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100 tales of extraordinary women - the most highly supported original book ever in the history of crowdfunding.

What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species challenges everything we know about being human.

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.

The sensational account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage to ordinary troops.

The new novel by the number one bestselling author.

My brother is a Witch Finder. A hundred innocent women have died at his hands. This is our confession.

A milestone work of memoir, travel writing and history, The Bush by Don Watson takes us on a profoundly revelatory and entertaining journey through the Australian landscape and character.

Translated into at least 24 languages and with over 12 million copies sold worldwide, Man's Search for Meaning is one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the Second World War.

A controversial, timely intervention in world affairs from one of the most acclaimed historians of the twentieth century

An astonishing, essential book on what was for ten centuries Europe's largest state - the Holy Roman Empire.

The fascinating story of Marita Lorenz, now the subject of a major film starring Jennifer Lawrence

Like a real-life John Le Carre thriller crossed with Spielberg's 'Bridge of Spies', this is a never-before-told true story of betrayal, espionage, a brilliant traitor and a resolute FBI agent in a world on the brink of annihilation...

The prize-winning bestselling historian delivers the first authoritative general account for thirty years.

The exiled Yorkist king Edward IV lands at Ravenspur with a half-drowned army and his brother Richard at his side. Though every hand is against them, though every city gate is shut, the brothers York will not go quietly into banishment. Instead, they choose to attack.

**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years.

The SAS has finally decided to tell its astonishing story. It has opened its secret archives for the first time, granting historian Ben Macintyre full access to a treasure trove of unseen reports, memos, diaries, letters, maps and photographs, as well as free rein to interview surviving Originals and those who knew them.

A compelling, powerful argument about the roots of current global disorder.

'An extraordinary vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler

The diary of an ordinary schoolgirl living in Carlisle in 1954 -- a perfectly preserved period piece from one of the UK's favourite novelists

Forget Princesses, we all want to be rocket scientists – 50 brilliant stories of women who have blazed the way for space travel.

A deeply personal and laugh-out-loud mixture of nature book and family memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Good, The Bad and The Furry

To celebrate Finland’s centenary, bestselling travel writer Horatio Clare joins an icebreaker for a voyage through the ice-packs of the far north