A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural…

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'It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth's calm…

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A story that centres on the critical events in four days of the tenth and final year of the war between the Greeks and the…

The most fatal virus known to science, rabies - a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans - kills nearly one…

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Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been…

Second in the }Warrior Of Rome{ series, with the first selling over 35,000 copies in HB. As the spectre of treachery hangs…

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The international bestseller and new Bible of population genetics: the science transforming our understanding of the past We…

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Offers an account of the war in former Yugoslavia and contains material that discusses the end of the five-year conflict and…

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Presents an account of life in turn-of-the-century Russia. Through the workaday world of a rural dairyman, his grit, wit,…

How close did Britain really come to invasion during this time? What were Hitler and Churchill's motives? And what was the…

Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by…

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CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN AND BBC SCIENCE FOCUS'An intimate, unique, and…

A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable…

Presents an account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its…

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An account of the atrocities inside Nazi concentration camps from a true survivor. Kniha 9780140189896 Night | Elie Wiesel…

Presenting a scathing attack on the French revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, this work…

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Describes the key members of Stalin's court: Beria, Malenkov, Zhukov, Molotov and Khruschchev.…

A autobiography in which the anonymous writer intersperses personal reflections, anecdotes and lyrical poems with accounts…

Narrates the tempestuous political events of the Stuart dynasty. This book charts the reigns of six monarchs, and the course…

Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Jünger's…

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A Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern --…

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LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This…

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Produkt History of Masculinity - Jablonka, Ivan zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

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The Sunday Times #1 BestsellerThe great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling…

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Produkt Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

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*A NEW YORKER, ESQUIRE, HISTORY TODAY AND THE CONVERSATION BOOK OF THE YEAR*'The best case I've read for putting an upper…

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The New Age of Empire destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the West was founded on the three great revolutions of…

'Powerful and poetic ... For anyone interested in the myth of Che Guevara ... this book is essential reading' Colm Tóibín,…

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In this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history,…

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The first book of the next crisis. A history of interest rates by a leading financial commentator, updated with a new…

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of T.E. Lawrence - also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' - of his…

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Presents a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected…

From the 13th century, these seven stories feature both the pastoral society of Iceland and the royal courts of Norway and…

Contains the descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries…

Isaiah Berlin witnessed the excesses of the Russian Revolution as a child, and in becoming one of the key liberal intellects…

This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to…

Millions of people around the world watched in horror on that fateful day in Imola at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix when…

In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German professor named…