Harry's Fantastic History

Travel through time with Harry’s Fantastic History — a collection of accessible, compelling reads spanning ancient civilisations, landmark events, and unforgettable lives. Whether you're after sweeping biographies or fascinating historical insights, these titles offer depth, variety, and endless stories to uncover.

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Raising the Dead by Andy Dougan - 9781780275017
$11.95
Raising the Dead
Andy Dougan
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein, introduced readers around the world to the concept of raising...
Rag and Bone by Lisa Woollett - 9781473663985
$11.95
Rag and Bone
Lisa Woollett
'Beautiful, like a muddy journey through time . . . a really important book' RAYNOR...
Prince Albert by A N Wilson - 9780062749567
$12.95
Prince Albert
A N Wilson
In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured...
Occult London by Merlin Coverley - 9780857301345
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Occult London
Merlin Coverley
London, more than any other city, has a secret history concealed from view. Behind the...
$19.95
Lives Reclaimed
Mark Roseman
From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung...
$19.95
Left Bank
Agnes Poirier
An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and...
$22.95
Last Witnesses
Svetlana Alexievich
"A masterpiece" (The Guardian) from the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an oral history of children's experiences...
King's Dream by Eric J. Sundquist - 9780300118070
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King's Dream
Eric J. Sundquist
"I have a dream" - no words are more widely recognized, or more often repeated,...
In the Shadow of Statues by Mitch Landrieu - 9780525559467
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In the Shadow of Statues
Mitch Landrieu
The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us...
In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff - 9780679760238
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In Pharaoh's Army
Tobias Wolff
Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his...
Ill Met By Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss - 9781780226231
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Ill Met By Moonlight
W. Stanley Moss
This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one...
I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Hana Volavkova - 9780805210156
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I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Hana Volavkova
Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer...
Hitler, My Neighbor by Edgar Feuchtwanger - 9781590518649
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Hitler, My Neighbor
Edgar Feuchtwanger
An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a...
Gibraltar by Lesley Adkins - 9780349142395
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Gibraltar
Lesley Adkins
For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of...
Fatherland by Nina Bunjevac - 9781631490316
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Fatherland
Nina Bunjevac
Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland renders the searing...
Euripides: Ion by Laura Swift - 9780715637449
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Euripides: Ion
Laura Swift
"Euripides' Ion" is the story of a young man's search for his identity, and a...
$13.95
Empires of the Indus Story of a River
Albinia Alice
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Emperor PMC
Kapuscinski Ryszard
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Emigre New York
Jeffrey Mehlman (Boston University)
Wartime New York was the city where French Symbolism, in the person of Maurice Maeterlinck,...
Eleni by Nicholas Gage - 9780345410436
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Eleni
Nicholas Gage
In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps"...
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Dragon Throne
Fenby Jonathan
Dancing Bears by Witold Szablowski - 9780143129745
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Dancing Bears
Witold Szablowski
*As heard on NPR's All Things Considered* "Utterly original." -The New York Times Book Review...
Cold Warriors by Duncan White (Harvard University) - 9780062449818
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Cold Warriors
Duncan White (Harvard University)
In this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets...
Churchill's Menagerie by Piers Brendon - 9781643131368
$19.95
Churchill's Menagerie
Piers Brendon
In this unique narrative, Piers Brendon looks deeply into Churchill's admiration of the animal kingdom--and...
Children and Youth in a New Nation by James Marten - 9780814757499
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Children and Youth in a New Nation
James Marten
In the early years of the Republic, as Americans tried to determine what it meant...
Children of the City by David Nasaw - 9780345802972
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Children of the City
David Nasaw
The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities,...
Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare by John Toohey - 9781510729179
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Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare
John Toohey
At dawn on April 28, 1789, Captain William Bligh and eighteen men from HMS Bounty...
Bomber County by Daniel Swift - 9780374533038
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Bomber County
Daniel Swift
In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with the 83rd Squadron of the...