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The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times

A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians, Wolfram Eilenberger The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a cr
€16.00 excl tax

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, awarded to the best first book of the year Named one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ECONOMIST • TIME A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends
€14.00 excl tax

Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood

€10.50 excl tax

A Place of Our Own

A joyful celebration of lesbian spaces and their contribution to queer women's history
€8.80 excl tax

Eighteen

Bestselling author and social media sensation Alice Loxton brings us a scintillating new history of Britain, told through eighteen figures in British history at the age of eighteen.
€7.50 excl tax

Strange Relations

From a Forward Prize shortlisted young British poet: An investigation of masculinity, bisexuality and queerness, routed through the lives and works of four mid-century writers
€7.50 excl tax

The Buried City

The director of Pompeii offers a revelatory new history of the city
€11.60 excl tax

The CIA

How the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.
€10.20 excl tax

Odyssey

Pre-order the final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey - can a hero find his way home?
Sometimes the hardest journey is the way back home . . .
Wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, has won Troy for the Greeks - after a decade of brutal, bloody warfare. But now this warrior remembers he is a husband an

€7.50 excl tax

When the Clock Broke

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER PICK

A rollicking, revelatory look at the tumult of the early 1990s and the rise of a new, more berserk America that birthed the Donald Trump Era

'When the Clock Broke is leagues more insightful on the subject of Trump's ascent than most writing that purports to address the issue directly'

€7.50 excl tax

The Piano Player of Budapest

The heart-breaking and inspiring true story of one man and his piano during the Holocaust, for fans of The Choice and The Cut Out Girl.
€8.80 excl tax

Party of One

Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future shatters the many myths and caricatures that shroud one of the world's most secretive political organizations and its leader. Many observers misread Xi during his early years in power, projecting their own hopes that he would steer China toward more political openness, rule of law, and pro-market economics. Having mask

€8.80 excl tax

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Bestselling historian Peter Moore traces how Enlightenment ideas were exported from Britain and put into practice in America - where they became the most successful export of all time, the American Dream

'Absorbing... fascinating... eloquent' THE TIMES
'Engaging and thoroughly reader-friendly' TELEGRAPH
'Wonderfully absorbing and stimulating' SARAH B

€8.40 excl tax

Moneta

* A Financial Times Book of the Year * A Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday Summer Read *

HOLD THE POWER AND GLORY OF ANCIENT ROME IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.

'Fantastic ... expert storytelling'
CONN IGGULDEN
'Excellent' SUNDAY TIMES
'Riveting and utterly original' MAIL ON SUNDAY

A wild she-wolf ten

€7.50 excl tax

HOW TO KILL A WITCH

A compelling and detailed investigation into the historic persecution of women as witches by the founders of the world-famous Witches of Scotland campaign.
€11.60 excl tax

The Damascus Events

'A superb account of the 1860 Damascus massacres-much neglected nowadays but central to the creation of the modern Middle East' - Simon Sebag Montefiore

'A stunning portrait of the Ottoman Empire and of Damascus during a time of crisis. Absolutely riveting' - Peter Frankopan

This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the

€8.40 excl tax

Goliath's Curse

A radical retelling of human history through collapse - from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twentieth-first century and beyond - based on the latest research and a database of more than 440 societal lifespans over the last 5,000 years.

Why do civilisations collapse?

For the first 200,000 years of human history, hunter-gather

€11.00 excl tax

Paris '44

** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **

'Extraordinary' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES * 'An epic thriller . . . droll, moving, with a cinematic eye and not a boring line in it' OBSERVER * 'Fascinating . . . gripping' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH * 'Excellent . . . a fresh, unexpected take on the liberation of Paris' JULIAN JACKSON, author of

€7.50 excl tax

Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World

An overview of the lost peoples and cultures who flourished and fought for survival alongside the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans.

Who were the Philistines?
What was a Pyrrhic victory?
Were the Vandals really vandals?
Why should you speak to a Samaritan?

Beyond the Greeks, Romans and Hebrews of the Classical and biblical eras, a rich diversity of peo
€10.20 excl tax

The Red Emperor

A concise, readable and revelatory biography of the most powerful man in the world.
€8.80 excl tax