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  • Survivor: A portrait of the survivors of the Holocaust

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    'A masterpiece and deeply moving' - Alain de Botton'A wonderful piece of work' - Lynn Barber"...something really to behold, a substantial project o...

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  • Syria's Secret Library: The true story of how a besieged Syrian town found hope

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    'Hugely inspiring . . . A unique tribute to the power of books and the unquenchable human spirit' MICHAEL PALIN'An inspiring read - humanity at its...

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  • Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s

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    Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. 'With its ...

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    The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance

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  • The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

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    DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShortlisted for the 20...

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  • Children of Ash and Elm

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    A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom HollandThe 'Viking Age' is traditionall...

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  • The Death of Democracy (Paperback)

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    *A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR*WHAT CAUSED THE FALL OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE, AND THE RISE OF THE MO...

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  • The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

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    In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of dem...

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  • The Holocaust: A New History

    Laurence Rees
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AND THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS.'By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and...

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  • The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829

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    The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in Penal Laws against the R...

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  • The Library Book

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    A New York Times Book of the Year, 2018 A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - o...

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  • The Light of Truth

    Ida Wells
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    In this collection, Wells's anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, she exposed lynching as part of a larger framewor...

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  • The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story

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    THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration c...

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  • The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

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    'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline MooreheadOn March 25, 1942, near...

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  • The Penguin Book of Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt (Paperback)

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    'This readable anthology is a good introduction to a civilization that fascinates like few others ... in this book there are animals who talk, prin...

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  • The Persecution of the Templars: Scandal, Torture, Trial

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    The trial of the Knights Templar is one of the most infamous in history. Accused of heresy by the king of France, the Templars were arrested and im...

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  • The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family

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    Shortlisted for the HWA Sharpe Books Non-Fiction Crown AwardA work of investigative history that will completely change the way in which we see the...

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  • The rise and demise of the Afrikaners

    Hermann Giliomee
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  • The Secret Lives Of Colour

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    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the mo...

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  • The Secret World: A History of Intelligence

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    'The most comprehensive narrative of intelligence compiled ... unrivalled' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Captivating, insightful and masterly' Edw...

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    The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894-1985

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  • The Spirit Of District Six (Paperback)

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    2016 was 50 years on from when District Six was declared a whites only area and this publication commemorates this event in our history. This revis...

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    The Suspect: A contributing source for the film Richard Jewell

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    **A contributing source for the film Richard Jewell, directed by Clint Eastwood**On July 27, 1996, a hapless former cop turned hypervigilant securi...

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  • The Underground Railroad

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