Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne’s landmark biography reveals the real...
Established as a homeland for India's Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the...
From bestselling biographer Sean Smith comes the fascinating and tumultuous true story behind Sir Tom Jones, the nation’s treasure, sage of The Voice and living...
'Femme' describes a constellation of queer, gendered expressions that uproot expectations of what it means to be feminine. Transfeminists take their experiences of desire, belonging...
The astonishing year when German democracy faced crisis and near destruction.1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern European history. In January, France...
Three award-winning reporters offer the definitive, inside story of the most tumultuous and consequential presidential campaign in US history.",The whole world was against...
Trawl through centuries of tattooing in this eye-popping history of the art of body decoration. From modest, discreet symbols to astonishing full-body adornments, the wonders...
Here's how the history of the Roman Empire usually goes... We start with Romulus, go on to Brutus overthrowing Tarquin, bounce through an appallingly tedious...
Explore an A-Z of everything you need to know about the masterful movies of Quentin Tarantino, from AK-47 to ",Zed's dead, baby", and everything in...
Explore an A-Z of everything you need to know about the iconic films of Wes Anderson, from Asteroid City to Steve Zissou and everything in...
Housing means prosperity and security for some, poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents...
",Michael Wolff... the shrewdest and most colourful chronicler of the Trump years,", Sunday TimesAll or Nothing is the final chapter in Wolff's Fire...
A landmark history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Appeasing HitlerAfter the fall of...
The uniquely designed Atlas of Lost Cities details the destinies of 44 once-thriving urban centers that are now vacant ruins and empty ghost towns....
THE MUST-READ BOOK ON THE WORLD'S BIGGEST FLASHPOINT'Magnificent&,nbsp,...&,nbsp,As exciting to read as it is important' Peter Frankopan'Fascinating ...&,nbsp,essential reading' Helen Thompson'Alarming and uplifting' John KampfnerThe...
'A splendid book by authors who long ago detected Germany's fragility - and aimed at readers who take no pleasure in the sight...
'This is not only history reclaimed, this is history at its best!' Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, author of Persians: the Age of the Great KingsCarthage was...
From the Jim Heimann collection, a seminal collection of classic car ads-from the populism of the Ford Model T in the 1910s, through the sexy,...
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise ",A deeply informed account of how the...
A timely history of the interplay between politics and military operations, 'Command is the history of our time' (Guardian)Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized...
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