History & Classics
The Spitfire Log
Peter Haining
An affectionate tribute to the Spitfire, the aircraft that inspired affection as a result of its defence of Britain's coastlines during World War…
Reich's Orchestra
Misha Aster
The Reich's Orchestra is Misha Aster's remarkable depiction of the moral ambiguities of living under the Nazis, told through the story of on…
Into the Heart of the Mafia
David Lane
The hold of the Mafia on southern Italy, from Naples, home of Mafia-controlled mozzarella and toxic waste, through no less rotten Calabria to Sicily,…
On Roads
Joe Moran
'A masterpiece' Sunday Times, 'Terrific' Guardian, 'Sparkling' Telegraph, 'Beautiful' Mail on SundayUniversall…
Piazza San Marco
Iain Fenlon
The Piazza San Marco is the most famous townscape in the West. This book is the first to consider it as a coherent whole, as a theatre in which the wh…
St Peter's
Keith Miller
A huge baroque basilica with a dome by Michelangelo, crammed with works of art, standing in a Ruritanian statelet called the Vatican, home of Roman Ca…
We Were There
Robert Fox
'A most wonderful collection…I will put it on my shelf and take it off over and over again' Simon Schama
Nella Last in the 1950s
Patricia Malcolmson
Picking up where bestseller Nella Last's Peace left off, this fascinating diary from the 1950s delves into the thoughts, feelings and daily life…
Taj Mahal
Giles Tillotson
The Taj Mahal is the queen of architecture. Other buildings may be as famous but no other has been so consistently admired for a beauty that is seen a…
Inside The Mind Of A Killer
Jean-Francois Abgrall
True crime at its most potent: a riveting account of tracking down and convicting an evil serial killer by the detective who trapped him. "In the…
The Match King
Frank Partnoy
'An enthralling cautionary tale of the recurring excesses of global finance … The author displays a vivid touch in describing the Swedish parve…
In the Words of Nelson Mandela
Jennifer Crwys-Williams
'When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world' Nelson Mandela
Queuing for Beginners
Joe Moran
An original idea that's well-executed and of interest to anyone who's enjoyed a fry-up, stood by a water-cooler and slept under a duvet. By…
Adventurers And Exiles
Marjory Harper
'The Scots have always been a restless people', says leading Scottish historian Marjory Harper 'but in the nineteenth century their res…
Empires of the Imagination
Holger Hoock
This scholarly yet highly accessible book illuminates the manifold ways in which the culture of power and the power of culture were interwoven and sha…
Occasions of Sin
Diarmaid Ferriter
Groundbreaking in its scope and ambition, Occasions of Sin charts the Irish sexual experience over the course of the twentieth century.
The Sixties
Jenny Diski
Jenny Diski at her essayistic best in a highly personal and entertaining exploration of the twentieth century's most colourful decade.
The Parthenon
Mary Beard
'A classic in every sense of the word' John Julius Norwich Revised and updated to include the story of the New Acropolis Museum, the controv…
The Uses and Abuses of History
Margaret MacMillan
'MacMillan has written illuminatingly on topics as diverse as the 1919 Paris peace conference and Nixon in China. Perhaps more unusually she is a…