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Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Charles Nicholl William Shakespeare and his contemporaries helped create not only a new kind of theatre but a...

Review His Stoner is the book that has garnered the attention, but I prefer this earlier take on the Western genre…it has some gory, visceral ...

June, 1348: the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in the county of Dorsetshire. Unprepared for the virulence of the disease, ...

The Quiet Masterpiece of American Literature William Stoner is an unassuming, intensely private man born into a struggling farm family in rural Mis...

Explore Frank Walter’s relationship to Antigua through a range of works and writings that express his intimate connection to Caribbean nature, land...

Updated and expanded edition of the fullest ever collective investigation into Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel Murders.This volume collects not...

Product Description Wife. Mother. Spy. Eighteen-year-old Laura Leverett arrives from America for a new life in England. At the side-lines of her c...

A deadly plague is spreading across the land... __________________ As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course a...

Jenny Uglow narrates the story of Walter Crane, an intriguing and most prolific figure not only in illustration, but in political culture more broa...

In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life. At the end of May 1381, the fourtee...

A deadly plague is spreading across the land... England, 1348: as the Black Death spreads through the country, people start to die by the thousand...

Expeditions and Endeavours is illustrated with over 100 paintings and drawings created on some of the most significant voyages of natural history d...

The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein from the author of The Innovators , Steve Jobs  and Benjamin Frankli...

Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants ar...

Review John Higgs's book lets in a glittering stream of revelatory light . . . [he] has us wrestling with flow states and default mode networks, N...

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

A deadly plague is spreading across the land... As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Do...

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...

A BRAND NEW KING OLIVER NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA Joe King Oliver is entangled in a dangerous case when h...

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, frien...