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Review Captivating and alluring... Hilarious and yet incredibly heart-warming, this is a tale that will charm the most discriminating heart ― Roma...

Fifty bridges from all over the world to be crossed on foot or with one's imagination. Throughout history bridges have been used as a way to link p...

Bridget Riley’s paintings are developed carefully over time, the result of methodically working through pictorial variables such as colour, tone, s...

Review The Dresden files is my favourite series ever Dresden has a vitality that few urban fantasy heroes can match Butcher's storytelling is sati...

About the Author JAMES M. RUSSELL has a philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge, a post-graduate qualification in critical theory, and ...

A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire. The book focuses on questions of how we know about ...

In this brilliant reworking of Lewis Spence's seminal Myths and Legends of the North American Indians, Jon E. Lewis puts the work in context with a...

This wide-ranging book explores the diversity of esoteric and occult beliefs. Neo-Paganism is one of the fastest-growing new religions in the weste...

Review [Praise for A Brief Guide to Philosophical Classics:]An accessible and intellectually stimulating guide to 67 philosophical classics an...

Product Description From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in S...

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

Product Description Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchie...

For centuries the Celts held sway in Europe. Even after their conquest by the Romans, their culture remained vigorous, ensuring that much of it end...

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

'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox This is a story about you. ...

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

From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the high water mark of the Victorian era, the world was transformed by a technological revolution t...

From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries. Ireland has been shaped by many thing...

Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life. Thus we glimpse 11th centur...

Mathematics is a product of human culture which has developed along with our attempts to comprehend the world around us. In A Brief History of Math...

In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain ...

From ancient riddles to modern Sudoku, people have been fascinated by puzzles. Whether they are seen as a glorious waste of time, a harmless way to...

From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior. The Samurai emerg...

This title deals with the hidden powers of clandestine organisations from the Ancient World to the present day. Throughout history Man's search f...

*WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015* JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but...

A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for our past but also the present day. In this panoramic histo...

Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and i...

'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the A...

Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey Hindley shows...

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 ...

Review A model of its kind, by far the best written short account now in print--Daily Telegraph Product Description The story of the British Arm...

Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How coul...

A history of the cult of the ancient Druids, exploring who they really were and what role they played in the Celtic world. The author's interpretat...

'The English Civil War' is one of the most hotly contested areas of English History and John Miller is one of the experts on the period. Amid drama...

The history of the Freemasons has been often shrouded in mystery and suspicion. Since 1717, with the establishment of the Grand Lodge in London, th...

Bamber Gascoigne's classic book tells of the most fascinating period of Indian history, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the country w...

For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unw...

Product Description Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history of this legendary mediev...

A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion for any visitor -- or indeed, anyone...

Product Description The history of the Normans began a long time before 1066. Originating from the Norsemen they were one of the most successful w...

In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD...

Beginning in the broken aftermath of the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles that made German recovery almost impossible, Whittock tells n...

Since the dawn of humanity, men have attempted to divine the nature of the heavens. The first astronomers mapped the movement of the seasons and us...

'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.' Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland ...