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The Decline And Fall Of The Human Empire
Henry Gee
Panmacmillan
'Brilliant' - The Times 'Hugely informative and entertaining' - New Scientist 'Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately' - Eric Idle From the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize, a thrilling and thought-provoking account of the rise and fall of humankind. For the first time in over ten millennia, the rate of human population growth is slowing d...
Brothersong
Tj Klune
Panmacmillan
Set in the dreamy backwoods of Oregon, Brothersong is a queer, paranormal romance of burning passion and pack loyalty, and is the fourth book in the Green Creek series. In the ruins of Caswell, Maine, Carter Bennett glimpsed the truth of what had been right in front of him the entire time. And then it was ripped away from him. Desperate for answers, Carter takes to the road, ...
Seeing Other People
Diana Reid
Ultimo Press
Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist 2022 SHORTLISTED for the INDIE AWARD for BEST FICTION SHORTLISTED for the ABIA for Literary Fiction LONGLISTED for the BookPeople Book of the Year for Fiction 'This! Was! So! Good! ... Diana Reid you are in a total league of your own.' - Zara McDonald, Shameless Podcast 'Seeing Other People will be the book of the s...
The Story Of The Night
Colm Tóibín
Picador
'Beautiful . . . a thriller, a love story and much more' Roddy Doyle 'A remarkable achievement . . . [a] sheer pleasure to read' The Sunday Times Richard Garay lives alone with his mother in Buenos Aires, hiding his sexuality from her and the world. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks. Set in Argentina in a time of great change, T...
Vilest Things
Chloe Gong
Hodderscape
'Grabbed me by the throat' Olivie Blake 'Ferociously savage' Sangu Mandanna 'Another cutthroat classic' Tasha Suri The epic sequel to the #1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Immortal Longings. Romance, politics and power meld in this pulse-pounding, electric enemies-to-lovers epic fantasy romance, inspired by Antony and Cleopatra. The games are over. Let chaos reign...
The Liar's Dictionary
Eley Williams
Phoenix
A WINNER OF THE 2021 BETTY TRASK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021__________________________'Joyous' SPECTATOR'Remarkable' SUNDAY TIMES'A playful delight... A glorious novel' OBSERVER Swansby's New Encyclopaedic Dictionary is riddled with fictitious entries known as mountweazels penned by Peter Winceworth, a man wishing to make his lasting mark back in 1899. ...
Babel
R. F. Kuang
Harper
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War "Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out." -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestsel...
The Death Of Us
Abigail Dean
Hemlock Press
*A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Good Housekeeping and iPaper* 'Taut, elegant and heartbreaking' Monica Ali 'A brilliant character study of trauma, grief and survival' Claire Fuller 'Wonderful... lives up to the hype' Stephen King 'Impossibly accomplished' Chris Whitaker _________________________ Isabel and Edward meet as teenagers. When she tells him she loves him, ...
Stories For Children
Oscar Wilde
Hodder
An exceptionally handsome, large-format gift edition of timeless fairy tales by Oscar Wilde. Spectacular full-color paintings illustrate six of Wilde's best-loved stories, including "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", and "The Selfish Giant". Full-color illustrations. ...
The Love Haters
Katherine Center
Orion
THE LATEST FEEL GOOD ROM-COM FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ROM-COMMERS 'The Love Haters made me laugh out loud and escape, just as her novels always do' JODI PICOULT Video producer Katie Vaughn has been burned by love in the past-now she may be lighting her career on fire. But her luck seems to change at last when her coworker Cole offers her a last-chance ...
The Eyes Of Gaza
Plestia Alaqad
Panmacmillan
In early October 2023, Palestinian Plestia Alaqad was a recent graduate with dreams of becoming a successful journalist. By the end of November, she would be internationally known as the 'Eyes of Gaza'. Millions of people would be profoundly moved by her social media posts depicting daily life in Gaza amid Israel's deadly invasion and bombardment. Written as a series of diary ...
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Penguin
Now the subject of a major new film adaptation from director Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice), Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is translated by award-winning duo Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky in Penguin Classics.Starring Keira Knightley (A Dangerous Method) as Anna Karenina, Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes) as her husband Alexei, Aaron Johnson (Nowhere Boy) as Count V...
The Shots You Take
Rachel Reid
Penguin
A sweet and sexy hockey romance about two ex-teammates and former best friends with benefits who are about to discover whether you can ever really have a second chance. From the USA TODAY bestselling author of the Game Changers series and Time to Shine.After moving back to his hometown ten years ago, Riley Tuck thought he had left his major league hockey career--and his broken ...
Nemesis Games
James S. A. Corey
Orbit
NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL TV SERIES Nemesis Games is the fifth book in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series. A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land-rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies...
Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy
Penguin
Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgivenessServing on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces the consequences of his actions, he decides to give up his life of wealth and lux...
A Brief History Of Everyone Who Ever Lived
Adam Rutherford
Collins
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration and a lot of sex. Since scientist...
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Wild Wicked Mate
Laurie Gilmore
Harper
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurie Gilmore, comes a brand new small-town romance set in the quirky town of Maple Hollow! The closer the proximity, the stronger the spark... Phoebe and Theo have been best friends for years, never anything more, despite the sparks between them. And after ignoring her desire for so long, Fee has become adept at ignoring their conne...
In One Brief Moment All Eternity
Elif Shafak
Ladybird
In One Brief Moment All Eternity is an astonishing new novel by the bestselling, prize-winning novelist Elif Shafak. Spanning decades and continents, from revolutionary 19th century France to Istanbul, Egypt and Beirut, it is a profound meditation on creativity in times of political crisis and war, asking what literature can hope to offer when the world feels broken. Building a...
The Keeper
Ana Huang
Abacus
He can resist any woman in the world...except for the one he shouldn't want. Famed goalkeeper Noah Wilson doesn't do relationships or complications. The only thing the grumpy single dad wants is to do his job and spend more time with his daughter. Unfortunately, his bachelor status has made it impossible to find the right nanny for her. With the World Cup looming and a string...
The Way We Become
Amber Smith
Penguin
THAT WAS THE WAY I USED TO BE YOU'VE SEEN THE WAY I AM NOW THIS IS THE WAY WE BECOME You've seen Eden, Gen and Amanda stand up to Kevin. Now, in the wake of the jury's decision, the girls are expected to move on while still grappling with the aftermath of a trial that turned their lives upside down. Amanda is attempting to finish high school, Eden is still learning what it mean...
Partita
Barbara Kingsolver
Faber & Faber
The landmark new novel from the Global Bestseller, Double Women's Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver. ...
Falling Slowly
Enni Amanda
Harper
Pre-order now to get the limited deluxe paperback with stenciled edges!My boss's hot, chaotic son just crashed my luxury art retreat. I feel like running for the hills, but he's begging for my help, and I can't afford to lose my job.An all-expenses-paid autumn break in the mountains at a luxury art retreat? As a broke single mom, I can't believe my luck. Until my boss's whirlwi...
The Wretched Divine: a Sensational New Romantic Fantasy Series From The Internationally Bestselling Author Of Belladonna
Adalyn. Grace
Penguin
Bound And Unbound (Us Ppb)
Ali Hazelwood
Penguin
New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood's intoxicating paranormal romance novella duology—together for the first time in print and ebook!Read the captivating dark academia romance in Bound, then flip your book over to unleash the dangers of forbidden love in Unbound. BoundA reluctant con artist and a professor with too many secrets are bound by an arcane text—in more wa...
Mestra
Madeline Miller
Bloomsbury
From the internationally bestselling author of The Song of Achilles and Circe comes a remarkable new short story A cursed father, a gifted daughter Mestra, daughter of the King of Thessaly, is gifted a unique ability by Poseidon: metamorphosis into any being she can imagine. Her father, on the other hand, is cursed. As punishment for disrespecting the goddess Demeter, he is ...
