Britain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty who...

The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor...

The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of...

The Danes are the happiest people in the world, and pay the highest taxes.

'Neutral' Sweden is one of the biggest arms...

A dark-skinned young boy is found dead, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The boy's Thai half-brother is missing;...

It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic.

Decent, athletic twenty-three year old...

A skeleton is found half-buried in a dried out lake. The bones have been weighed down with an old radio transmitter: is this a...

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars...

Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who...

Discover the era of William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I through the sharp, informative and hilarious eyes of Ian Mortimer.

We...

Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up...

Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has two...

This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy and the dark motives behind them in...

An old man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat.

A cryptic note and a photograph of a young girl's grave are left...

Billionaire Warren Buffet, currently the third wealthiest man in the world, paid the lowest rate of tax among his office staff,...

Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is...

Subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal novels of the twentieth...

Duff Cooper's classic biography charts the remarkable progress of Talleyrand; a silver-tongued master diplomat, infamous...

Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. No-one will explain to...

It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are...

Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties,...

In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club...

A novel which chronicles the lines of three generations of the Brangwen family and the emergence of modern England.

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Enderby is a poet, social critic and Catholic. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or...

'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full...

In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the...

A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them.

A stranger...

Written in the same period as Mrs Dalloway these seven short stories show the author's fascination with parties and with all the...

An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of...

From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel...