History & Transport

Looking for the best history books? Or perhaps some travel-related tales? Our brilliant range of best-selling history and travel books feature globetrotting guides, and interesting accounts of yesteryear and beyond.
Great-Uncle Harry
Michael Palin

'An important historical record and a well-paced story in its own right, Great-Uncle Harry is also much more than that: a tremendous act of love.' Guardian___________________________________From the...

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Private Revolutions
Yuan Yang

'As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary' VOGUE 'A portrait of China through four women who refused to accept the life laid out for them.

Incredible' SUNDAY TIMES 'A revelatory, moving...

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Mrs Sidhu’s ‘Dead and Scone’
Suk Pannu

The debut cosy culinary crime thriller from Suk Pannu, creator of BBC Radio 4’s Mrs Sidhu Investigates and writer for Goodness, Gracious, Me and five series of the Emmy Award winning Kumars at No. 42...

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The Full English
Stuart Maconie

A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year What kind of country is England today? ...

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Sluts
Beth Ashley

From award-winning journalist Beth Ashley comes a groundbreaking investigation into the history of slutshaming, how it continues to affect us today and what we can do to fight it. Whore. Hoe....

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