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Amitav Ghosh
Smoke And Ashes

A bracing new history of the global opium trade . . . Ghosh's tentacular history embraces opium's entanglement with furniture, architecture, gardens and its role in modern wars . . . But it's Ghosh's big-…

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Marion Gibson
Witchcraft

A lively and immersive global history of witchcraft which shows its evolution from the Middle Ages to the present day and shines a light on the stories of the victims, told in thirteen trials.

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Midge Gillies
Atlantic Furies

This is the astounding story of the six female aviators who battled to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane.In the early 20th century, the dream of crossing the Atlantic by air was …

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Ryan Gingeras
Mafia: A Global History

Few forces have shaped our world as powerfully - or as secretly - as mafias.Groups such as La Cosa Nostra, the Medellín Cartel, New York's Five Families, the Japanese yakuza and Russian vory are notorious…

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Tao Leigh Goffe
Dark Laboratory

'An exhilarating, urgent work . . . [Dark Laboratory] threads together ecological and human crises in an original, glittering web' Afua HirschFrom award-winning writer and theorist Tao Leigh Goffe, an urg…

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David Graeber
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

**'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selli…

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Garrett M. Graff
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTHE 'MASTERPIECE' COMPLETE ORAL HISTORY OF THE ATOMIC BOMB - BY A PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST 'Magisterial...A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga's surreal comb…

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Anthony Grafton
Magus

A revelatory account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the world of Renaissance Europe At the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange a…

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Greg Grandin
America, América

'An original and outstanding new history of the New World ... Magisterial' Spectator 'An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic…

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Greg Grandin
America, América

'An original and outstanding new history of the New World ... Magisterial' Spectator 'An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic…

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David Grann
Killers of the Flower Moon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTFrom the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous …

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David Grann
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

By the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE WAGER'Chilling . . . Poignant . . . Haunting and gripping . . . gets into worlds that are otherwise invisible t…

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David Grann
The Wager

A "TOUR DE FORCE OF NARRATIVE NONFICTION" (WSJ ) WITH OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NYT BEST SELLER LIST From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon , a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and s…

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David Grann
The Wager

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I've ever re…

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Stephen Greenblatt
Dark Renaissance

Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius.This is the thrilling and subversive life story of Christopher Marlowe - Shakespeare's inspiration and rival, who helped to bring England out of the cultural…

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Stephen Greenblatt
Dark Renaissance

In brutally repressive sixteenth-century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners were suspect; popular entertainment largely consisted of coarse spectacles, animal fight…

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Philippa Gregory
Normal Women

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER¿'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATORFROM THE MULTI…

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Mike Hall, Matt Brown
The Boroughs of London

A stylish collection of beautifully designed maps of each individual London borough, paired with quirky and fascinating facts about what you'll find there.Cartographer and illustrator Mike Hall is renowne…

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Yuval Noah Harari
Nexus

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together.Books spread our ideas - and our mythologies.The in…

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Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Edition]

New York Times Readers' Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21 ^st^CenturyThe tenth anniversary edition of the internationally bestselling phenomenon that cemented Yuval Noah Harari as one of the most prominent hi…

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