Dominic Sandbrook Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandbrook re-examines the myths of this controversial period and paints a more complicated picture...

Pascal Mercier One day mild-mannered, middle-aged teacher Raimund Gregorious suddenly quits his ordinary life and, for no reason apparent to his colleagues or his students, sets off on a journey...

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown January 1, 1995 by Virago Press

Jonathan Coe This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all.It's about the legacy of war and...

Penelope Fitzgerald Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.On Battersea Reach,...

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...

Nick Clegg 'Compelling' Ian McEwan 'Engrossing' Alan Johnson 'Essential' Robert Peston 'Important' Shirley Williams*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Politics has changed. For decades Britain was divided between Left and Right but united...

Sean Gaffney and Seamus Cashman Arranged by subject, Proverbs and Sayings of Ireland, is an illustrated collection of more than 1,000 proverbs, sayings and triads (a three part piece of...

Christopher Hill A classic account of the English Revolution by an acclaimed historian. Each essay approaches the subject from a different angle, looking at aspects of the revolution in conjunction...

Adam Nicolson In Quarrel with the King , Adam Nicolson, the bestselling author of God’s Secretaries and Seize the Fire, explores questions of loyalty, power, betrayal, and rebellion, as witnessed...

Robert Green A biography of the nineteenth-century queen who ruled Britain longer than any other monarch. January 1, 1998 by Franklin Watts

John Solomos The new edition of Race and Racism in Britain builds on the strengths of previous editions of this widely-used text in providing a detailed and critical analysis of...