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Mudlarking

Lost and Found on the River Thames

2024 || Paperback || Lara Maiklem || Bloomsbury Publishing

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WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION

THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR

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Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour

Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to ...

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Utopia for Realists

And How We Can Get There

2024 || Paperback || Rutger Bregman || Bloomsbury Publishing

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Listen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future' Observer

'A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell' New York Times

'The Dutch wunderkind of new ideas' Guardian

In Utopia for Realists, Rutger Bregman shows that we can construct a society with visionary ideas that are, in fact, wholly implementable. Every milestone of civilisation - from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy - was once considered a utopian fantasy. New utopian id...

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Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works

2024 || Paperback || Ann Thompson e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing

This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes all of Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by Shakespeare: Double Falsehood, Sir Thomas More and King Edward III. The anthology is unique in giving all three extant texts of Hamlet from Shakespeare's time: the first and second Quarto texts of 1603 and 1604-5, and the first Folio text of 1623.

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Straits

Beyond the Myth of Magellan

2024 || Paperback || Felipe (University of Notre Dame Fernandez-Armesto || Bloomsbury Publishing

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022

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'Rigorous, deft and entertaining ... a sparkling read' - The Spectator

'The ride is thrilling ... a work of serious scholarship' - Sunday Telegraph

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For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry.

Now historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto...

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Hour of the Assassin

2024 || Paperback || Matthew Quirk || Bloomsbury Publishing

Former Secret Service agent, Nick Averose, must expose a dark conspiracy in this standalone thriller. If he can't uncover the truth, it will consume him and everyone else within the Oval Office...

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A History of the Netherlands

From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day

2024 || Paperback || Friso (Westphalian Wilhelms-University Wielenga || Bloomsbury Publishing

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A History of Korea / 3rd edition

An Episodic Narrative

2024 || Paperback || Kyung Moon Hwang || Bloomsbury Publishing

Emphasising context, connections and long-term trends, A History of Korea illuminates both the distinctiveness and universality of one of the world's oldest cultures. Assuming no prior knowledge, Hwang guides readers from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern experience in both North and South Korea. Structured around episodic accounts, each chapter begins by discussing a defining moment in Korean history in context, with an extensive examination of how the events and them...

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Big Caesars and Little Caesars

How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson

2024 || Paperback || Ferdinand Mount || Bloomsbury Publishing

'Wry, informative but deadly - a great book'

Will Hutton

'Fast-paced and impassioned'

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Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. A fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seized power and why they fell.

There is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup.

Every democracy, however ...

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Letters for the Ages Great Scientists

Private Letters from the Greatest Minds in Science

2024 || Hardcover || James Drake e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing

A collection of the most fascinating letters by the world's greatest scientists.



?Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character' - Albert Einstein



Scientists are not often remembered for their character, but rather for the enduring impact of their ideas, inventions, and discoveries. Letters for the Ages: The Great Scientists delves beyond the known historical facts and narratives to uncover the personal writings of so...

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Mindwandering

How It Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity

2024 || Paperback || Moshe Bar || Bloomsbury Publishing

An original, provocative and fascinating new theory by one of the world's leading neuroscientists about why the mind wanders - and when and why it's good for you' Daniel Gilbert



'A gentle and humane book that should be read by everyone interested in the human mind and the human brain' Andy Clark



Our brains are noisy. Certain regions are always grinding away at involuntary activities like daydreaming, worrying about the future and self-chatter, taking up to forty-seven percen...