Humanities

Product Description This is a superlative graphic guide described as 'warm, witty and wise' by Jonathan Ree to an enigmatic master of twentieth-ce...

In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer'...

One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For ...

Through his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne is a defining figure of both Western Europe and the Middle Ages. Crowned king of th...

John Julius Norwich presents a sweeping tour of forty great cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations - and which in turn have sha...

Everyone wishes to live a life that is satisfying and fulfilling, in which there is achievement and pleasure, and which has the respect of people o...

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

Like every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. In this book, Robert Davis and Beth Lindsmith highlight dozens of notable lives from between 14...

Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 *Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book...

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

Literature, puns, and alcohol collide in this clever follow-up to Tequila Mockingbird, the world's bestselling cocktail recipes book. Tim Federle'...

Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions and of civilizations, ...

About the Author Francis Spufford was born in 1964. He is the author of five celebrated books of non-fiction. The most recent, Unapologetic, has b...

Product Description SOHO - ILLICIT, GLAMOROUS, SORDID, LOUCHE, POVERTY-STRICKEN, SQUALID, EXHILARATING. One of Britain's best-loved historians, D...

Review An essential guide to the British monarchy for those who should already know everything but don't. Written with a lively wit but crammed wi...

Product Description That the Blitz did not bring the UK to its knees is due, in large part, to a vast response by Civil Defence services and the B...

Succumb to a churchman's apocalyptic vision in this prophetic tale by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Ben...

The number one hit by multi-million copy bestselling author Kate Mosse. 'LABYRINTH is a reader's Holy Grail . . . a heart-wrenching, thrilling tale...

The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells...

Review 'Alan Furst's spy fiction is serious, even solemn: a good but never light read' - LITERARY REVIEW'[Furst's] stories combine keen deduct...

Review From beginning to end, Greenwood infuses her series with evocative settings, multidimensional characters and satisfying mysteries. --Bo...

Product Description 'A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans' P. D. James'Murder most enjoyable' Colin DexterAnyone for cricket - and a...

Review [A] marvellous new novel . . . This master storyteller recreates the whole world of the 70s, as the London we used to know is about to ...

Product Description ***Nominated for the Nebula Award***Magic meets Bridgerton in the Regency fantasy everyone is talking about... Beatrice C...

Review Heartwarming, funny and FAB-U-LOUS! ― Woman magazineA story that sparkles on the page - I absolutely loved it. -- Milly Johnson Pr...

Chocolate - `the food of the Gods' - has had a long and eventful history. Its story is expertly told here by the doyen of Maya studies, Michael Coe...

Product Description You've met the Bridgertons . . . now discover the Blydons. In Julia Quinn's witty, delightful debut, one scandalous Season wi...

Product Description REBEL. LEADER. BROTHER. KING. 1179. Henry II is King of England, Wales, Ireland, Normandy, Brittany and Aquitaine. The Hous...

Product Description Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas and little Joshua Barker is in desperate need of a Christmas mirac...

Jealousy is something that we all have to deal with - both in ourselves and in others. Rooted in our natural fears and insecurities, it has damaged...

What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last...

Product Description For more than half a century, Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places - from the smell of...

Product Description 'A brilliant read' RoNA award-winning, bestselling novelist Tania CrosseThe perfect treat for fans of Poldark, Dilly Court an...

'More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Liberty's Exiles is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfils the historian's most challenging am...

About the Author Richard Wolfrik Galland is a writer and games designer. He has worked as a magazine editor for Games Workshop and as a games desi...

'Fascinating.' Hilary Mantel 'Terrific.' New Scientist 'Gripping.' Financial Times 'Stunning . . . Brimming with mystery and suffesed with haunt...

St Augustine's insight was that it is only the merciful humility of God that could penetrate our armoured pride. As we follow this book through Len...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation’ New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kep...

In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He res...

World War I from the French point of view: the first ever account in English Anthony Clayton is an acknowledged expert on the French military and h...

The Indian Mutiny struck at the very heart of the British Empire. If India was lost the whole edifice of British domination across its colonies ...

'5/5 A true joy. A work of staggering complexity and bewildering economy.' TELEGRAPH 'A rattling, wonderful read.' OBSERVER 'Every page glitters' S...

John Haywood presents a grand sweep of global history in an immediately accessible format via concise, insightful and engaging text summaries along...