The Twelve Caesars
Matthew DennisonRRP: £12.99
One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, and five of them were elevated to the status of …
Genre: History
The Last Crusade
Nigel CliffRRP: £16.99
NEW YORK TIMES’ NOTABLE BOOK OF 2011LONGLISTED FOR THE MARITIME MEDIA AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZEIn 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, cross …
The Patagonian Hare
Claude LanzmannRRP: £20.00
The international bestseller: a cry of witness to the 20th century – the unforgettable memoir of 70 years of contemporary and personal history from the great French filmmaker, journalist and intellect …
A Short History of Western Thought
Stephen TrombleyFor the reader who has lain awake fretting over his tenuous grasp of the Aristotelian syllogism, or the ontological argument for the existence of God, or the nature of Kant’s categorical imperative; o …
The Limit
Michael CannellRRP: £12.99
10 September 1961: at the boomerang-shaped racetrack at Monza, in northern Italy, half a dozen teams are preparing for the Italian Grand Prix. It is the biggest race anyone can remember. Phil Hill – t …
What It Is Like To Go To War
Karl MarlantesRRP: £12.99
In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military …
Britannia
Graham StewartIn Britannia Graham Stewart traces two thousand years of an island’s story – from Roman province to twenty-first century European nation-state – through one hundred historic documents. From the eighth …
Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves
Jacqueline YallopRRP: £8.99
During the Victorian age, British collectors were among the most active, passionate and eccentric in the world. Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves tells the stories of some of the nineteenth century’s mos …
The Good Doctor
Damon GalgutRRP: £9.99
‘The Good Doctor will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa’s transition… by a novelist of great and growing power.’ Rian Malan, author of My Traitor’s Heart
The Colony
Grace KarskensRRP: £16.99
A groundbreaking history of the colony of Sydney in its early years, from the sparkling harbour to the Cumberland Plain, from convicts to the city’s political elite, from the impact of its geology to …
The Impostor
Damon GalgutRRP: £9.99
A gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man Booker-shortlisted author
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
Christopher HitchensRRP: £9.99
‘Christopher Hitchens… at his characteristically incisive best.’ –The TimesThomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1 …
A History of the World Since 9/11
Dominic StreatfeildRRP: £9.99
In A History of the World Since 9/11 Dominic Streatfeild expertly combines history, biography and investigative journalism to show how a massacre on a clear September day in 2001 has touched the lives …
Bright Particular Stars
David McKieIn Bright Particular Stars, David McKie examines the impact of twenty-six remarkable British eccentrics on twenty-six unremarkable British locations. From Broadway in the Cotswolds, where the Victoria …
Liquid Memory
Jonathan NossiterJonathan Nossiter had his first taste of wine at the age of three in Paris, from his father’s finger. For him, wine is ‘memory in its most liquid and dynamic form,’ as essential an expression of cultu …
The Gilded Stage
Daniel SnowmanRRP: £30.00
The Gilded Stage is a comprehensive tour of the world of opera. From its origins in the courts of northern Italy, to its internationally recognised position in modern culture, Snowman explores the soc …
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