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The Optician of Lampedusa
Emma-Jane KirbyCurrent price €12.99Original price €15.99'Poetically written, absorbing, harrowing' The Times'The raw and emotional account of an optician whose family fishing trip suddenly placed him am...
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Shadow of the Silk Road: (Vintage Voyages)
Colin ThubronCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Colin Thurbons beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey. On buses, donkey carts,...
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Normandy 44: D-Day and the Battle for France
James HollandCurrent price €15.40Original price €17.50'A devastating new account..Holland knows his stuff when it comes to military matters' Daily Mail, Book of the Week'A superb account of the invasio...
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Sex Tips for Husbands and Wives from 1894
Ruth SmythersCurrent price €7.21Original price €8.90In 1894, Ruth Smythers, ''Beloved wife of The Reverend L. D. Smythers'', wrote: ''One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: gi...
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Crusaders
Dan JonesCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99From the bestselling author of The Templars. 'Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades...
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The True History of Chocolate
Michael D CoeCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Chocolate the food of the Gods has had a long and eventful history. Its story is expertly told here by the doyen of Maya studies, Michael Coe, an...
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Il-Piena Kapitali f’Malta u pajjizi ohra
Edward Attard€6.99Mil-1800, f’Malta, sakemm kienet abolita l-piena tal-mewt, din is-sentenza ngħatat 170 darba. Kien hemm każ ieħor fejn il-kundanna saret barra min...
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter FrankopanCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in s...
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Lancaster: The Forging of a Very British Legend
John NicholCurrent price €14.95Original price €16.99'The epic story of an iconic aircraft and the breathtaking courage of those who flew her' Andy McNab, bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero 'Compell...
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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942
Max HastingsCurrent price €28.79Original price €29.99The Sunday Times bestseller One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hasting...
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The Templars
Dan JonesCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99Dan Jones narrates in his inimitably vivid and authoritative fashion the remarkable story of the Knights Templar. 'Exhilarating, epic, sword-swing...
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Assedju 1565 - Ġrajja ta' qlubija
Vincent Zammit€15.00Għas-sajf tal-2015, fl-450 anniversarju tal-Assedju l-Kbir ta’ Malta, Vincent Zammit, ipprepara 90 kitba qasira dwar diversi aspetti ta’ dan l-asse...
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Colonial Encounters - Maltese Experiences of British Rule 1800-1970s
John Chircop€20.00This volume brings together international and Maltese scholars, offering a line-up of innovative contributions to some of the most current – and de...
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Għall-Glorja tal-Patrija! - Kapriċċi Patrijottiċi
Aleks Farrugia€15.00Għax fin-nisġa tal-Istorja dejjem hemm nitfa ħrafa u fit-tifsila ta’ kull ħrafa biċa Storja… Min kien l-ewwel Malti? U l-frodist Pupull? X’kien id...
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The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Joseph HenrichCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW ...
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The World: A Family History
Simon Sebag MontefioreCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author -...
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Story of Malta - 9th edition: 2022
Brian Blouet€15.00This compact, comprehensive book, covers all periods of Maltese history and prehistory, including the Temple Culture, Malta in Antiquity, the Arab ...
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The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960
Dan JonesCurrent price €13.25Original price €16.99The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Cris...
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood
Rose GeorgeCurrent price €14.61Original price €16.99Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells nine different stories about ...
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Gin: A Short History
Dr Moses JenkinsCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Gin is a drink deeply rooted in British culture. From Dutch Courage to Gin Soaked, our language is full of expressions which reflect our gin drinki...
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Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World
Elinor CleghornCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, fel...
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Traitors of Rome (Eagles of the Empire 18): Roman army heroes Cato and Macro face treachery in the ranks
Simon ScarrowCurrent price €14.35Original price €17.50TRAITORS OF ROME: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAn enthralling Cato and Macro adventure from bestselling author Simon Scarrow. Not to be missed by rea...
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The Battle of The Nile: A Ladybird Expert Book
Sam WillisCurrent price €14.07Original price €15.99Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES- Why was the Battle of the Nile so decisive in the French Revolutionary Wars?- Why did the French believ...
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Churchill, Malta, and Gibraltar
Victor Aquilina€40.00In one of the most decisive moments of World War II, two specks of British possessions in the Mediterranean, Malta and Gibraltar, were catapulted t...
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