History: Specific Events & Topics
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Homo Deus: An intoxicating brew of science, philosophy and futurism Mail on Sunday
Yuval Noah HarariCurrent price €12.80Original price €15.99**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going.'Spe...
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COMPLETE MAUS
Art SpiegelmanCurrent price €20.15Original price €20.99The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman - the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done abo...
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Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
Ernesto Che GuevaraCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50'Powerful and poetic ... For anyone interested in the myth of Che Guevara ... this book is essential reading' Colm Tóibín, Observer'We were an army...
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Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves
Matthew SweetCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99'A remarkable story of subterfuge and brainwashing that few Hollywood scriptwriters could have made up' Simon Heffer, author of The Age of Decadenc...
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Monaco: Inside F1s Greatest Race
Malcolm FolleyCurrent price €15.99Original price €17.50**THE ONLY DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST RACE - FULL OF EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH NIKI LAUDA, ROSS BRAWN, DAMON HILL, DAVID COULTHARD,...
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Rise and Fall: A History of the World in Ten Empires
Paul StrathernCurrent price €15.35Original price €15.85Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman...
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Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Serhii PlokhyCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018**WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2019*'As moving as it is painstakingly researched...
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Jerusalem: The Biography A History of the Middle East
Simon Sebag MontefioreCurrent price €16.50Original price €18.50A new, updated, revised edition of JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY, the wider history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City, from King Davi...
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McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime
Misha GlennyCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50The extraordinary real stories that inspired the major BBC series Have you ever illegally downloaded a DVD? Taken drugs? Fallen for a phishing scam...
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Anne GlenconnerCurrent price €13.92Original price €14.50**OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD****THE TIMES MEMOIR OF THE YEAR 2019**'The best royal book by miles . . . funny, gossipy and riveting'JANE RIDLEY...
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The Bolivian Diary
Ernesto Che GuevaraCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99'Guevara was a figure of epic proportions. These diaries, stark and moving, will be his most enduring monument' ObserverThe final diaries of Che Gu...
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X’kien ġara sew fis-Sette Giugno
Paul Bartolo€30.00Edizzjoni ġdida, riveduta, aġġornata u b’aktar żjieda ta’ materjal wara l-edizzjoni speċjali li ħarġet fil-mitt anniversarju tas-Sette Giugno. Ediz...
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Juve!: 100 Years of an Italian Football Dynasty
Herbie SykesCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50The definitive history of the iconic football club: the glory, the scandal, the stars and its enduring influence on Italian life.Juventus utterly d...
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Guns, Germs and Steel (B) Jared Diamond
DIAMOND JAREDCurrent price €14.47Original price €15.99'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensWhy has human history unfolded so differently across the...
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David GraeberCurrent price €31.44Original price €36.99''Fascinating, thought-provoking, groundbreaking. A book that will generate debate for years to come'' Rutger Bregman''The Dawn of Everything is al...
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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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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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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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Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
Roger CrowleyCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking s...
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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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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 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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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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