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Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement - by Roland Philipps - £25.00
Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century’s most complex and compelling figures.
'A book of meticulous sensitivity and research' TELEGRAPH& ... more
Jurgen Klopp: The Biography - by Elmar Neveling - £10.99
Updated to include Klopp’s final season at Anfield.
"It is the intensity of the football, of how the people live football in Liverpool, all the Liverpool fans around the world. It is not a normal club, it is a special club." Jürgen Klopp& ... more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story - by Nathan Thrall - £10.99
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
'A deeply immersive portrait of daily life in Israel and the West Bank' The Best Books to Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Financial Times
'Brims over with just the sort o ... more
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside - by Rebecca Smith - £10.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024
‘Eye-opening and persuasive’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Brilliant … I loved it’ KIT DE WAAL
‘Thoughtful, moving, honest’ CAL FLYN
*Winner of The Lakelan ... more
The Men With the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camp - by Heinz Heger - £14.99
Translated by David Fernbach
Introduction by Klaus Müller
Preface by Sarah Schulman
For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize th ... more
Wild Twin - by Jeff Young - £20.00
‘A surging heart-song in which the narrator/confessor moves from reading and appreciating the books and the performers we all admired in that fondly remembered yesterday to joining their company. As poet of witness and happenstance. A moving panora ... more
My Life in Sea Creatures - by Sabrina Imbler - £10.99
Join science journalist Sabrina Imbler on an astonishing journey which will completely redefine the way you think about nature and the ocean.
'An astonishing debut' GUARDIAN
'Reveals just as much about our fascinating, mysterious world as i ... more
The Old Pubs of Garston - by Stuart Rimmer - £18.99
The Old Pubs of Garston charts the history of over 50 historic licensed houses of Garston, near Liverpool, most of which are now long gone and forgotten. Read about their Victorian heyday, as well as their ultimate demise, and learn about the l ... more
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story - by Polly Morland, illustrated by Richard Baker - £9.99
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
The Top Ten Bestseller
Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month
A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year
‘If you want to read a book that moves you both at the level of sentence and the quality of lang ... more
No Worries If Not: A Funny(ish) Story of Growing Up Working Class and Queer - by Soph Galustian - £10.99
No Worries If Not is a funny, relatable coming-of-age story, that explores Soph Galustian’s experiences of poverty, queerness, mental health, grief and community. She recounts her life from childhood, to teens, into adulthood through a mixture of s ... more
Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85 - by Robert Gildea - £11.99
A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families.
Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes ... more
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