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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro
Rachel Slade
In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade’s Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking of the container ship El Faro, the crew of thirty-three who perished onboard, and the destructive forces of...
Lexi’s War: A heart-warming wartime saga to bring hope and happiness in 2018
Rosie James
A family at breaking point. A nation at war…1914. Young Lexi doesn’t want much – just her family’s happiness. She’s been working all the hours she can at the local sweet shop to help her mother lift her little brother and sister out of poverty....
Home Front Nurse: An emotional first world war saga full of hope
Rosie James
Don’t miss this emotional story of one woman’s remarkable courage in the face of the Great War.Pre-order now!
House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe
Christina Lamb
A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides.One bright morning Nigel Hough, one of the few remaining white farmers in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe,...
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Shetterly Lee
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURETop 10 Sunday Times BestsellerSet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program.Before Neil...
Heroes: The Greatest Generation and the Second World War
James Holland
‘Heroes’ is the story of an extraordinary generation of young men, mostly British, who came of age in the Second World War. These young men – and women – found themselves facing life-threatening danger and the kind of responsibility few would be...
God’s Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot
Alice Hogge
A thrilling account of treachery, loyalty and martyrdom in Elizabethan England from an exceptional new writer.As darkness fell on the evening of Friday, 28 October 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young Englishmen...
Garden of Stars: A gripping novel of hope, family and love across the ages
Rose Alexander
‘GARDEN OF STARS by Rose Alexander is a stunning debut novel, rich in detail and brimming with emotion.’ – Books of all KindsThe Alentejo, Portugal 1934I am In?s Bret?o and I am 18 years old. Now that I am finally an adult and soon to be...
Galileo’s Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love
Дава Собел
From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia.Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost...
From Empire to Europe: The Decline and Revival of British Industry Since the Second World War
Geoffrey Owen
Renowned industrial expert Geoffrey Owen analyses the complex reasons behind the delayed modernisation of British industry.In 1945, following the economic hardship of the war years, British industry looked forward with confidence to...
Flashman Papers 3-Book Collection 3: Flashman at the Charge, Flashman in the Great Game, Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
George Fraser MacDonald
Books 7-9 in George MacDonald Fraser’s uproarious bestselling Flashman series, now available in one ebook for the first time.FLASHMAN AT THE CHARGE: 1854-1855As the Light Brigade prepare to charge the Russian guns at Balaclava, Flashman assumes...
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
Michael Punke
From the #1 international bestselling author of The Revenant – the book that inspired the award-winning movie – comes the remarkable true story of the worst mining disaster in American history. In 1917, the lives of a company of miners...
Extreme Survivors: 60 of the World’s Most Extreme Survival Stories
Collins Maps
Extreme Survivors tells the illustrated story of 60 of the most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survival stories. These are astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour.The statistics, descriptions, archive photographs...
Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
James Gaines
In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire’s heralded ‘philosopher-king’, the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of ‘outdated’ music, a scorned genius in his last years. The sparks from their...
Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire
Calder Walton
The winner of the 2013 Longman-History Today Book Prize is the gripping and largely untold story of the role of the intelligence services in Britain’s retreat from empire.Against the background of the Cold War, and the looming spectre of...
Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750–1850
Maya Jasanoff
Talented historian Maya Jasonoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire. It is not about conquest – but rather a collection of startling and fascinating personal accounts of cross-cultural exchange from those who found themselves on...
Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir
Basharat Peer
Winner of the Crossword Prize for non-fiction, ‘“Curfewed Night’” is a passionate and important book – a brave and brilliant report from a conflict the world has chosen to ignore.' Salman RushdieBasharat Peer was a teenager when the separatist...
Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy
David Starkey
From one of our finest historians comes an outstanding exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated.The monarchy is one of...
Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
Norman Ollestad
Set in the aftermath of a harrowing plane crash, this is the true story of one young boy’s fight for survival in nature’s most treacherous conditions.Eleven-year-old Norman Ollestad was a gifted skier. After winning the 1979 Southern California...
