Ask our staff anything about our shop or products, or leave your feedback.
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five ...
From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads
`Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening Standard
The New Silk ...
Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals- a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely ...
Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all ...
Dotted across homes in Britain are people who were witnesses to one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. Yet their memory of ...
The Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self-contained world. Protected by vast mountains and seas, it created its own religions, philosophies and social ...
Asian empires led the world economically, scientifically and culturally for hundreds of years, and posed a constant challenge to the countries of Europe. How and ...
India has had many histories. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of the Buddha; to Alexander the Great it was a land ...
'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times
`Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads ...
TERRACOTTA WARRIORS provides an intriguing, original and up-to-date account of one of the wonders of the ancient world. Illustrated with a wealth of original photographs ...
China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the ...
Financial Times' best history books of the year
Sunday Times' best history books of the year
In 1839 Britain embarked on the first of its ...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2017
After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 ...
Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in ...
Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. In the autumn of 1934, the Chinese Nationalists under Chiang ...
