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For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakinkept notebooks. In them, he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and...

Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and...

For more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in continental Europe. How did Britain survive and eventually...

Meet the ninety-year-old doctor who is still practicing medicine, the stroke victim who learned to move and talk again and the...

The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's classic and much-loved homage to train travel.

The Orient Express; The Khyber Pass...

The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for...

From Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice is a refreshing alternative approach to mainstream theories...

Paul Davies' The Eerie Silence: Searching For Ourselves in the Universe is an engaging and lucid guide to the 'Fermi Paradox' -...

Chris Stringer's bestselling The Origin of our Species tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of...

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...

Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of...

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...

Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning...

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

Albert Einstein changed the way physicists view the universe – and transformed the way we all see the world. Just over one...

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

Why do some countries succeed while others fail? What causes boom or bust? The World Trade Editor of the FT explains how the...

David Reynolds's unique take on American history

It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire...

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

Rupert and Kirstin Isaacson were heartbroken...

Avi Shlaim's The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World is the outstanding book on Israeli foreign policy, now thoroughly updated...

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