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Emperor of the Seas

Kublai Khan and the Making of China

2024 || Paperback || Jack Weatherford || Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)

A gripping tale of naval warfare, dynastic rivalry, and technical innovation, by the author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.

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Outnumbered

From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles - The Algorithms That Control Our Lives

2024 || Paperback || Sumpter David Sumpter || Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)

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Young Queens

The gripping, intertwined story of three queens, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction

2024 || Paperback || Leah Redmond Chang || Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)

The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men.

'Alluring, gripping, real: an astonishing insight into the lives of three queens' ALICE ROBERTS

'Takes us into the hearts and minds of three extraordinary women' AMANDA FOREMAN

'Conveys the vitality of the past as few books do. An enviable tour de force' SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB

Sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance masters...

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Directions to Myself

A memoir

2024 || Paperback || Heidi Julavits || Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)

'An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly surprising ... One of the most insightful representations I've read of what it feels like to be alive these days' GEORGE SAUNDERS

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A memoir of finding where you are - so you know where you're going

One day Heidi Julavits sees her son silhouetted by the sun and notices he is at the threshold of what she calls 'the end times of childhood.' Who is my son becoming, she asks herself - and what qualifies me to be his...

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To Obama

With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair

2024 || Paperback || Laskas Jeanne Marie Laskas || Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)

With a foreword by Barack Obama, this is the unfiltered story of a nation, told through the letters written to him during his presidency and the lives of those who wrote them



'The narrative was sloppy and urgent, America talking all at once. No filter'



The last thing Barack Obama did every night while he was resident in the White House was to read ten letters selected for him by the Office of Presidential Correspondence. This intimate correspondence with the most powerful ma...

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How to Think Like an Economist

Great Economists Who Shaped the World and What They Can Teach Us

2024 || Paperback || Robbie Mochrie || Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)

An entertaining collection of biographical portraits of history's most influential and inspiring economists - from Aristotle to Keynes, and Karl Marx to Friedrich Hayek - and what they can teach us about the world today.

We all live in the economy, whether we know it or not. The current cost-of-living crisis is an economic problem. Brexit might be a political project, but it has already changed how much money we have to spend and which products we can buy. Climate change may seem to be an eco...