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,...

Peter Ackroyd Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself.This first volume of six takes us from the...

  Translated by Richard Rickett, Vienna  

Norman Davies January 1, 1997 by Pimlico

Antonia Fraser Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people, she is still 'la reine méchante', whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French...

Author: Bernard MacLaverty A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly to Amsterdam for a midwinter break. A holiday to refresh the senses, to see the sights and to generally...

SB Chrimes Founder of the Tudor dynasty, Henry VII was a crucial figure in English history. In this acclaimed study of the king's life and reign, the distinguished historian S....

Nicholas Gage "A devoted and brilliant achievement." The New York Review of BooksIn 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps" behind the Iron...

John Merriman This work, the first of a two-volume set, covers the history of Europe since the Renaissance. It emphasizes not only cultural and social history, but also examines important...

JM Roberts Comprehensive in its scope and brilliantly readable, this is a superb follow-up to the author's bestselling Penguin History of the World. Beginning with prehistory and the early civilizations...

Alan Taylor The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde,...

Edited By Kenneth O Morgan January 1, 1989 by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS