Yasmin Alibhai-Brown England may be a small country on a small island, but its inhabitants have always had a boundless curiosity about the world beyond their shoreline. From the nation's...

Hasan Suroor (Editor) Where is India headed under Prime Minister Narendra Modi? What are the contours of the 'new' India he has promised to build? Is his promise of 'development'...

Ece Temelkuran An urgent and unsettling account of Turkey’s descent into tyranny, as seen through the eyes of one of the country’s most gifted writers.Starting with the basic question "what is this...

Ezekiel Boone In the thrilling, nerve-wracking finale of Ezekiel Boone’s “hair-raising” ( Parade ) Hatching series, the United States goes to war against the queen spiders that threaten to overtake...

David Sedaris A guy walks into a bar...From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy...

Christina Lamb From the award-winning co-author of ‘I Am Malala’, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to...

Peter B Clark The Death of East Prussia describes the immense collateral damage inflicted on East Prussia resulting from Hitler's war of annihilation in Poland and the Soviet Union. The...

Barry Coward Oliver Cromwell is one of the most puzzling and controversial figures in English history. In this excellent introduction, Barry Coward uses Cromwell's own words and actions to analyse...

Theodore Herzl 'We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes' Theodor Herzl's passionate advocacy of the founding of a...

Stephen Birmingham Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)

CF Iggulden From acclaimed historical novelist Conn Iggulden, DARIEN is an epic new fantasy series of spellbinding imagination.TWELVE FAMILIES. ONE THRONE. WELCOME TO THE EMPIRE OF SALT.The city of Darien...

Bettina Stangneth A New York Times Notable Book of 2014Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before...