History & Classics
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.
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 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…
Why The West Rules – For Now
Ian Morris
Why does the West rule? Eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing uniquely on 20,000 years of history and archae…
A Serious Endeavour
Laura Schwartz
A delightfully subversive take on the traditional Oxford college history
The Roman Forum
David Watkin
The ruins of the Forum in Rome, the centre of its ancient Empire, are one of the best known wonders of antiquity and a highpoint of the tourist route…
Churchill's Bunker
Richard Holmes
For the first time, the history of the bunker – and daily life inside it – is revealed, by bestselling historian Richard Holmes.
The Ruin of the Roman Empire
James J O'Donnell
A provocative portrait of the end of Rome's empire in the 5th and 6th centuries by a major historian, who tells the story of the barbarians who m…
The Tomb of Agamemnon
Cathy Gere
With wit and energy, Gere peels away layers of modern fantasy, literary imagination, political appropriation and fashions of modern scholarship.
Vesuvius
Gillian Darley
Volcanoes continue to grab our imagination – and Vesuvius is the most famous of them all.
Marathon
Alan Lloyd
The clash of civilisations at Marathon was one of the most renowned military battles of the ancient world and a pivotal moment in the course of Wester…
The Colosseum
Keith Hopkins
Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena
Westminster Abbey
Richard Jenkyns
Fifteen royal weddings and thirty-eight coronations – Westminster Abbey was the venue for a sixteenth royal wedding, that of Kate Middleton and Prince…
St Pancras Station
Simon Bradley
St Pancras station has long been an iconic landmark on the London landscape and one of its most distinctive monuments. This new edition is published t…
Clean
Katherine Ashenburg
'Ashenburg rolls up her sleeves and takes us on an engaging tour of hygiene through the ages. Her masterful mix of erudition and anecdote makes t…