Danubia is the brilliant and entertaining companion to the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Germania. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction...
Set for release on the 10th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's execution, a riveting, revealing and newsmaking account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by...
Offering a panoramic view of history and a description of firsthand diplomatic encounters, the former Secretary of State describes his ideas about diplomacy and power...
'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . ....
Join Egyptologist Garry J. Shaw on a tour up the Nile, through a beautiful and fascinating landscape populated with a rich mythology: the stories of...
Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh.All monsters need feeding. Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before,...
'A captivating must-read for anyone who wants to understand how and why misogyny is as powerful a force as ever' KATE MANNE, author...
A radical retelling of human history through collapse - from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twentieth-first...
‘By far the most lucid, comprehensive and authoritative account of Churchill that has been offered in a single volume’ Daily TelegraphDrawing on decades of unprecedented...
For curious readers young and old, a rich and colorful history of religion from humanity's earliest days to our own contentious times In an era...
",Delicious...a happy and glorious guide to living your best regal life.", --Victoria Arbiter, CNN Royal Commentator Does this crown make me look old?", said the...
The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, historian Jon Halliday. Based on...
Alongside contemporaries Slayer, Megadeath and Anthrax, Metallica came to prominence in the eighties as one of the 'big four' of thrash metal. Metallica were to...
Miracles of Our Own Making is a historical overview of magic in the British Isles, from the ancient peoples of Britain to the rich and...
Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack Mark Ronson s musical fingerprints are everywhere in our pop culture....
These are the stories of fifty countries that once existed – however briefly – but have now have been erased from the map. Varying vastly...
Freedom is not just an absence of evil but a presence of good. The moment you believe freedom is given, it is gone. There is...
In 1940s and '50s America girlie magazines couldn't show much, so publisher Robert Harrison lured his readers in with vibrant covers by top pin-up artists...
'A welcome addition to medieval history, giving us a window into the lives of women that many people only know by name, if at all.'...
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly...
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