Million Years in a Day - A Curious History of Daily Life (Jenner Greg)(Paperback / softback)

Million Years in a Day - A Curious History of Daily Life (Jenner Greg)(Paperback / softback)

A popular history of everyday life and social rituals, from the Stone Age to the phone age, brought to you by the chief nerd to the HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV

Life: an Unauthorized Biography (Fortey Richard)(Paperback / softback)

A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science

On This Day in History (Snow Dan)(Paperback / softback)

3000 years of the most important stories from the past in 365 days -- from the Ides of March to D-Day, from Britain's favourite

On The Natural History Of Destruction (Sebald W. G.)(Paperback / softback)

In the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities. This title explores German writers' strange silence about a moment of mass

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Haddon Mark)(Paperback / softback)

OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLDThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no

British Mesozoic Fossils (Natural History Museum)(Paperback / softback)

The Mesozoic era ranged from 240 million to 65 million years ago. In British Mesozoic Fossils 365 species from this period are classified and illustrated with accurate line drawings. This new edition has been fully revised and updated, reflecting advances in our understanding of the fossil record

A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth - Henry Gee

'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . .Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . .[making] clear sense out of very complex narratives' - The Times'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Gould Stephen Jay)(Paperback)

High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived--a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what

One Day - David Nicholls

Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY. The multi-million copy bestseller that captures the experiences of a generation.'I can imagine you at forty,' she said, a hint of malice in her voice. 'I can picture it right now.'He smiled without opening his eyes. 'Go on then.'15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter

Sweetness of Life (Heritier Francoise)(Paperback / softback)

If you assume an average life expectancy of 85 years, and deduct the hours we spend daily on sleeping, shopping, eating, working, tending to our relationships and on everything else that is obligatory, then how much time is left for the average person to enjoy those activities that are the

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen (Jenner Greg)(Paperback)

Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and how fame strikes. Sit back and enjoy the ride.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads' An] engaging and well-researched book... Jenner brings his

Ladies in Waiting - a history of court life from the Tudors to the present day (Somerset Anne)(Paperback / softback)

An illuminating commentary on court life from the Tudors to the present

Naming of the Shrew - A Curious History of Latin Names (Wright John)(Paperback / softback)

Notes from Walnut Tree Farm (Deakin Roger)(Paperback / softback)

For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations about and around his home, Walnut Tree Farm. This title collects his writings, capturing his restless curiosity about nature and his impressions of our

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics. This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and

Story of the Fens (Meeres Frank)(Paperback / softback)

Thousands of years of history in one richly illustrated

China - A History (Keay John)(Paperback / softback)

Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single

Packing for Mars - The Curious Science of Life in Space (Roach Mary)(Paperback / softback)

A surreally entertaining trip into the science of living in

Valley - A Hundred Years in the Life of a Yorkshire Family (Benson Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Normal Women. 900 Years of Making History - Philippa Gregoryová

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE’S WORK Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasant’s Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist

MI6 - Life and Death in the British Secret Service (Corera Gordon)(Paperback / softback)

The secret history of MI6 - from the Cold War to the present day. Published in hardback as THE ART OF BETRAYAL and fully updated for this

Cinema West Sussex - The First 100 Years (Eyles A)(Paperback / softback)

A history of cinema in West

Footnote to History - Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa, Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin & The Master of Ballantrae (Stevenson Robert Louis)(Paperback / softback)

A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa is an 1892 historical non-fiction work by Robert Louis Stevenson describing the contemporary Samoan Civil War.Robert Louis Stevenson arrived in Samoa in 1889 and built a house at Vailima. He quickly became passionately interested, and involved,

Man on the Moon - a day in the life of Bob (Bartram Simon)(Paperback / softback)