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Worlds of Fear and Wonder
Malcolm Gaskill
How the supernatural unlocks a deeper understanding of the past, from the Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches
The Daily Stoic: 10th Anniversary Edition
Ryan Holiday
The multi-million-selling phenomenon – in a new luxury format with updated doses of practical, uplifting philosophy
Phrased and Confused
Eli Burnstein
Following Dictionary of Fine Distinctions, a stocking filler and witty guide to humanity's most iconic – and misunderstood – quotes
How to Build a Haunted House
Caitlin Blackwell Baines
A grand tour of the haunted house through art, architecture, ghost stories and more
The Death of Socrates
Emily Wilson
The world-famous translator of Homer investigates the life and afterlife of antiquity's most influential thinker, in an essential re-issued editi…
Out of Colditz
David Lascelles
The astonishing true story of the high-profile hostages who survived Colditz – and the man who spared their lives
The Bookshop
Andrew Pettegree
A magisterial history of bookshops and booksellers by the author of The Library and The Book at war
Boglands
Merritt Turetsky
A world-leading ecologist's grand tour of the strangest and least understood of all Earth's landscapes
In the Realm of the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
A captivating history of the late-twentieth century from the world-renowned political scientist and thinker
Palestine
Rashid I. Khalidi
Adapted from the international bestseller The Hundred Years War on Palestine for a new generation of readers
Sparta
Andrew Bayliss
From warrior queens and the 300 to the Peloponnesian war, a major new history of an ancient superpower