Judy Parkinson'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized...

EH GombrichIn 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of...

Samuel Pepys‘With one’s face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops . . .’A selection from Pepys’s startlingly vivid and candid diary. Originally written in...

Usborne History of BritianFrom the beaches of Dunkirk to the air raid shelters in the Blitz, this book tells the story of Britain during the most destructive war of the...

Shaun O'ConnellFrom Old New York to the Harlem Renaissance, the Algonquin Round Table to the New York Intellectuals, the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth,...

Richard WrightBlack Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of...

Andrea StuartA rich and evocative biography which tells the extraordinary story of one of the most remarkable women of modern history: Josephine Bonaparte

The Inside Story of the People's Temple Sect and the Massacre in GuyanaMarshall Kilduff and Ron JaversStaff Correspondents of the San Francisco Chronicle

David LaskinA masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland - the 'Children's Blizzard' of 1888.The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed...

Jennifer Worth   Stories of people who grew up under the horrifying and dehumanizing workhouse conditions in the early 20th century, by a mid-wife who knew and worked among them.

David Mitchell   A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character,...

Avigail Myzlik   Incarcerated in a Bombay jail built for 800, Ronen is crammed in with 3500 prisoners, many waiting years just to stand trial, without knowing when their ordeal...