Gayatri DeviShe is the daughter of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar and the widow of the Maharaja of Jaipur. She was raised in a sumptuous palace staffed with 500 servants...

Michael Doran“Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise” (The New York Times Book Review) - a major retelling of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, a seminal event in the...

John F KennedyThe Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline Kennedy and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy.Written in 1955 by the then...

Stephen Jay GouldThe definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.How smart are you? If that question doesn't spark a dozen more questions in your mind (like "What do...

Daniel James BrownThe Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsThe #1 New York Times–bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in...

Josh Clark and Chuck BryantFrom the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast "Stuff You Should Know" comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew.Josh Clark and...

Edith HahnEdith Hahn was a young law student in Vienna when Hitler absorbed Austria in 1938. Madly in love with a young man called Pepi who was half-Jewish, she was...

Norman StoneA pacy, compelling and penetrating account - from the great Norman Stone'The best short primer on the war in twenty years' Andrew RobertsNorman Stone's gripping book tells the narrative...

Oliver HilmesThis short book takes us through the sixteen days in August 1936 when the Olympic Games were staged in Berlin. With a chapter dedicated to each day, it describes...

Henry Hemming"A revelatory and wholly fascinating work of history. Superbly researched and written with gripping fluency, this lost secret of World War II espionage finally has its expert chronicler."- WILLIAM...

Chaim ShapiroHe left war-wracked Poland with his mother's tearful parting words ringing in his ears, "Go, my son", she urged him. And he went. In this timeless, spell-binding autobiographical, Chaim...

Salman RushdieMoraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is a 'high-born crossbreed', the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinise spice merchants and crime lords. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an...