Ella Lyons When Marian Banner moves to the glittering city of Nottingham with her father, Sir Erik the Fortunate, her entire life changes. She is no longer allowed to run...

Michael Fabricant and Michelle Fine This book will reset the discourse on charter schooling by systematically exploring the gap between the promise and the performance of charter schools. The authors...

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,...

Peter Ackroyd In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling retelling of England's history, painting a vivid portrait of the Stuart kings, from the accession of James I to the ignominious...

Bernard Bailyn Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other,...

Serhii Plokhy 'An indispensable guide to the tragic history of a great European nation' (David Blair Sunday Telegraph)Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the...

Jeffrey R Collins Thomas Hobbes and John Locke sit together in the canon of political thought but are rarely treated in common historical accounts. This book narrates their intertwined careers...

Sean Matgamna There is a quickening of life on the left. But, politically, the left is still very weak and disoriented. This book traces the turns and realignments imprinted on...