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Courting India
England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
2024 || Paperback || Nandini Das || Bloomsbury Publishing
A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century.
'A triumph of writing and scholarship. It is hard to imagine anyone ever bettering Das's account of this part of the story' - William Dalrymple, Financial Times
'A fascinating glimpse of the origins of the British Empire . . . drawn in dazzling technicolour' - Spectator
'Beautifully written and masterfully researched,...
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The Beating Heart
The Art and Science of Our Most Vital Organ
2024 || Hardcover || Robin Choudhury || Bloomsbury Publishing
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Populista
The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman
2024 || Hardcover || Will Grant || Bloomsbury Publishing
An exploration of the phenomenon of the caudillo figure in Latin American politics and the rise of populism through the modern histories of the continent.
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Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Others
2024 || Paperback || Angela (Ohio State University Brintlinger || Bloomsbury Publishing
For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, yes, even crime and punishment; readers across the globe have found in Russian writing a substantial measure of intellectual provocation, aesthetic pleasure, emotional resonance, and personal solace. Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature uses a number of Russian authors, from the familiar names of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov to less widely known writers...
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Jo van Gogh-Bonger
The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous
2024 || Hardcover || Hans (The Van Gogh Museum Luijten || Bloomsbury Publishing
It is so good, after so many years of public indifference, even hostility towards Vincent and his work, to feel towards the end of my life that the battle is won.'
JO VAN GOGH-BONGER TO GUSTAVE COQUIOT, 1922
'It is a sacrifice for the sake of Vincent's glory.'
JO VAN GOGH-BONGER ON THE SALE OF 'THE SUNFLOWERS' TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY, UK, 1924
Little known but no less influential, Jo van Gogh-Bonger was sister-in-law of Vincent van Gogh, wife of his brother, Theo. When the brothers died soo...
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There's a War Going On But No One Can See It
2024 || Paperback || Huib Modderkolk || Bloomsbury Publishing
'A brilliant page-turner by one of Holland's finest investigative journalists' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind
'Essential . . . What's revealed are networks of spies and criminals fighting an invisible war that involves us all' Eliot Higgins, bestselling author of We Are Bellingcat
Summer 2017: computer screens go blank in 150 countries. The NHS is so affected that hospitals can only take in patients for A&E. Ambulances are grounded. Computer screens turn on spontane...
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My Story
2024 || Paperback || Munroe Bergdorf || Bloomsbury Publishing
?A riveting blend of memoir and manifesto ... I found myself dog-earing every page' Elizabeth Day
'Profoundly articulate. Entirely wise. Beautifully real.' Attitude
?Transitional is a clever, moving book that packs a lot into its 194 pages' Guardian
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Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition - a part of our experience as a conscious being,...
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The Rest is History
The official book from the makers of the hit podcast
2024 || Paperback || Goalhanger Podcasts e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. Pre-order your copy now.
From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn't even think to ask:
- Did the Trojan War actuall...
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Providence Lost
The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate
2024 || Hardcover || Paul Lay || Bloomsbury Publishing
The story of the rise and fall of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate (1653-9), England's sole experiment in republican government - and one of the most extraordinary but neglected periods in British history.
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Powers and Thrones
A New History of the Middle Ages
2024 || Paperback || Dan Jones || Bloomsbury Publishing
Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.