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*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize*A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that changed the course of the 20th century.'Astounding . . . history at its...
This lost classic, a crystal clear eyewitness account of the Holocaust, has been translated into English for the first time, 70 years after it was first published.'A literary diamond... A holocaust memoir worthy of Primo Levi' The Times'A masterpiece' New...
A dazzling exploration of the global intersections of beauty and power'Fascinating' NIGELLA LAWSON'Awe-inspiring' FUNMI FETTO'A treat to read' KASSIA ST CLAIRA Sunday Times Style Barometer and New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceFor centuries, humans have been...
'FASCINATING' Guardian | 'WE LOVE THIS BOOK' Blackwells | 'THE BEST GIFT BOOK THERE IS' IndependentA GUIDE TO LIVING IN DARK TIMES, FROM PEOPLE WHO REALLY DIDBursting with wisdom and artwork from the Middle Ages, this handy guide will give you time-tested solutions for...
*A Telegraph History Book of the Year, 2023*'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVOR‘A remarkably moving and humane book’ WILLIAM BOYDAn intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based...
Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire...
Imperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined Britain over the last seventy years.'An eye-opening study of the empire within' SHASHI THAROOR'Clear, bold, refreshing' LUCY WORSLEYAfter the Second World War, Britain's overseas...
**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two.'Powerful ... gripping ... inspiring' JONATHAN DIMBLEBYBetween 1940 and...
A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK**WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER G. MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING 2024*'Essential...
** WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2024 **** LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 **This is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th century.'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'Chatterji writes with infectious relish'...
The 1980s’ most memorable sporting moments show how sport became fully entwined in our national story.Travel back to the 1980s - to Botham's Ashes and the Brixton riots; the Moscow Olympics and the miners' strike; the Crucible Theatre and the Falklands - to explore how...
The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo**A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and A GUARDIAN BEST PAPERBACK FOR APRIL 2024 **'So entertaining' THE TIMES'Cracking' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHThe atomic bombs...
The powerful story of an art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion.'AN ENGAGING HISTORY' New York Times | 'A RICH HYBRID OF MEMOIR AND HISTORY' The New Yorker | 'A MUST-READ' Roger Robinson |...
**Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize 2024****A Financial Times Best Book of 2023**'A moving love letter to Europe' Lea Ypi, author of FreeDrawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then...
The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author ofThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we...
In our age of political divisions, this portrait of the women outsiders who took part in the Spanish Civil War asks questions of solidarity and resistance.'Glorious... so beautifully rendered, so powerful'ANNA FUNDER, author of WifedomIn the 1930s, women and men from...
A lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that moves from the Punjab of the Raj to 1930s Paris and the Second World War‘Remarkable and compelling’ Edmund de Waal‘Thoroughly engaging’ Kamila ShamsieIn a Mumbai museum in 2007, Livia Manera Sambuy...
A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy'Engrossing... Moorehead has a spirited turn of phrase, a keen eye for the telling detail and pungent quote, and a gift for...
'The kind of history deserving of a cinematic blockbuster' Julia Lovell, Literary Review'[A] gripping and meticulously researched account of an epic effort to transport delicate scrolls, paintings and carvings thousands of miles under the threat of bombing and invasion'...
The killing took place outside a busy coffee bar in Naples in broad daylight. Pupetta was eighteen years old and six months pregnant when she pulled the gun from her bag.The victim?A man known as Big Tony who had ordered the hit on her husband just months earlier...In...
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