Humanities

The Germans expected their airborne attack on Crete in 1941 - a unique event in the history of warfare - to be a textbook victory based on tactical...

Britain was rapidly emerging as the most powerful European nation, a position France long believed to be her own. Yet with France still commanding ...

Book three of Eugene Peterson's landmark SPIRITUAL THEOLOGY series. Foundational reading for the Twenty-First Century Church. Continuing Peterson's...

Review Pomerantsev is one of the most brilliant observers of Putin's Russia ... an electrifying, terrifying book. -- Anne Applebaum A riveting ac...

Winner of The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize 2022 A The Times Books of the Year 2022 Three thousand year...

Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special Air Ser...

Review A champagne cocktail ... Rich, invigorating, and deceptively simple to the taste ... One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from...

Product Description Some believe the Ambhan Empire is cursed. But Arwa doesn't simply believe it - she knows it's true.Widowed by the infamous, u...

1942, Nazi-occupied France. Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance network in Carcassonne - c...

Be enthralled by the world of Arthurian legend in this lavishly illustrated, masterful retelling. From King Arthur’s childhood to his final battle,...

Review The task Knapp set himself was hugely ambitious, and it is a tribute that not only did he succeed, but that he managed to make the tell...

Product Description 'I have read the future of historical romance, and it's Evie Dunmore' Eva Leigh, author of Dare to Love a Duke Oxford, 1879. ...

Review Reminds us (or tells us) about people, events and practices in the Greek and Roman world, and at the same time explores their contempor...

Product Description Originally published in the 1930s and 1940s and never before collected, these stories by the incomparable Angela Thirkell ...

Product Description Six women forever joined by a little cafe in KabulSunny, former proprietor of the Little Coffee Shop and new owner of the ...

The issue of idolatry has been with the human race for thousands of years; the subtle temptation is always to take what is good and turn it into th...

With his trademark range and independence of thought, Felipe Fernandez- Armesto sweeps aside the tidy separation between the enlightened 'first wor...

INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Si...

Product Description She let herself out of the large, untidy house and into her own beautiful, hyacinth-scented one. She sat down in the bay-wind...

Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as 'liberty, fraternity, equality', articula...

The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their blood-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prow...

Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as: What is the nature of reality? What are human beings really lik...

First published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu. In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-hi...

The Rule of St. Benedict (the rule) arose in an era when a great civilization was threatened by violence, economic forces that favored the wealthy,...

Beginning on the bloody battlefield of Bosworth, when Henry Tudor seized the crown of England and ended the Wars of the Roses, The Tudors contains ...

The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, with an...

The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and a narrow escape from Communist revolution ...

The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to th...

The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and...

THE SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Faith, Hope and Carnage is ...

The complete panoramas of Passchendaele from the author of The Battlefields of the First World War. Today, concertina'd into a single sombre enti...

Charting his meteoric rise in popularity, Christopher Kul-Want and Piero explore Zizek's timely analyses of today's global crises concerning ecolog...

A timely and definitive narrative history of Israel in the context of the modern Jewish experience and the Middle East. Ideal for anyone seeking to...

'This is a very worthwhile book. It can change individual lives and the life of our society.' The Dalai Lama Lucidly and beautifully written, Peac...

From the Sunday Times bestselling authors of THE LITTLE BOOK OF HUMANISM A humanist funeral allows us the freedom to remember and celebrate the li...

From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie lang...

The last rites were administered to the Third Reich from the west by a massive concentration of Allied forces and firepower. With France secured, H...

A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons. 'Exceptionally sumptuou...

Product Description In just 196 short aphorisms, this classic work of Indian philosophy spells out succinctly how the mind works, and how it is po...

Review I loved this book. It's cool in both senses of the word, understated yet exciting. When I finished it I read it all over again. The charact...

Review Taylor's magnificent new novel is Spinal Tap for literary types . . . thoroughly entertaining, knowledgeable romp through the fear and loat...

Description: Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds If you think you know the truth about Eleven’s mother, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down...

Product Description When the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629,...

In The Empty Cradle, Rosie Goodwin writes a heart-breaking yet uplifting saga of a young midwife's strength, compassion and devotion to her cause, ...

An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the wealthiest and most powerful bodies in the medieval...

The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorised account of Mao's...

Review Ozick is one hell of a writer and The Shawl rings like a bell marked Truth. -- COLIN WATERS ― SUNDAY HERLAD Product Description ...