The Bibby Resolution started llife as an offshore Swedish oil rig. It has then been sold, renamed and re-purposed several times - as a barracks (Falkands), prison (US), oil worker quarters... read more

Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Ship

Ian Kumekawa

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The wonders of the deep, by a national treasure and his long-term collaborator. Illustrated.

Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness

Sir David Attenborough

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The history of the Baltic states, how they differ from one another, and their individual and collective significance to the West.

Baltic: The Future of Europe

Oliver Moody

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On the forging of a ruthless political mind, plotting to assassinate Caesar and establishing the era of bloody, autocratic rule that would become Rome's undoing.

Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome

Josiah Osgood

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The uprising of ordinary people in 1524 was the largest before the French Revolution; its end was ghastly. This first revisiting of the subject in a generation is by the Regius Professor of ... read more

Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War

Lyndal Roper

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Vivid and authoritative, this excellent book shows the continuing significance of the greatest Byzantine emperor.

Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

Professor Peter Sarris

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A first biography of the late Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield and many other books and essays. His friends included John and Christine Nash (in whose house he came to live), Cedric Morris... read more

Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe

Ian Collins

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The February 1917 Revolution and Tsar Nicholas's doomed failure to reform: a close and riveting account.

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

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A measured account of the Bible around the world, not just in the traditionally Christian countries of the West.

The Bible: A Global History

Bruce Gordon

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The outlines of this diplomatic mission may have been written about before but what makes this book so enjoyable is the character of the British ambassador, Archie Clark Kerr, about whom his... read more

The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War

Giles Milton

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Before the East India Company took hold, the dazzling Mughal courts received a raggle-taggle caravan of C16th and C17th merchants, priests and adventurers.

Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to the World

Lubaaba Al-Azami

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As the great Gore Vidal cheerfully pointed out, the CIA was an instrument of US imperialism.

The CIA: An Imperial History

Hugh Wilford

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Ragged places, vanishing ways of life, submerged forests, folkore and mythology.

Lost to the Sea: A Journey Round the Edges of Britain and Ireland

Lisa Woollett

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The Master: The Brilliant Career of Roger Federer

Christopher Clarey

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The Hunt for Mount Everest

Craig Storti

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The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty

Natalie Livingstone

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Real Tigers: Slough House Thriller 3

Mick Herron

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Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes

Nick Hunt

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Mary Churchill’s War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill’s Youngest Daughter

Emma Soames

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Shoko’s Smile

Choi Eunyoung

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Slough House

Mick Herron

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Devorgilla Days: finding hope and healing in Scotland’s book town

Kathleen Hart

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Checkmate in Berlin: The First Battle of the Cold War

Giles Milton

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Churchill & Son

Josh Ireland

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Dead Lions: Slough House Thriller 2

Mick Herron

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Desert Soul: JM Journeys

Isabelle Eberhardt

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London Rules: Slough House Thriller 5

Mick Herron

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Ghosh weaves his own family history into the story of Papaver somniferum and its world-wide reach.

Smoke And Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories

Amitav Ghosh

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Looks back to a group of brave women in the later C18th and onwards - at a time when women had no property and no rights: Elizabeth Montagu, who took on Voltaire and won; Catherine Macauley,... read more

Bluestockings: The First Women’s Movement

Susannah Gibson

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Stafford meanders through Britain, recounting her family history and examining those places where landscape meets literature to create a genius loci.

Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape

Fiona Stafford

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Boxing, football, horse-racing, cricket: each grew from different social roots and so enable the dextrous Horspool to construct the framework for his ideas. He's an historian, an editor at t... read more

More Than a Game: A History of How Sport Made Britain

David Horspool

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Vivid and authoritative, this excellent book shows the continuing significance of the greatest Byzantine emperor.

Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

Peter Sarris

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The Harvard professor's cool eye on recent American political history - insurrection, media, the fanning of 'culture wars', etc.

The American Beast: Essays, 2012-2022

Jill Lepore

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An important and surprisingly optimistic thesis that the green economy is not only possible but also profitable.

Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions

Akshat Rathi

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The shadow chancellor's ideas on future policy and some of the economists that have influenced her.

The Women Who Made Modern Economics

Rachel Reeves

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Entertaining (if you can refrain from weeping) and dramatic; by the experienced Westminster correspondent.

The Right to Rule: Thirteen Years, Five Prime Ministers and the Implosion of the Tories

Ben Riley-Smith

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