European History

Embark on a delightful culinary adventure with Manon Lagreve's third cookbook, La Saison . This enchanting collection proves that French cuisine can be savoured throughout the seasons. Let Manon guide...

From the bestselling author of Copenhagen Food , this Scandinavian cookbook is a collection of simple, summer recipes to enjoy at home. With the never-ending sunlight, this magical time of...

The Italian Table is acclaimed chef Theo Randall's celebration of the food of Italy. This collection of 100 brand-new recipes captures the simplicity, authenticity and generosity that make Italian cooking...

Discover the captivating Emilia-Romagna region in Italy offering the most delicious food with over 75 authentic recipes, cooked with care and attention using the best ingredients. Praise for Ursula's previous...

A murderer targets British historians of the First World War in this 1970s classic Paul Mitchell spends his days researching the carnage of the First World War in the silence...

'A powerful story, beautifully told' M.L. STEDMAN 'Truly compelling' WILLIAM BOYD 'Exquisitely written and deeply human' CHRIS CLEAVE 'Far-reaching, but also intimate and intensely personal' FLORENCE KNAPP 'Alluring in its...

The Wow! board books are a series of modern first concept books for today's children. The books put little ones in the centre of the action with relatable experiences that...

THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Times Best History Book of the Year; A Waterstones Best Book of the Year 'Reads like a thriller... I couldn't put Max Hastings's new...

'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE 'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP 'Brilliantly conceived' PAUL CARTLEDGE An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancient Greece by...

No campaign during World War Two contained more spinetingling drama, outstanding courage and heartbreaking tragedy than the Arctic convoys. Yet they - and the multifaceted Battle of the Arctic that...

One of the most beloved translations of all time returns to Penguin Classics- Scott Moncrieff's masterful version of Proust Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth...

No city on earth has preserved its past as has Rome. Visitors stand on bridges that were crossed by Julius Caesar and Cicero, walk around temples visited by Roman emperors,...

'Cannon has a keen descriptive eye and a striking, lyrical turn of phrase . . . a rich, warm, authoritative book' TLS This is the definitive tale of how our...

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and artist Juanita Londono, this lyrical celebration of the first day of school across every continent explores what going back to...

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ANDY BURNHAM, MAYOR OF GREATER MANCHESTER 'What Manchester thinks today,...

Berlin, 1920s: a beacon of culture and hedonism, but a political mess. The streets are crowded with war veterans, beggars, prostitutes and madmen, desperately chasing any means to secure a...

A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition. These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides...

The 2024 Elizabeth Longford prizewinning biography of the founder of Impressionism Based on thousands of never-before translated letters and unpublished sources, Jackie Wullschl ger's enthralling biography is the first account...

As she lay in dry dock, devastatingly damaged by one of Hitler's newly deployed magnetic mines after barely two months in service, few could have predicted the illustrious career that...

Upon the death of her husband, Innocenzo Monti, Lalla Romano sought to distil the essence of their long life together. The result was In Farthest Seas : a piercingly intimate...

As war between Prussia and Denmark brews over the territory of Schleswig-Holstein, a German nobleman is called to serve as a gentleman-in-waiting at the Danish court. Count Holk's life so...

Lene is an orphaned seamstress; Botho is a nobleman and an officer in one of the Prussian army's most glittering regiments. But whatever their differences of class and education, their...

Sparta - its legendary warriors and steadfast resilience are famous throughout the world as a model for toughness, justice and masculinity. The Spartans' reputation as fighters is matched only by...

The astonishing inside story of the Wagner Group, the world's deadliest militia " Putin's Sledgehammer provides an in-depth account of, and essential political and economic background to, the story of...

Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the besieged city of Exeter at the very height of the English Civil...

Recent research into the Duke of Wellington's armies during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign has enhanced our understanding of the men he led, and this new biographical guide...

During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of...

Following the Battle of Britain, the RAF started taking the air war to the Germans. A small number of bombers, escorted by large numbers of fighters tried to force the...

'The British Expeditionary Force - The 1915 Campaign' is a thorough account of the BEF's actions during the battles of 1915 and early 1916, starting with the success at Neuve...

Before EPSOM in late June 1944 there remained the chance that a German counter-stroke might seriously threaten the bridgehead. After EPSOM, the Allies retained the strategic initiative through to the...

Compiled from a variety of sources and first-hand accounts, this book is an authoritative record of the part played by No.218 (Gold Coast) Squadron during the bomber offensives of World...

Many guidebooks cover the Somme offensive in 1916, the five-month struggle that has come to be seen as one of the defining episodes in the history of the fighting on...

During visits to the First World War battlefields the author often wondered where various Victoria Cross actions took place; he resolved to find out. Research commenced in 1988 and numerous...

'Masterly.' - Daily Mail 'Stunning.' - History Today 'Magnificent.' - Literary Review Napoleon's life reached its most extraordinary stage between 1805 and 1810. At war with Britain, Russia, and Austria,...

A gripping new approach to the Nuremberg Trial, told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness it Nuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war...

The award-winning literary thriller from one of Italy's most exciting feminist writers, for fans of Sophie Mackintosh, Elena Ferrante and Sarah Moss One morning, a teacher disappears into the woods....

Alone in an ethnographic museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener is confronted with her unusual inheritance. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artefacts, the spoils of European colonial plunder, many...

'A revolutionary thriller, bildungsroman and cry of feminist frustration... Actual-work-of-genius territory' Sunday Times A captivating feminist classic about a woman's struggle for independence in fascist Italy, from the author of...

'A tantalising mystery, executed with perfection.' - THOMAS ENGER He was locked inside an abandoned house. But he's not the only one . . . When a dead man is...

'A magician.' - The Times Despite decades spent poetically chronicling Mediterranean life in Rhodes, Cyprus and Corfu, celebrated travel writer Lawrence Durrell had never set foot on the largest island:...

Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In the early fifteenth century, France...

The story of how the British really won two world wars - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and bluffing their way out of trouble. Pretend German radio stations broadcast...

'Part memoir, part shoe leather investigative journalism, Mafiopoli is a vital exploration of how organised crime takes hold of a society from the bottom up and spreads around the world.'...

'Brilliantly written ... evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland, author of Pax and co-host of The Rest is History It's time to meet the real Vikings. A...

'One of Spain's most acclaimed writers' New York Times 'Spain's finest contemporary novelist' Guardian A REDISCOVERED POST-WAR LOVE STORY FROM ONE OF SPAIN'S MOST ACCLAIMED AUTHORS. 1950s Barcelona. A rebellious...

THE RIVIERA SET is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years...

The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 launched Gunter Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925...

They fascinate us today as they did 500 years ago: elaborate compositions of exotic fruits or platters with oysters, floral arrangements and skulls, exquisitely decorated musical instruments and scientific instruments....