Humanities

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning authorTo the cool of the Simla hills comes a reluctant Dr McNab, with his wife and ...

Chosen by Paul Auster out of the four thousand stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide a wonde...

The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but often it is neglected in English ...

John Vandeleur s letters home to his parents are a lively and engaging account of active service during the Napoleonic Wars, recounting everythi...

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

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 ...

Review Chris Kraus' work is not just great but indispensable ... I read everything she writes -- Rachel KushnerKraus' books are all committed ...

This authoritative volume has been revised throughout and expanded, with stunning new images and accounts of the major discoveries of recent years....

Review A trip that takes the reader through stunning emotional terrain. ― The New Yorker Punches home like a blow to the stomach." ― Elle Mesmer...

Anxious? Angry? Waking up in the middle of the night to worry about plastic pollution, Brexit and why everything seems to be so horrible all the ti...

Product Description 'A gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation.' ANDREW TAYLOR 'Terrific' SUNDAY TIME...

Product Description The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air. The empty chairs belonged, all too b...

About the Author J. P. Mallory is a world expert on the interconnection of archaeology and linguistics and is the author of the standard work In S...

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The sect was said to harbour dark designs to overthrow the government. Its teachers used a dead language that was impenetrable to all but the inn...

Illustrated guide to the crucial French philosopher who denied bring a philosopher at all. 'I am like no one else in the whole world ...' Thus begi...

Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went to Amazonia 150 years ago. This book is the first to...

The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilization. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing knowledge, examining th...

About the Author Professor Michael D. Coe is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Curator Emeritus in the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Y...

If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, 'Hmm, I've heard of that - what was that again?', then...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Life-filled and life-affirming history, steeped in romance and written with verve' GUARDIAN 'Richly entertaining and...

Review Fascinating -- Laura Freeman ― The Times Very entertaining . . . the preservation of old houses, a cause with which many of the leading ch...

About the Author Dimitra Papagianni is a Palaeolithic and stone tool specialist, who has taught at Cambridge and Oxford. Michael A. Morse is a his...

The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr - have become def...

The Deadly Trade takes readers on an epic and enthralling voyage through submarine warfare, including how U-boats in two world wars tried to achiev...

Review Joan Aiken has an eye for original situations and characters ... a stolen formula, a kidnapped baby and a strange brotherhood keep the ...

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...

'Absolutely gripping from the word go' Alexis Conran, Times Radio 'A convincing insight into the terror and adrenaline rush of war' Mail on Sunday...

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...