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...
The gripping story of Taiwan's past and precarious present from one of Taiwan's top foreign correspondents. Following the war in Ukraine, all eyes have turned...
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...
'Outstanding, illuminating, compelling ... a riveting read' Peter Frankopan, Sunday Times Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering,...
From the bestselling author of FEMINA, a brilliant reappraisal of the medieval women whose lives have been exploited over centuries for political, nation-building ends.In LEGENDA,...
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...
From the Sunday Times No. 1 Bestselling AuthorIn On Democracies and Death Cults, bestselling author Douglas Murray argues how no less than the future of...
In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China and the West, and since then has been more intimately connected with...
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.'...
24 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe is as divided as ever. The passengers of the low-budget airlines go east for stag...
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly...
We live in an unprecedented time that has threatened to upend our daily rhythms, our work, our homes - even our faith. More than ever,...
