Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, edited by James Daley - £4.50
Author, abolitionist, political activist, and philosopher, Frederick Douglass was a pivotal figure in the decades of struggle leading up to the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. This inexpensive compilation of his speeches adds vital detail to th ... more
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Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and the Unknowing by Craig Collie - £9.99
The events of a few days in August 1945 brought WWII to an end. They also destroyed the city of Nagasaki and killed 80,000 of its inhabitants, half of them instantly.   Craig Collie is the first person to interview elderly survivors and desce ... more
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden - £8.99
Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape...  Twenty-seven years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of N ... more
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Streetlife: The Untold History of Europe's Twentieth Century by Leif Jerram - £12.99
The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street.   Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and ... more
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Camp David by David Walliams - £7.99
It's time to get serious with Britain's favourite funny man - Camp David, by David Walliams.   David Walliams has been the camp aide to the Prime Minister, the rubbish transvestite and the long-suffering wheelchair pusher for an able-bodied ... more
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Danny Boyle: Creating Wonder by Amy Raphael - £12.99
How did the director of acclaimed cult British films become an Oscar-winner and the driving force behind the defining cultural moment of 2012, the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympic Games?   In this revelatory career-length biography, prod ... more
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Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution by Emma Griffin - £25.00
This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class.   The Industrial Revolution brought not simpl ... more
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American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story by Cynthia True - £9.99
 You know who's bugging me these days? The pro-lifers... if you're so pro-life, do me a favour - don't lock arms and block medical clinics. Lock arms and block cemetaries. A lot of Christians... wear crosses round their necks. Nice sentiment, but do ... more
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Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell - £7.99
'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish ... more
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Debunking Women's History: Myths & Legends About 101 Infamous Women Exploded by Ed Rayner & Ron Stapley - £12.99
History is not something that counts to men’s credit alone, though they have often claimed it as their exclusive achievement. This book deals with the part that women have played in history, and acknowledges their role, although at the time they may ... more
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The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir by Pam Ayres - £7.99
'Next, I applied to work in the accounts department, a sealed room where women operated clattering machines like enormous typewriters. After I had catastrophically and erroneously applied all the wrong information to several trolley loads of document ... more
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Mid-Term Report by Phil Redmond - £18.99
GRANGE HILL Swimming pool disasters. Drugs, and just say ‘no’. Flying sausages. School like you’d never seen it before.   BROOKSIDE Lesbian kisses. Bodies under patios. Exploding shops. Suburban life like you’d never seen it before.  ... more
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The Welsh: The Biography by Terry Breverton - £16.99
The Welsh: The Biography tells the story of the remarkable survival of the oldest nation and oldest language in Europe. We see how the four original major Celtic tribes are still reflected in the location of Britain’s four oldest cathedrals, and how ... more
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Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszli, translated by Richard Sevear - £9.99
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz.  A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fe ... more
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Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood - £8.99
Isherwood's candid memoir of his life in 1930s Berlin. A seminal book of gay liberation which made him the grand old man of the movement.   In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack a ... more
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Belfast 400: People, Place and History by S. J. Connolly (Editor) - £14.95
Published to mark the four hundredth anniversary of Belfast's charter, Belfast 400 presents a new history of one of the world’s most fascinating and most misunderstood cities. The misunderstanding, and the fascination, arise from the same contradicti ... more
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1916 and All That: A History of Ireland from Back Then Until Right Now by C.M. Boylan - £6.99
‘Irish history started when people arrived on the island. At least, that is when history really got going. Before that things were rather quiet...’   So begins 1916 and all That, Ciara Boylan’s wonderfully irreverent take on the history of Ir ... more
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Franco's Friends: How British intelligence helped bring Franco to power in Spain by Peter Day - £9.99
In 1936, a British plane flew to the Canaries. On board, Major Hugh Pollard was travelling in the company of two attractive young blondes. But this was no holiday and Pollard no ordinary tourist, he was a long-time MI6 agent embarking on a secret mis ... more
