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As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs...

Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still...

From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea...

Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year

Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden...

A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany...

In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes,...

Making peace in Northern Ireland was the greatest success of the Blair government, and one of the greatest achievements in...

This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of unmatched bravery in the face of impossible...

The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a...

From murder to duelling, highway robbery to mugging: the darker side of English life explored.

Spanning some seven centuries,...

Discover Charles Darwin's most important ideas...

When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on...

Machiavelli’s highly influential treatise on political power

'It is far safer to be feared than loved...'

The Prince...

Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal...

What is the universe really made of? How do we know? Follow the map of the invisible to find out...

Over the last sixty years,...

Doctors are the people we turn to in our darkest moments. We trust them with our lives. But what does that stress do to a...

Alexandra Heminsley thought she could swim. She really did.
It may have been because she could run. It may have been because she...

Jones... , Thompson...

Foreword by Chrissie Hynde

Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex...

A wonderfully readable investigation of the origins of the modern garden in 18th-century England. Popular history at its...

Paul McGrath is Ireland's best loved sportsman and also its least understood. An iconic football presence during a professional...

The trailblazing investigation of a question that has confounded us for centuries: how is consciousness created?

In Self Comes...

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring...

Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him...

Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary...

There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living...

The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was...

The first popular biography of Edward I in a generation by a major new historian.

This is the first major biography for a...

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War,...

Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?

Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September...

Did the Trojan War really happen?

Spectacular new archaeological evidence suggests that it did. Recent excavations and newly...

Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries...