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  • Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

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    A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in...

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  • Playing To The Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror

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  • Prince Albert

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    Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times and the Daily Mail 'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times 'Enthralling' Daily Telegraph For more tha...

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  • Rasputin: The Biography

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZENearly a century after his murder, Rasputin remains as divisive a figure as ever. Was he really a horse t...

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  • Shackleton (A Ladybird Expert Book)

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    Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Shackleton is a clear, simple and enlightening introduction to perhaps the most extraordinary survival stor...

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  • SISTERS OF AUSCHWITZ BPB

    VAN IPEREN, ROXANE
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    Perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and The Librarian of Auschwitz - this is the international bestselling and life-...

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  • SLABBERT: MAN ON A MISSION

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  • SONG OF SIMON DE MONTFORT PB

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    'Alive with human detail and acute political judgement, this book marks the arrival of a formidably gifted historian.' - Dan Jones, author of The P...

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  • SS Officers Armchair

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    It began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas sewn into its cushion. The S...

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  • SS - Officers Armchair TPB

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    It began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas that had been sewn into its c...

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  • Stranger in the Shoguns City TPB

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    A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a portrait of a grea...

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  • Tea By The Nursery Fire: A Children's Nanny at the Turn of the Century

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    Emily Huckwell spent almost her entire life working for one family. Born in a tiny Sussex village in the 1870s, she went into domestic service in t...

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  • The Churchill Factor (Paperback)

    Boris Johnson
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    As the country navigates a national crisis once again, read how Britain's Prime Minister was inspired by Winston Churchill.One man can make all the...

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  • The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

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    WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2019'A ma...

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  • The Death of Hitler: The Final Word on the Ultimate Cold Case: The Search for Hitler's Body

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    After two years of nonstop negotiations with the Russian authorities, Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina were granted access to secret files...

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  • The Front Runner (All the Truth Is Out Movie Tie-in)

    Matt Bai
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    Now a major motion picture starring Hugh Jackman. When politics went tabloid... In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart seemed ...

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  • The Holy Fox: The Life of Lord Halifax

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    Bestselling historian Andrew Roberts's much-admired reappraisal of one of the most influential - and controversial - British politicians of the 193...

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  • The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

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    Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of po...

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  • The Lighthouse Stevensons (Paperback)

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    An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses a...

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  • The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story

    Serhii Plokhy
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    1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the ...

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  • The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

    Patrick Bishop
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    SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his...

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  • The Note Through The Wire: The unforgettable true love story of a WW2 prisoner of war and a resistance heroine

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    'An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest h...

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  • The Opportunist: The Political Life of Oswald Pirow, 1915-1959 (Paperback)

    F.A. Mouton
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    Oswald Pirow (1890–1959) served as Minister of Defence under the nationalist Hertzog coalition. He famously prosecuted Nelson Mandela in the Treaso...

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  • The Photographer at Sixteen: A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

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    A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autob...

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  • THE REB AND THE REBEL

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    The origin and development of the South African Jewish Community is one small part of a vast and varied literature on the formation of 19th century...

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  • Sold out

    The relatively public life of Jules Browde

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  • The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela

    Sisonke Msimang
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  • The Scandalous Lady W: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce (by the bestselling author of The Five)

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    'Deliciously lurid' Sunday TimesThe Sunday Times bestselling author of The Five exposes the divorce that scandalised Georgian England.She was a spi...

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  • The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon - Duchess of Marlborough (Paperback)

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    **The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020**'Vickers gives breathing, alarming life to a woman who puzzled and thrilled her contemporaries...

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  • The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Official Secrets

    Marcia Mitchell
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    INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OFFICIAL SECRETS FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION ...

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  • The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets

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    'A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties ... remarkable' 5* review, Telegraph O...

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  • The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz (Paperback)

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    One of the Sunday Times paperbacks of the Year 2020 One of the Financial Times best books of 2020 'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag Montefiore...

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  • THINGS JOE BIDEN'S FATHER TOLD HIM PB

    GUINNESS, JOHN
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    Joseph R. Biden Sr. never held political office, but that didn't stop him from imparting a lifetime's worth of guidance to his son and our 46th pre...

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  • To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape

    Charles Spencer
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    How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded i...

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  • Verwoerd: So onthou ons hom (Hersiene uitgawe)

    Wilhelm J. Verwoerd
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  • 9781471179433

    WHEN TIME STOPPED PB

    Ariana Neumann
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    KRAUS FAMILY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR AT THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS 'Beautifully told' John le Carre 'More than just ...

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