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'FASCINATING' Guardian | 'WE LOVE THIS BOOK' Blackwells | 'THE BEST GIFT BOOK THERE IS' IndependentA GUIDE TO LIVING IN DARK TIMES, FROM PEOPLE WHO REALLY DIDBursting with wisdom …

A 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 British literature.WITH NEW …

To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko's fearless attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally …

The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through humankind's most universal object: the coin.'Fantastic' CONN IGGULDEN, author of …

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024****WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR HISTORY**'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLEThis is …

‘A brilliant book, written with wit and vigour’ MALCOLM GASKILL‘Absolutely fascinating’ IAN MORTIMERTabitha Stanmore transports us to a time when magic was used to navigate life's …

The Old World has confronted archaelogoists with many riddles, perhaps the most tantalising of which is the Dark Age, an economic and cultural recession so devastating it lasted …

In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable: they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and held a picnic.Word had spread of what was …

*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'Magnificent' Guardian / 'Hugely informative and adhesively readable' Sunday TimesThe Reinvention of Humanity tells the riveting story of a small …

**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S BOOK OF THE WEEK***Picked as a Guardian read for summer 2022*'In philosophy, one must start from scratch - & it takes a very long time to reach …