Peter Hopkirk The "Great Game" was an imperial, political, diplomatic, and military enterprise in which intrepid individuals played for high stakes in a struggle that stretched from the Causasus in...

Mike Ashley For centuries, Britain has laid claim to the notion of liberty—and occasionally forgotten that the rights and freedoms enjoyed by its citizens were in fact hard-won. This volume...

David Dalton January 1, 2006 by Ticktock Books Ltd

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown January 1, 1995 by Virago Press

Anthony King In the latter part of the nineteenth century Walter Bagehot wrote a classic account of the British constitution as it had developed during Queen Victoria's reign. He argued...

Christopher Hill In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. Using his consumate skill as a historian, Christopher Hill suggests that there might...

Robert Alter First time in “One of the most ambitious literary projects of this or any age.”―Adam Kirsch, New Republic Here in Robert Alter's bold new translation are some of...

Author: Daniel Silva In Munich, a Jewish scholar is assassinated. In Venice, Mossad agent and art restorer Gabriel Allon receives the news, puts down his brushes, and leaves immediately. And...

Author: Daniel Silva For Gabriel Allon and his wife, Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a romantic weekend in London. But nothing is ever that simple when...

Author: Daniel Silva When an art restorer is murdered and a portrait by Rembrandt is stolen, Gabriel Allon is pulled into a race across the globe against a group of...

Harper LeeFrom Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—"Scout"—returns home from...

Guy Walters Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); “a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping… deserves a lasting place among...