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You're in the middle of the Gold Rush, pioneer - and you are headed West on the Oregon Trail with hopes to strike it rich in this choose-your-own-trail experience. Travel...

The memoirs of Mary Elizabeth Williams, who became mistress of Charlecote Old Hall in 1823. She wrote this memoir for her grandchildren sixty years later, including anecdotes about some of...

Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions that finally happened about 1860....

Living Fashion by Leen Demeester, explains the influence of fashion on the daily life of middle class women in Western Europe between 1750 and 1950. The text focuses mainly on...

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was already an old man when the young poet Rainer Maria Rilke went to interview him for the first time. Rilke stayed on to work as Rodin's...

'If it had not been for you English, I should have been Emperor of the East; but wherever there is water to float a ship, we are sure to find...

From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of an enigmatic figure, wife to feted colonial architect Francis Greenway, and asks, whose hand really...

* SHARPE'S COMMAND , the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Sergeant Richard Sharpe witnesses a murderous act of treachery and, with Sir...

Returning from South America, Jack Aubrey finds himself led into the half worlds of the London criminal underground in this most unconventional of Patrick O'Brian's lauded naval tales. The Reverse...

Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave...

Charles Darwin is best known for his work on the evolution of animals, but in fact a large part of his contribution to the natural sciences is focused on plants....

'Written with an incredible eye for detail of the historical setting, this wonderful romantic tale will earn your respect and keep you entertained' Adele Parks 'If you loved Her Heart...

'Written with an incredible eye for detail of the historical setting, this wonderful romantic tale will earn your respect and keep you entertained' Adele Parks 'If you loved Her Heart...

'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES ' If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de...

From The New York Times bestselling author, the gripping story of Winston Churchill's exploits in the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill believed that to achieve his ambition of...

Travel for pleasure developed greatly in the 18th century, and here Jeremy Black examines travel on the Continent, the so-called "Grand Tour". He considers not only the standard destinations of...

The dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order Steam power transformed our world. It revolutionized work and production, but...

A "compelling" ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy-a little-known but once notorious event that cost three young...

'When I was at primary school, my teacher asked if any of us had heard of Charles Dickens. I was amazed she knew his name, because, until that moment, I...

These outstanding books bring to life the people, places and events of the past in these islands, from the earliest settlers to the present day. They explore the everyday lives...

With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott King A beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin...

Join the original pioneer girl in this Little House chapter book, adapted for younger readers from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved classics. Illustrated with beautiful new black-and-white artwork, this repackaged edition...

Every book tells a story. Every heart hides a secret. In the shadowy aisles of the Lamplighter's Bookshop, secrets lie as thick as the dust... When Evelyn Seaton answers an...

It's the season of peace and goodwill, but a Victorian Christmas is no holiday for the world's most popular detective in this new book from Bonnie MacBird, author of the...

"The locked room mystery to end all locked room mysteries!" - Sophia Bennett. Provocative, gripping historical fiction, inspired by an incredible true story of female convicts London, 1841. The Rajah...

An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history 'People embraced each other, shook hands, joy radiated from every eye, there was no limit to 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....

From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment In the summer of...

Simon Winchester's The Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an extraordinary friendship in the nineteenth century. It is the...

Unique to this edition is a translation of Tocqueville's other American writings-Two Weeks in the Wilderness and The Excursion to Lake Oneida. In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France...

Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. In July that year,...

An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers Dating from 1909 to...

From the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, comes a new journey tracing a colonial-era African expedition. In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan...

The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...

The definitive modern biography of Napoleon - now in paperback Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives, transforming France and Europe in the space of...

A captivating treasure of a novel about Clemmie, a young Victorian Egyptologist, and her entanglement with the legend of the goddess, Nephthys. 'Brilliant... I loved it.' Santa Montefiore SISTER. RIVAL....

Puffin Clothbound Classics - stunningly beautiful hardback editions of the most famous stories in the world. Heathcliff, an orphan, is raised by Mr Earnshaw as one of his own children....

A history of modern Greece by one of the pre-eminent experts in the field We think we know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us...

A masterpiece of historical writing which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century...

Penguin Classics brings this seminal work by Engels back in to print, with a new introduction by historian Tristram Hunt The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State...

Penguin Classics relaunch Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted...

A new translation of this classic text The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is...

Churchill through the eyes of those who met him, published for the 150th anniversary of his birth This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political events, incorporating perspectives...

We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for the Russia Anxiety is within reach ... Russia is an exceptional country,...

'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia In 1787, the...

The fever that forever changed Australia The fever that forever changed Australia. David Hill relates the extraordinary people and staggering events of Australia's great gold-rush years. From the mid- to...