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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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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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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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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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More from the author of This Much Is True.

Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

Miriam Margolyes

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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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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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Illuminating and panoramic narrative of nomadic peoples and their historical importance.

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

Anthony Sattin

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Bad Actors

Mick Herron

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Essays and snatches of memoir by the writer and criminal defence lawyer.

Coffee and Cigarettes: Scenes from a Crime Writer’s Life

Ferdinand von Schirach

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Young Bloomsbury: The Generation that Reimagined Love, Freedom and Self-Expression

Nino Strachey

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A selection of the Venerable Blythe's columns, with contributions by Rowan Williams, Richard Mabey, Julia Blackburn, Ian Collins et al. Inquisitive, gentle and modest, but surprising and fun... read more

Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside

Ronald Blythe

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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

Jonathan Freedland

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A new edition of this pioneering account of England's large black community in the C18th - from freed slaves to prosperous citizens. (First published 1995.)

Black England: A Forgotten Georgian History

Gretchen Gerzina

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In one generation, the Mongols reshaped the balance of world power, aided by the internecine struggles of the Byzantines, Seljuks, Crusaders and others.

The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

Nicholas Morton

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The stories behind sixty stones, from Babylon to the moon: the sandstone of Scone, the tuff of Rapa Nui, the lost amber room of Frederick the Great...

Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones

Hettie Judah

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A valuable account of one of the greatest advocates in modern history, revered not only in South Africa but around the globe as a defendant of the rule of law.

The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid

Thomas Grant

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More powerful courtroom tales from the author of Crime, Guilt and others.

Punishment

Ferdinand von Schirach

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The story of Anna Essinger, a German Jewish teacher who smuggled her school to England in 1933 and then fielded children arriving on the Kindertransport.

The School That Escaped the Nazis

Deborah Cadbury

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Opens up the world of the second Bloomsbury generation: Eddy Sackville-West, Stephen Tomlin, Julia Strachey...

Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Reimagined Love, Freedom and Self-Expression

Nino Strachey

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Illuminating and panoramic narrative of nomadic peoples and their historical importance.

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

Anthony Sattin

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If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future

Jill Lepore

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The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Amitav Ghosh

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The Ultimate Christmas Cracker

John Julius Norwich

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Our Friends in Beijing

John Simpson

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Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

Jonathan Sacks

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The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales

Nicholas Jubber

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