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Alan Cumming & Forbes Masson
Victory & Barry’s Kelvinside Compendium‘Hold on to your chapeaux, because this story i...‘Hold on to your chapeaux, because this story is a beezer! It’s a stoatir, so it is!’ Victor and Barry are the epitome of the expression ‘big in the 80s’. Annoyingly, they were also a little big in... -
Martin Sixsmith
The War of NervesMore than any other conflict, the Cold War was ...More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in o... -
Martin Sixsmith
Putin and the return of historyAn original history of Russia's thousand-year p...An 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 ... -
Eleanor Barnett
LeftoversA topical and richly entertaining history of fo...A topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day. In Leftovers, Eleanor Barnett explores the many ingen... -
Wendy Moore
Jack and EveVera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a j...Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst's chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, the daughter of a Scottish baron and fo... -
Violet Moller
Inside The Stargazer’s PalaceEnter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century...Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories... In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus declared the earth revolved around the Sun, overturning... -
Paul Cooper
Fall of Civilizations : Stories of Greatness and DeclineBased on the hit podcast with over 100 million ...Based on the hit podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into... -
Erika Howsare
Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild NeighboursA stag leaps on an ancient brooch. A doe and a ...A stag leaps on an ancient brooch. A doe and a fawn step across a field at first light. A pair of antlers is silhouetted by the side of a busy road. From the earliest cave paintings to the present ... -
James Crawford
Wild History : Journeys into Lost ScotlandFrom the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from t...From the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from the SkyYou scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a for... -
Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens : A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition)What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? ...What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human. Earth... -
Olive Heffernan
The High Seas : Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed OceanThe ocean covers seventy per cent of the surfac...The ocean covers seventy per cent of the surface of our planet, and two thirds of this lie beyond national borders. Owned by all nations and no nation simultaneously, these waters are home to some ... -
Professor Mary Beard
Emperor of RomeWhat was it really like to rule and be ruled in...What was it really like to rule and be ruled in the Ancient Roman world?In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight...
