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Dragon's Pearl: Growing up Among Mao's Reclusive Circle
Sirin Phathanothai was born into one of Thailand's most privileged and politically prominent families. But at the age of 8, her life changed dramatically. She and her brother were sent...
Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Ship
'Thrilling, meticulous and wondrously original' PHILIPPE SANDS A jaw-dropping microhistory of the global economy over the last fifty years told through the many lives of a single ship. At 94...
Gone Away: A John Murray Journey
Introduced by Jeet Thayli, author of Booker Prize shortlisted novel Narcopolis. At the age of 20, Dom Moraes - already a celebrated poet who would go on to be regarded...
One Day: Now a major Netflix series
NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES 'A wonderful, wonderful book' THE TIMES 'Perfect' NEW YORK TIMES 'A modern classic' DAILY MIRROR 'You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic...
Vilest Things: the fiercely addictive and gripping sequel to the epic
The games are over. Let chaos reign. Calla Tuoleimi has done the impossible. Against all odds, she won San-Er's bloody games and eliminated King Kasa, her tyrant uncle and the...
Foiled
It's 1947 on a U.S. Army base near Roswell, New Mexico, and eleven-year-old Kate's friend and neighbor, Billy, shows her a secret. A CIA agent arrives at Billy's house, to...
Things That Must Not Be Forgotten
Like Angela's Ashes meets Bhowani Junction meets Empire of the Sun, a never less than engrossing, beautifully written memoir that reads like a novel. Kwan is an awkward, clumsy half-caste...
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of
The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as...
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our
The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last...
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had...
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
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:...
The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991
THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book...
Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission,...
Captain Scott
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. This is the first biography of Scott by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress...
The Lost Victory: British Dreams, British Realities, 1945-50
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In 1945 Britain emerged triumphant and victorious from the Second World War. On 26 July, after a landslide Labour victory, Clement Attlee became Prime Minister and the nation looked forward...
Dictionary of Modern American History
This reference covers the history of the United States from the declaration of independence to the late 1990s. Entries deal not only with key political, diplomatic and military events but...
Ireland In The 20th Century
Ireland entered the twentieth century savaged by poverty and memories of the famine but inspired by the Celtic Dawn, a remarkable cultural renaissance led by Yeats, Synge and Lady Gregory....
The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson: A Novel
A special paperback edition with colored sprayed edges of this compelling multigenerational novel of survival, love, and the families we make. "A family secret, a DNA test, a journey as...
The Paris Gown: A Novel
"A glorious showstopper of a novel! With its glittering characters, intricately woven plot and chapters full of gorgeous Dior dresses, The Paris Gown will be turning all heads this year."--Natasha...
The Times Queen Elizabeth II: Commemorating her life and reign 1926 -
From young princess to internationally revered head of state, Queen Elizabeth has always fascinated and intrigued. This fully updated second edition celebrates and remembers the glorious reign of Britain's longest-serving...
The Times Second World War: The history of the global conflict from
The perfect gift for history fans. Follow the conflict of World War 2 from 1939 to 1945 through a unique collection of historical maps, expert commentary and photographs. Published in...
Twentieth Century Seaside Architecture: Pools, Piers and Pleasure
A nostalgic exploration of Britain's distinctive and architecturally significant seafront buildings from the 1920s to the new millennium. British seaside resorts enjoyed phenomenal popularity for much of the twentieth century....
Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the
'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!' This declamation by president Ronald Reagan when visiting Berlin in 1987 is widely cited as the clarion call that brought the Cold War to...
Events that Changed the World: Over 100 Major Events that Have Changed
p>Events that Changed the World is a compilation of the most serious and memorable events that have occurred since the year 1900. Explorers take us to the top of Mount...
The Secret History of MI6
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The authorized history of the world's oldest and most storied foreign intelligence service, drawing extensively on hitherto secret documents. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (also commonly known as MI6) was born...
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
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A New York Times bestsellerNow also an Oscar-nominated documentaryIn Dirty Wars , Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater , takes us inside America's new covert wars....
1917: The Russian Revolution and its Aftermath
Upon their scandalous deportation from the United States in 1919, famous anarchist writers and activists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were greeted like heroes by the new Bolshevik government in...
The Totally True Story of Gracie Byrne
"A warmhearted story that will resonate with anyone who has ever dreamed of reinventing themselves." - Kirkus Reviews It's 1987, and sixteen-year-old Gracie Byrne wishes her life were totally different....
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
A radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and economic landscape. For half a century, statisticians, pundits and politicians have...
The Undertaker's Daughter
'On the last day of 1959 my father, the Beau Brummel of morticians, piled us into his green and white Desoto in which we looked like a moving pack of...
The Lives of Brian: The Sunday Times bestselling autobiography from
The story of AC/DC's legendary front man in his own distinctive voice 'It wasn't me. I didn't do it. And I'll never do it again!' says Brian Johnson of The...
Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness
The two most significant British political figures of the twentieth-century, Churchill and Lloyd George were political rivals but personal friends. Between them their ministerial careers spanned seventy years and two...
The American Presidency, 1945-2000: Illusions of Grandeur
Unique in its concentration on the postwar presidency, this radical history goes to the heart of the presidential role in the US to discover how and why the power and...
Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War
On a midsummer day in 1937, Boris Bibikov kissed his two daughters goodbye and disappeared. One of those girls, Lyudmila, was to fall in love with a tall young foreigner...
A Concise History of Poland
Poland is a country which sporadically hits the headlines of the Anglo-Saxon world. It has suffered the dubious distinction of being wiped off the political map in 1795 to be...
Cai Guo-Qiang
The catalog published for the exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in 2000 retraces all of the projects by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang (born 1957), through documentation of...
Undercover Tales of World War II
Over 70 behind-the-scenes tales of bribery, sabotage, and other clandestine operations from the Second World WarThe chronicles of World War II are filled with exotic tales of espionage, mysterious kidnappings,...
The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression,
Shortly after arriving in the White House in early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard. His opponents thought his decision unwise at best, and ruinous...
Former People: The Destruction of the Russian Aristocracy
Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik...
War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties
World War II stung Britain like a wasp. It was a stimulus and an endurance. The Blitz concentrated the mind wonderfully. The arts flowered - poetry and painting, cinema and...
Secrets Of The Shadows (The Annie Graham crime series, Book 2)
The stunning second book in the Annie Graham crime thriller series * * * * Six months on from the case that changed everything, police officer Annie Graham is not...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Collins Modern Classics)
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure...
The Woman Who Went Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel
"A reminder that age is no barrier to the unconventional and daring...An extraordinary story about an extraordinary woman ." New York Times bestseller Hazel Gaynor "Told with warmth and grace,...
Scabby Queen
'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better...
Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Invention That Sparked the Radio
Marconi himself was the son of an Italian father and an Irish mother (from the Jameson whiskey family); he grew up in Italy and was fluent in Italian and English,...
The Path to Power
Margaret Thatcher's government was, she says, about the application of a philosophy, not the implementation of an administrative programme. These ideas and beliefs were propelled throughout her time in office...