Angus TrumbleIt has been said that supreme enlightenment is reflected in the holy smile of the Buddha. Yet, the Victorians thought of open-mouthed smiling as obscene, and nineteenth-century English and...

Jasper Ridley Beginning with the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army at Milford in 1485 to depose Richard III, and ending with the death of the great Queen Elizabeth...

Antjie KrogIdentity, belonging and voyages of personal discovery are but some of the themes inventively explored in the author's first full-length work to appear in English since the publication of...

Jonathan Harr A Civil Action is a non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s.After finding that her child is diagnosed with...

CV Wedgwood THE CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE has summed up the appeal of Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-97): Easily the most distinguished woman historian of our time, [she] is the dream of...

Author: Dita Kraus The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of AuschwitzBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most...

Bob Jackson This is the story of the incredible life of Dr. Aidan MacCarthy (1913-95) the only person to have survived the two events that mark the beginning and end...

Benjamin Netanyahu This examination of the Middle East's troubled history traces the origins, development and politics of Israel's relationship with the Arab world and the West. It argues that peace...

Qais Akbar OmarThe surprising, stunning book that took the publishing world by storm: a coming-of-age memoir of unimaginable perils and unexpected joys, steeped in the rhythms of folk tales and...

Beryl Ratzer Meet them all, and more, on the pages of this book. You, the reader, will tour from event to event in the history of that small piece of...

Simon Schama History clings tight but it also kicks loose', writes Simon Schama at the outset of this, the first book in his epic three-volume journey into Britain's past. 'Disruption...

  Fernand Braudel "Refreshingly broad-brush in its approach...this history provides the big picture."—The Christian Science Monitor. Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the...