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Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
Author: Benjamin Storey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet...
The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral And The Men Who Made Modern London
Author: Leo Hollis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A tour de force of biography, history, politics, philosophy and experimental science' ECONOMIST The remarkable and inspiring story of how London...
Eclipse
Author: Alan Moorehead Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 An eye-witness account of the allied invasion of Fortress Europe in World War II. Eclipse was the code name given by...
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
Author: Estelle Paranque Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A thrilling joint biography of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, uncovering how their complex 30-year relationship shaped their dynasties, perfect...
Last Stop Auschwitz: My story of survival from within the camp
Author: Eddy de Wind Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 An Auschwitz prisoner's remarkable account of suffering and survival, an international bestseller and the only complete book written inside the...
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history The modern era saw the emergence of...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea that nothing...
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court
Author: Gareth Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500...
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 672 The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as...
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
Author: James Belich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age....
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History
Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
Forgotten War: new edition
Author: Henry Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab
Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail 'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times 'A...
Dr. B.
Author: Daniel Birnbaum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel...
Macquarie
Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history. Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping...
George Mackay Brown
Author: Maggie Fergusson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide...
Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain's Lost Love of the Orient
Author: Fatima Manji Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Channel 4 News reporter and broadcaster Fatima Manji explores British history and identity through the art, objects and architecture that found...
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom
Author: Preeti Dhillon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality, and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before....
!No Pasaran!: Writings from the Spanish Civil War
Author: Pete Ayrton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Hope, resignation, despair, sadness, humour, confusion, ruthlessness, compassion, kindness, generosity and love inhabit Pete Ayrton's anthology of writings from the Spanish...
We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
Author: Sean Mirski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
Author: Katherine Pangonis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon...
First VCS
Author: John Grehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 287 Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the...
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
Author: Bernard Cornwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.' On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended...
The Borgias
Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said...
The Sky Wept Fire: My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter
Author: Mikail Eldin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 On the eve of the first Chechen war, Mikail Eldin was a young and naive arts journalist. By the end of...
Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History
Author: Lesley Adkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on...
Budapest: Between East and West
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions...
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Author: Hana Videen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Delightful ... a pleasure' - Guardian Old English is the language you think you know until you hear or see it....
A Brief History of Paris
Author: Cecil Jenkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Paris: city of love, food and fashion. Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas. Paris: a...
Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain
Author: Blessin Adams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Grimly fascinating ... engrossing' Daily Mail NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION. In early modern England, murder truly was most foul....
Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth
Author: Adam Zamoyski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad A landmark new biography that...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the...
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon
Author: Simon Fenwick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator -...
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
Author: Richard Hurowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 "In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration,...
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London
Author: Andrew Nagorski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man' -SYLVIA NASAR, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND 'A gripping masterpiece'...
The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution
Author: Peter Bradley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Haunting.' Jonathan Freedland 'Powerful.' Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust,...
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain
Author: Paul Preston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is...
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES...
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Engrossing.' -Observer 'Remarkable.' - The Times 'Magnificent.'- Phillipe Sands 'Gripping.'- Literary Review 'A history so outlandish and unlikely that you feel...
The Last Palace: Europe's Extraordinary Century Through Five Lives and One House in Prague
Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the...
Budapest: Between East and West
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin,...
After the Fall: Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain
Author: Tobias Buck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Tobias Buck arrived in Madrid in December 2012, in time to celebrate the bleakest Christmas the city had seen in a...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles...
Inside Ukraine: A Portrait of a Country and its People
Author: Ukrainer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Inside Ukraine is a compelling visual portrait of the real Ukraine, lovingly put together by Ukrainians in the years leading up to...
The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia
Author: P.E. Caquet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain spoke...
A Brief History of the Vikings
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.' Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their...