The Story of the World in 100 Moments
By: Neil Oliver
3.88
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
'Oliver is an evocative storyteller, vividly bringing his tales to life' BBC HistoryFrom Genghis Kh…
Want to Read"In so far as a story of the world can have a beginning, let it begin with Enheduanna , the first named poet."-Neil Oliver, The Story of the World in 100 Moments
"In so far as a story of the world can have a beginning, let it begin with Enheduanna , the first named poet."-Neil Oliver, The Story of the World in 100 Moments
"In so far as a story of the world can have a beginning, let it begin with Enheduanna , the first named poet."-Neil Oliver, The Story of the World in 100 Moments
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1. Ransom
By: David Malouf
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A reimagination of one of the most famous stories in all of literature-Achilles's slaughter and des… read more
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- historical
"The world, for Achilles, reassembled itself around a new centre."-David Malouf, Ransom
"He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story."-David Malouf, Ransom
"Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world."-David Malouf, Ransom
"Far out where the gulf deepens, small waves kick up, gather, then collapse, and new ones replace them; and this, even as he watches, repeats itself, and will do endlessly whether he is here or not to…"-David Malouf, Ransom
2. Conqueror (Conqueror, #5)
By: Conn Iggulden
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
From a young scholar to one of history's most powerful warriors, this novel tells the story of Kubl… read more
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- historical
3. A Short History of England
By: Simon Jenkins
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
England's history is the most exciting of any nation on Earth. Its triumphs and disasters are insta… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
4. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
By: Toby Wilkinson
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Toby Wilkinson combines grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconog… read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- ancient history
- nonfiction
5. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
By: Niall Ferguson
3.93
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, b… read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism."-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"In the end, the British sacrificed her Empire to stop the Germans, Japanese and Italians from keeping theirs. Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the Empire's other sins?"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"Between the early 1600s and the 1950s, more than 20 million people left the British Isles to begin new lives across the seas. Only a minority ever returned. No other country in the world came close t…"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"Sir Richard Turnbull, the penultimate Governor of Aden, once told Labour politician Denis Healey that 'when the British Empire finally sank beneath the waves of history, it would leave behind it only…"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
6. Last Act in Palmyra (Marcus Didius Falco, #6)
By: Lindsey Davis
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
It's AD 72 Rome, and Emperor Vesparian refuses to elevate sometime sleuth Marcus Didius Falco to th… read more
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7. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
By: Bill Bryson
3.99
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
8. Prophecy (Giordano Bruno, #2)
By: S.J. Parris
3.62
Format: 186 pages,
S. J. Parris returns with the next Giordano Bruno mystery, set inside Queen Elizabeth's palace and … read more
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9. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
10. The Scarlet Papers
By: Matthew Richardson
4.33
Format: 567 pages, Kindle Edition
VIENNA, 1946: A brilliant German scientist snatched from the ruins of Nazi Europe. MOSCOW, 1964:… read more
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- audiobook
11. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
13. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life
By: Michael Mosley
4.03
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
Based on the popular BBC podcast, Just One Thing, this book brings to life Dr Mosley's mission to u… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
16. The God Desire
By: David Baddiel
3.69
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count ‘ A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, hum… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"But also, the cynic may have to accept something else. That he, as a human, is not exceptional. He might have to accept that perhaps, when you look at how animals, certainly mammals, behave – how the…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
"Martin Amis once said, of death, that ‘after forty, it’s a full-time job looking the other way’. I sometimes wonder if, at any adult age, it’s also a full-time job – although a less conscious one – l…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
"Some religious ideas may be on the decline, but not, I would say, human exceptionalism. Fewer people might believe in God than they used to, yet, although veganism is on the rise, most of us are stil…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
"Because another thing we look away from, in the killing of animals, is just how much they are like us. One of the things the internet has done is circulate, on a vast scale, short films of animals be…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
17. Shackleton: A Biography
By: Ranulph Fiennes
4.32
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Discover the story Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition through the words of the worl… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
18. Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World
By: Otto English
3.76
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
A fun, authoritative and alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies eve… read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
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- audiobook
19. Breaking & Mending: A Doctor’s Story of Burnout and Recovery
By: Joanna Cannon
4.25
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
An intimate, urgent account of doctor burnout and life as a psychiatrist from bestselling author Jo… read more
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- nonfiction
20. The Story of the World in 100 Moments
By: Neil Oliver
3.88
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
'Oliver is an evocative storyteller, vividly bringing his tales to life' BBC HistoryFrom Genghis Kh… read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"In so far as a story of the world can have a beginning, let it begin with Enheduanna , the first named poet."-Neil Oliver, The Story of the World in 100 Moments
