Isaac Deutscher Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky’s extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible...

James Ciment “Vivid . . . An engaging and accessible account.” —Publishers WeeklyIn 1820, a small group of African Americans reversed the course of centuries and sailed to Africa, to...

Nick Stafford I want you to do yourself proud, Joey. You go and drive those Germans back where they've come from, and then come home to me.At the outbreak of...

Carol Ann Lee The life story of Anne Frank, from her early happy childhood in Frankfurt, growing up in Amsterdam, her two years in hiding and the last few months...

Jim Sleeper A political journalist reflects on the liberal policies that deal with race, arguing that the liberal view of race is outdated and that these views promote a country...

Adam Zamoyski Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in...

Conrad Russell What were the causes of the English Civil War? The traditional explanations involving the struggle for sovereignty and the bourgeois revolution have been questioned in recent years. In...

Rozina Visram This is a comprehensive history of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain. Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the...

Isaac Deutscher The Prophet Unarmed, first published in 1959, is the second volume of Isaac Deutscher's extraordinary Trotsky trilogy, which the Guardian has said 'will rank among the great political...

Lesley Downer Only one woman can save her world from barbarian invasion but to do so will mean sacrificing everything she holds dear - love, loyalty and maybe life itself...

Omar Ralph The First Asian MP A biography of Dadabhai Naoroji, India's patriot and Britain's MP. October 1, 1997 by Hansib Publishing

David Van Reybrouck Epic, yet eminently readable and profoundly moving, the winner of the Prix Medicis essai 2012 and the AKO Literature Prize traces the fate of one of the...