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'Simon Woolley revolutionised British politics' - Guardian Can an outsider ever become a member of the establishment? Simon Woolley is a member of the House of Lords, the first Black...

"I am a work in progress. There are times when I feel in control and like I know what I'm doing...and there are times (quite a few)(actually lots) when I've...

THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 A CAPX AND ENGELSBERG IDEAS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 The late 17th century saw the rise of a new phenomenon that...

Why do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a 'special adviser' and how did they take over British political life? And why...

Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay is a vivid portrait of the rural past of Blaxhall, a remote Suffolk village, in the time before mechanisation changed the entire nature...

From the redcoat who served Charles II to the modern, camouflage-clad guard at Camp Bastion, from battlefield to barrack-room, this is a magisterial social history of the British soldier. Since...

This is the captivating story of the four Raw brothers, all of whom served with the Royal Air Force. The eldest three flew during WW2 and all three died. The...

This book, originally published in 1976, is an account of the first five months of the First World War, as seen by members of a battalion of the Grenadier Guards...

THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A powerful polemic' Sunday Times 'A compelling, eye-opening read' Daily Express - Did an illegal immigrant avoid deportation because he had a cat? -...

Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story,...

'Lively . . . peppered with entertaining lines. One of [Low's] skills as a journalist is an ability to sift through mountains of archive material and pick out the gems'...

From the redcoat who served Charles II to the modern, camouflage-clad guard at Camp Bastion, from battlefield to barrack-room, this is a magisterial social history of the British soldier. Since...

'FASCINATING' Daily Mail 'FULL OF AMAZING FACTS' The QI Elves Each of the United Kingdom's 124 postcode areas has a story to tell, an unexpected nugget to dust off and...

The stunning memoir from internationally acclaimed designer Jenny Packham, go-to couturier for icons from the Duchess of Cambridge to Dita Von Teese, on the secrets of great style and life...

'A witty, unforgettable celebration of the courage, genius and defiance that changed the course of history' Jacob Rees-Mogg 'Gimson makes excellent cases for all his choices. His "cardinal point" about...

John Russell's memoir of London goes back to before the great fire of 1666, when the modern city was formed. It looks inside St. Paul's Cathedral, under Wren's great dome,...

The aims of this work are to examine the political, economic, financial and normative reasoning used by the governments and key departments of state of the three main victors of...

The touching, true story of the first Australian RAAF airman to fly a Lancaster Bomber in World War II. As a fifteen-year-old boy growing up in Sydney, Francis Norman 'Norm'...

In the No. 1 bestseller "Station X," Michael Smith brought us the riveting true story of how British experts broke Nazi Germany's wartime codes. In "The Emperor's Codes" he continues...

The book titled Enemies of Promise by the author Cyril Connolly. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This text provides an insider account of the counter-intelligence operation (Operation Mincemeat) which paved the way for the Allied invasion of Sicily during World War II. It outlines the audacious...

This is not only the story of one man's war, but of an aircraft - the Typhoon, or "Tiffy" as it was affectionately known - which the author describes as...

The book titled Mountbatten: The Official Biography by the author Philip Ziegler. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Brady and Hindley: Genesis of the Moors Murders by the author Fred Harrison. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford by the author Nancy Mitford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A major new biography of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a unique figure in British history, a great writer as well as an imperial icon whose life trajectory matched...

In September 1910, the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on a mission for the British government: to investigate reports of widespread human-rights abuses in the forests along...

In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the...

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...

'Playful, moving and wholly remarkable' Guardian 'A small miracle' New Statesman 'Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page' Telegraph Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth...

The book titled Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva by the author Patrick Dillon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The extraordinary revelations in Traitors detail the ugly side of war and power and the many betrayals of our ANZACs. In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef...

Frederick Ashton, one of the greatest choreographers in the history of dance, forever changed the landscape of English ballet, defining what we now know as the English classical style. Julie...

Published to co-incide with the pbk of Claire Tomalin's Whitbread Prize-winning biography The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the...

The homes of the British Royal Family have a unique appeal. Each has enjoyed a rich history of royal patronage and they remain important centres for royal life today. Earl...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE & SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD 'One man's fascinating mission to save the great British orchid' Mail on Sunday 'Noble work in a time...

Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British...

'A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail 'A fresh and original approach' - Hugo Vickers, Royal Biographer She was 'sugar pink' innocence; he was a...

The book titled The Enemy within: Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party by the author Francis Beckett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled Something to Hold onto: Autobiographical Sketches by the author Richard Cobb. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Against the background of major changes, in society, politics, education and literature the author charts the personal lives of Wordsworth and Coleridge and traces the growth of their ideas. It...

A bestseller in hardback, this is a highly-praised and much-needed biography of the first Duke of Wellington, concentrating on the personal life of the victor of Waterloo, and based on...

A heroic, brilliantly detailed portrait of the biographer as artist. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and...

From the time that George Bernard Shaw remarked that "Rebecca West could handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely", West's writings and her politics...

The book titled A Durable Fire: The Letters of Duff and Diana Cooper, 1913-50 by the author Duff Cooper. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Through quiet meadows, rolling hills, leafy suburbia, industrial sites, and a changing London riverside, Mick Sinclair tracks the Thames from source to sea, documenting internationally-known landmarks such as Tower Bridge...

This is a fascinating study - part biography, part cultural history - about George Orwell and his literary reputation. No one gained such sudden fame as Orwell did in the...