A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup...
The world's great fables, sagas and legends dramatically retold. Myths are the greatest stories ever told. Passed down over millennia, they are the templates for...
Graham Greene saw the Castros rise, Sarah Rainsford watched them leave. From the street where Wormold, the hapless hero of Greene's Our Man in Havana,...
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were...
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From the pioneers of early America to the builders of modern India, from west to east and back again, this book follows the processes of...
'The greatest literary scholar of his generation' (Independent) explains how the history of the Elizabethan era is the backdrop to William Shakespeare and his plays....
From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. He became identified...
What inspires explorers to push back the boundaries of the known world? Why do they risk their lives in unforgiving conditions far from home? How...
'Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling best' Fergal KeaneThe first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy...
Longlisted for the JQ Wingate Prize On the evening of November 8, 1923, the thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired...
'Brilliant' Sunday TimesHow does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant...
'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are...
Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. This book covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career, including...
Connects the killing of the Kennedys or the murder that sparked the First World War with less well-known stories, such as the Berlin shooting of...
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction'At heart a David and Goliath story fit for the movies ... [A] valuable, discomforting book' The...
‘A bold and imaginative page-turner that challenges ideas about the world of antiquity.’ Peter Frankopan (The Silk Roads)‘This vivid and engaging book brings to life...
'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language, in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage, Fanon showed us...
It's easy to see how, from such a young age, he has been able to engage people on the issues he wants to tackle.' EVENING...
The Sunday Times bestseller Now a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan Morris.Diana Dors. Bob Geldof. David Olusoga.Elizabeth...
