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'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and complicated ...

'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and complicated ...

From the Gavia Pass to Mount Etna, from The Stelvio to The Zoncalan, these climbs are legends in Italy and the building blocks of the Giro d'Italia...

Stocking a garden with plants can be an expensive business, so there are few things more frustrating than when the prized specimen for which you ha...

Award-winning cocktail recipes from the world's very best mixologists! If you are looking to mix some of the most inspired creations ever develope...

Who would top your list of the fifty people who have done the most to make the modern world a worse place?'I can't imagine how they whittled it do...

Political cartoonist MAC started at the Daily Sketch in 1969. At the end of 2018, he will have been capturing British life for 50 years. To mark th...

Discover the secrets that distinguish successful entrepreneurs from those who fail, and learn which rules to follow and which to break.This is not ...

Jane Austen is a mystery. The first incontrovertibly great woman novelist, she is, among other things, one of the finest prose stylists in literatu...

Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a q...

The next in this series of admirably concise yet nevertheless comprehensive titles looks at the history of all Americans as well as America; its en...

The Atlantis story remains one of the most haunting and enigmatic tales from antiquity, and one that still resonates very deeply with the modern im...

From the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Bosworth Field, Nicholas Vincent tells the story of how Britain was born. When William, Duke of Norman...

Praise for the author::'For anyone researching the subject, this is the book you've been waiting for.'Washington PostFrom the death of Richard III ...

Praise for the author:'Gibson's well written and well-documented account of James and the bishops will surely become the new standard authority on ...

Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotlan...

This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and women who shaped it. It is a story of colossal undertakings and specta...

Praise for Small's earlier work on Nightingale: 'Hugh Small, in a masterly piece of historical detective work, convincingly demonstrates what all p...

When we think of France, we tend think of fine food and wine, the elegant boulevards of Paris or the chic beaches of St Tropez. Yet, as the largest...

The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, p...

'Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the str...

'Jeremy Black skilfully sketches social, cultural and political trends' - Christina Hardyment, Times audiobook of the week'A remarkable mixture of...

His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authorit...