Gandhi

The Man, his People and the Empire
by Rajmohan Gandhi

This monumental biography of one of the most intriguing figures of the 20th century, written by his grandson, is the first to give a complete and balanced account of Gandhi’s remarkable life, the development of his beliefs and his political campaigns, and his complex relations with his family.

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Price: £20.00

Scott & Amundsen

Duel in the Ice
by Rainer-K. Langner

On 17 January 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his four companions of the British Antarctic expedition finally reached the South Pole, only to find that the Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it by 34 days. The tragic drama of the British party’s desperate return journey, including the heroic suicide of Captain Oates, only became known after their final camp was found in November 1912 and Scott’s diary was recovered. They had died only 18 kilometres short of the supply depot that would have saved them.

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Price: £14.40

Elizabeth I & Mary Stuart

The Perils of Marriage
by Anka Muhlstein

In this major new double biography, Anka Muhlstein examines the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots. Uniquely at this time, both of the thrones of the British Isles were held by women, which brought the issue of royal marriages to the fore.

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Price: £14.40

SOCRATES

Life&Times
by Sean Sheehan

Socrates (470–399 BC), the most famous Ancient Greek philosopher, was sentenced to death by the Athenian assembly in 399 BC for atheism and corrupting the young men of the city. The question of why a thinker who has been revered for millennia afterwards should have met such a fate is but one of the ‘Socrates problems’ addressed in this enlightening study.

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Price: £7.99

Mr Hitchcock


by Quentin Falk

The undisputed ‘Master of Suspense’, Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) was at the forefront of cinema almost from its very beginnings, yet throughout his long career he remained a thoroughly ‘modern’ filmmaker with a singular grasp of the technology and an affinity with his stars.

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Price: £18.00