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  • Nemesis

    The historical epic from the master of adventure, Wilbur Smith

    by Wilbur Smith, Tom Harper ...
    A FIGHT FOR HONOUR. A QUEST FOR REVENGE.Paris, 1794. Revolutionary fervour has erupted into the Reign of Terror. A young man, Paul Courtney, hides in a crowd watching as the condemned are brought to the guillotine. Among them is Constance Courtney, Paul's mother. As he watches her brutal execution, he knows he must avoid the same fate and fulfil his promise to her - to survive, no matter what. He ... Read more

    8,26 €

  • White Mughals

    Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India (Text Only)

    by William Dalrymple ...
    From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted ‘Return of a King’, the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa – ‘Most Excellent among Women’ – the great-niece of the Prime ... Read more

    13,66 €

  • China

    A History

    by John Keay ...
    Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast narrative of appalling loss, superhuman endeavour and incredible invention that has made China the superpower it is today. From the dawn of legend to the ... Read more

    15,57 €

  • Daughter of Empire

    Life as a Mountbatten

    by Lady Pamela Hicks ...
    A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy's HousePamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain's grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his glamorous wife Edwina Ashley, she was brought up by nannies and governesses as she was often parted from her parents as they dutifully carried out their public roles. A solitary child, she learned to occupy ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Meet Me in Bombay

    All he needs is to find her. First, he must remember who she is.

    by Jenny Ashcroft ...
    'An epic love story full of exotic charm and rich historical detail . . . Meet Me In Bombay will sweep you away to another time and place.' Red Magazine'Powerful and evocative' Woman & HomeAll he needs is to find her. First he must remember who she is**.**An injured soldier has lost everything, even his past. His dreams hint at his old life; flashes of a woman. His only wish is to return to her, ... Read more

    3,49 €

  • Empireland

    How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

    by Sathnam Sanghera ...
    EMPIREWORLD IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOWWINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting, not ignoring, the past' Gerard deGroot, The Times___________________... ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • The Patient Assassin

    A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj

    by Anita Anand ...
    **WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE'Reads like something from a thriller**…colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times‘Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsHundreds of peaceful civilians were slaughtered in the Amritsar Massacre of 13 April 1919, after British troops opened fire without warning. According to legend, Udham Singh was among ... Read more

    8,96 €

  • In Xanadu

    A Quest (Text Only)

    by William Dalrymple ...
    One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of ‘Return of a King’, which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan’s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across the ... Read more

    10,91 €

  • The Shadow of the Great Game

    The Untold Story of India's Partition

    by Raja Narendra Singh Sarila ...
    The untold story of India's Partition.The partition of India in 1947 was the only way to contain intractable religious differences as the subcontinent moved towards independence - or so the story goes. But this dramatic new history reveals previously overlooked links between British strategic interests - in the oil wells of the Middle East and maintaining access to its Indian Ocean territories - ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • The God of Small Things

    Winner of the Booker Prize

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    ‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana jam vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion a ... Read more

    9,32 €

  • Maximum City

    Bombay Lost and Found

    by Suketu Mehta ...
    A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in ... Read more

    8,79 €

  • A Sinful Deception: Breconridge Brothers Book 2

    by Isabella Bradford ...
    Series Book 2 - Breconridge Brothers
    For fans of Julia Quinn, Eloisa James and Sarah MacLean, comes Isabella Bradford's enthralling new trilogy of London's most scandalous rakes, the Breconridge Brothers, who are about to lose their hearts...Lord Geoffrey Fitzroy leads a charmed existence. The second son of the Duke of Breconridge and an infamous, incorrigible and inconceivably handsome rake, he ruthlessly leaves hearts fluttering ... Read more

    3,49 €

  • The Life and Death of Krishnamurti

    by Mary Lutyens ...
    J Krishnamurti (1896-1986) was one of the most important spiritual leaders of his time. Discovered by the Theosophist as a boy in India, he was groomed by them as the new Messiah, a role he rejected when he set out independently on his own spiritual quest. Travelling the world, lecturing and teaching, he acquired an enormous following, including many eminent statesmen and intellectuals.As one of ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • East of the Sun

    A Richard and Judy bestseller

    by Julia Gregson ...
    The captivating million copy bestseller of three young women in search of freedom and love in 1920s India.India 1928. A land of heat, dust and dreams, and the promise of love ...Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naïve bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • THE EMPIRE OF APOSTLES

    Religion, Accommodatio, and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India

    by Ananya Chakravarti ...
    The Portuguese encounter with the peoples of South Asia and Brazil set foundational precedents for European imperialism. Jesuit missionaries were key participants in both regions. As they sought to reconcile three commitments—to local missionary spaces, to a universal Church, and to the global Portuguese empire—the Jesuits forged a religious vision of empire. Ananya Chakravarti explores both ... Read more

    41,78 €

  • Gautamastakam

    The greatest master…the greatest prayer

    by Acharya Kalyanbodhi Suriji, Manish Modi ...
    The greatest master...the greatest prayer...stop going here and there, just pray to Guru Gautam Swami and see all your dreams fulfilled. This composition contains eight stanzas that extol Guru Gautam Swami, the first gandhara of Lord Mahavira who was the 24th Tirthankar of the jains. This composition has been extracted from the texts of Jainism. It has been attractively illustrated and lucidly ... Read more

    0,95 €

  • The Cultures of History in Early Modern India

    Persianization and Mughal Culture in Bengal

    by Kumkum Chatterjee ...
    This book examines the nature and function of history-writing in India by focusing on early modern traditions of historiography with particular reference to Bengal. Situating distinctive cultures of history vis-à-vis their relevant political and cultural contexts, it highlights the richness, variety and politically sensitive character of a range of oral and textual narratives. Kumkum Chatterjee ... Read more

    45,50 €

  • When Crime Pays

    Money and Muscle in Indian Politics

    by Milan Vaishnav ...
    **The first thorough study of the co-existence of crime and democratic processes in Indian politics  **In India, the world’s largest democracy, the symbiotic relationship between crime and politics raises complex questions. For instance, how can free and fair democratic processes exist alongside rampant criminality? Why do political parties recruit candidates with reputations for wrongdoing? Why ... Read more

    33,84 €

  • The Pashtun Protection Movement (PTM) in Pakistan

    by Qamar Jafri ...
    What factors drive people to choose nonviolent civil resistance to achieve human rights, peace, and justice? This Special Report offers ground-breaking knowledge about the link of colonialism, the Cold War, and the War on Terror with Talibanization, oppression, and human rights violations in the northwestern tribal areas of Pakistan. This knowledge is drawn from three years of in-depth field work ... Read more

    2,11 €

  • Banda Singh Bahadur

    by Gurjinder Singh ...
    This book is about the life and history of Banda Singh Bahadur. This book contains information about the various battlesfought by Banda Singh Bahadur during and after the reign of Guru Gobind Singh Ji (tenth guru of sikhs).Suitable for kids and adults to know about their Sikh Warriors Because modern people only know about Batman , Supermanand nothing about their Sikh warriors. ... Read more

    6,24 €

  • Punjab Reconsidered

    History, Culture, and Practice

    Edited by Anshu Malhotra, Farina Mir ...
    What is Punjabiyat? What are the different notions of Punjab? This volume analyses these ideas and explores the different aspects that constitute Punjab as a region conceptually in history, culture, and practice. Each essay examines a different Punjabi culture—language-based and literary; religious and those that define a 'community'; rural, urban, and middle class; and historical, contemporary, ... Read more

    60,38 €

  • Rise and Fall of The Maratha Empire 1750-1818

    by Sanish Nandakumar ...
    The book Rise and Fall of Maratha Empire deals with the events related to the Maratha Empire from 1758 during the reign of Peshwa Balaji Bajirao, when it was at its zenith, till 1818 when it was declined and overpowered by the British Empire.The book deals with major events like the Battle of Panipat, Resurrection of Maratha in the North, the Anglo-Maratha war and many more. It describes the ... Read more

    0,84 €

  • Nordic Aliens and the Forbidden Islands of the Gods

    Flying Cities, the Giants of India, Human Creation, and Armageddon

    by Lars Bergen, Sharon Delarose ...
    Series Book 10 - Through the Wormhole
    Explore mysterious islands in the Arabian Sea populated with giant Greek gods until an aerial war between flying cities sank them. Was this related to missing biblical passages of flying towers, or the blue-eyed giants with red and flaxen hair?Hindu holy books hold the numerical key to human Creation in which the gods added their DNA to proto-Humans to create Homo sapiens. The biblical Watchers ... Read more

    10,29 €

  • वेडात दौडले वीर मराठे सात

    by नरेंद्र नाईक ...
    छत्रपती शिवाजी राजे भोसले महाराज साहेब ! त्यांचे राज्य विस्तारीत होते. पण... डोंगरदऱ्यात. प्रजेचं सुख दुःख जाणणारा पृथ्वी तलावरील ऐकमेव राजा असल्यामुळे प्रजा सुखात व आनंदात नांदत होती. राज्यकारभार चालवण्यासाठी अष्टप्रधान मंत्रीमंडळ स्थापन करून आपला देश आणि देशबांधव बहूसंख्य शेतकरी असल्याने कृषीसाठी कृषीसंजीवनी योजना तयार करून शेततळे व पाणी आडवा पाणी जिरवा हा महामंत्र देऊन प्रजेला सुखात ठेवण्याचा न ... Read more

    3,09 €