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Poison: A History lifts the lid on 30 notorious cases of poisoning - riveting accounts ranging from Roman poisoning epidemics to the shocking antics of toxic ...
Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a ...
Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the ...
A landmark historical investigation into crimes against humanity and the nature of evil that is over two decades in the making.
A landmark historical investigation ...
A brilliant work of narrative history with an international cast of characters that captures this definitive period after the close of the Great War.
In ...
'The only thing that is good is poppies. They are gold.'
Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the 'Milk of ...
Your morning flat-white helped shape the modern world
'Elegantly written, witty and so wide in scope, so rich in detail and so thought provoking' Joanna ...
Dripping with blood and gold, fetishized and tortured, gateway to earthly delights and point of contact with the divine, forcibly divided and powerful even beyond ...
In this timely and very readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on resistance, the resistance ...
Ghost towns, empty streets, crumbling ruins and lost empires this book reveals these and other deserted places. Many places featured were once populated and now ...
'F*cking brilliant' Sarah Knight
'Very funny' Mark Watson
AN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORY, FROM OUR ...
WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE
The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father's flame, courtier, bibliophile ...
