Heaven on Earth: The Lives and Legacies of the World's Greatest Cathedrals
By: Emma J. Wells
4.06
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A glorious illustrated history of twenty of the world's greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the ex…
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1. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
By: Dan Jones
4.27
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- medieval history
"Rebels depend on willful gullibility."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Extravagance was a political necessity."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
2. Ripley Under Ground (Ripley, #2)
By: Patricia Highsmith
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
"Patricia Highsmith is often called a mystery or crime writer, which is a bit like calling Picasso … read more
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3. Brighton Rock
By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more
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4. A Realm Divided: England in 1215
By: Dan Jones
3.93
Format: 300 pages,
1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history … read more
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5. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
By: Dan Jones
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more
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6. 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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- nonfiction
- history
"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
7. A History of Venice
By: John Julius Norwich
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Traces the rise ot empire of this city from its 5th century beginnings all the way through until 17… read more
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8. 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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"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
9. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- nonfiction
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
10. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)
By: Satoshi Yagisawa
3.87
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the … read more
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11. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
12. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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- religion
13. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- medieval history
14. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By: Charles Spencer
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- medieval history
15. Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688
By: Clare Jackson
3.86
Format: 684 pages, Hardcover
This dazzling, original and hugely engaging book tells the story of a nation in a state of near con… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
16. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
17. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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- nonfiction
18. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
19. 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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- nonfiction
- history
20. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
By: Peter Ross
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
*Featuring a brand new chapter!* Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in … read more
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- architecture
- art
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
21. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
22. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
23. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
By: Bettany Hughes
4.02
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
24. The Bone Chests
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the brilliant bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- medieval history
25. Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
By: Lewis Dartnell
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our speci… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"We are as utterly reliant on fire today as were our Paleolithic ancestors who huddled around a campfire; we've just hidden it behind the scenes of the modern world."-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
"...the iron in your blood not only links you to the ancient stars that created it in their nuclear forge but also to the magnetic shield around our world that protects life on Earth."-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
"The carbon dioxide released by the combustion of fossil fuels has been rapidly increasing its level in the atmosphere, which is now 45 per cent higher that prior to the Industrial Revolution."-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
"Since the early seventeenth century we’ve been fervently digging up this buried ancient carbon that cook tens of millions of years for the Earth to slowly stockpile, and we burned a great deal of it …"-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
26. American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
By: Alan Taylor
4.22
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
By: Justine Firnhaber-Baker
4.30
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the Capetians, the crusading dynasty that made the French crown the wealt… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- medieval history
28. Heaven on Earth: The Lives and Legacies of the World's Greatest Cathedrals
By: Emma J. Wells
4.06
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A glorious illustrated history of twenty of the world's greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the ex… read more
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- architecture
- art
- art history
- history
- christianity
- medieval history
- religion
- nonfiction
29. The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History
By: James G. Clark
3.78
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
The first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty years—exploring its profound impa… read more
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- christianity
- nonfiction
- religion
- history
30. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
31. Precipice
By: Robert Harris
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more
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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"-Robert Harris, Precipice
