CA Bayly This volume traces the evolution of north Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Moghul dominion to the consolidation of Britain's empire in India following the...

Anita DesaiA wonderful novel in two parts, moving from the heart of a close-knit Indian household, with its restrictions and prejuices, its noisy warmth and sensual appreciation of food, to...

Mordechai Bar-On From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vivid portrait of one of the most powerful leaders in Israel’s first decades of statehoodInstantly recognizable with his iconic eye patch,...

Ian Kershaw Ian Kershaw’s biography of Adolf Hitler is widely regarded as the definitive work on the subject, as well as one of the most brilliant biographies of our time....

DJ Taylor If Wallis Simpson had not died on the operating table in December 1936, Edward VIII would not be King of England three years later. He would have abdicated...

Amos Oz "Perhaps most of the essays in this book are substitutes for stories that I have not managed to write," says Amos Oz in the preface to Under This...

Patrick Leigh Fermor In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot—from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is...

Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman Buyer beware," #1 best selling thriller novelist Daniel Silva warns: "Once you crack the cover of SPIES AGAINST ARMAGEDDON, you won't be able to put...

Gavin Maxwell Ring of Bright Water described the pioneering days at Gavin Maxwell's lonely cottage off the West Highland seaboard with his otters.The Rocks Remain, the story of the succeeding years,...

James Herriot January 1, 1976 by Michael Joseph Ltd

CJ Sansom 1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers, and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war against Russia rages on...

Anita Desai Anita Desai, in a succession of fine novels and short story collections written over almost 40 years, was one of the first writers from the sub-continent to introduce...