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Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon - £12.99
In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War thro ... more
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Welcome to Biscuit Land: A Year in the Life of Touretteshero by Jessica Thom - £12.00
“It is the hippies of outrageous fortune that weigh heavy on the minds of dogs,”  Meet Jess, aka Touretteshero. Jess has Tourettes Syndrome, which means she makes sounds and movements over which she has no control. Jess swears – she’s one of ab ... more
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Breathe in the Dark: A Childhood Lost by Jane Hersey - £7.99
Jane Hersey’s biography is told through the thoughts and voice of a traumatized, isolated child, enduring the stresses and strains of day-to-day life under difficult circumstances in 1960s Manchester. As a six year old child with sole care of a mothe ... more
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Way of the Wanderers: The Story of Travellers in Scotland by Jess Smith - £9.99
TV programmes like My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, books like Gypsy Boy and the recent disturbances at Dale Farm have created enormous interest in the history and lifestyle of gypsies. Scottish gypsies, known as travellers, have wandered Scotland’s roads a ... more
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The Revenge of History: Crisis, War and Revolution in the Twenty First Century by Seumas Milne - £20.00
One of Britain’s foremost political writers confronts ten years of murderous delusion.  In 2001, Tony Blair declared that those who opposed the war on terror had been ‘proved wrong’ – along with critics of unfettered corporate power and free ma ... more
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History of the Paris Commune of 1871 by Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray - £14.99
The classic history of the Paris Commune.  In 1871, the working class of Paris, incensed by their lack of political power and tired of being exploited, seized control of the capital. This book is the outstanding history of the Commune, the hero ... more
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The Motherland Call: Britain's Black Servicemen & Women, 1939-45 by Stephen Bourne - £12.99
Very little attention has been given to the thousands of black British, Caribbean and West African servicemen and - women who supported the British war effort from 1939–45. Black volunteers from across the British Empire enthusiastically joined the a ... more
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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by David Margolick - £9.99
The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white gir ... more
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There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe - £20.00
Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, is a writer whose moral courage and storytelling gifts have left an enduring stamp on world literature. There Was a Country is his long-awaited account of coming of age during the defining experience of ... more
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Shadows of the Workhouse: The Drama of Life in Postwar London by Jennifer Worth - £7.99
The inspiration for the second series of the BBC's phenomenally popular Call the Midwife, starring Miranda Hart.  In this follow up to Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells ... more
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The Graves are Walking by John Kelly - £16.99
The Irish Famine was one of the worst peacetime disasters ever to strike a European country. This is the first serious and popular account of the catastrophe for many years.  It started in 1845 with the failure of the potato crop, on which mu ... more
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Beneath the Blue Sky: 40 Years of the Gypsy Traveller Life by Dominic Reeve - £7.99
Romani Gypsy and author of the classic Smoke in the Lanes Dominic Reeve gives a heartwarming and candid account of Romani life on the road from the late 1950s on.   In a lifetime traversing Britain's lanes and byways, Dominic Reeve has witness ... more
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I Was Born There, I Was Born Here by Mouris Barghouti - £8.99
The sequel to the classic memoir I Saw Ramallah, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here takes up the story in 1998 when Barghouti returned to the Occupied Territories to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim, to his Palestinian family.   Ranging freely b ... more
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The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Allied Prisoners of War in the Second World War by Midge Gillies - £8.99
The conventional picture of Allied POWs in the World War II prisoner-of-war camps is of escape attempts (Colditz and The Great Escape) or terrible brutality (the Far Eastern camps and The Bridge on the River Kwai). But what did the men really do all ... more
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A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor - £9.99
Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them.   Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, "A History of the Worl ... more
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No Off Switch by Andy Kershaw - £8.99
Andy Kershaw truly has no off switch.   As a teenager he was promoting major rock gigs. He was Billy Bragg's driver and roadie one day and presenting "Whistle Test" and "Live Aid" the next. A passionate music enthusiast, he is a man with an o ... more
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All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To by Stuart Laycock - £12.99
Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we’ve invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That’s not far off a massive, jaw-dropping 90 per cent. Not too many Britons know that we invaded Iran in the Second World War wit ... more
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Mortality by Christopher Hitchens - £10.99
During the US book tour for his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his New York hotel room to excoriating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving Vanity Fair pieces, he was bein ... more
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Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life by Michael Moore - £9.99
Here Comes Trouble is Michael Moore's anti-memoir. Breaking the autobiographical mould, he hilariously presents 20 far-ranging, irreverent vignettes from his own life.   Moore is his own meta-Forrest Gump, as one moment he's an 11-year old boy stu ... more
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Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin - £9.99
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonically hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortall ... more
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Call The Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s by Jennifer Worth - £7.99
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings ... more
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Things I Couldn't Tell My Mother by Sue Johnston - £7.99
'There was a lot that we kept from my mother. My dad would say to me as a teenager 'Don't tell your mother.' We couldn't face the disapproval.'   Sue Johnston always seemed to be disappointing her mother. As a girl she never stayed clean and tidy l ... more
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Merseyside War Years: Then & Now by Daniel K. Longman - £12.99
With its strategic shipping ports and factories, the towns and cities dotted along the River Mersey soon became some of Hitler’s most heavily targeted sites during the Second World War. In August 1940 the German Luftwaffe attacked Birkenhead in what ... more
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A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire by Donny Gluckstein - £19.99
A People's History of the Second World War unearths the fascinating history of the war as fought 'from below'. Until now, the vast majority of historical accounts have focussed on the conflict between the Allied and Axis powers for imperialist master ... more
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Life As We Have Known It: The Voices of Working-Class Women by Margaret Llewelyn Davies - £7.99
'I was born in Bethnal Green ...a tiny scrap of humanity. I was my mother's seventh, and seven more were born after me ...When I was ten years old I began to earn my own living.'   Told in the distinctive and memorable voices of working cl ... more
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Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life by Martin Meredith - £8.99
Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind and the dawn of civilisation. Through a century of archaeological investigation, scientists have transformed our understanding of the beginnings of hu ... more
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The Story of Ireland by Neil Hegarty, with an introduction by Fergal Keane - £8.99
Neil Hegarty's bestselling history of Ireland is a story crowded with the drama of complex characters, shifting allegiances and changing identities. Revisiting the major turning points in the Irish story, Hegarty looks not only at the dynamics of wha ... more
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Henry Richard: Apostle of Peace and Welsh Patriot by Gwyn Griffiths - £14.99
Henry Richard was the secretary of the Peace Society from 1848 to 1886, an unconditional pacifist when the British Empire was at the height of its aggressive powers. He opposed British military adventures in the Crimea, Egypt, Afghanistan, South Afri ... more
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Cancer 4 Me 5 (After Extra Time) by Liam Ryan - £15.00
In 2002 Liam Ryan was diagnosed with cancer. Not just any cancer: a massive, stage 4 tumour was discovered in the middle of his head. One consultant told him that it would be more accurately classified as stage 44. He was given very little chance of ... more
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A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski - £14.99
Winner of the 2012 American Library Association's Israel Fishman Non-Fiction/ Stonewall Book Award.   A Queer History of the United States is more than a "who's who" of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand Am ... more
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The Lowland Clearances: Scotland's Silent Revolution 1760 - 1830 by Peter Aitchison and Andrew Cassell - £9.99
This revolution of 'improvement' helped shape the landscape we accept today as the Scottish countryside. But it also swept aside a traditional way of life, causing immense upheaval and trauma for rural dwellers, many of whom moved to the new towns an ... more
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The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill by Philip C. Almond - £19.99
In the febrile religious and political climate of late sixteenth-century England, when the grip of the Reformation was as yet fragile and insecure, and underground papism still perceived to be rife, Lancashire was felt by the Protestant authorities t ... more
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Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships by Ray Costello - £65.00
During the Age of Sail, black seamen could be found in many shipboard roles in the Royal Navy, such as gunners, deck-hands and ‘top men’, working at heights in the rigging. In the later Age of Steam, black seamen were more likely to be found on merch ... more
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