Humanities

A major new novel from million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.

Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays...

Product Description In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare's Kings chronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare's history ...

What would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the twenty-first-century Google headquarters? A dazzling exploration of the role of ancient philos...

A bestselling account of why the Islamic world has been losing the conflict with the West for 300 years - and the frustration and humiliation this ...

SUNDAY TIMES FILM BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Uproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biography' Sunday Times 'Teeming with satisfying gossi...

A sweeping, nostalgic and dazzlingly immersive speculative love story, perfect for fans of The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett, Miss You by Kate Eb...

In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'. The ...

Review One of our finest writers, Warner is an original, a school of fiction all his own. He has never been afraid to take risks with style or sub...

Review I really do think Elizabeth Peters' books are great entertainment. -- Angela Rippon As full of riches as King Tut's tomb. ― Denver Post T...

Review Gripping, relatable and emotionally engaging, Bad Girls Never Say Die is a triumph. ― LoveReading4Kids Product Description Ev...

About the Author Geoff Tibballs has written many bestselling books, including Senior Jokes (The Ones You Can Remember), Seriously Senior Momen...

Review The most fun I've had with a book this year. Every page is a delight, the worldbuilding is wonderful, and the mystery got its hooks int...

Product Description The first book in the Bevelstoke series: witty, irresistibly romantic and by the bestselling author of the global phenomenon ...

Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. But did this era vanish in the trenches o...

Product Description ***A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK***   ***A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK***   A woman wondering who she re...

Product Description The Diviners are back in this thrilling and eerie third installment by #1 New York Timesbestselling author Libba Bray.New Yor...

Product Description 'If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follow...

General Stanley McChrystal, the innovative commander of international and US forces in Afghanistan, was living large. Loyal staff liked to call hi...

The defining moment of the Cold War: 'The beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.' (Richard Nixon) The Hungarian Revolution in 1956 is a story ...

Product Description Three of the brightest stars of Regency romance invite you to a party at the country home of the Honourable Marquess of F...

Review Marsh's mixture of derring-do and scholarship makes for a fun read ― Observer on Ghosts of the WestImmensely enjoyable ― Spalding Today...

Review When it comes to the Australian writer Anna Krien's debut novel, Act of Grace, 'ambitious' feels like an understatement . . . In placin...

Review Excellent ... has raised a crucially influential American pioneer rocketeer from obscurity to the recognition he deserves...MacDonald's...

Product Description The first book in an irresistible duet by the globally bestselling author of the Bridgerton series. If you loved Bridgerto...

Based on the author's ethnographic research in India, the book explores the psychology of Hinduism, and offers an innovative synthesis of psychoany...

This work seeks to provide in one volume all the essential information to learn and master six of the main religions: Judaism; Christianity; Islam;...

Product Description Midnight Atlanta is the stunning new novel in the award-nominated, critically acclaimed Darktown series, and sees a newspaper...

The Complete Roman Army draws on archaeology, ancient art and original documentary sources to present the most convincing picture ever published of...

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the 50th anniversary of the end of the World War II have brought attention to the displaced cultural and archi...

Product Description In the second installment of her new series, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick takes us back to California, where Hollywood mogul...

Product Description The East End of London, 1930. Work is scarce, food is in short supply and there is political unrest on the streets. But in th...

This book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, Final ...

These essays address some of the most intriguing questions raised by natural law theory and its implications for law, morality, and public policy. ...

Levant is a book of cities. It describes Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut when they were windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition,...

An unprecedented look inside archaeology today, "Discovery!" reveals the exciting, significant and astonishing finds from around the world in the l...

When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve?...

This study, based on Florentine repudiations of inheritance, reveals that inheritance was not simply an automatic process where the recipients were...

In Goodness and Justice, which was originally published in 2006, Joseph Mendola develops a unified moral theory that defends the hedonism of classi...

In this book Dr Low explores the assumptions and principles which determined the conduct and representation of interstate politics in Greece during...

A few years ago, Owen Sheers stumbled upon a dusty book in his father's study by the extraordinary Arthur Cripps, part-time lyric poet and full-tim...

Product Description Following on from the success of Son of the Morning, which saw him compared to both Bernard Cornwell for the flair of his his...

Product Description Dear Mr Cornford, It is with regret that I begin the task of writing to you about your niece, Emily. Her recent behaviour, wh...

Product Description The beloved Sergeant Cribb series by Peter LoveseyThe year is 1884. London is being terrorised by a series of bomb blasts - e...

Product Description In The Throne of Caesar, award-winning mystery author Steven Saylor turns to the most famous murder in history . . . It's Rom...

NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION AND NEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Einst...

The Tudors retained only a precarious grip on the crown of England, founded on a title that was both tenuous and legally flimsy. This left them pre...

What is a human person, and what is the relation between a person and his or her body? In her third book on the philosophy of mind, Lynne Rudder Ba...