Social & Cultural History
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Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal
Judy ChristieCurrent price €13.05Original price €14.50The incredible and heart-breaking true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - inspired by No.1 bestselling novel Before We Were Yours...
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The Mitford Girls'' Guide to Life
Lyndsy SpenceCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50The six Mitford girls were blessed with beauty, wit and talent, yet they led very distinct, cultural lives and not one sister, except for Diana and...
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah HarariCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us tog...
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Breathe: A Life in Flow
Rickson GracieCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99From 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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Belonging and Betrayal How Jews Made the Art World Modern
Charles DellheimCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has ...
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Household Tips: Over 300 Useful and Valuable Home Hints
A L FowlerCurrent price €9.34Original price €10.99First published in 1916, A.L. Fowlers book of household tips is an indispensable guide to effortlessly becoming a domestic goddess. With long-forgo...
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The Great British Christmas
Maria HubertCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99What does Christmas mean to you? From cake to crackers, trees to turkey and stockings to Santa Claus, The Great British Christmas explores Christma...
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Old Wives'' Tales: The History of Remedies, Charms and Spells
Mary ChamberlainCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50We may all know that dandelions make us wet the bed, and that stewed prunes are a cure for constipation, but how many of us were aware that a poult...
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Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
Christina GerhardtCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99A stunning atlas of the present and future.Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of AtlasesSan Francisco, Ne...
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Belonging: The Story of the Jews 14921900
CBECurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling...
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Hard Times (Collins Classics)
Charles DickensCurrent price €4.46Original price €5.25HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. It was a town of red brick, or of brick that wo...
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Nicholas Roscarrock''s ''Lives of the Saints'': Cornwall and Devon
Nicholas OrmeCurrent price €25.49Original price €29.99Nicholas Roscarrock (c.1548-1634) was a Cornish Catholic who suffered torture and imprisonment in the Tower of London, and afterwards wrote a great...
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The Medici
Mary HollingsworthCurrent price €16.99Original 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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The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: Her Last Years and the Scandal That Made Her
Graham WatsonCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50Doomed survivor of a family of geniuses, Charlotte Brontë had a life as dramatic as Jane Eyre. Turning her back on her tragic past, she reinvented ...
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
Patrick JoyceCurrent price €27.63Original 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 €18.69Original 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 €15.73Original 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 €16.99Original 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 €39.99In this masterly book, [Alfani] offers an insightful long-run perspective and fascinating lessons for the future. A must-read!Thomas Piketty, autho...
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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: A Very Short Introduction
Paul SlackCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible...
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Meghan Misunderstood
Sean SmithCurrent price €18.69Original 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 €27.63Original 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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