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The extraordinary story of the world's most influential, intriguing and surprising ruler, Queen Victoria.When Alexandrina Victoria was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom ...
'The remarkable tale of "Number 45", one of the finest copies of the Gutenberg Bible in existence . . . A fascinating story that touches on the origin ...
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in ...
Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a ...
A ground-breaking work of narrative non-fiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on human history.
What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American ...
'Appeasing Hitler is an astonishingly accomplished debut. Bouverie writes with a wonderful clarity and we will no doubt hear a lot more of his voice ...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018
Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery ...
Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many ...
In 1945, as the army retreated, the German people were surrendered to the enemy with no means of defence. A wave of suicides rolled across ...
From the moment of her birth to her death on the scaffold, Mary Stuart spent her life embroiled in power struggles that shook the foundations ...
`A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure' JOHN GRISHAM on David Grann's The Lost City of Z
`A wonderful story of a ...
An epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of history's most venerated military and religious heroes opens a window ...
The sea has been an endless source of fascination, at once both alluring and mysterious, a place of wonder and terror. The Sea Journal contains ...
In this timely and very readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on resistance, the resistance ...
The compelling story of vaccination.
We may fear terrorist attacks, but in truth humans have always had far more to fear from infections. In 1919 ...
