A Burning Sea

Doomed to wander. Destined for greatness.Erlan Aurvandil has turned his back on the past and his native Northern lands, taking a perilous journey to the greatest city in the world, Byzantium. But as h …

A Dominant Character

J.B.S. Haldane’s life was rich and strange, never short on genius, never lacking for drama. He is best remembered as a geneticist who revolutionized our understanding of evolution, but his peers thoug …

Splash!

Splash! weaves a 10,000-year-old tale that begins in a bone-dry cave in the remote southwest corner of Egypt, winds its way through ancient Greece and Rome, flows mostly underground through the Dark a …

Prince Albert

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Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times and the Daily Mail’Highly entertaining’ Sunday Times’Enthralling’ Daily TelegraphFor more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height …

The Wisdom of Tea

For more than 25 years Noriko Morishita has studied and practised the intricate rules of the famous Japanese Tea Ceremony, trying to master its complexities in order to find inner peace. In this vivid …

How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

When Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1 …

Lawless

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In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a public defender in Milwaukee to join a program that helped train lawyers in war-torn Afghanistan. She was thirty-two at the time, a mother of t …

The Borgias

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‘A wickedly entertaining read’ The TimesA Daily Mail Book of the WeekThe sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history, by the author of The Medici.The Borgia …

The Cat and The City

‘A love letter to Japan and its literature.’ Rowan Hisayo Buchanan ‘Beguiling’ Elizabeth Macneal_______________In Tokyo – one of the world’s largest megacities – a stray cat is wending her way through …

The Louvre

Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that location …

The Great Imperial Hangover

For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn’t mean we don’t feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world’s imperi …

Endell Street

When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Ander …

The Lost Gutenberg

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‘An entertaining and insightful human story of obsession about books.’ Daily Telegraph’A lively tale of historical innovation, the thrill of the bibliophile’s hunt, greed and betrayal.’ New York Times …

The Regency Revolution

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‘Superb’ The Economist’Elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising’ New York TimesThe fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain – an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the …

The Saracen's Mark

Betrayal has many guises…London, 1593: Five years on from the Armada and England is taking its first faltering steps towards a future as a global power. Nicholas Shelby – reluctant spy and maverick …

The Butchers

‘I binged it like a Netflix show… It’s stunning’ Luke Kennard, author of The Transition______________________________A photograph is hung on a gallery wall for the very first time since it was taken …