20th Century History

In Rwanda in 1994 one million people were killed in a planned, public and political campaign. For six years Linda Melvern has worked on the story of this horrendous crime,...

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year/Politics Winner of the Jewish Book Council's Natan Notable Book Prize "One of the most accurate and fascinating books so far" (Michael...

It's the nineties, baby! This adorable, iconic board book features everything from bucket hats to pagers, and plenty of nineties slang! I'm a nineties baby, just look at me! I'm...

In the summer of 1957, rebelling against her family and anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at...

This epic book, spanning two continents, recounts the story of three generations of two families whose lives unexpectedly intersect in their adopted country. Beautifully capturing the loss faced when war...

From Bob Woodward, legendary investigative reporter, Veil is the story of the covert wars that were waged by the CIA across Central America, Iran and Libya in a secretive atmosphere...

It is impossible to examine any part of the war on terrorism in the twenty-first century without seeing the hand of Dick Cheney, Colin Powell or one of their loyalists....

The indomitable Miss Cocks and Ethel Bromley return for Book Two in the bestselling and charmingly cosy Petticoat Police Mystery Series, inspired by one of Australia's first policewomen. Adelaide, September...

The first book, entitled Revolution Day will be Rageh Omaar's story of the recent Iraq war. During that conflict millions of people turned to Omaar for the quality of his...

Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is:...

Gabriel Dax returns in this elegant, twisting mystery of espionage and obsession and takes the reader deep into one of history's most infamous assassinations. Gabriel Dax, travel writer and accidental...

This study is an inside look at many of the icons of the swinging 1960s, through memories and photographs. Thematically arranged, Morley remembers key figures he photographed in London's theatre,...