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Brendan Simms's formidable, game-changing history of Europe

In this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms...

Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin

Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a...

William D. Cohan's The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. is the astonishing story of the world's most elite...

Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining figures of...

Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously...

This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of...

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of...

John Ruskin overturned Victorian society’s ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for...

The third volume of Peter Hennessy's landmark postwar history of Britain

Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter...

A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms.

At 6 am on...

Sudoku is a real cultural phenomenon: a French fad in the 1890s, a Japanese craze in the 1980s, it is now a peculiarly British...

Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of...

The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas's Rivers of Gold brings the rise of Spain's global empire...

Rupert Isaacson's The Horse Boy is one family's epic journey to rescue their son.

Rupert and Kirstin Isaacson were heartbroken...

‘Often, at the hour of day when the savannah grass is streaked with silver, and pale gold rims the silhouettes of the hills, I...

Dominic Sandbrook's magnificent account of the late 1970s in Britain

The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the...

State of Emergency : Britain 1970-74 is a brilliant history of the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the early Seventies.
The...

The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux's compelling account of his final African journey.

Heading north from Cape Town,...

Got a sweet tooth but don't want to spend hours in the kitchen? Nigel Slater's collection of puddings can ALL be ready in less...

Love food but hate spending hours in the kitchen? This book is the answer, with over 350 delicious recipes ready in less than 30...

Nigel Slater fans will love this bestselling classic recipe book, packed full of simple but tasty dishes.

'This is real...

Sniper One is the gritty, awe-inspiring true story that takes you right into the heart of the Iraq war from Sunday Times No.1...

For decades the British and Irish had 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent...

What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as...

Saul David's All The King's Men is a thrilling history of the British Redcoat from the English Civil War to Waterloo.

Between...

This landmark work challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. Appiah revives...

Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish is the unexpected story of how one creature's journey out of the water made the human body what it...

This fresh and brilliant history of how philosophy became established in English presents a new form of philosophical...

James Lovelock's bestselling The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we can Still Save Humanity is a dire...

From the great citadels of Caernarvon, Harlech, Powis and Beaumaris in the north, to the Victorian glories of Cardiff in the...