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Bartali's Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy's Secret Hero
This 2021 National Jewish Book Award finalist by author Megan Hoyt and illustrator Iacopo Bruno brings to light the inspiring, true story of Gino Bartali, a beloved Italian cyclist and...
German Visual Dictionary: A photo guide to everyday words and phrases
The home of trusted full-colour visual dictionaries for everyday use.A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in German. This attractive pocket-sized book is a perfect travel companion and...
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made
The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones-the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son,...
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace
'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering...
The Traitor's Gold (Joe Mason, Book 5)
The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series At the root of all riches lies evil...Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on a...
The Babylon Plot (Joe Mason, Book 4)
'Five-star turbo-charged, non-stop action thriller... It reads like a movie reel... Needs to be on every thrill seeker's reading list' NetGalley review Don't miss the next instalment of the Joe...
Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess
A Spectator Best Book of the YearTrawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great...
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for
Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the...
How to Raise a Viking: The Secrets of Parenting the World's Happiest
'Top-notch' Good Housekeeping - BEST PARENTING BOOKS'Helen has a way to take big ideas and convey them with warmth and wisdom' Dr Rangan Chatterjee'A well researched study injected with humour...
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors,...
Slow: Easy, comforting Italian meals worth waiting for
Savour the art of slow cooking the Italian way, where flavours deepen and texture is softened to create comforting, inexpensive meals with little fuss whilst you enjoy the convenience of...
Sharpe's Command (The Sharpe Series, Book 14)
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...
Chateau Reawakening: One Couple's Wild And Wonderful Journey To
Chateau Reawakening is the story of the highs and lows of one couple's journey to save an eighteenth century French chateau. When former Australian politician Tim Holding and his fiancee...
Verdura: 10 Vegetables, 100 Italian Recipes
Cook and eat the Italian way, with 100 fresh, wholesome and delicious vegetarian recipes. World-renowned chef Theo Randall shares his 10 favourite vegetables and reveals the best ways to cook...
In Love with Rome: Recipes and Stories from the Eternal City
In Love with Rome is an irresistible combination of 50 delicious sweet and savoury recipes and stories of epic romance. Discover all that the Eternal City has to offer from...
North: How to Live Scandinavian
What is hygge? Why are Scandinavians the almost nearly perfect people? How can we get a little more Scandi-style in our lives? Bronte Aurell left Denmark to explore the world...
Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
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...
Wild Figs and Fennel: A Year in an Italian Kitchen
Indulge in a year of Italian culinary bliss.Wild Figs & Fennel is not just a collection of seasonal recipes; it's a passport to the Mediterranean, a charming journey into the...
Le Sud: Recipes from Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
From James Beard Book Award finalist Rebekah Peppler: The definitive guide to the food, drink, and lifestyle of southeastern France, featuring 100 recipes that reflect the simple, seasonal, and multicultural...
Hidden Homes of Tuscany and Umbria: Inspirational Interiors in Rural
Featuring an array of beautiful homes, Hidden Homes of Tuscany and Umbria is a spectacular celebration of one the best-loved and most alluring regions of Italy. Steeped in history, Tuscany...
God's City: Byzantine Constantinople
Byzantium. Was it Greek or Roman, familiar or hybrid, barbaric or civilised, Oriental or Western? In the late eleventh century Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in Christendom, the...
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
An engaging biography that offers a new perspective on one of the most influential figures of the Crusades In 1187, Saladin marched triumphantly into Jerusalem, ending decades of struggle against...
Normandy in the Time of Darkness: Everyday Life and Death in the
This narrative history tells the story of the German occupation of Normandy (1940-44), and the Allied liberation. Following the fall of France in 1940, Normandy formed part of the Reich's...
The History of British Art, Volume 1: 600-1600
Drawing upon the latest discoveries and research, leading scholars unravel the complex stories behind the phenomenal artistic activity of the Middle Ages and into the Reformation across all media, including...
Maximinus Thrax
Maximinus was a half-barbarian strongman 'of frightening appearance and colossal size' who could smash stones with his bare hands and pull fully laden wagons unaided. Such feats impressed the emperor...
Hitler's Air Defences
The first Allied bombing raid on Berlin during the course of the Second World War, took place on 7 June 1940, when a French naval aircraft dropped 8 bombs on...
The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis: The Epic
The year 2022 marks 2,500 years since Athens, the birthplace of democracy, fought off the mighty Persian Empire. This is the story of the three epic battles--Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis--that...
The Unorthodox Imagination in Late Medieval Britain
The unorthodox imagination in late medieval Britain explores how medieval people responded to images, stories, beliefs and practices which were at odds with the normative world view, from the heretical...
US Eighth Air Force in Europe: Eager Eagles: Summer 1941-1943
Using narrative accounts and new insights this book catalogues the dramatic and first-hand oral testimonies of the US Army Air Corps' bomber crews of the newly created Eighth Air Force...
The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow: The Life and Times of a Slave Trade
Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its 'human cargo'. This is a highly engaging, rare,...
Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth
* 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...
In the Name of Italy: Nation, Family, and Patriotism in a Fascist
What was the nature of justice in Italian Fascist society? Through the lens of the case of Luigia Paulovich, a legal appeal filed against the Prefect of Trieste in 1931,...
Treasures from the Italian Libraries
Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated books lie hidden in many of Italy's libraries. Because of their fragility, these treasures are available only to accredited scholars and denied to the general public....
Etruscans, The
This volume accompanies Palazzo Grassi's exhibition on the Etruscans. It contains 20 chapters by prominent scholars on diverse topics such as Etruscan city building, language, slavery and trade. Illustrations display...
Brilliant Discourse: Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome
Sixteenth-century Roman presses turned out hundreds of technical treatises and learned discourses written in the vernacular. Covering topics as diverse as the cultivation of silkworms, the lives of the saints,...
U-Boat War Patrol
This unique account charts the complete story of a single U-boat patrol through the summer of 1942 based around a remarkable collection of photographs that were 'liberated' from a concrete...
Combat Over the Mediterranean: The RAF in Action Against the Germans
Drawing on an extremely rare collection of photographs taken by the camera guns of Bristol Beaufighters deployed on ground-attack and anti-shipping operations, this book will form a rare indeed unique...
Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints
A profound, witty, and informative account of the lives of the saints depicted in the devotional art of the Renaissance This book offers a powerful and searching meditation on the...
Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg,
"A fascinating and very original book, based on an enormous amount of primary research. Freed is a leading authority on the ministerials of the Holy Roman Empire, who kept their...
After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
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...
Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar
The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s...
Postwall German Cinema: History, Film History and Cinephilia
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a proliferation of German historical films. These productions have earned prestigious awards and succeeded at box offices both at home...
Out of Albania: From Crisis Migration to Social Inclusion in Italy
Analysing the dynamics of the post-1990 Albanian migration to Italy, this book is the first major study of one of Europe's newest, most dramatic yet least understood migrations. It takes...
Nationalism and the Cinema in France: Political Mythologies and Film
It is often taken for granted that French cinema is intimately connected to the nation's sense of identity and self-confidence. But what do we really know about that relationship? What...
Plantagenet Princes: Sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II
When Count Henry of Anjou and his formidable wife Eleanor of Aquitaine became king and queen of England, they amassed an empire stretching 1,000 miles from the Pyrenees to the...
Conflict in the Crimea
The author relies to a great extent on contemporary accounts of a large number of British men - and women - who were unwittingly caught up in this appalling war....
Edgehill: the Battle Reinterpreted
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...