Social & Cultural History
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Strait Street – An irresistible invitation
George Cini€15.00To the casual visitor, Strait Street, popularly known as Strada Stretta was an irresistible invitation to fly in the face of inhibition and give in...
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Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World
Ann ShenCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Looking for coffee table books that do more than look great on your table? Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World...
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Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. DavisCurrent price €13.75Original price €15.99Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical politi...
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Hungover: A History of the Morning After and One Mans Quest for a Cure
Shaughnessy Bishop-StallCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99We've all been there. One minute you're fast asleep, and in the next you're tumbling from dreams of deserts and demons, into semi-consciousness, mo...
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World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age
DKCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99An essential gift for every history buff, this boldly illustrated book maps out the events that have shaped our world - from the dawn of human civi...
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The White Album
Joan DidionCurrent price €12.95Original price €14.50Joan Didions hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. ...
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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life: NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION PICTURE
John Le CarreCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARRÉ*NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION PICTURE*'As recognizable a writer as...
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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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The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: Her Last Years and the Scandal That Made Her
Graham WatsonCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50No one can know all she had to go through. The merciful judgement of all connected with that terrible life lies with God; And we may all be thankfu...
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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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