Pegasus Books
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The Princes in the Tower: Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case
$35.00 Add to cartIn 1483, Edward V (age twelve) and his brother Richard, Duke of York (age nine), disappeared from the Tower of London. History has judged they were murdered on the orders of Richard III. This new book
- Author: Langley, Philippa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 163936627X
- Language: English
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The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy
$35.00 Add to cartThe dramatic story of the new king’s evolution over the past year from Prince of Wales to King Charles III, from one of the most acclaimed royal biographers writing today.
No British monarch has had a- Author: Hardman, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 18, 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365311
- Language: English
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The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels
$27.95 Add to cartA meditative love letter to the sport of cycling which explores how the cultivation of a tangible skill can shed new light on age-old questions of selfhood, meaning, and purpose.
Interweaving a deepl- Author: Hibbard, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364234
- Language: English
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Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World
$28.95 Read moreThe remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece–the Venetian mappa mundi–that revolutionized how we see the world.
In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the wo- Author: Small, Meredith Francesca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364196
- Language: English
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Beyond Genius: A Journey Through the Characteristics and Legacies of Transformative Minds
$35.00 Add to cartAn in-depth and unified exploration of genius in the arts and sciences through the life and works of five seminal intellectual and cultural figures: Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newto… [more below]
- Author: Atalay, Bulent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364897
- Language: English
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River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
$18.95 Add to cartFollow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India.
An acclaimed- Author: Jarman, Cat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639365427
- Language: English
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Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today
$32.00 Add to cartAn original and thought-provoking journey into J. R. R. Tolkien’s world, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before.
*Finalist for the The 2023 Tolkien- Author: Groom, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639365036
- Language: English
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Freedom to Win: A Cold War Story of the Courageous Hockey Team That Fought the Soviets for the Soul of Its People–And Olympic Gold
$28.95 Read moreA classic David & Goliath tale, complete with colorful heroes, cold-hearted villains, and nail-biting games–with the hockey rink serving as an arena for a nation’s resistance.
During the height of th- Author: Scheiner, Ethan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363513
- Language: English
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The Story of the Bee Gees: Children of the World
$29.95 Add to cartA dazzling biography of one of the bestselling bands of all time, told with brilliant insight by renowned pop music scholar Bob Stanley.
The world is full of Bee Gees fans. Yet for a band of such reno- Author: Stanley, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365532
- Language: English
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The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
$29.95 Add to cartA riveting scientific journey exploring the enigma of the Neanderthal and the species’ unique form of intelligence.
What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals? For over a century we s- Author: Slimak, Ludovic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366164
- Language: English
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Nature’s Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World
$28.95 Add to cartA dynamic and fresh exploration of the naturalist Mark Catesby–who predated John James Audubon by nearly a century– and his influence on how we understand American wildlife.
In 1722, Mark Catesby st- Author: Dean, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364137
- Language: English
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Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm
$28.95 Read more“Crawford’s book stands apart from its predecessors because of its sustained focus on one threatened city. Charleston is a fascinating and haunted locale, and Crawford is gifted at sketching its gross… [more below]
- Author: Crawford, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363572
- Language: English
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Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile
$29.95 Add to cartThe moving story of Rachmaninoff’s years in exile and the composition of his last great work, set against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.
In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, l- Author: Maddocks, Fiona
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365931
- Language: English
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Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit
$28.95 Read moreThe vivid and dramatic life of Lady Caroline Lamb, whose scandalous love affair with Lord Byron overshadowed her own creativity and desire to break free from society’s constraints.
From the outset, Ca- Author: Fraser, Antonia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364056
- Language: English
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The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens
$29.95 Read moreA radical reassessment of the famed Victorian author, revealing the true story behind the creator of some of literature’s best-known novels.
This dynamic new study of Charles Dickens will make readers- Author: Kelly, Helena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639365338
- Language: English
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The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 Bc0-400 AD
$32.00 Read moreA brilliant, fascinating portrait of the intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers during the Age of Rome.
In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years- Author: Freeman, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 163936515X
- Language: English
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Plaid and Plagiarism: The Highland Bookshop Mystery Series: Book 1
$19.93 Add to cartA murder in a garden turns the four new owners of Yon Bonnie Books into amateur detectives, in a captivating new cozy mystery novel from Molly MacRae.
Set in the weeks before the annual Inversgail Lit- Series: Highland Bookshop Mystery #0
- Author: MacRae, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 09, 2018
- ISBN10: 1681776197
- Language: English
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Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art
$32.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
The untold story of the artistic battle between James Abbot MacNeill Whistler and John Ruskin over Whistler’s controversial, ground-breaking Nocturne in B- Author: Murphy, Paul Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364919
- Language: English
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Shackleton
$18.95 Add to cart“When Ranulph Fiennes produces a book about Ernest Shackleton, it should get our attention. I found that the best way to read this book is to imagine that you are in a pub sharing a beer with Sir Ranu… [more below]
- Author: Fiennes, Ranulph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1639363025
- Language: English
