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 …
Genre: History
The Making of Home
Judith FlandersRRP: £14.99
The idea that ‘home’ is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in t …
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 …
Victoria
A. N. WilsonRRP: £14.99
The first comprehensively researched biography of Queen Victoria ever, by one of Britain’s best biographers. This magnificent biography sheds new light on Victoria not just as a queen, but as a woman.
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 …
Murder in Amsterdam
Ian BurumaRRP: £10.99
It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-I …
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 …
Extra Virginity
Tom MuellerRRP: £14.99
The best oils are made by authentic artist-craftsmen, who marry centuries-old agricultural wisdom with cutting-edge extraction technology, and now produce the finest oils in history. However, these pr …
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 …
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 …
Waterloo
Gordon CorriganRRP: £20.00
Fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, by some 220,000 men over rain-sodden ground in what is now Belgium, the Battle of Waterloo brought an end to twenty-three years of almost continual war between revoluti …
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