20th Century History

The Shameful Isles is a unique resource on north-west Australia's fatal experiment with medical apartheid. In 1907, the Western Australian government began a program of forcibly removing supposedly ill Aboriginal...

Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the 19th century to the most contemporary developments. Knight explains how and why the various...

Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on...

John Sutherland has picked out over 100 biographies from the "Dictionary of National Biography" to create this lively anthology of a selection of the most prominent figures in British 20th-century...

This is a biography of American writer Thomas Wolfe by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald. The book follows Wolfe from improbable affairs to drunken brawls, from his mother's "Old...

W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded...

A collection of Anthony Powell's best critical writing over a period of four decades, drawn from his regular reviews for the "Daily Telegraph", occasional humorous pieces for "Punch" and more...

Max Beerbohm was widely celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age. And it was a very long age indeed: he became famous in the mid-1890s and remained so until...

A loving and admiring companion for half a century to literary titan Ezra Pound, concert violinist Olga Rudge was the muse who inspired the poet to complete his epic poem,...

The second of two volumes of Elizabeth Smart's journals, covering the mid-1940s during her affair with the poet George Barker to her death in 1986. Born in Canada, the book...

'A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing' Caitlin Moran 'Newman is a brilliant writer' Observer A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should...

Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century. He was a natural countryman who had a sharp eye for the natural world, a dislike of technology...

The idea for Ian Hamilton's unorthodox new book was sparked by a rereading of Samuel Johnson's classic "Lives of the English Poets". Johnson included appraisals of 52 poets, but of...

These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kinglsey Amis and John Betjeman,...

Volume 1 of a three volume set containing Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence in its entirety. This three volume set marks the first time any Australian literary writer has had his/her...

The most engaging, surprising and revealing look at the Beatles story you'll read. Everyone knows a Beatles tune. But their story goes beyond the omnipresent songs and iconic albums. Theirs...

Part biography, part literary memoir, "Dead Men's Wages" is, like Lorna Sage's "Bad Blood". "Scratch the surface of any family and you will find stories of intrigue, abuse and illegitimacy....

As children, Virginia Woolf, elder sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby, collaborated on their very own newspaper, recording the day-to-day events of the family home, 22 Hyde Park Gate. They...

Henry Adams has been called an indispensable figure in American thought. Although he famously "took his own life" in the autobiographical Education of Henry Adams , his letters-more intimate and...

This second volume of the acclaimed Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence covers the years 1912-22, the period in which Lawrence forged his reputation as one of the greatest and...

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Offers a new approach to the life and work of Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Drawing on the recent discovery of many of her letters, the book examines the intricate network of...

This is the first new Gore Vidal collection since Armageddon and A View From the Diners Club. Among the subjects covered are Mark Twain, John Updike, Bill Clinton, Harry Truman...

The brand new epic family drama from the nation's favourite storyteller. Where can a daughter turn when her father's love is stolen away? When heart-broken Sarah Quinn is left to...

Frances Partridge is the oldest surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group. Most of its leading members she knew well - Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, Virginia Woolf - and this book...

A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...

The most engaging, surprising and revealing look at the Beatles story you'll read. Everyone knows a Beatles tune. But their story goes beyond the omnipresent songs and iconic albums. Theirs...

The reality of espionage isnt easily disentangled from its mythology and somewhere at the uneasy confluence of these dimensions is the fiction of John le Carr. A former British intelligence...

The brand new epic family drama from the nation's favourite storyteller. Where can a daughter turn when her father's love is stolen away? When heart-broken Sarah Quinn is left to...

Since the success of "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" in 1964, Brian Friel has written over twenty plays, successively confirming his reputation as a major dramatist of the twentieth century. But...

An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed...

The first to indicate that Du Maurier had bi sexual tendencies, this book depicts a woman far removed fro m the ''Queen of Romance'' described in the tabloid obituaries ....

'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal...

From the award-winning author of Soldier Girls and Just Like Us , an "extraordinary" ( The Denver Post ) account of refugee teenagers at a Denver public high school and...

Following on from Osborne's first autobiographical book, "A Better Class of Person", this book looks at the period 1955 to 1966. It covers the foundation of the English Stage Company...

** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ** A Best Book of 2025 for the Financial Times, The Week, Spectator, BBC History Magazine, NPR, History Today, Waterstones and Daunts 'A sparkling debut by...

A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And...

'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German...

Sean O' Casey's Irish plays, among them "Juno and the Paycock", arguably place him amongst the great playwrights of the 20th century. This book explores the myth of O'Casey's slum...

A delightful novella from the internationally bestselling author of A Woman of Substance Thirty-three-year-old Bill Fitzgerald is an acclaimed American television foreign correspondent. War-weary and exhausted after a long stint...

Frank Hardy is perhaps Australia's most famous Communist writer. In his literary biography on Frank Hardy, author Paul Adams traces the relationship between Hardy's writings, his political activism and the...

At the age of 100, Frances Partridge has had a new lease of life and decided she would like to publish another volume of diaries which covers the years 1972-75....

The Sunday Times bestsellerTHE STORY OF BRITAIN during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively portrait of Britain's Elizabethan Age by...