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For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the French Revolution, this is the book for you . . .

Concise, convincing...

In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs....

Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped...

1969 was a year of rising tension, violence and change for the people of Northern Ireland. Rioting in Derry's Bogside led to the...

Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the...

Bruce Chatwin sets off on a journey through South America in this wistful classic travel book

With its unique, roving...

Foley... , Coates...

Need to swot up on your Shakespeare? The ultimate guide to the Bard, perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado and general reader...

In 1960s Bristol, a family is overshadowed by tragedy

While Susan, a typically feisty seven-year-old, is busy being brave, her...

A man punches the wall in a strategic show of anger. Another complains he has become a stranger to those he loves. A third relies...

A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness.

Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen. What...

Five women. One house. One extraordinary history.

Even today, Cliveden retains its royal mystique - it is where Meghan Markle...

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. The Astounding Interconnectedness of the UniverseThe most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely...

'After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.'
Philip Hoare, New Statesman...

A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and...

'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually...

From the author of Into The Silence, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took...

There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that...

In the last few years the world has changed in unexpected ways. The power of radical ideas and groups is growing. What was once...

We all have ten types of human in our head.

They're the people we become when we face life's most difficult decisions. We want...

'John Bargh's Before You Know It moves our understanding of the mysteries of human behaviour one giant step forward. A brilliant...

English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and author Mary Shelley were mother and daughter, yet these two extraordinary women never...

The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She...

As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of...

After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, and about to become a father for the first time, Rob Cowen finds himself in...

Guns. Sex. Drugs. Murder.
The Dark Net is just a click away.
Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit lies a...

We spend more time than ever online, and the digital revolution is rewiring our sense of what it means to be human. Smartphones...

During the First World War three quarters of a million British people died – a figure so huge that it feels impossible to give it...

Sometimes you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform...

If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex....