Jonathan Sumption This text is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars...

Anthony Read and David Fisher At midnight on 14 August 1947, Britain finally granted independence to the peoples of India. Throughout the world, the end of the colonial era was...

Srinath Raghavan The gripping story of Indira Gandhi’s premiership—and the profound influence she had on India Indira Gandhi’s ascent as prime minister of India in 1966 was entirely unforeseen. But she...

Jonathan Dimbleby A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'The best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny'A page-turning descent into Hell and...

Anthony Summers Conspiracy (on the John F. Kennedy assassination, '80, reissued as Not in Your Lifetime, '98), "Deserves to be read & taken seriously by all those who care about...

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall.The popularity of When...

Michael Dobbs October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. The Cuban missile crisis is at its height, and the world is drawing ever closer...

Rhonda V Wilcox and David Lavery For every television series, the original vision grows within a press of forces-both social and artistic expectations, conventions of the business, as well as...

Alwyn W Turner "Superb" NICK COHEN, author of What's Left? "Tremendously entertaining" DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday Times "Like his previous histories of the Seventies and Eighties, A Classless Society is an...

George Magnus A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued economic riseUnder President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both...

Gergely Hubai A film is nearly finished and ready to make its way into theaters, when one or more of its prime movers producer, director, studio brass decides that it...

Jodi Kantor When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to her fears, politics now seemed like a worthwhile,...