Cops and Robbers: The Story of the British Police Car
Ant Anstead
TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from a stuttering 20mph annoyance that scared everyone’s horses to 150mph pursuits with aerial support and...
Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry
Deborah Cadbury
The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Deborah CadburyIn 'Chocolate Wars' bestselling historian and award-winning documentary maker Deborah...
Britain AD: A Quest for Arthur, England and the Anglo-Saxons
Francis Pryor
Leading archaeologist Francis Pryor retells the story of King Arthur, legendary king of the Britons, tracing it back to its Bronze Age origins.The legend of King Arthur and Camelot is one of the most enduring in Britain's history, spanning...
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
Simon Morrison
On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Filin. The crime, organized by a lead soloist, dragged one of Russia’s most illustrious institutions into...
Blood and Rage: A Cultural history of Terrorism
Michael Burleigh
A far-reaching history of terrorism across the world from its beginnings to the modern-day, from the highly acclaimed author of ‘Sacred Causes’ and ‘Earthly Powers’.Basing his study on a wide range of sources and key players from the world of...
Black Earth: A journey through Russia after the fall
Andrew Meier
Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet.Russia today is a world in a dark limbo. The body politic is diseased, the state in collapse. Yet for all the signs of encroaching doom, Russians do not fear the future. They fear the...
Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940–44
Charles Glass
An elegantly written and highly informative account of a group of Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June 1940.When the German army occupied Paris in the early hours of 14 June 1940, a large American community awaited...
After the Snow: A gorgeous Christmas story to curl up with this winter 2018!
Susannah Constantine
‘A modern day Nancy Mitford.’ Sir Elton John‘Fans of Downton Abbey will love this.’ Davina McCallChristmas morning, 1969.All eleven-year-old Esme Munroe wants for Christmas is for her mother to be on one of her ‘good’ days – and, secretly, for a...
Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex
Christopher Turner
The story of the sexual revolution that brought Freud’s couch to the explosion of the 60s, and the left-field pioneer Wilhelm Reich who made it all happen.Adventures in the Orgasmatron is the untold story of the dawn of the sexual revolution in...
Tom Brown’s School Days and Flashman
Thomas Smart Hughes
The first in George MacDonald Fraser’s uproarious Flashman series and the classic they pay homage to available together for the first time in ebook format.Uproarious, nefarious and sociable at the same time, Tom Brown is at once the typical boy...
We Were Young and at War: The first-hand story of young lives lived and lost in World War Two
Sarah Wallis
Never before have the diaries and letters of young people from all sides of World War Two been woven together to provide an account of what it was like to grow up amidst the daily struggles and horrors of this devastating war.We Were Young And...
Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley
Mary Gribbin
What if Isaac Newton had never lived? Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were pioneering scientists within their own right, and instrumental in establishing the Royal...
The Life and Times of Call the Midwife: The Official Companion to Series One and Two
Heidi Thomas
The stories and secrets behind BBC television’s most-loved show. The official companion to series 1 and 2, as well as the forthcoming Christmas special.The Life and Times of Call the Midwife takes you behind the scenes of the small-screen...
The Map of Time and The Turn of the Screw
Генри Джеймс
An epic, ambitious and page-turning mystery that will appeal to fans of The Shadow of the Wind, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and The Time Traveller’s WifeLondon, 1896. Andrew Harrington is young, wealthy and heartbroken. His lover Marie Kelly...
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudr?n
Christopher Tolkien
The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudr?n, and the Fall of the Nibelungs.“Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien...
Mapping Le Tour: The unofficial history of all 100 Tour de France races
Ellis Bacon
Recommended for viewing on colour device.Mapping Le Tour charts the course of every race route in cycling’s most prestigious event, including a special section on the 2014 Tour de France.This new ebook edition includes a map of each edition of...
Our Country Nurse: Can East End Nurse Sarah find a new life caring for babies in the country?
Sarah Beeson
Introducing Sean Dillon – terrorist, assassin, hero – in his first three adventures from master storyteller Jack Higgins.EYE OF THE STORMSean Dillon is a hired killer. The IRA, the PLO, ETA – he’s worked for them all. Now, with the Gulf War...
