Phoenix

Nearly a million strong by 1944, the British 14th Army fought and ultimately conquered the Japanese forces that invaded Burma and strove to break t...

Best-selling author Max Arthur has compiled the first-person accounts from veterans of the Great War into a fitting commemoration. Starting from th...

A.C. Grayling answers the most important question - How do we live a good life?One of the most fundamental questions in our life is to find out wha...

A dozen star historians on what might have happened at history's turning points if the dice had fallen differently.'Stimulating, provocative and pl...

The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa."Ther...

The definitive biography of the war poet - 'Dominic Hibberd has probably done more more than any other individual to illuminate Owen's life and wor...

The full range of Blakes Romantic poetry-joyful and sorrowful, childlike and complex-illustrating his original and prophetic vision.

A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World WarUsing diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistica...

A portrait of a civilisation which flourished within living memory and left an indelible mark on historyIn the 13th century Yiddish language and cu...

'Explains a lot about the man who became Henry VIII...Robert Hutchinson vividly shows us the monster in the making and teaches us to feel a modicum...

A major new novel about a gypsy woman exiled for betraying her people, from the prize-winning author of DANCERThe novel begins in Czechoslovakia in...