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On Sunday mornings Jim White has the following choice: visit the supermarket, buy trellising at B'n'Q, or stand on the sidelines of a muddy municip...

'Touching, terribly sad, funny: a smashing novel' The TimesIn 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent by her sea captain father to live with her two...

I was the Fool-king of Soho and the number-one slag in the Groucho Club, the second drunkest member of the world's drunkest band. This was no disas...

Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a coun...

Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize: A 'profoundly moving chronicle' (Observer) that tells the story of Ravensbrück, the only concentrat...

1 July 1916: the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The hot, hellish day in the fields of northern France that has dominated our perception of t...

Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara knows that the beautiful surface of his adopted city, Florence, hides dark undercurrents. When called in to ...

From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and ...

'An enthralling book' Sunday Telegraph'Fascinating' Sunday TimesThe Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousan...

For Stephen Smith, author of UNDERGROUND LONDON, beneath the dales and downs of England's green and pleasant land there exists another country, its...

In the picturesque Tuscan hill town of Scandicci, the body of a girl is discovered. Scantily dressed, she is lying by the edge of the woods. The lo...

Charity Mupanga is the widowed owner of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot) - a favourite meeting place for the movers and shakers of Kibera....

'Ingenious and entertaining' Sunday Times' Byron himself would have been pleased by such an eerie, erudite addition to his myth' Time OutInfamous p...

House-sitting in Boston one winter, Will Randall picks up with one of his more disreputable travel buddies, Jack J. Makepeace, and life gets a grea...

The senior pupils of St Peter's High School are on retreat to a secluded outdoor activity centre, coming to terms with the murder of a fellow pupil...

The third book in the Angelique De Xavier series, from author Christopher Brookmyre.If society has the B-list celebrities it deserves, it now has a...

Recent years have seen a remarkable growth of interest in revolution and social upheaval. This collection of essays by distinguished historian and ...

How can you speak when speech has been taken away? When the only person listening refuses to understand? Milla, trapped in silence by a deadly para...

Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War - the story of our lives. Its framework is the confrontation, milit...

In 1997, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE was voted the most influential book of the twentieth century by teachers, librarians and parents in t...

'One of Britain's most respected television journalists, with a reputation built up over many years of covering world events' Guardian'Tributes wil...

Hunched exhausted at his computer one ordinary Monday morning, world-class workaholic Nick Thorpe has reached the end of his tether. Fearing for hi...

The landscape of the British Isles is filled with history, much of which we miss as it flashes past the car window. Do we even realise that we're f...

Jeremy Dyson is a master of the macabre, of stories brimming with black humour and the promise of something sinister just around the corner. In his...