Havel
Michael ZantovskyRRP: £20.00
This startling biography explores the remarkable life of an iconic figure of the twentieth century, Václav Havel, author and dissident, who became the first president of the Czech Republic.Vaclav Have …
Genre: History
The Magic Lantern
Timothy Garton AshRRP: £12.99
The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Ea …
The Pyramids
Miroslav VernerRRP: £12.99
How did a people who lived nearly five thousand years ago, who knew neither iron nor bronze and who lacked mastery of elementary rules of calculation, manage to construct enormous stone structures wit …
God and Gold
Walter Russell MeadRRP: £10.99
Economist Books of the Year, 2007 Financial Times Books of the Year, 2007God and Gold is a brilliantly stimulating and provocative look at why, for over 300 years, the Anglo-Saxon powers have dominate …
The Good Soldier
Gary MeadRRP: £20.00
Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front for much of the First World War. Haig has frequently been presented as a commander wh …
The Seasons
Nick GroomRRP: £25.00
Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award and runner-up for Countryfile Book of the Year. For millennia, the passing seasons and their rhythms have marked our progress through the year. But …
Year Zero
Ian BurumaRRP: £14.99
Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few bo …
A Strange Business
James HamiltonRRP: £14.99
Shortlisted for the Apollo Awards 2014Longlisted for the Art Book Prize 2014 Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct u …
Babylon
Paul KriwaczekRRP: £12.99
In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of Babylon by the Persians in the sixth century BC. He chronicles the ris …
Dante in Love
A. N. WilsonRRP: £9.99
With a biographer’s eye for detail and a novelist’s comprehension of the creative process, A. N. Wilson paints a masterful portrait of Dante Alighieri and unlocks one of the seminal works of literatur …
Spitfire
Jonathan GlanceyRRP: £10.99
Updated edition to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.It is difficult to overestimate the excitement that accompanied the birth of the Spitfire. An aircraft imbued with balletic …
Strange Blooms
Jennifer PotterRRP: £14.99
In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of ‘curious’ gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son w …
Console Wars
Blake HarrisRRP: £18.99
In 1990 Nintendo had a virtual monopoly on the video game industry. Sega, on the other hand, was a faltering arcade company with big aspirations and even bigger personalities. But that would all chang …
Harrier
Jonathan GlanceyRRP: £10.99
The British designed and built the Harrier, the most successful vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft ever made. Combining state-of-the-art fighter plane technology with a helicopter’s ability to lan …
Jack's Journey
Kit CullenRRP: £12.99
Jack’s Journey is the moving and extraordinary story of an unknown ANZAC action at Gallipoli during the period of the Landing on 1 and 2 May, 1915. Kit Cullen began tracing Jack Collyer’s story using …
Tales of Two Cities
Jonathan ConlinRRP: £9.99
Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when they both vied to be the world’s greatest city. Each city has been the foc …
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