European History

SHARPE IS BACK.The brand new novel from Bernard Cornwell in the global bestselling Sharpe series. If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe ...Spain, 1812If any man can...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War. The legendary 'Red Devils' were among the finest...

* Shortlisted for the Academy of British Cover Design Awards, 2015* Greece's recent political turmoil captured the imagination of the left across Europe. Elected in January 2015 under the leadership...

During the last two decades of the 20th century, the perception of Italian cinema's prominence within the film industry waned. This decline, in part due to the loss of its...

This paperback edition of this seminal new study of a key battle of the Civil Wars re-examines one of England's most mysterious battlefields at Edgehill, and it combines the work...

The year is 1814. The Allies have driven Napoleon's once-mighty qrmies back to PAris. Trapped, forced to abdicate after two decades of triumphant rule, the Emperor takes leave of his...

At the start of the Spanish Civil War the nationalists sought help for their cause from Germany, following which volunteers from the German Air Force and Army formed what was...

Germany in the Great War Illustrated - Mobilisation and the Western Advance is the first volume of a projected six-part series that details, graphically, the Central Powers - Germany and...

In the late 3rd century BC, while Rome struggled for her very survival against the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War, Philip V of Macedon allied with Hannibal in pursuit...

Since the beginnings of Italian vernacular literature, the nature of the relationship between Francesco Petrarch and his predecessor Dante Alighieri has remained an open and endlessly fascinating question of both...

"A joy to read" Times Literary Supplement"[A] stirring and accessible history of the mighty Rhine" Irish Times "It's easy to be swept away by Deen's delightful prose" New Statesman"A beautiful...

The battles fought by the British army in 1915, in the second year of the First World War, are less well known than those fought immediately after the outbreak of...

The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed. A sex tape from her student days - one she never knew existed. The price: 300,000 euros and her immediate resignation. A political...

'Unputdownable' MICK HERRON   'Fast-paced and exhilarating, you'll be hooked' HEAT   'A summer read which exudes menace' SARAH VAUGHAN   'Mysterious, suspenseful and suffused with paranoia' ALEX MICHAELIDES  ...

You've got no idea what you're dredging up. You're going to ruin everything.The past is not going to stay buried in this unputdownable crime novel, the first in a series...

BY THE AUTHOR OF STANDING HEAVY - SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure...

'The reigning Queen of Classics' Spectator'Mary Beard is the best in the business' Dan Snow'Excellent' Guardian'Enthralling' Sunday TimesBritain's most famous classicist asks: what are civilisations?Central to this huge question are...

'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has an excellent eye for revealing detail' William Dalrymple'James has a...

The powerful memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds.'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival...

A gripping and atmospheric Black Forest Investigation featuring Detective Inspector Louise Boni.     "Oliver Bottini is one of the most sophisticated crime writers of modern times" Sunday Times  ...

The acclaimed first English-language biography of the great European novelist and journalist, Joseph Roth, author of The Radetzky March, a writer who captured life in Europe between the wars like...

'THE FRENCH SUSPENSE KING' NEW YORK TIMES'ONE OF THE GREAT THRILLER WRITERS OF OUR AGE' DAILY EXPRESS'IT'S NO WONDER THAT GUILLAUME MUSSO IS ONE OF FRANCE'S MOST LOVED, BESTSELLING AUTHORS'...

In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to...

The acclaimed first English-language biography of the great European novelist and journalist, Joseph Roth, author of The Radetzky March, a writer who captured life in Europe between the wars like...

'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind....

'A triumph' INDEPENDENT'A thought-provoking and indispensable book' DAILY MAIL'An instant classic ... I have been reading it with unalloyed admiration and delight' EVENING STANDARDRoy Strong has written an exemplary introduction...

'The perfect summer escape, I adored it!' USA Today bestselling author Faith Hogan In a tiny bookshop in Dubrovnik's historic Old Town, a book club begins...Newly arrived on the sun-drenched...

'Grimly fascinating ... engrossing' Daily Mail NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION. In early modern England, murder truly was most foul. Trials were gossipy events packed to the rafters with...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE...

Although Chinese Marxism - primarily represented by Maoism -is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in...

The issue of a woman's place-and the possibility that she might stray from it-was one of early modern Italy's most persistent social concerns. Ladies Errant takes as its starting point...

As scandalous as any modern-day celebrity murder trial, the "Giroux affair" was a maelstrom of intrigue, encompassing daggers, poison, adultery, archenemies, servants, royalty, and legal proceedings that reached the pinnacle...

Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasures being unloaded at Seville's docks in 1537, Pedro de Cieza de Leun decided to join the Spanish effort in the New World,...

Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to...

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...

Alice Roberts goes in search of the Celts and their treasures in a narrative history to accompanying a new BBC series. We know a lot about the Roman Empire. The...

"Bottini is a terrific storyteller" SUNDAY EXPRESSThe third in the Black Forest Investigations series - by CWA shortlisted authorOne wet and misty weekend in October, the Niemann family find a...

'What a wonderful storyteller Maitland is' THE TIMESDANIEL PURSGLOVE BOOK THREEFrom the stark Yorkshire landscape to the dark underbelly of Jacobean London, Daniel Pursglove's new mission sees him fall prey...

The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of...

The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of...

Escape to Italy and fall in love with this perfect summer read...Floundering junior travel writer Katie has just been given the opportunity of her career. Her boss can't make her...

'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la...

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"Night Hunters, like the previous three Black Forest cases, is hard-hitting and tightly written" MARK SANDERSON, The Times Crime Club"Oliver Bottini is a terrific storyteller" Sunday Express"Taut writing and pacy...

Patricia Highsmith meets E. Lockhart in Out Of Her Depth - a simmering summer thriller about the choices you make as a teenager, and what happens when they go horribly...

WINNER OF THE 2024 SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDIts name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures....

Munich, 1935 - The Bavarian capital is a magnet for young, aristocratic Britons who come to learn German, swim in the lakes and drink beer in the cellars.What they don't...