History
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen
Linda Colley
Award-winning historian Linda Colley shows the dawn of the modern world - through the advance of written constitutions.
The Hidden History of Burma
Thant Myint-U
Format: Paperback
A compelling and timely inside account of the recent crisis in Burma and its troubled journey from dictatorship to democracy.
The Great Imperial Hangover
Samir Puri
Format: Paperback
A groundbreaking book that explains how the world's history of empires still shapes our lives and politics today.
The Florentines
Paul Strathern
A sweeping 400-year history of the Florentines who gave birth to the Renaissance, by the author of The Medici and The Borgias.
Come Fly the World
Julia Cooke
Format: Hard Cover
Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.
Sealand
Dylan Taylor-Lehman
Format: Paperback
The raucous, stranger-than-fiction tale of Sealand - the tiny island nation off the Suffolk coast.
The Florentines
Paul Strathern
Format: Paperback
A sweeping 400-year history of the Florentines who gave birth to the Renaissance, by the author of The Medici and The Borgias.
My Father's Letters
translated by Georgia Thomson, EMORIAL
A profoundly moving and powerful historical record - the letters sent by fathers imprisoned in the Gulag camps to their children.
Victory in the Kitchen
Annie Gray
Format: Paperback
The story of the twentieth century through one woman's life and the food she cooked for our most famous Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
The Bad Trip
James Riley
Format: Paperback
An intriguing, first-of-its-kind cultural history of the turn of the 1960s.
