Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
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Category: History
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph 'A story that grabs from the get-go - the moments in which the world teetered on the brink of total annihilation come alive as they would if this were the very best fiction' Justin Webb, Mail ...Show more
And Now, for the Good News...To the Future with Love by Ruby Wax
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Category: Social Issues
When was the last time that reading the news made you feel good? Dear Reader, I know what you're thinking, is it some kind of macabre joke? Has she been in a coma? How can Ruby Wax write a book about good news when the world is facing the worst disaster since the Plague? Let me explain. I began writing ...Show more
Art of the Grimoire An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells by Owen Davies
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Category: History
A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks. Grimoires, textbooks of magic and occult knowledge, have existed through the ages alongside other magic and religious texts in part because of the need to create a physical record of magical phenomena, but al ...Show more
Battles that Changed History by DK
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Category: History
A visual journey through more than 3,000 years of combat, revisiting some of the biggest battles in historyFrom the fury of the Punic Wars to the onslaught of Operation Desert Storm, relive the most famous battles in history in this gripping guide.This military history book takes you on a journey throug ...Show more
Budapest: Between East and West by Victor Sebestyen
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Category: History
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the critically acclaimed historian Victor Sebestyen, the enthralling account of historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city on the fault line between East and West in the heart of Europe. Victor Sebestyen has written a sweeping, colorf ...Show more
Classical Mythology Illustrated (Leather Bound) by Helen A. Guerber
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Category: History | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions
The myths of Greece and Rome have provided us with timeless tales of the ancient past, when the world was young and the gods and goddesses shared it with men and women. Classical Mythology provides a complete panoply of these colorful myths, including those that have become familiar references in countl ...Show more
Courtiers: The Sunday Times bestselling inside story of the power behind the crown by Valentine Low
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Category: History
The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years watching the public face the Royal family chooses to present to the world in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, with Charles ...Show more
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
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Category: History
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition ...Show more
Empress of the East - How a Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire by Leslie Peirce
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Category: History
Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul and trained in the palace harem as a concubine for Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and one of the world's most powerful men. Suleyman became besotted ...Show more
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series by Dolly Alderton
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22.99 (4% off)
Category: Social Issues
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting du ...Show more
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History by Otto English
32.99 AUD
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Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and exposing what they were trying to hide. Was Che Guevara really a revolutionary hero? Should Mother Teresa be honoured as a sai ...Show more
Fear An Alternate History by Robert Peckham
32.99 AUD
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Category: History
A ground-breaking examination of the societal impact of fear that gives us a thrilling new insight on world history. It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been dr ...Show more