History & Classics
On The Map
Simon Garfield
From Mappa Mundi to Google Maps – the bestselling Just My Type author turns his gaze to maps. Packed with accompanying map illustrations and images.
The Diaries of Nella Last
Patricia Malcolmson
A collected edition of bestselling author Nella Last's diaries, including substantial never-before published material from the war years
The Fourth Part of the World
Toby Lester
In 1901, Josef Fischer accidentally discovered the Waldseemüller Map of 1507 – the first map to depict the world largely as we know it today. In…
On The Eve
Bernard Wasserstein
A major history examining the realities of Jewish life across Europe up to the very eve of World War Two.
The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
Natalie Haynes
How modern are our lives? Or are we still living the lives our ancestors lived?
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
Afgantsy
Rodric Braithwaite
In a timely and eye-opening book Rodric Braithwaite examines the Russian experience during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Basing his account on Russia…
Caen
Alexander McKee
Eyewitness accounts and skilfully woven reconstructions of the Battle of Caen, one of the darkest struggles of World War Two.
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.