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  • DESTINY DISRUPTED
    DESTINY DISRUPTED
    ANSARY, TAMIM
    "A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world" (San Francisco Chronicle) We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed through the fall of the Ot...
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  • ON ANTISEMITISM
    ON ANTISEMITISM
    MARK MAZOWER
    From one of our most eminent historians, a penetrating and timely examination of how the meaning of antisemitism has mutated, with unexpected and troubling consequencesWhat are we talking about when we talk about antisemitism? For most of its history it was understood to be a menace from the political Right, the province of ethno-nativists who built on Christendom's long-standi...
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  • THE DEVIL REACHED TOWARD THE SKY
    THE DEVIL REACHED TOWARD THE SKY
    GARRETT GRAFF
    On the eightieth anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the Pulitzer Prize finalist whose work is "oral history at its finest" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) delivers an epic narrative of the atomic bomb's creation and deployment, woven from the voices of hundreds of scientists, generals, soldiers, and civilians.The building of the atomic bomb is the most audacious unde...
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  • THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE HUMAN EMPIRE
    THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE HUMAN EMPIRE
    GEE, HENRY
    Chosen by The Times as a 'Book to Look Out For' in 2025 'Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately people. Before it's too late' - Eric Idle 'Exhilarating . . . witty, measured and enlightening . . . Henry Gee is a sage' - Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs From the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize, a thrilling and th...
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  • A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES
    A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES
    EDNA BONHOMME
    A deeply reported, insightful, and literary account of humankind's battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines—in the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body.Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. With clear-eyed research and lush pr...
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    Q. 310

  • MEDIEVAL CATS
    MEDIEVAL CATS
    CATHERINE NAPPINGTON
    A hilarious celebration of cats in artwork from medieval times.Look what the cat dragged in from the Middle Ages—a curious compendium of cats unlike any you've ever lapped up before.For more than a millennium, a myriad of medieval manuscripts and artworks painted a picture of cats as playful and curious but also lazy, selfish, and vicious. Today, these masterpieces live on, shi...
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  • AN AFRICAN HISTORY OF AFRICA
    AN AFRICAN HISTORY OF AFRICA
    ZEINAB BADAWI
    Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi's sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent's extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective. "Equal parts gripping and galvanizing. . . . Researched across more than 30 countries, it brings the dazzling civilizations of pre-colonial Africa vividly to life. A ...
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    Q. 340

  • APOCALYPSE
    APOCALYPSE
    LIZZIE WADE
    "Lizzie Wade is an exceptional journalist and a master storyteller. She reminds us that survival always has been, and still is, possible, and that our world always has been, and still is, a choice." -Ed Yong, author of An Immense World "This book upended my understanding of the ancient world. Wade renders our deep past in vivid prose, showing us that times of great rupture also...
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    Q. 330

  • NO ROAD LEADING BACK
    NO ROAD LEADING BACK
    CHRIS HEATH
    This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust.No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the site where more than 70,000 Jews were shot in the ...
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    Q. 250

  • EMPEROR OF THE SEAS
    EMPEROR OF THE SEAS
    WEATHERFORD, JACK
    A gripping tale of naval warfare,dynastic rivalry, and technicalinnovation, by the author ofGenghis Khan and the Makingof the Modern World.Based on years of research andimmersion in Mongol culture andtradition, Emperor of the Seas bringsthe little-known story of Kublai Khanvibrantly to life. ...
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    Q. 170

  • THE REST IS HISTORY 2
    THE REST IS HISTORY 2
    PODCASTS GOALHANGER HOLLAND TOM SANDBROOK DOMINIC
    They came. They saw. They told historically accurate dad jokes.From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is Historycomes The Rest is History 2. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrooktake you on another rollicking rollercoaster ride through history'smost interesting moments. Charge forth with the battalions of theAmerican Revolution, sleuth through JFK conspiracy theories, an...
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    Q. 170

  • TRACKS ON THE OCEAN
    TRACKS ON THE OCEAN
    DR SARA. CAPUTO
    Maps do not show the world as it really is - they instead show us how we see it, and they are the product of centuries of trading, exploring and conquering. The lines on a map are even more revealing: as records of individual journeys, they cast a light on the minds of travellers through history, and they can help us understand how the modern world was made.In Tracks on the Oce...
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    Q. 410

  • HOW TO BE A RENAISSANCE WOMAN
    HOW TO BE A RENAISSANCE WOMAN
    JILL BURKE
    'A total eye-opener, I loved it' Nuala McGovern'You'll never look at Renaissance portraits in the same way' Maggie O'Farrell'Terrific ... that rare thing, a serious history that is both accessible and entertaining' Literary ReviewPlunge into the intimate history of cosmetics, and discover how, for centuries, women have turned to make up as a rich source of creativity, community...
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    Q. 170

  • WE WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT TOMORROW WE WILL BE KILLED WITH OUR FAMILIES
    WE WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT TOMORROW WE WILL BE KILLED WITH OUR FAMILIES
    PHILIP GOUREVITCH
    **Winner of the Guardian First Book award**'I know few books, fiction or non-fiction, as compelling as Philip Gourevitch's account of the Rwandan genocide' - Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm'Should be compulsory reading' - The GuardianIn 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to ...
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    Q. 160

