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Dr.Eleanor Chan
Duet : An Artful History of Music**Pre-order - Published: 18 Sep 2025** An anci...**Pre-order - Published: 18 Sep 2025** An ancient shaman raises a conch shell to her lips in a painted cave. A scholar in a Shaolin monastery bends over a manuscript and invents a musical scale. A... -
Tiffany Jenkins
Strangers and Intimates : The Rise and Fall of Private LifeFrom ancient times to our digital present, Stra...From ancient times to our digital present, Strangers and Intimates traces the dramatic emergence of private life, and argues that it is now in mortal danger. In this sweeping history, acclaimed cul... -
Jim Phillips
Coalfield JusticeIn June 2022, former miners secured through the...In June 2022, former miners secured through the Scottish Parliament a collective pardon for convictions acquired during the 1984-85 miners’ strike. The Miners’ Strike (Pardons) (Scotland) Act recog... -
Graham Robb
The Discovery of Britain**Pre-order - Published: 2 Oct 2025** Taking th...**Pre-order - Published: 2 Oct 2025** Taking the reader on a time-travelling adventure around the 'spindly, sea-wracked islands' we call home, The Discovery of Britain is history that's panoramic a... -
Miranda Kaufmann
Heiresses**Pre-order - Published: 4 Sep 2025** Meet the ...**Pre-order - Published: 4 Sep 2025** Meet the heiresses. Their dresses are the latest fashion, their rooms Mayfair's most luxurious, their suitors Britain's most powerful men. Their fortunes – blo... -
Kathleen Lonsdale, Maria Popova
Is Peace Possible?Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist ...Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison ref... -
Blessin Adams
Thou Savage Woman : Female Killers in Early Modern BritainEarly Modern Britain was awash with pamphlets, ...Early Modern Britain was awash with pamphlets, ballads, woodcuts broadcasting bloodthirsty tales of traitorous wives, greedy mistresses, cunning female poisoning lacing the supper with deadly subst... -
Professor Peter Frankopan
The Earth Transformed : An Untold HistoryFrom the international bestselling author of Th...From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilisations across time. When we ... -
David Grann
The WagerFrom the international bestselling author of KI...From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a sh... -
AJ Pearce
Dear Mrs BirdDear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce is a wartime story a...Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce is a wartime story about the power of friendship, the kindness of strangers and the courage of ordinary people. London, 1941. Amid the falling bombs Emmeline Lake dreams ... -
Marion Gibson
Witchcraft : A History in Thirteen TrialsIn Witchcraft, Professor Marion Gibson uses th...In Witchcraft, Professor Marion Gibson uses thirteen significant trials to tell the global history of witchcraft and witch-hunts. As well as exploring the origins of witch-hunts through some of th... -
Carol Ann Lee
Something WickedOn 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were ...On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster's Gallows Hill. The condemned and their associates had endured six months of accusations, imprisonment and t...
