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Our featured title this month is The Discovery of France by Graham Robb. Illuminating, engrossing and full of surprises, The Discovery of France is a literary exploration of a country few will recognize. This a book that reveals the ‘real’ past of France to tell the whole story – and history – of this remarkable nation. Click on the banner below to read an extact and to find out more about the book.

Other new titles include: The Balloon Factory - Alexander Frater’s new book is about a small, largely forgotten group of young men who, early in the twentieth century, competed to build and fly England’s first aeroplane; Fire in the Night by Stephen McGinty - the horrific true story of the world's worst offshore oil disaster; and The Himmler Brothers by Katrin Himmler, in which Heinrich Himmler's great-niece offers a unique account of one woman's attempt to deal with her chilling inheritance.