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Christopher Hitchens goes straight for the jugular in The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Under his fearso..

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In this colourful history of the wild world of crime reporting since 1700 Duncan Campbell reveals wh..

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God Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major r..

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You Never Know is former WAAF officer and bestselling novelist Claire Lorrimer's autobiography conta..

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If you travel to the region, you'll want to take with you Moffat's Tuscany: A History; and if you re..

For the last 140 years, the south of Scotland has been a powerhouse of rugby union. Despite the area..

From renowned booze correspondent Henry Jeffreys comes this rich and full-bodied history of Britain ..

In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhul..

This is the inspiring true story of one of the Second World War's most unusual combatants - a 500-po..

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At the end of the First World War the modern Middle East was created by Britain and France, who carv..

For 16-year-old Joyce the college building where she was about to enter represented privilege wealth..

Renowned cardiologist Dr. Chauncey Crandall IV was a Christian who kept his faith and his profession..

Joanne Limburg thinks things she doesn't want to think, and does things she doesn't want to do. As a..

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Jock Murray looks back over an extraordinary and varied life in this entertaining autobiography. Fro..

One of the most charming, enterprising, and charismatic characters in the story of World War II' - J..

In these eight evocative and transcendent essays, Sybille Bedford chronicles her adventures through ..

A dazzling portrait of Zweig and Roth, and a community of intellectual exiles, during the extraordin..

In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most id..

‘Fascinating and moving' - Monica Ali ‘A powerful evocation of a bygone era' - Sir Marti..

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A great web of interconnecting sagas' - The Scotsman 'True North is a wonder-voyage - an immrama - o..

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In February 1918 as the First World War was still being bitterly fought Lady Northcliffe appealed to..

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After taking an Islamic Studies course in Boston, G. Willow Wilson quietly found herself adopting th..