Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War: A New History Of The Second World War And The Men And Women Who Were There (Forgotten Voices World War 2) by Max Arthur (More from this author). Added: In the last week

The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of... read more

Courtesans: Money, Sex And Fame In The Nineteenth Century by Katie Hickman (More from this author). Added: In the last week

During the course of the nineteenth century, a small group of women rose from impoverished obscurity to positions of great power, independence, and wealth. In doing so they took control of their... read more

Arbella: England's Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood (More from this author). Added: In the last week

In this U.K. bestseller, Lady Arbella Stuart emerges as a most contemporary royal, a young woman determined to shape her own destiny in the midst of her plot-ridden world.Arbella was niece to Mary... read more

Ancient Egyptian Medicine by John F. Nunn (More from this author). Added: In the last week

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Only Words by Catharine A. MacKinnon (More from this author). Added: In the last week

An indictment of a legal system at odds with itself, its First Amendment promoting the very inequalities its Fourteenth Amendment is supposed to end, Only Words contends that pornography, racial and... read more

Longitude by Dava Sobel (More from this author). Added: In the last week

The thorniest scientific problem of the eighteenth century was how to determine longitude. Many thousands of lives had been lost at sea over the centuries due to the inability to determine an... read more

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries Of 'Housewife, 49' by Trustees Of The Mass Observation Archives (More from this author). Added: In the last week

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The Day Britain Died by Andrew Marr (More from this author). Added: In the last week

Post-imperial, post-colonial and now post-millennial, Britain is definitely not what it was. As a new century opens, even Scotland and Wales, not so very long ago indissoluble components of the... read more

Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds Of British Cinema by Matthew Sweet (More from this author). Added: In the last week

This is a wonderful secret history of British movies that includes the scandals, the suicides, the immolations and the contract killings - the product of thousands of conversations with veteran... read more

A Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography Of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela (More from this author). Added: In the last week

The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on... read more

Gangland Britain by Tony Thompson (More from this author). Added: In the last week

Here is a picture of organised crime, seen within the ranks of the Hell's Angels, the Yardies, the Triads and the Yakuza, as well as the old-style East-End gangs. It is an insight into their... read more

The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything by Robert H. Frank (More from this author). Added: In the last week

Distinguished economist Robert Frank uses hundreds of fascinating, unexpected examples of everyday paradoxes to explain the economics of the everyday world. Why do the keypads on drive-up cash... read more

Eleanor Of Aquitaine: By The Wrath Of God, Queen Of England by Alison Weir (More from this author). Added: In the last week

Combining the pace and descriptive quality of a novel with the authority of a text book, Alison Weir's study of the revered and reviled Eleanor of Aquitaine should be valuable to anyone with an... read more

Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (More from this author). Added: In the last week

The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. Levitt... read more

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match by Wendy Moore (More from this author). Added: In the last week

With the death of her fabulously wealthy coal magnate father when she was just eleven, Mary Eleanor Bowes became the richest heiress in Britain. An ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, Mary grew to be a... read more

Things Can Only Get Better: Eighteen Miserable Years In The Life Of A Labour Supporter, 1979-1997 by John O'Farrell (More from this author). Added: In the last week

"Nothing gets my hackles up more," writes John O'Farrell, "than people who should know better copping out of the political system because they think they are above it." No-one could question... read more

The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale (More from this author). Added: In the last week

The national bestseller, now in paperback. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. T he crime horrified all England and led to a... read more

Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed The Course Of History by Giles Milton (More from this author). Added: In the last week

Consider the humble jar of nutmeg pushed to the back of your kitchen cupboard, among all the other spices that you hardly ever use. Would you believe that nutmeg formed the basis for one of the... read more

Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945 by Patrick Bishop (More from this author). Added: In the last week

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Unspeak: Words Are Weapons by Steven Poole (More from this author). Added: In the last week

What do the phrases "pro-life," "intelligent design," and "the war on terror" have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. Words and... read more