Black Knight
Rina Kent
Penguin
From New York Times Bestseller and BookTok sensation Rina Kent comes the first generation of the thrilling Legacy of Gods series. Love is impossible. Hate is an open game. Kimberly He was once my best friend. Now he's my worst enemy. Xander Knight is heartbreakingly beautiful. Ridiculously popular. Brutally cruel. A knight in name only - Xander is not here to save anyone. Xa...
The Velvet Knife
Maureen Johnson
Harper
Return to the world of Truly Devious as Stevie Bell and her friends travel to New York to solve a murder in the next standalone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.Stevie might be the greatest teenage detective Ellingham Academy and the world has ever seen, but even she can't figure out what happened with her boyfriend, David. What she needs is a dist...
Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair
Ashley Herring Blake
Abacus
Legacies and hearts collide when a woman embarks on a film project about an extraordinary family's rich history in this bewitching romance by USA Today bestselling author Ashley Herring Blake - perfect for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur, Casey McQuiston and Rosie Danan Sasha Sinclair is used to being alone. Her parents, successful documentary filmmakers, died in a car accident ...
Set The Record Straight
Hannah Bonam-Young
Bedford Square Publishers
A fake girlfriend. A real best friend. One very complicated lie... The day Clara started her new (dream) job as an assistant to her photography idol, she was met with an assumption that caught her off guard and stunned her silent. Suddenly, she has to bring a girlfriend to the gallery's opening in a few weeks - all because she choked up and failed to correct her boss that she...
American Hagwon
Min Jin Lee
Harper
'Profoundly generous and humane' DOUGLAS STUART 'Engrossing ... brilliantly imagined' COLM TÓIBÍN 'Extraordinary' TARA WESTOVER 'A novel I didn't want to end' ROXANE GAY Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of Pachinko, returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with personal dreams and familial duty. John and Helen Koh and their three chi...
The Thief And The Traitor Bride
V. L. Bovalino
Orbit
A ruthless spy. A deadly mission. A thief who could ruin it all. The Thief and the Traitor Bride is a standalone romantic fantasy set in the world of the Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling novel The Second Death of Locke. Nore Gordon is a woman of many talents: she can speak a variety of languages, disguise herself in plain sight, and has made a name for herself as a succ...
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John Of John
Douglas Stuart
Panmacmillan
The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo.'John of John has the emotional range and sense of sympathy of his earlier books, but this book is special, it has an urgency, an immediacy, a brilliant sense of place, the drama of fierce emotion repressed, concealed and volcanically exposed' - Colm Tóibín'To r...
Lie With me
Philippe Besson
Penguin
THE NO.1 FRENCH BESTSELLER 'Stunning and heart-gripping' André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name 'A beautiful, shattering novel about desire and shame, about passionate youth and the regrets of age' Olivia Laing, bestselling author of Crudo Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first lo...
Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth
Verve Books
** Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction ** ** An Evening Standard 'One to Watch in 2023 ** ** An Independent 'Best Romantic Summer Reads' ** ** A Book of the Month pick for Diva, Irish Examiner, Novellic & Sainsbury's Magazine ** ** A Most Anticipated pick for PinkNews & Queer on the Street ** It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore...
In Your Court
Kit Haley
Penguin
'There are so many tennis books in 2026, but out of all of them, THIS is the one to read' ? ? ? ? ? 'I devoured this book, for fans of Heated Rivalry this is the perfect next read for you' ? ? ? ? ? 'Kit Haley, you've made me a fan of tennis' ? ? ? ? ? Discover the sweetest and steamiest tennis romance sensation of the summer - perfect for fans of Rachel Reid, The Open Era and ...
Egotistical Puckboy
Saxon James / Eden Finley
Penguin
They're rivals on and off the ice. But they might have more in common than they realise... Partying, dudes and hockey. What more could a gay NHL player want? Ezra's life is perfect apart from Anton Hayes. A winger from Philly, Anton is all about the game. He's worked for years to be one of the best in the league, and he's done it without splashing his orientation all over the t...
