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In this gorgeous new collection, explore the enduring appeal of giants and their powerful presence in the mythologies of the world. Giants feature in most ...
Australian submariners at war
Submariners are a special breed. Not for them a life on the ocean wave, the fresh air and sunshine of other ...
The dramatic history of a massacre in Damascus, and the collapse of the old Ottoman world order
This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed ...
The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever
The ...
The people who made, saved and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts ...
An immersive, magisterial portrait of Myanmar, told through the story of its hidden railways
In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond ...
A new story of rural Britain and its colonial past, through a series of country walks
The countryside is almost sacred to many Britons. There ...
The untold story of British politics in modern times, through the triumphs and disasters of its five most radical figures
In the great revolutionary year ...
Do you feel like we're living in the end times? Does it seem like everything is on fire, and one disaster follows another?
Here ...
A gripping account of the past and future of Taiwan
In the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one ...
From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who risked everything for the ...
Real-life accounts of the world's most notorious pirates-both men and women, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond-compiled by the New York Times ...
A spine-chilling illustrated history
Discover the spine-chilling history of ghosts and the supernatural across the world in this stunningly illustrated guide.
A History of Ghosts ...
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this "gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man ...
Playwright, poet, spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals . . . meet Aphra Behn, history's most fascinating female
In 1682, a young woman in the ...