Top 10 academic bestsellers: Heffers, Cambridge

1. Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David Mackay. UIT Cambridge, £19.99. ISBN 9780954452933

2. Oliver Cromwell: New Perspectives edited by Patrick Little. Palgrave Macmillan, £17.99. ISBN 9780230574212

3. Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard. Profile Books, £25.00. ISBN 9781861975164

4. The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster by Richard Evans. Allen Lane, £30.00. ISBN 9780713997422

5. Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate. Viking, £25.00. ISBN 9780670914821

6. Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin. Penguin, £10.99. ISBN 9780141031026

7. Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox. Allen Lane, £25.00. ISBN 9780713999808

8. The Discovery of France by Graham Robb. Picador, £9.99. ISBN 97803304616

9. Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 by David Kynaston. Bloomsbury, £9.99. ISBN 9780747579854

10. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes. Harper Collins, £25.00. ISBN 9780007149520

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