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Christopher de Bellaigue
The Lion House: The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent£20.99Intelligence arrives from the east confirming E...Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christendom divided, S... -
Amelia Gentleman
The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment£10.99How do you pack for a one-way journey back to a...How do you pack for a one-way journey back to a country you left when you were eleven and have not visited for fifty years?Amelia Gentleman's exposé of the Windrush scandal - where thousands of Bri... -
Akala
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire£10.99From the first time he was stopped and searched...From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers - race and class have shaped Akala's life and outl... -
Charles Drazin
Mapping the Past: A Search for Five Brothers at the Edge of Empire£16.99Charles Drazin knew little about his mother's f...Charles Drazin knew little about his mother's father only that he had been a military surveyor who mapped great swathes of the British Empire. But when his mother was told that she was dying, it pr... -
Merryn Somerset Webb
Share Power: How ordinary people can change the way that capitalism works – and make money too£9.99In this scintillating book, award-winning finan...In this scintillating book, award-winning financial commentator Merryn Somerset Webb reveals a much-overlooked fact; every share we own comes with a vote. What few people know is that we can use th... -
Stephan Talty
The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History£15.99Discover the truth about the Black Hand, as fea...Discover the truth about the Black Hand, as featured in Peaky Blinders Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The chi... -
Kenneth Roy
The Broken Journey: A Life of Scotland 1976–1999£25.00This is the second volume of Kenneth Roy's magi...This is the second volume of Kenneth Roy's magisterial trilogy on the history of Scotland since the Second World War. The first volume, The Invisible Spirit: A Life of Post-War Scotland 1945-75, wa... -
Anna Reid
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine£10.99Flat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders...Flat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours. Though its modern national movement dates back to the early nineteenth century, i... -
Philip Ball
The Water Kingdom£12.99Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and...Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The EconomistChina's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue. Yet, over five thousand years, one ... -
Fatima Manji
Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Relationship with the Orient£20.00Why was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain...Why was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain's most famous botanic garden in in the eighteenth century? And more importantly, why is it no longer there? How did one of the great symbols of an In... -
Alex Renton
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery£16.99When British Caribbean slavery was abolished ac...When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were pai... -
Jacqueline Riding
Mid-Georgian Britain£9.99Mid-Georgian Britain was a period of both elega...Mid-Georgian Britain was a period of both elegance and desperation. As the middle and upper classes enjoyed their wealth with an increasing range of consumer goods, the poor endured debtor's prison...