Evan S Connell On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho - converged on a grassy ridge above the valley of...

Paul Cartledge In 480 BC, a huge Persian army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae as it marched on Greece, intending to conquer the...

John Berger John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between...

Martin Goodman A magisterial history of the titanic struggle between the Roman and Jewish worlds that led to the destruction of Jerusalem.Martin Goodman—equally renowned in Jewish and in Roman studies—examines...

David Attenborough David Attenborough is well known as a leading naturalist and explorer, travelling in little-known countries in search of the rare and exotic, and writing his extrememly popular books...

Anthony Julius In a book that Harold Bloom, in The New York Times Book Review , called a "strong, somber book on an appalling subject," Anthony Julius offers a wide-ranging...

Calder Walton The gripping and largely untold story of the role of the intelligence services in Britain’s retreat from empire. Against the background of the Cold War, and the looming...

Roy Hattersley This autobiography presents an account of Roy Hattersley's lifetime in the Labour party. It begins with his schooldays in post-war Sheffield, through his arrival into Parliament in Harold...

Ariel Levy Today's young women seem to be outdoing the male chauvinist pigs of yesteryear, applauding the 'pornification' of other women, and themselves. This is a world where simulating sex...

Owen Jones In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain ’s Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and...

Benazir Bhutto Beautiful, charismatic, and the first and only woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, Benazir Bhutto achieved international renown in her native Pakistan until charges of corruption forced...

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...