A Room Above a Shop
Anthony Shapland
Granta
When two quiet men form a tentative connection neither knows where it might lead. M has inherited his family's ironmongery business and B is younger by eleven years and can see no future in the place where he has grown up, but when M offers him a job and lodgings, he accepts. As the two men work side by side in the shop, they also begin a life together in their one shared roo...
The Song Of Achilles
Madeline Miller
Bloomsbury
**OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD****A 10th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR**WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE INTERNATIONAL SENSATIONA SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Captivating' DONNA TARTT'I loved it' J K ROWLING'Ravishingly vivid' EMMA DONOGHUEGreece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has be...
Swimming In The Dark
Tomasz Jedrowski
Bloomsbury
Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike summer swimming in secluded lakes, reading forbidden books - and falling in love. ...
The House In The Cerulean Sea
T. J. Klune
Tor
'I loved it. It is like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket. Simply perfect' - V. E. Schwab, Sunday Times bestselling author of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil A cosy, enchanting story about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place. The House in the Cerulean Sea is an uplifting, heart-warming queer fantasy from TJ Klune, a Sunday T...
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Vintage
An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2019 New England Book Award for Fiction! Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, ...
Bad Habit
Alana S. Portero
4Thestate
'I urge you to read Bad Habit' PEDRO ALMODÓVAR 'Had me hooked from the first page ... Savour every word' DUA LIPA 'The book that everyone is reading' NEW YORK TIMES 'Sublime' ÉDOUARD LOUIS A SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB PICK Beautifully written and told in an irresistible voice, Bad Habit is a powerfully moving coming-of-age novel following a young trans woman in 1980s Madrid. An unna...
Nimona: 10Th Anniversary Limited Edition
N. D. Stevenson
Harper
The genre-defining graphic novel from ND Stevenson celebrates its tenth anniversary with a special edition, featuring dazzling special effects and bonus content. Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious ha...
In Memoriam
Alice Winn
Penguin
WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2023 'If you haven't read it, you're missing out' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY 'One of the best debuts I've read in recent years . . . please rush out and buy it' ELIZABETH DAY ______________________ In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and an...
Lady's Knight
Amie Kaufman
Electric Monkey
'More fun than cheesecake on a stick!' Jodi Meadows, co-author of My Lady Jane A rollercoaster of a medieval romp and a sapphic love story, set in a world of dragons, witches and excellent snacks from NYT bestselling duo, Amie Kaufman and Megan Spooner. Perfect for fans of Gwen and Art are Not in Love, Twin Crowns and My Lady Jane. A blacksmith's daughter with a secret. A lady ...
Captive Prince
C. S. Pacat
Penguin
From global phenomenon C. S. Pacat comes the first novel in her critically acclaimed Captive Prince romance trilogy—includes an exclusive bonus story! Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos. But when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a plea...
Secret Kingdoms Book Club
Taiwan Travelogue - Nov 1st / Aue - Nov 5th / Eileen - Nov 15th
Aue
Becky Manawatu
Penguin
WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTION WINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL aue (verb) to cry, howl, groan, wail, bawl. (interjection) expression of astonishment or distress. Taukiri was born into sorrow. Aue can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of th...
Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh
Vintage
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016 Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Observer and Daily Telegraph Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling. - Robert ...
Booker Prize 2026
May We Feed The King
Rebecca Perry
Penguin
She is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. A replica pie, half-eaten, perched on a small desk in the servant's quarters. A fruit bowl, filled with artificial apples, pomegranates and pears, with one piece missing. It should feel as though her subject has just left the room; the air should be alive with their energy. B...
The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout
Ladybird
FROM THE PULITZER-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED ELIZABETH STROUT COMES A STUNNING STANDALONE NOVEL OF LOVE, LONELINESS AND NEW BEGINNINGS 'Emotionally stunning, devastatingly wise . . . her best novel yet' RACHEL JOYCE 'A moving, tender and wise novel about a committed teacher who is utterly confounded by the emotional complexities of daily life. This might be Elizabeth Strout'...
