History & Classics
The Buddhas of Bamiyan
Llewelyn Morgan
The 'other' decimated twin Wonders of the World and the tragic country of Afghanistan
Underground, Overground
Andrew Martin
Paperback published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the London Underground
The Town That Died
Michael J. Bird
An account of the greatest disaster ever to befall a Canadian city: the explosion of a vessel containing explosive in the harbour of Halifax in 1917.
The War On Heresy
R. I. Moore
A passionate history of the war on heresy which dominated medieval Europe, now available in paperback.
The Cardinal's College
Judith Curthoys
A detailed and absorbing history of one of Oxford University's most imposing colleges
The Devil's Tinderbox
Alexander McKee
Controversy still rages about the Allied decision to bomb the beautiful and historic city of Dresden on February 13th 1945. By then the war was virtua…
The Race for the Rhine Bridges, 1940, 1944, 1945
Alexander McKee
The River Rhine and its delta in Holland, protecting Germany's vital industrial area of the Ruhr, helped dictate the course of events in three la…
Growling Over The Oceans
Deborah Lake
The Avro Shackleton was a formidable machine with its Griffon engines producing the characteristic grumble that gave the aircraft one of its nicknames…
Calories and Corsets
Louise Foxcroft
An enlightening and entertaining social history of how we have tried (and failed) to battle the bulge over two millennia.
The Wonderbox
Roman Krznaric
What three millennia of human history can tell us about how to live today
Da Vinci's Ghost
Toby Lester
The untold story of Vitruvian Man, the drawing that captured the spirit of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance – and that still haunts our own
Lives of the Novelists
John Sutherland
This is the most complete history of fiction in English ever published – now in paperback.
The Beauty And The Sorrow
Peter Englund
Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, but what it was like to live through
The Glass Bathyscaphe
Gerry Martin
Glass is one of the greatest accidents in the history of humankind.
The New East End
Michael Young
This is a fascinating and honest book which builds upon the classic Family and Kinship in East London published nearly 50 years ago reflecting the aft…
A Short History of England
Simon Jenkins
The bestselling definitive concise account of our remarkable past – now updated
The Friar of Carcassonne
Stephen O'Shea
Secret tribunals, illegal rendition, torture, trumped up charges … all in a society controlled by fear. Such was the tenor of life in Languedoc arou…
A Serious Endeavour
Laura Schwartz
A delightfully subversive take on the traditional Oxford college history
Invisible Romans
Robert C. Knapp
Rome's invisible inhabitants – prostitutes, innkeepers, housewives, priests, freedmen, slaves, soldiers and gladiators – brought back to life.