Humanities

People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics - the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis - and how they have ...

The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and rea...

'A huge, fizzing omnium-gatherum of a book . . . marvellous' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, wise and elegant . . . a classic of history itself' The Specta...

Discover the transformative power of mindfulness and meditation with this essential guide that will help you cultivate inner peace and resilience i...

Review A highly-recommended novel of love, tragedy and the power of art--Daily Mail on The Painter's Apprentice Full of passion and drama . . . I...

"A vital guide ... It is difficult to imagine anyone seriously interested in Dante who will not want to own this book" AN Wilson, The Times Since ...

About the Author Major Robert Lyman was an officer in the British Army for twenty years. He is the acclaimed author of Slim, Master of War: Burma ...

Review Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: Eminently sane, highly informative, and reasonably priced. -- Paul Cartledge ― BB...

Review A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have been hidden in pla...

Review Simon Jenkins, as ever, writes with clarity and insight -- Gerard DeGroot ― Times Jenkins has a journalist's ear for the outrageous -- Joh...

In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napol...

Review This impressive book introduces us to the beautiful, painful world of John of the Cross, who is still our surest guide into the mystery of ...

They did so in the midst of the 1984 miners' strike - the most bitter and divisive dispute for more than half a century, and in one of the most tur...

'A wonderful idea, gloriously put into practice. Greg Jenner is as witty as he is knowledgeable' - Tom Holland 'You will love Greg Jenner's jolly ...

Lorna Byrne sees and talks with angels every day of her life and has done since she was a baby. As a child Lorna was told by the angels that her jo...

A powerful, influential novel, praised by writers including Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Maya Angelou. Long out of print, this lost classic is ...

Product Description British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the mid-twentieth century and how they were spent, as recounted to Yse...

Review "Their comedy is based on observing normal-life situations and turning them into very intelligent quips, sketches and stories." - The...

Product Description Two and a half thousand years ago, the Greeks and the Persians fought an epic battle to decide the future of the world...A...

Book Description This sweeping tale of magic, revolution and the struggle for freedom concludes the genre-defying Shadow Histories duology tha...

Product Description By the author of Black Narcissus.'One of our best and most captivating novelists' Philip HensherFor Emily Pool, India is a ma...

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

Product Description By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched only by its brutality and corruption. When...

Tobias Buck arrived in Madrid in December 2012, in time to celebrate the bleakest Christmas the city had seen in a generation. Capital and country ...

Product Description 'I was seduced from John Grey's first scene' Ann CleevesJohn Grey is visited at his London office by Thomas Cade, a shipbu...

Main ideas: "The Wild Hunt" series follows Heulwen, daughter of Welsh Marcher baron Guyon FitzMiles, and Adam de Lacey, the ward of her father. He...

About the Author Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for over thirty-five years. Born and raised in t...

Review Brilliant...Part love story, part social commentary, part fun and part downright terrifying. And completely riveting...This book is per...

Review I really do think Elizabeth Peters ― books are great entertainment.' Angela RipponThe most potent female force to hit Egypt since Cleop...

Review Movie stars in Italy, a longtime affair, and a missing Tennessee Williams play - what more could you want? Christopher Castellani's lus...

Review 'A superbly atmospheric prologue kick-starts a thrilling story about truth and betrayal... [a] brilliant, fast-moving novel.' -- Kate S...

Product Description The first in a scandalous duet of Dukes by Julia Quinn, the bestselling author of Bridgerton, now a series created for Ne...

Product Description 'Has a charm, and mystery, all of its own' The Times'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' Daily Ma...

Many Christians are today sitting happily in the middle of their personal comfort zones, and feel God has confirmed their right to be there. But is...

Only four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. But many more do not fulfil the four basic requirements of ...

'To qualify as human, a hominid has, so to say, to justify himself by works: the criteria are no longer biological so much as cultural'. In this 19...

Product Description If you love the Bridgertons, wait until you discover the Blydons . . . This is the witty, delightful second book in Julia Qu...

The Great Philosophers in one volume: the widely acclaimed series on the greatest philosophers by specialists writing for the general reader. The ...

The follow-up to THE MEANING OF THINGS which continues A.C. Grayling's philosophical journey through life The most important question we can ask ou...

It is 42 AD, and Quintus Licinius Cato has just arrived in Germany as a new recruit to the Second Legion, the toughest in the Roman army. If adjust...

Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Du...

'From poverty to pets, from medicine to magic, from slang to sex, from wallpaper to women's rights' A glorious portrait of life in London from 1660...

The everyday realities of life in the city of Hogarth, Fielding and Dr Johnson, based on contemporary evidence, by the author of the bestselling EL...

Product Description Welcome to a world where every desire is visible, rising from the body as a plume of Smoke. A world where bodies speak to one...

A Library Journal Best Book of 2015 A NPR Great Read of 2015The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by ...

Product Description In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which she ...

Now a major Netflix original film called 22 JULY - directed by Paul Greengrass On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 of his fellow Norw...