Social & Cultural History
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Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention
Cathy NewmanCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing Caitlin Moran Newman is a brilliant writer Observer A fr...
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic
Owen DaviesCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99This richly illustrated history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the stor...
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Endgame
Omid ScobieCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetratin...
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The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction
John GuyCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99The monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating e...
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Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s
Jennifer WorthCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she becam...
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Elizabeth: Queen and Crown
Sarah GristwoodCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Sarah Gristwood celebrates the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II and how her enduring popularity was tantamount to her many supporters. The twists and t...
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Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures from the Nazis
Gerri ChanelCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the L...
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Antwerp: The Glory Years
Michael PyeCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50This rich history of Antwerp was a Times Book of the Year and Radio 4 Book of the WeekEven before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at ...
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie RubenholdCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Gripping' NEW YORK TIMES'At last, the Ripper's victims get a voice... An eloquent, stirring chal...
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Samurai Weapons: Tools of the Warrior
Don CunninghamCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Unlock the secrets of the legendary weapons of the samuraiWhile the samurai is well known as the military nobility of medieval Japan, their range o...
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Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t
Tom PhillipsCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50'TOM PHILLIPS IS A VERY CLEVER, VERY FUNNY MAN' Greg JennerThis is a book about TRUTH - and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we've ...
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Why Im No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Reni Eddo-LodgeCurrent price €15.90Original price €15.99Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We cant afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak *Updated edition featur...
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The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World
Hein de HaasCurrent price €36.39Original price €37.39Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated si...
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The Medici
Mary HollingsworthCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to be...
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
Patrick JoyceCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompa...
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Caliban Shrieks
Jack HiltonCurrent price €17.81Original price €21.99A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s Br...
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Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
Daniel LiebermanCurrent price €15.91Original price €18.50'Endlessly fascinating and full of surprises. Easily one of my books of the year' BILL BRYSONThe myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes t...
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Breathe: A Life in Flow
Rickson GracieCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99From legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA master Rickson Gracie comes a riveting, insightful memoir that weaves together the story of Gracies stun...
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As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
Guido AlfaniCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didnt help) their commu...
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Our Moon: A Human History
Rebecca BoyleCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship'TELEGRAPH'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book t...
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Plague: A Very Short Introduction
Paul SlackCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was respons...
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Meghan Misunderstood
Sean SmithCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Meghan Misunderstood is a pioneering book that sets the record straight on the most talked about, unfairly vilified and misrepresented woman in the...
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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent
Judi DenchCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERLet Dame Judi Dench take you behind the scenes of a life loving the Bard as she shares her story with, and endur...
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Rise and Fall: A History of the World in Ten Empires
Paul StrathernCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Rise 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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