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Clown Town

Mick Herron

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From the 1780s to (almost) the present; with particular reference to the roles of the Amendment and the Supreme Court. Lepore is a professor at Harvard.

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

Jill Lepore

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The tale of a courageous but hapless group of well-connected plotters in Berlin, carefully researched by the author of The Escape Artist.

The Traitors Circle: The Rebels Against the Nazis and the Spy Who Betrayed Them

Jonathan Freedland

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The author retired from teaching in Yorkshire to devote himself to looking after badgers... and then foxes and deer...

Interrupted Journeys: Badgers and Other Roadside Distractions

Adrian Potter

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The author's mother was a teacher who became a human rights investigator during the war in Chechnya, and was murdered by Russian-backed forces when her daughter was fifteen. Injustice and im... read more

Please Live: The Chechen Wars, My Mother and Me

Lana Estemirova

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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 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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An engaging tour of vanished worlds in Britain and Ireland: besides Doggerland and Dunwich, there's a surreal Victorian amusement park on the Isle of Wight, Bronze Age settlements in the Sci... read more

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

Lisa Woollett

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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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An engaging tour of vanished worlds in Britain and Ireland: besides Doggerland and Dunwich, there's a surreal Victorian amusement park on the Isle of Wight, Bronze Age settlements in the Sci... read more

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

Lisa Woollett

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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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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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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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An engaging and idiosyncratic writer uses the machinations of the 1907 Peking-Paris car race as mirror to the geopolitical and technological changes which - not even a decade later - pitched... read more

The Race to the Future: The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century

Kassia St Clair

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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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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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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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A collection of the late Mantel's essays and journalism spanning four decades, including her 2017 Reith Lectures. Sheis eloquent and ironic company always; her range of subjects is vast and ... read more

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

Hilary Mantel

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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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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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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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A young Puritan couple on the run in the woods of New England.

North Woods

Daniel Mason

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An old spy is chased, a damning file appears from nowhere, a civil service enquiry is obstructed... Herron works his compusive magic again in this new stand-alone thriller.

The Secret Hours

Mick Herron

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More from the author of This Much Is True.

Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

Miriam Margolyes

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From Waterloo to Brexit - and beyond! Sounds like Buzz Lightyear got it wrong.

Britain’s Best Ever Political Cartoons

Tim Benson

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Moraes was an Indian poet educated in London and Oxford. This is an account of his wanderings as a very young man through northern India, Nepal and Sikkim in 1959, when military tensions wit... read more

Gone Away

Dom Moraes

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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Andrea Wulf

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