  • EMPEROR OF ROME
    EMPEROR OF ROME
    BEARD, MARY
    THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'Extraordinary ... a deliciously varied tapestry of detail drawn from across nearly three centuries' Telegraph What was it really like to rule and be ruled in the Ancient Roman world? In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Bear...
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    Q. 170

  • A HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN 21 WOMEN
    A HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN 21 WOMEN
    SOUTHON, EMMA
    Rome as you've never seen it before - brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine.‘Hugely entertaining and illuminating' —Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf DenA WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023Here's how the history of the Roman Empire usually goes...We kick off with Romulus murdering his brother, go on to Brutus overthrowing Tarquin, bounce through an appa...
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    Q. 170

  • THE BOOK-MAKERS
    THE BOOK-MAKERS
    ADAM SMYTH
    "A celebration of 550 years of the printed book told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error"-...
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    Q. 330

  • THE REST IS HISTORY
    THE REST IS HISTORY
    PODCASTS GOALHANGER HOLLAND TOM SANDBROOK DOMINIC
    The second book in the bitingly brilliant and fangtastically feisty middle grade series THE VANQUISHERS by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron Fans of The Breakfast Club Adventures Goosebumps and Stranger Things will devour this fun thrilling and heartfelt vampire adventure The Vanquishers are back this time with new junior members and are ready to defend their town...
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    Q. 130

  • THE CLEOPATRAS
    THE CLEOPATRAS
    LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES
    The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt One of history's most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But few today realize that she was the last in a long line of Egyptian queens who bore that name. In The Cleopatras, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the dramatic sto...
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  • ANCIENT EGYPT
    ANCIENT EGYPT
    NIGEL FLETCHER-JONES
    First appearing around the mighty River Nile in the fourth millennium BC, Ancient Egypt is one of the great wellsprings of human civilization. Egyptian culture developed around a complex system of religious rituals tied to the agricultural seasons, with the pharaoh a living deity at the centre. Mighty pyramids, tombs and monuments were built to celebrate the pharaohs, many of w...
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  • SAVING MICHELANGELO'S DOME
    SAVING MICHELANGELO'S DOME
    WAYNE KALAYJIAN
    In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter's Basilica—designed by Michelangelo—cracks and threatens to collapse, Pope Benedict XIV summons three mathematicians whose groundbreaking ideas spark a revolution in the world of architecture.1742: the famous dome atop Saint Peter's Basilica, designed by Michelangelo, is fractured and threatened with collapse. The dome is the prid...
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  • NORMAL WOMEN
    NORMAL WOMEN
    PHILIPPA GREGORY
    "Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain's past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating heart." --Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets "Stunning. . ...
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  • CULTURE
    CULTURE
    MARTIN PUCHNER
    What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"--the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture, religion, and philosophy. This crucial passing down of knowledge has required the radical integration of in...
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  • THE INVENTION OF POWER
    THE INVENTION OF POWER
    BRUCE BUENO DE MESQUITA
    In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world? Western exceptionalism--the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent--is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of...
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  • CRIMES OF THE CENTURIES
    CRIMES OF THE CENTURIES
    AMBER HUNT
    When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New YorkTimes bestselling author Amber Hunt always has the same answer: it's no hotter thanit's always been. Crimes and trials have captured American consciousness since theSalem Witch Trials in the seventeenth century. And these cases over the centuries havefundamentally changed our society and shi...
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    Q. 310

  • EAGLE AND THE LION
    EAGLE AND THE LION
    GOLDSWORTHY, ADRIAN
    The epic story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of the ancient world - Parthian and Persian - and how they rose and eventually fell.The Roman empire shaped the culture of the western world against which all other great powers are compared. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and from the Atlantic coast to the Euphrates, it imposed peac...
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  • WORLD WAR I ILLUSTRATED ATLAS
    WORLD WAR I ILLUSTRATED ATLAS
    PROFESSOR MICHAEL S NEIBERG
    World War I might conjure up images of the trenches of the Western Front where the fighting raged for nearly four and half years, but this was only part of what was truly a world war. It was a complex conflict fought in a number of theatres: an air war, a land war fought in the Balkans, Italy, Africa, Turkey and the Middle East, and also a naval war fought in the North Sea, Sou...
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  • PHARAOHS
    PHARAOHS
    DR PHYLLIS G JESTICE
    Ancient Egypt is one of the great wellsprings of human civilization, first developing around the city of Memphis on the Nile River in the fourth millennium BCE. Egyptian life was centred on a complex system of religious rituals, with the pharaoh (king) seen as a living god among the people. Mighty pyramids, tombs and monuments were built to celebrate the pharaohs, many of which...
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  • THE SIX
    THE SIX
    LOREN GRUSH
    In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America's first women astronauts—six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle.When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots—a group then made up excl...
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  • COFFEE WITH HITLER
    COFFEE WITH HITLER
    CHARLES SPICER
    How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest 'what ifs'... A TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding true story of a handful of amateur British intelligence agents who wined, dined and befriended the leading National Socialists between the wars. With support from royalty, aristocracy, po...
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