Zerbanoo Gifford January 1, 1992 by Mantra Publishing

Philip Short Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: Fran�ois Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag...

CJ Sansom A #1 internationally bestselling novel set in post-Civil War Spain by the author of Dominion and the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series September 1940: the Spanish Civil War is over, Madrid lies in ruin,...

Olga Tokarczuk The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across...

Marina Fiorato First published January 1, 2011

Natalie Zemon Davis The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer’s day in 1560, a man swaggered...

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...

Iris Origo Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who forms the subject of the Marchesa Origo's study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the...

Stella Tillyard A rich social history of the eighteenth century that accompanies a BBC TV series, here is the story of four sisters as threads in the tapestry of a...

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...

Andrea di Robilant In the waning days of Venice’s glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city’s oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he...

Walter Thompson In "Beside the Bulldog" you are invited to experience WWII at the side of Britain's greatest Briton. December 19, 2005 by Apollo Publishing