A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War
Пол Престон
Map best viewed on a tablet device.An account of the Spanish civil war which portrays the struggles of the war, as well as discussing the wider implications of the revolution in the Republican zone, the emergence of brutal dictatorship on the...
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
Francis Wheen
An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen’s Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004’s most talked about books.In 1979 two events occurred that would shape...
Getting into Guinness: One man’s longest, fastest, highest journey inside the world’s most famous record book
Larry Olmsted
Getting Into Guinness is the hilarious true story of record breaking attempts, how record obsession has become a global phenomenon, the weird and wonderful characters that set records and the history of the Guinness Book of World Records.Meet...
Trusted Mole: A Soldier’s Journey into Bosnia’s Heart of Darkness
Martin Bell
A high-octane account by a decorated major in the British Army of his high-level dealings with the Bosnian Serb leadership, of his running a ‘Schindler’s List’ operation in Sarajevo, and of his extraordinary subsequent arrest by Ministry of...
Tracy Chevalier 3-Book Collection: Girl With a Pearl Earring, Remarkable Creatures, Falling Angels
Tracy Chevalier
Three of Tracy Chevalier’s highly acclaimed novels, GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, REMARKABLE CREATURES and FALLING ANGELS packaged together in one eBook for the first time.GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRINGTracy Chevalier’s extraordinary novel on the...
Сборник статей. Выпуск 3
С. В. Жарникова
Книга статей выдающегося ученого С. В. Жарниковой посвящена исследованию культуры и этнографии. Зарождению обрядов и традиций.
В лабиринтах вечности
Алина Реник
В 1965 году при строительстве Асуанской плотины в Египте была найдена одинокая усыпальница с таинственными знаками, которые невозможно было прочесть. Опрометчиво открыв усыпальницу и прочитав таинственное имя, герои разбудили «Неупокоенную...
Обсессивный синдром
Валентина Думанян
Это неординарная история о человеке, который оказывается в исключительных обстоятельствах. Это жизнь молодой девушки, что окажется в одном из самых страшных мест за всю историю человечества. Куда приведет ее поиск справедливости и боль утерянной...
По следам Колумба, Магеллана и Марко Поло
Эльдар Ахадов
Книга повествует об увлекательнейших путешествиях, очевидцем и участником которых был её автор. Вы побываете в Аргентине и Бразилии, в Парагвае и на острове Куба, в Грузии, в Турции и в Китае. Следуя за автором, вы совершите вояж в места,...
Трупный синод
Владимир Стрельцов
«Трупный синод» – первая книга исторической серии «Kyrie Eleison» о средневековой Италии конца IX – первой половины X веков. Это время окончательного упадка империи Карла Великого и нравственного падения Римско-католической церкви, приведшее к...
Не ешь говно! Комикс
Ильнар Тагирзянович Карим
Я заметил, что многие люди в моём окружении ругали власть. Сам я, к сожалению, тоже имел такую привычку. Услышав эту древнюю историю, я нашёл в себе силы перестать это делать. Может быть, этот комикс поможет людям вести себя хотя бы немного...
Фотография
Лидия Петровна Салохидинова
Сибирь. Барабинская степь. Разглядывая фотографию, старый человек, Кравченко Прохор Семёнович, вспоминает, как и когда была сделана эта фотография; перед ним проходит вся его жизнь, жизнь родных и близких.Крестьяне (полтавские, орловские и др.)...
Камешек Ерофея Маркова
Павел Северный
Шел XIX век. Каждый его год все отчетливее, яснее выявлял огромную мощь России. В стране непостижимых возможностей сильный, мужественный народ пытался вырваться из пут крепостной кабалы. На Каменном поясе эхо шествия XIX века усиливалось...
Серый кардинал
Николай Лакутин
Я не знаю, как ты выглядишь, сколько существуешь и где обитаешь, но я тебя вычислил…Все события и персонажи являются авторским вымыслом. Любые совпадения имён, фамилий и должностей персонажей с реальными именами живых или умерших людей, а также...
