20th Century History

A new anthology of 100 years of artists', film makers' and architects' manifestos In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony...

'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear- the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has...

From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Life Before Man is a tragicomic tale of love seeking to find its way in the wake of death. Life Before...

Grit and Glamour features an incredible range of photography by famed artist Allan Tannenbaum covering the styles and fashions of the iconic decade, including stars and artists such as the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'A superb novel, evoking a bygone era when women could not afford to put a foot wrong' SUNDAY TIMES...

The three outstanding exhibitions featured in this publication form a trilogy: * The Welfare Show (Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; BAWAG Foundation, Vienna; Serpentine Gallery, London; The Power Plant, Toronto) * The...

Four generations of women experience love, loss, war and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and, finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping...

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...

The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage, kindness and ingenuity. A New...

'The epic story of an iconic aircraft and the breathtaking courage of those who flew her' Andy McNab, bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero 'Compelling, thrilling and rooted in quite...

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today's most admired and controversial political figures. She burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened...

'Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie Wiesel From her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the...

A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey...

An intimate and revelatory memoir from the iconic, acclaimed singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her landmark recording of Prince's...

An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS...

CHAOS UNEARTHS LONG-KEPT SECRETS THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING READERS THOUGHT THEY KNEW ABOUT THE CRIME THAT ENDED THE SIXTIES As featured on The Joe Rogan Experience ______________________________ A journalist's twenty-year...

The adventure of a lifetime to buy Stalin's secret multimillion dollar wine cellar located in Georgia; it is the Raiders of the Lost Ark of wine. 'A wild, boys-own adventure...

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from former Cabinet minister Rory Stewart Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a...

Two brothers venture across 1950s America in the absorbing New York Times bestselling novel by the author of A Gentleman in Moscow THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...

A coming-of-age novel about love and obsession, set in a silent convent in 1950s Italy Isabella is worldly, alluring and brazen. Everything that Bridget is not. So when they both...

The graphic adaptation of one of the world's most-loved books 'June, 1942- I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to...

THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon,...

An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known....

The diaries of the last British Governor, published on the 25th anniversary of the handover In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to...

A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States When Alistair Cooke retired in February 2004...

The second book of the Hook, Line and Sinker series finds Bernard Samson on the run through Berlin, Vienna and Prague Bernard Samson is a spy on the run. But...

Bernard Samson gets caught up in the messy unravelling of the USSR in the second novel of the Faith, Hope, Charity trilogy Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the second...

The first novel in the celebrated Faith, Hope and Charity trilogy finds Bernard Samson in rural Germany, trying to deliver a Russian defector to London Central Bernard Samson returns to...

The final novel featuring Bernard Samson, one of Deighton's most enduring characters, who must return to Berlin for one last case Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel...

The last diary of Che Guevara, with entries going up until two days before his death- the final, blazing record of a true revolutionary In 1967 Che Guevara left Cuba...

Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military...

From the author of the 'stone-cold classic' Easy Riders, Raging Bulls comes a blockbuster follow-up- the inside story of television's epic transformation The revolution has been televized. From The Sopranos...

An all-encompassing, insightful and wry look at living in a racist world, by a leading Black British voice in the academy and in the media Take a step through the...

A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures 'Truth is mysterious, fleeting, always to be won. Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting'...

A startling, densely poetic portrait of 1970s Ghana as it emerges from colonial rule Winner of the Valco Fund Literary Award for Fiction and the Ghana Book Award Search Sweet...

\"The best modern single-volume history of the war on the Western Front\" (The Spectator), by the acclaimed author of the bestselling Passchendaele In the annals of military history, the Western...

A groundbreaking new history of the people at the centre of Europe, from the Second World War to today A groundbreaking new history of the people at the centre of...

An extraordinary story of love and exile, from one of the great masters of the Latin American novel Santiago is trapped. Taken political prisoner in Montevideo after a brutal military...

A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first, drawing on a wealth of Spanish-led historical scholarship never before seen in English 'Spain is different,'...

The definitive new history of East Germany by a highly acclaimed historian In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over...

A compelling history of Chinese resistance to state oppression, told through the stories of three remarkable individuals In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the...

An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848....

New to PMC for this reissue in Modern Classics, with a NEW preface by Paul Theroux The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail...

A witty, incisive classic of road-trip literature, from one of the great champions and critics of the American identity 'Delightful. This is a book to be read slowly for its...

From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman...

Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is both a masterpiece of journalism and a powerful crime thriller. Inspired by a 300-word article in The New York Times, Capote spent six years...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme- the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated...

Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as well as being widely translated. It is the...