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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF 2021 'Astonishing and compelling' Bernard Cornwell ‘This superb book is like a classical symphony, perfectly composed and exquisitely performed’ THE TIMES Books of the Year Follow bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman – and the cutting-edge...

It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. The leaders of these trading enterprises exercised virtually unaccountable, dictatorial political power over millions of people.

In The Normans, Lars Brownworth follows their story, from the first shock of a Viking raid on an Irish monastery to the exile of the last Norman Prince of Antioch. In the process, he brings to vivid life the Norman tapestry's rich cast of characters: figures like Rollo the Walker, William Iron-Arm, Tancred the Monkey King, and Robert Guiscard. The Normans presents a fascinating glimpse of a time when a group of restless adventurers had the world at their fingertips.

The King of the Coral Sea tells the astonishing true story of Michael Fomenko—who set out alone in a dugout canoe to paddle more than a thousand nautical kilometers from Cairns, Australia to New Guinea. Battling exhaustion, violent storms, jagged reefs, and saltwater crocodiles beneath the surface, Michael faced dangers few could survive. But the greatest challenge came from the world he left behind—pursued by authorities and portrayed as an outcast, he pressed forward, determined to finish what he started.