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,...

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...

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

Stella Tillyard A fascinating insight into 18th century aristocratic life through the lives of the four Lennox sisters, the great grandchildren of Charles II, whose extraordinary lives spanned the period...

Joseph S Abela January 1, 1997 by BDL Publishing

Bruce Clark A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization.Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis...

Anne Enright An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women.Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the famed Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But...

Alexandro Baricco Hector Horeau is an architect with a fantastical notion of whole cities made of glass, and Mr Rail has imagined sheets of glass larger than anyone thinks they...