Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 This impeccably researched and "adventure-packed" (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus's son to create...
Author: Matthew Stanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Stanley is a storyteller par excellence."--The Washington Post Kirkus Review starred review; Publishers Weekly starred review; Booklist starred review The birth...
Author: Steven Levitsky (Harvard University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A brilliant book, wise and nuanced." --Nicholas Kristof, New York Times "Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly...
Author: Niall Ferguson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living...
Author: Trevor Royle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation...
Author: Colin Woodard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 For fans of Black Sails and Crossbones comes a new history of the Golden Age of Piracy. . ....
Author: Jorella Andrews Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Rembrandt van Rijn is the quintessential Old Master. His intimately observed, vivid and profoundly atmospheric works are what many museum-goers consider...
Author: Padraig Rooney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the summer of 1816 paparazzi trained their telescopes on the goings on of poets Byron and Shelley - and their...
Author: Roy Adkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain's Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France--an overlooked key to the British...
Author: Tim Clayton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The riveting and previously unknown story of the British government's determination to destroy Napoleon Bonaparte by any means possible. Between two...
Author: Catherine Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 An imaginative and revelatory new history of the Italian Renaissance that challenges our preconceptions of the era *A THE...
Author: Jerry Brotton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The fascinating story of Queen Elizabeth's secret outreach to the Muslim world, which set England on the path to...
Author: Mr Derek Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) marked a golden age in English history. There was a musical...
Author: Lucy Worsley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Such a brilliant idea! Drilling down into Victoria's diaries Worsley gives us Victoria in all her infinite variety -...
Author: Matthew Dennison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An evocative telling of the life of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's last-born child, and of a sometimes fraught...
Author: Adam Zamoyski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From America's fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers...
Author: A. N. Wilson (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent...
Author: Jung Chang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic...
Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of rhyme and the...
Author: Witold Rybczynski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Renaissance master Andrea Palladio's architectural DNA can be seen on modern-day icons from Buckingham Palace to the White House,...
