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Divide and Rule : Royal Women and Their Battles€26.99Globally famous and yet universally misunderstood – these are the complex and utterly engrossing stories of Britain's royal women behind the public façade. Saints or sinners? Perfect princesses or difficult duchesses?
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The Women Are Not Fine : The Dark History of a Poisonous Sisterhood€13.99Poisonous solutions. At the turn of the 20th century, the women of Nagyrév, Hungary, were in trouble. Their stories were hauntingly similar: husbands who drank, who beat them, who made their lives unbearable.
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Suetonius : The Lives of the Caesars (Translated by Tom Holland)€13.99That Rome lives more vividly in people's imagination than any other ancient empire owes an inordinate amount to Suetonius, and now award-winning author and translator Tom Holland brings us even closer in a new, spellbinding translation. . .
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Red Dawn Over China : How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity€29.99The history of modern China has long been portrayed as a tale of Communists fighting in the hills for freedom, gradually gaining popular support by taking land from the rich and giving it to the poor.
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Neptune’s Fortune : The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire€29.99The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk with over $1 billion in gold and silver—and one man’s obsessive quest to find it—from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth
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The Lost Mary : Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus€26.99“Tabor restores her voice, her faith, her motherhood, and, most of all, her humanity, in this groundbreaking portrait that challenges everything we thought we knew about the origins of Christianity.”
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Sugar : A Bittersweet History€16.99Sugar was once the most powerful commodity on earth. It shaped world affairs, influenced the economic policies of nations, drove international trade and left a legacy of suffering that still resonates today. . .
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The Windsor Legacy : A Royal Dynasty of Secrets, Scandal and Survival€28.99AUTHOR OF CATHERINE, THE PRINCESS OF WALES: THE BIOGRAPHY Hailed as 'the Godfather of royal reporting' by the Wall Street Journal, Robert Jobson offers a meticulously researched and fascinating insider insight into the British monarchy's resilience and influence over the past century from Elizabeth II to the future King William.
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Putin and the Return of History : How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War€14.99An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history.
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The Great Wave : The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider€12.99In the twenty-first century, a wave of political, cultural and technological change has capsized our old certainties and assumptions, creating both opportunity and danger.
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Ask Not : The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed (Paperback)€13.99From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse—the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem—and the women who have paid the price for our obsession with Camelot.
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Thomas Pakenham : The Scramble For Africa€22.99Thomas Pakenham's story of the conquest of Africa is recognised as one of the finest narrative histories of the last few decades.
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Story of a Murder : The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen€32.00No murderer should ever be the keeper of their victim's story …On 1 February, 1910, vivacious music-hall performer, Belle Elmore, suddenly vanished from her north London home.
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The House Divided : Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East€16.99Rogerson's original approach takes the modern chessboard of nation states and looks at each through its particular history of empires and occupiers, minorities and resources, sheikhs and imams. The result is a book of wide-ranging empathy, understanding and insights.
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Me and Mr Jones : My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars€13.99From the stylist behind David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust look, an electrifying peek behind the curtains during a legendary chapter of pop culture history. 'Suzi Ronson was there as Bowie transitioned from suburban folkie to world superstar and genius.
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A Training School for Elephants€28.99From the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, comes a new journey, following four 19th century elephants marched from the East African coast towards Congo, to tell a heartbreaking story of folly and colonial greed.
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Judgement at Tokyo : World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia (Paperback)€23.99A landmark history of the postwar trials of Japan's leaders as war criminals, and their impact on the modern history of Asia and the world.
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King Leopold's Ghost : A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa€16.99Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation.