John Of John
Douglas Stuart
Panmacmillan
The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo.'John of John has the emotional range and sense of sympathy of his earlier books, but this book is special, it has an urgency, an immediacy, a brilliant sense of place, the drama of fierce emotion repressed, concealed and volcanically exposed' - Colm Tóibín'To r...
The Disappearers
Marlon James
Ladybird
MARLON JAMES'S TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS 'Darkness is a mood in Jamaica . . .' The Disappearers is Marlon James's triumphant return to the Jamaica of A Brief History of Seven Killings - a place of heat and chaos, and of danger for anyone outside the heteronormal. So when eight gay men meet for the first time, in Kingston ...
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In Your Court
Kit Haley
Penguin
'There are so many tennis books in 2026, but out of all of them, THIS is the one to read' ? ? ? ? ? 'I devoured this book, for fans of Heated Rivalry this is the perfect next read for you' ? ? ? ? ? 'Kit Haley, you've made me a fan of tennis' ? ? ? ? ? Discover the sweetest and steamiest tennis romance sensation of the summer - perfect for fans of Rachel Reid, The Open Era and ...
Endless Night
Agatha Christie
Harper
The special edition hardback of Agatha Christie's disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, with a gorgeous new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Gipsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea - and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a...
Dear Monica Lewinsky
Julia Langbein
Penguin
" A LIT HUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A wild, wonderful essential novel' Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had 'Will remind you why you fell in love with reading' Oprah Daily, Best Book of Spring 2026 'Outrageously funny novel about hunger, desire, and the vulnerable' Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here Forty-year-old Jean Dornan cannot escap...
Yellowface
Rebecca F. Kuang
The Borough Press
The Number One Global Sensation *Foyle's Fiction Book of the Year* *Amazon Book of the Year* *Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year* 'Addictive' Grazia 'Hugely entertaining' Observer 'Provocative' Mail on Sunday THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY. IT'S JUST NOT HERS TO TELL. When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opp...
The City Of Brass
S. A. Chakraborty
Harper
Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty--an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the stre...
Spanish History Selection
A Brief History Of Spain
Jeremy Black
Penguin
A wonderfully concise and very readable history of Spain, perfect for travellers This is the extraordinary story of Spain, from early tribalism and Roman rule to the Moorish conquest, Spain's eighteenth-century revival under the Bourbons, the Peninsular War and revolution in Spanish America right up to the catastrophic civil war and Franco's totalitarian regime. A key theme fr...
Espana: a Brief History Of Spain
Giles Tremlett
Head Of Zeus
Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible primer for visitors, curious readers and hispanophiles.'Tremlett is a fascinating socio-cultural guide, as happy to discuss Spain's World Cup win as its Moorish rule' Guardian 'Negotiates Spain's chaotic history with admirable clarity and sty...
Isabella Of Castile
Giles Tremlett
Bloomsbury
1474. Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania-- and Isabella ascended the throne, a female ruler in a male-dominated world. Her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon not only united their kingdoms, but began a royal partnership in which Isabella more than held her own. Tremlett chronicles Isabella's colorful life as she led her country out of the Mid...
The Spanish Inquisition
Henry Kamen
Yale
"In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen's classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new-and thought-provoking-view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context of Islamic and Jewish culture in the Mediterranean, reassesses its consequences...
Richelieu And Olivares
J. H. Elliott
Penguin
Cardinal Richelieu is one of the best known and most studied statesmen in European history; his Spanish contemporary and rival, the Count-Duke of Olivares, one of the least known. The contrasting historical fortunes of the two men reflect the outcome of the great struggle in seventeenth-century Europe between France and Spain: the triumph of France assured the fame of Richelieu...
The Penguin History Of Modern Spain
Nigel Townson
Penguin
A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different, ' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world has agreed. From the end of its 'glorious empire' in 1898 to the dazzling World Cup victory in 2010, the prevailing narrative of modern Spain has emphasized the cou...
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